News about Art

Conference: The Night as a Private Space

Bertel Thorvaldsen, Natten, Thorvaldsens Museum, inventarnummer A901 (https://kataloget.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/A901) On 11-12 December 2025, PRIVACY will host an interdisciplinary conference on “The Night as a Private…

Exhibition Reception, September 25

Rubya Mehdi: 'Systems of Justice, Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, and Decolonialization'. The exhibition reception will be held at the library on Thursday, September 25, from 2 - 4 p.m. Read more about the exhibition on…

New visiting PhD fellow at PRIVACY

We are pleased to welcome Jan Temme de Vries as a visiting PhD fellow at the Centre for Privacy Studies from September to November 2025. Jan is a PhD candidate in Musicology at the University of Basel, affiliated with…

New exhibition at the library

Rubya Mehdi: Systems of Justice, Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, and Decolonialization. 4 September – 28 November 2025 Rubya Mehdi's paintings take their starting point from the history of colonialism to promote…

13 contemporary artists challenge the monument tradition of the University of Copenhagen

In August, the University of Copenhagen will open the doors to RECAST, a large group exhibition organised to mark the 150th anniversary of women's admission to university. The exhibition challenges the university's…

Natasha Gordon-Chipembere concludes her stay at PRIVACY

After an inspiring and engaging research visit in June in association with Fulbright, the Centre for Privacy Studies has said farewell to guest researcher Dr. Natasha Gordon-Chipembere. Her visit sparked intellectual…

Art, diplomacy, and espionage? PRIVACY scholar Oskar Rojewski explains his research on Michel Sittow and court diplomacy

Juan de Flandes, The Birth and Naming of John the Baptist, 1496-1499, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art © Public Domain Could a court painter in late fifteenth and early sixteenth-century Europe also have served as a…

Morten Axel Pedersen in CPHDOX debate: AI and art in focus

On the 30th of March, Morten Axel Pedersen will participate in a conversation with Rasmus Kloster Bro, Janet Frances Rafner and Kristoffer Ørum about how AI is changing artistic creation. The debate is hosted as part of…

Between recolonisation and decolonisation: Documenta 15 and the political decontextualisation of art

Associate Professor Birgit Bräuchler has together with Alexander Supartono published the article ‘Between recolonisation and decolonisation: Documenta 15 and the political decontextualisation of art’.

Exhibition ”Ribbons”

The Centre for Textile Research (CTR) and Museum Amager present the exhibition ‘Ribbons / Bare Bånd’ as part of the Silk Ribbons project,…

New publications spring 2024

Kunsten som forum på tryk published with Billedkunstskolernes Forlag has issued four new editions, authored by Shannon Mattern, David Lloyd, Shannon Jackson, and Julia Bryan-Wilson respectively.

Exhibition: The Art of Ikat - A Cambodian Renaissance

Enter the woven world of Cambodian silk ikat, hol in Khmer, a resist-dye weaving technique and century-old textile craft. While sericulture and weaving have been activities grounded in villagers’ lives in the…

Tackling climate change through literature and art

ROCS Postdoc tackles climate change through literature and art in new book

Art as Forum in podcast on the conditions of communality in the artworld and academia today

Assistant professor Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt and professor Frederik Tygstrup in podcast on the conditions of communality in the artworld and academia today

New honorary doctors change our view of the past

At the university's traditional annual celebration, Årsfesten, in November, the new honorary doctors at UCPH are appointed. This year, the Faculty of Humanities is appointing two of the 11 new honorary doctors.

Carsten Rahbek invited as speaker at Paris exhibition

Professor Carsten Rahbek was invited by artist Danh Vo to give a talk on the biodiversity crisis as part of the Parisian exhibition Avant l’orage. The talk is now publicly available.

Medical Museion wins communication award for 'The World is in You'

Medical Museion wins the communication award “Formidlingsprisen 2022” for the exhibition project 'The World is in You'. The exhibition explored how our bodies are connected to the world in and around us.

Global Art in Local Art Worlds

Professor Oscar Salemink and Assistant Professor Jens Sejrup co-edited, Global Art in Local Art Worlds. They answer the question whether tectonic geopolitical shifts are attended by corresponding geocultural changes.

An artist re-imagines the science of circadian rhythms in 'Body Clocks'

The science of circadian rhythms is re-imagined by artist Isabella Martin, who worked with CBMR scientists to produce the unique exhibition 'Body Clocks'.

Mending Maladies: Agnes’s Jacket and her kinds

Subhasree Biswas' research is about the relationship between women, madness, speech act, needlework and healing.

New edition of The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics edited by Art as Forum

Art as Forum has been editing an issue on Aesthetic Relations in The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics.

Welcome to four new members of Art as Forum

Since September we have welcomed four new members of the research group: PhD scholar Xenia Pallesen and postdocs Eva la Cour, Daniel Irrgang, and Anna Meera Gaonkar.

Writing and thinking in community – about art and communality

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in collaboration with Art as Forum and New Carlsberg Foundation’s research Centre at University of Copenhagen present contribution #7 and #8 to the series Kunsten som forum på tryk.

Listening is survival

ROCS postdoc Angela Rawlings is co-curator of SPHERE Festival which opens 2 September in Canada.