Daily programme Art Matter Festival 2025 - Art Matter - Guide - Journal - Festival

O Future, Strawberry Binding, 2025. Courtesy O Future, Thorvaldens Museum.

Daily programme Art Matter Festival 2025

NB: More events on the Danish site, since many events are in Danish.

Thursday 15th May

11-18 Louisiana
Open workshops for kids

15-18 platform BUNKER
Opening – Nina Saunders: Harbinger of Hope Through History and Time

15-19 Classeværelset
Opening – Whine of the House III

16.30-17.15 Politikens Boghandel
På Trappen: Talk about Archives, Photography and Photo books

16.30-18.30 Moderna Museet Malmö
Drink & Draw

17-18 Moderna Museet Malmö
The Wolf – Myth and reality

17-18 Rundetaarn
Performative reading by Ursula Andkjær Olsen

17-19 LOKALE
Art Talk Isn't that social work?

17-20 Bladr
Opening: Kirke Meng: Xωράφι (As Above, So Below)

18-22 Nikolaj Kunsthal
Art Bar Extravaganza 2025 - performance, music and bar

18.45-19.45 Museum of Contemporary Art
Performance Infinite Contradictions: The Elastic Test

Friday 16th May

9-9.45 Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Curatorial Tour – BEING SAFE IS SCARY

9.30-10.30 SPECTA
Creative Responses

10-11 Nikolaj Kunsthal
Morning ceremony

10-18 Art Hub Copenhagen
Symposium: Transparency and Its Shadows

11-18 Louisiana
Open workshops for kids

16-19 FOYER Contemporary - Lake House
Opening and performance – Evalajka Pervin: Oraklet fra Lahore

16-19 Galleri Møntergade 6
Opening: Martine Myrup: Chronic Intimacy

16-19 LOKALE
Opening: Eva Öhrling: UT

16-19 Xenon i HUSET
Opening and talk: Art that influence public space

16-20 MAXUS101
Opening – Group Exhibition: HOMEBOY

17-19 SPECTA
Opening: Creative Responses

17.30-20 Galleri 1,4 m3
Opening – Nina Worren: Skin Studies

17.30-19 Galleri 1,4 m3
Art Public: Reading by Tomas Lagerman Lundme

18-20 Galleri Zeuthen
Plant Concert with Tonehoved

Saturday 17th May

10-11 Nikolaj Kunsthal
Morning Ceremony

10.30-16.45 Sophienholm
CANCELLED - Masterclass featuring Nina Saunders

11-18 Louisiana
Open workshops for kids

12-12.45 LIVE ART ZINE
DAILY LIFE – The World’s Most Boring Show

12-13 Museum of Contemporary Art
Performance Infinite Contradictions: The Elastic Test

13-15 MAPS
Performance forwards and guided tour in The Story of Public Art – Dancing in the Streets (On Power)

at 14 Moderna Museet Malmö
Meet the Art!

14-17 Polyteknikken
Opening: Rhizome

14-18 Bonne Espérance
Opening: Julie Stavad: Free Heavy Beautiful

14-22 Simian
Opening: Under - festival for art spaces

15-16 Nikolaj Kunsthal
Art Matter Talk: Lilian Munk Rösing and Augusta Atla

15-16 Udstillingsstedet Sydhavn Station
Art Talk: Laurits Nymand Svendsen

16-18 MAXUS101
Poetic Saturday – Wine and art

16-19 Fotografisk Center
Opening and talk – Family: Michella Bredahl

17-22 Abattoir
Opening: Free Range

20-23 Thorvaldsens Museum
Opening and ArtBar – O Future: ENTER AFTERLIFE

Sunday 18th May

10-11 Moderna Museet Malmö
Morning at the museum

10-11 Nikolaj Kunsthal
Morning Ceremony

11-18 Louisiana
Open workshops for kids

12-17 Simian
Performances and tour – Under: festival for art spaces

13-17 LIVE ART ZINE
Opening: LIVE ART ZINE - Performance and talks

15-17 Prospekt
Performance and talk: Mads Holm

Tuesday 20th May

7.30-8.30 Prospekt
Art Morning: Reading by Mads Holm

8-10 FOYER Contemporary - Park Bio
DISGUST vs. PLEASURE: Food is not just a culinary thing

11-18 Louisiana
Open workshops for kids

12-20 Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Screening Disobedience Archive (The Open Storage)

13-15 FGU Hovedstaden
Opening: Planteportræt_FGU

at 17-18 Rundetaarn
Tower Talk: Can art create respect for the planet?

Wednesday 21st May

11-18 Louisiana
Open workshops for kids

12-14 MOVIA
Performance in public Molly Haslund: Flower Drop

12-18 Simian
Panel discussion and events – Under: festival for art spaces

15-18 FOYER Contemporary - Park Bio
Performance and talk ATONAN DANCING

16-17 Martin Asbæk Gallery
Guided Tour – Astrid Kruse Jensen: Places Beyond Places

16.30-17.30 Nikolaj Kunsthal
Tour – Behind Breaking Darkness

17-20 Kunsthal Charlottenborg
MFA DEGREE SHOW – LIVE

Thursday 22nd May

8.30-9.30 Københavns Museum
Art Morning: Journey into the depths with the museum’s new sound work by Jacob Kirkegaard

11-18 Louisiana
Open workshops for kids

13-16.30 Politikens Forhal / Pressen
Art Criticism in 2025: How Do Danish Newspapers Communicate Art in Today’s Media Landscape?

16 Polyteknikken
Art Talk in Rhizome

16-19 StudioLab
Opening and installation My Body Belongs to You by Rune Fjord

16-20 MAXUS101
Opening Sara Aue Sobol: Yellow Butterfly

16-20 Officinet
Workshop: Collage bar with Laura Astrup Larsen

16.30-18 Møstings
Talk on Psychological Abuse with Visual Artist Christine Overvad Hansen and Danner’s Director Mette Marie Yde

16.30-18.30 Moderna Museet Malmö
Knitting-AW

at 17 Moderna Museet Malmö
Art Talk KHMxMMM - talk with Henriette Heis

at 17 Moderna Museet Malmö
Art & Emotion a guided experience

17-19.30 FOYER Contemporary - Lake House
Finissage – Faun Vium: Desire Me Anew

17-19 Den Frie Udstillingsbygning
Opening: Sian Kristoffersen: Ice-pleasure

17-21 Gammel Strand
Opening of the summer exhibitions with Nanna Abell og Sara-Vide Ericsson

17-21 Prospekt
Finissage, performance og Art Talk på udstillingen - Mads Holm: HRTLND

17.15-18.30 Copenhagen Contemporary
Workshop CC CARE x aften gong

17.30-19.00 Ordrupgaard
Meet the exhibiting artist duo Djurberg & Berg

20-22 Rundetaarn
Astro Bar x Art Matter

20-22 Art Hub Copenhagen x Vester Vov Vov
Movie screenings - Maria Meinild, Paul Haas & Maja Li Härdelin

Friday 23rd May

8.30-9.30 Københavns Museum
Art Morning: Journey into the depths with the museum’s new sound work by Jacob Kirkegaard

10-19 Rum for Æstetik
Sculpture Landscape at Space for Aesthetics

11-18 Louisiana
Open workshops for kids

16-19 Galleri Anne Aarsland
Opening: Christian Finne: Hasta La Proxima

17-20 Formation Gallery
Gallery Night

17-21 O - Overgaden
Opening: Samara Sallam: A Speaking Puddle of Blood

17-21 O - Overgaden
Opening - Birke Gorm: Let me stop you right there

19-23 Malmö Konsthall
Opening: Lars Fredrikson

Saturday 24th May

10-16 Den Sorte Diamant
The Children’s Library: Make your own beautiful crown

10-20 Galeria 18
Galeria 18 Celebrates One Year with Art, Music, and Community

11-17 Ordrupgaard
Family Art Bar in Ordrupgaard’s Art Playground

11-18 Louisiana
Open workshops for kids

12-14 DIAA
Opening – Kaleidoscope Italy

12-17 Simian
Panel discussion and events – Under: festival for art spaces

12-17 FABRIKKEN for Kunst og Design
Open House: FABRIKKEN at Work

at 14 Moderna Museet Malmö
Meet the Art!

14-14.30 ODP3
Performance by Mark Tholander Onomatopoeia for a Hissing Kettle: Part One

14-15 Malmö Konsthall
Curators tour of the Lars Fredrikson exhibition

18-21 FABRIKKEN for Kunst og Design
The IMMART Dinner at FABRIKKEN: Art, Network and Food