ArtEx Seminar in Copenhagen: Art, risk and courage

Welcome to our very first ArtEx seminar in Copenhagen! Together with Art Hub Copenhagen and The Danish Arts Foundation - as part of their “Committee for The young artistic elite”, Talent Norway will host one of our four annual ArtEx seminars in Copenhagen at Studenterhuset. 

The risky business of art

To exercise art is to exercise risk, because art in its very nature can break and bend the societal constraints that hold us, in order to comment on the nature of human life.

- When creating art, we often have to move in landscapes that are more or less unknown and uncertain. There’s a risk involved. Living with risk requires courage, and individual courage is something that we can facilitate together through establishing good collective frameworks, says Monica Borg Fure, Head of Impact and Knowledge at Talent Norway. 

 - Elevating artists and contributing to the individual artist's work being seen and coming into dialogue with curators, writers and the public in general, is a core goal of Art Hub Copenhagen. We are constantly working to develop the best methods, which is why we collaborate and exchange experiences with Talent Norway and The Danish Arts Foundation so that we can learn from each other and become even better at giving artists the best conditions for artistic development, says Susanne Hviid, managing director at Art Hub Copenhagen. 

- The Danish Arts Foundation’s “Committee for The young artistic elite” supports many talented artists in their efforts to create and develop their artistic career. In this process Nordic networking activities like Talent Norge’s seminar are very important and essential for their international career, explains Jens Fuglsang, Agency for Culture and Palaces. 

Art, risk and courage

At the ArtEx seminar “Art, risk and courage” we will hear from prominent speakers who have shown great courage in their endeavors, and who will share with us their experiences. Journalist Lene Johansen will moderate as we together reflect on “the risky business of art”.

Artists Alan Lucin Øyen and Maria Nørholm Ramouk, along with artistic director Jacob Fabricius, and curator Tominga Hope O’Donnell, will explain how they manage taking risks every day. Audience participation is welcomed throughout a “speed-dating” session led by Eline Wernberg Sigfusson from a/nordi/c, and a session held by Talent Norway’s Head of Coaching, Kea Ostavany. 

The event will also showcase artistic performances from Sonoko Miriam Shimano Welde, Viktora Wendel Skousen, and Kirstine Lindemann, with Mika Persdotter and Ida Nørby.

The courage in art

The annual ArtEx seminars are part of the ArtEx programme sponsored by Talent Norway and Sparebankstiftelsen DNB. Seminars are open events for all our participants at various talent programmes, collaborators, mentors, coaches, partners and more. The events are free of charge and offer an ample opportunity to discuss, be inspired and share experiences with peers and guest speakers. 

- At the seminar in Copenhagen, this year’s ArtEx participants will have the opportunity to meet for the first time, as well as meet the previous participants. Ten applicants have just recently been selected to partake in the programme from 2023-2024, and four of them are actually from Denmark, explains programme leader, Eira Edwards.

This Copenhagen-seminar will also be the first meeting place of talents and artists from The Danish Arts Foundation’s “Committee for The young artistic elite”, Art Hub Copenhagen, along with Talent Norway’s talent programmes.   

- It will be a great opportunity for the artists of these different talent programs and countries to get to know each other by reflecting together on this essential topic. I hope that after that day they will see each other as peers who can inspire and support each other, says Kéa Ostovany, Head of Coaching & People Development.  

ArtEx seminar: Art, risk and courage will be held on the 8th of June!
Entry is free of charge, sign up by sending an email to: oystein.skar@talentnorge.no