2022
NEW RED ORDER PRESENTS: One if by Land, Two if by Sea, 23 mar – 7 aug 2022
Curated by New Red Order in conversation with freelance curator Irene Campolmi and Henriette Bretton-Meyer, Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
NEW RED ORDER PRESENTS: One if by Land, Two if by Sea, 23 mar – 7 aug 2022
Curated by New Red Order in conversation with freelance curator Irene Campolmi and Henriette Bretton-Meyer, Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg has invited New Red Order to curate an international group exhibition and a brand new film programme on the occasion of CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival. The exhibition occupies the entire north wing and connects artists, works and experiences from different places around the world from Kalaallit Nunaat and Sápmi to Hawaii. New Red Order is an unusual institution: a public secret society of rotating and expanding membership, including core contributors Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, and Jackson Polys, who confront colonial structures with incisive humour, to promote Indigenous futures. The exhibition New Red Order Presents: One if by Land, Two if by Sea features the work of an international group of emerging and established visual artists: Asinnajaq, Hanan Benammar & Uyarakq, Minik Bidstrup, Sean Connelly, Carola Grahn, Julie Edel Hardenberg, Inuk Silis Høegh & Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, Fox Maxy, Joar Nango, New Red Order, Laura Ortman, Solvognen, Krista Belle Stewart, Tanya Tagaq, Tarrak, Uvagut TV.
The exhibition presents films, sculpture, performance, installations, music videos, photography and much more. Contributions from artists like Krista Belle Stewart investigate the inappropriate desire in Europe to ‘play Indian’, other works like Fox Maxy’s film Maat raise issues of ‘Landback’ all the while exhibiting a sense of contemporaneity and Indigenious excellence, while projects from Hanan Benammar and Uyarakq seek to reimagine historical colonial figures in more nuanced and sometimes humorous light. Issues surrounding memory, history, and colonial legacies are upended in favor of emphasizing contemporaneity and a speaking back to the monolithic understanding of history that many Indigenous people have been asked to internalize. Themes include land rights, history-writing, religion, public monuments, Indigenous peoples across nation borders, support, independence and survivance. New Red Order Presents: One if by Land, Two if by Sea seeks to bend and break temporal and geographical conditions, all the while maintaining a nuanced specificity to place. The space between this shared specificity creates a territory that could spawn new approaches to ‘decolonial’ work and possibly foster other more meaningful and intuitive formulations.
The exhibition presents films, sculpture, performance, installations, music videos, photography and much more. Contributions from artists like Krista Belle Stewart investigate the inappropriate desire in Europe to ‘play Indian’, other works like Fox Maxy’s film Maat raise issues of ‘Landback’ all the while exhibiting a sense of contemporaneity and Indigenious excellence, while projects from Hanan Benammar and Uyarakq seek to reimagine historical colonial figures in more nuanced and sometimes humorous light. Issues surrounding memory, history, and colonial legacies are upended in favor of emphasizing contemporaneity and a speaking back to the monolithic understanding of history that many Indigenous people have been asked to internalize. Themes include land rights, history-writing, religion, public monuments, Indigenous peoples across nation borders, support, independence and survivance. New Red Order Presents: One if by Land, Two if by Sea seeks to bend and break temporal and geographical conditions, all the while maintaining a nuanced specificity to place. The space between this shared specificity creates a territory that could spawn new approaches to ‘decolonial’ work and possibly foster other more meaningful and intuitive formulations.
2021
THE SHAPE OF A SOUND
A SPACE OF INTIMACY_ART PROGRAM 2021, ENTER ART FAIR, 26-29 August
Curated by Irene Campolmi
Generously sponsored by Statens Kunstfond, Augustinus Fonden and Ny Carlsberg Fonden.
Credits to the Enter Art Program Staff for the realisation of this year's project. In particular, thanks to Irene Campolmi (Head Art Program and Curator), Nora Criado Diaz (Curatorial Assistant), Francesca Bonissone (Curatorial Assistant), Kristine Bech Sørensen (Producer and Technical Assistant), Nikolaj Phillipsen (Producer and Technical Assistant)
THE SHAPE OF A SOUND
A SPACE OF INTIMACY_ART PROGRAM 2021, ENTER ART FAIR, 26-29 August
Curated by Irene Campolmi
Generously sponsored by Statens Kunstfond, Augustinus Fonden and Ny Carlsberg Fonden.
Credits to the Enter Art Program Staff for the realisation of this year's project. In particular, thanks to Irene Campolmi (Head Art Program and Curator), Nora Criado Diaz (Curatorial Assistant), Francesca Bonissone (Curatorial Assistant), Kristine Bech Sørensen (Producer and Technical Assistant), Nikolaj Phillipsen (Producer and Technical Assistant)
New Sound Installations Commissions: Stine Deja, We’re okay, 2021; Marie Munk, AirCondition, 2021; Jens Settergren, GhostBlind Loading, 2021. (Photo credits: Julie Nymann).
Performance program: Michele Rizzo, HIGHER xtn. 2015 (music by Lorenzo Senni), with performers Juan Pablo Cámara, Milena Weber, Antonia Steffens, Max Göran. Drawing from the work of theorists J. Kristeva, B. Groys, and M. Csikszentmihalyi, Rizzo considers how dance can facilitate flow, totality, and transcendence, acknowledging connections between dance and para-religious practices. Rizzo is interested in how the boundaries of the body become blurred, through the transformative and cathartic power of techno music. The use of recurring movements transform the group into one body while Lorenzo Senni´s hypnotic soundtrack intensifies. In challenging the self and the collective, HIGHER xtn. enhances the importance of nightclubs as gathering spaces for marginalized groups and a place to explore identity.
Performance program: Fallon Mayanja, FEMENINE, with performer Alen Nsambu. Video credits Nicolas Pirus & Ndoho Ange
Feminine investigates new listening positions that question the traditional ways in which we process sound. Proposing a listening protocol, it challenges traditional hierarchies that operate in our performance. In doing so, the listeners are introduced to a space where they become more attentive to themselves, others, and the environment. Departing from Eastman´s original composition and Legacy Russell´s Glitch Feminism Manifesto, it breaks with traditional modes of perception by extending them further than the ears.
Talks program: Jeppe Ugelvig, Independent curator and writer; Anna Franceschini, artist and writer; Roberta Tenconi, Curator, Hangar Bicocca, Milan; Henriette Bretton-Meyer, Curator, Kunsthal Charlottenborg; Paul O’Neill, Curator, Writer and Director, PUBLICS, Helsinki; Ulrikke Neergaard, Director, KØS Museum for Art in Public Space; Milena Høgsberg, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde; Moderated by: Irene Campolmi, Head Art Program, Enter Art Fair.
Feminine investigates new listening positions that question the traditional ways in which we process sound. Proposing a listening protocol, it challenges traditional hierarchies that operate in our performance. In doing so, the listeners are introduced to a space where they become more attentive to themselves, others, and the environment. Departing from Eastman´s original composition and Legacy Russell´s Glitch Feminism Manifesto, it breaks with traditional modes of perception by extending them further than the ears.
Talks program: Jeppe Ugelvig, Independent curator and writer; Anna Franceschini, artist and writer; Roberta Tenconi, Curator, Hangar Bicocca, Milan; Henriette Bretton-Meyer, Curator, Kunsthal Charlottenborg; Paul O’Neill, Curator, Writer and Director, PUBLICS, Helsinki; Ulrikke Neergaard, Director, KØS Museum for Art in Public Space; Milena Høgsberg, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde; Moderated by: Irene Campolmi, Head Art Program, Enter Art Fair.
2020
THINKING FEELINGS
A SPACE OF INTIMACY-ART PROGRAM 2020, ENTER ART FAIR, 27-30 August
Curated by Irene Campolmi
Generously sponsored by Statens Kunstfond, Augustinus Fonden and Dreyers Fond.
THINKING FEELINGS
A SPACE OF INTIMACY-ART PROGRAM 2020, ENTER ART FAIR, 27-30 August
Curated by Irene Campolmi
Generously sponsored by Statens Kunstfond, Augustinus Fonden and Dreyers Fond.
Live durational performance: Miles Greenberg, 8:10 (The Embrace), 2020.
8:10 (The Embrace) is an ongoing durational performance installation. It is an open-ended, non-narrative ritual work that occupies the space of sculpture, rather than that of a linear performance. This is the first of a new series called Timepieces, each named simply after the time of day at which they were conceived. Miles Greenberg (b. 1997) is a performance artist and researcher in movement. He combines natural materials and new technologies to create durational, sensorially immersive works that explore the Black body in space by means of what he calls the “hyper-romantic” gesture. (Photo credits: Julie Nymann).
8:10 (The Embrace) is an ongoing durational performance installation. It is an open-ended, non-narrative ritual work that occupies the space of sculpture, rather than that of a linear performance. This is the first of a new series called Timepieces, each named simply after the time of day at which they were conceived. Miles Greenberg (b. 1997) is a performance artist and researcher in movement. He combines natural materials and new technologies to create durational, sensorially immersive works that explore the Black body in space by means of what he calls the “hyper-romantic” gesture. (Photo credits: Julie Nymann).
Performance Program: Linda Lamignan (aka Linda Lazer), Like Stones from the Earth; Alex Cecchetti, Love Bar.
Film Program: Adam Khalil & Maria Meinild, Blue Communiqué, 2020 (Enter Art Programme commission); Farah Al Qasimi, Um Al Naar (Mother of Fire), 2019; Tore Hallas, ‘Something inherent’, 2015. (Photo credits: Ana Baumann).
Film Program: Adam Khalil & Maria Meinild, Blue Communiqué, 2020 (Enter Art Programme commission); Farah Al Qasimi, Um Al Naar (Mother of Fire), 2019; Tore Hallas, ‘Something inherent’, 2015. (Photo credits: Ana Baumann).
ARE WE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER?
Degree Show, Fynske Kunstakademiet, Odense (DK)
10 August - 15 September
A copy of the catalogue is available here.
Degree Show, Fynske Kunstakademiet, Odense (DK)
10 August - 15 September
A copy of the catalogue is available here.
Artists: Mette Rasmussen, Jakup Nilsson, Wael Toubaji, Emil Skamstrup, Sara Arenfeldt Kragh, Ditte Marie Frost Clausen, Jonas Vang Hansen, Tao Hansen, Morten Larsen and Rune Viggo Jørgensen. (Photo credits: Malle Madsen).
SPAZIO DISPONIBILE
Solo show by Dawit L.Petros
The Power Plant (TPP) Toronto
Curated by Irene Campolmi (Assistant Curator: Amin Alsaden)
January 24- September 7
Link to TPP website
Solo show by Dawit L.Petros
The Power Plant (TPP) Toronto
Curated by Irene Campolmi (Assistant Curator: Amin Alsaden)
January 24- September 7
Link to TPP website
2019
ISLAND THINKING
Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Regina de Miguel and Paul Rosero Contreras
Curated by Irene Campolmi and Àngels Miralda
Residency & exhibition in collaboration with Re-Act Contemporary Laboratory (Link to the website)
MAH- Museu Angra do Heroismó, Angra do Heroismó, Terceira (Azores Island)
September 26-February 2020
ISLAND THINKING
Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Regina de Miguel and Paul Rosero Contreras
Curated by Irene Campolmi and Àngels Miralda
Residency & exhibition in collaboration with Re-Act Contemporary Laboratory (Link to the website)
MAH- Museu Angra do Heroismó, Angra do Heroismó, Terceira (Azores Island)
September 26-February 2020
M.A.G.N.E.T. (link to the website)
Basim Magdy
MAAT - Museum of Art Architecture and Technology, Lisbon
Co-curated by Irene Campolmi and Inês Grosso
September 3- December 31
Basim Magdy
MAAT - Museum of Art Architecture and Technology, Lisbon
Co-curated by Irene Campolmi and Inês Grosso
September 3- December 31
AN ENDLESS PRESENT (link to Enter Website)
Performance & Talks Program
Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen
Curated by Irene Campolmi
August 28-September 2
Performance & Talks Program
Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen
Curated by Irene Campolmi
August 28-September 2
Performance Program (in collaboration with CC, Copenhagen Contemporary) featuring: MASBEDO, Michael Portnoy, Helene Nymann (Rindon Jonhson- VR booth), Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen. Curated by Irene Campolmi.
Talks Program with Lumi Tan, Curator, The Kitchen NYC; Gaëtane Verna, Director The Power Plant Toronto; Jeanette Ehlers, artist; Marie Nipper, Director CC- Copenhagen Contemporary; Toke Lykkenberg, Director, Tranen, Copenhagen; Rhea Dall, Director UKS, Oslo; Laura McLean Ferris, Curator, The Swiss Institute, NYC; Axel Weider, Director Bergen Kunsthalle; Jacob Lillemose, Curator, writer and researcher; Johannes Heldéns, artist and poet.
Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen. Curated by Irene Campolmi
Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen. Curated by Irene Campolmi
DIVERSITY IS REALITY (link to the show)
Wu Tsang
CC- Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen
Curated by Irene Campolmi and Janna Lund
June 24 - November 11
Wu Tsang
CC- Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen
Curated by Irene Campolmi and Janna Lund
June 24 - November 11
SERVITUDES (link to the show)
Jesper Just
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Curated by Irene Campolmi
June 14 - August 12
Jesper Just
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Curated by Irene Campolmi
June 14 - August 12
SERVITUDES / CIRCUITS (INTERPASSIVITIES) (link to the show)
Jesper Just
MAAT- Museum Art Architecture and Technology, Lisbon
Curated by Irene Campolmi and Pedro Gadanho
May 14 - September 2
Jesper Just
MAAT- Museum Art Architecture and Technology, Lisbon
Curated by Irene Campolmi and Pedro Gadanho
May 14 - September 2
BIRTH V. HI & BYE (link to the pavilion website)
Kris Lemsalu
58esima La Biennale di Venezia
May 10 - November 24
Co-curated by a team of writers, artists, curators and friends: Andrew Berardini (1982, Los Angeles);Irene Campolmi (1987, Copenhagen); Sarah Lucas (1962, London); Tamara Luuk (1952, Tallinn).
Video of the Opening Performance: Kris Lemsalu, Roman Lemberg, Michael Kleine, Kyp Malone, Michiko Takahashi, and Carola Caggiano.
Kris Lemsalu
58esima La Biennale di Venezia
May 10 - November 24
Co-curated by a team of writers, artists, curators and friends: Andrew Berardini (1982, Los Angeles);Irene Campolmi (1987, Copenhagen); Sarah Lucas (1962, London); Tamara Luuk (1952, Tallinn).
Video of the Opening Performance: Kris Lemsalu, Roman Lemberg, Michael Kleine, Kyp Malone, Michiko Takahashi, and Carola Caggiano.
2018
SOFT UTOPIA
Lea Gulditte Hestelund
Eduardo Secci Gallery_Florence
Curated by Irene Campolmi
October -December
SOFT UTOPIA
Lea Gulditte Hestelund
Eduardo Secci Gallery_Florence
Curated by Irene Campolmi
October -December
PERFORMING IDENTITIES
Featuring performances by Nora Turato, Jacopo Miliani, Astrit Ismaili & Esben Weile Kjær.
Performance and Talks Program_- Code Art Fair CODE 3
Curated by Irene Campolmi,
Featuring performances by Nora Turato, Jacopo Miliani, Astrit Ismaili & Esben Weile Kjær.
Performance and Talks Program_- Code Art Fair CODE 3
Curated by Irene Campolmi,
#WHATIF
Larry Achiampong, Forensic Architecture, Renzo Martens, Marcus Linden, Tomás Saraceno, Lara Baladi and Naeem Mohaiemen.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Curated by Irene Campolmi
March 17- May 20
These artists rethink and change current political and social structures through their practice. The exhibition's hashtag title reflected on how social media are employed in the creation of social movements, turning hashtags into a tool for signalling political opinion on digital platforms, disseminating political beliefs and instigating change (#BlackLivesMatter, #metoo,#Jan25, #Resist).
Larry Achiampong, Forensic Architecture, Renzo Martens, Marcus Linden, Tomás Saraceno, Lara Baladi and Naeem Mohaiemen.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Curated by Irene Campolmi
March 17- May 20
These artists rethink and change current political and social structures through their practice. The exhibition's hashtag title reflected on how social media are employed in the creation of social movements, turning hashtags into a tool for signalling political opinion on digital platforms, disseminating political beliefs and instigating change (#BlackLivesMatter, #metoo,#Jan25, #Resist).
RE-ROUTING NATURE
Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Adrien Missika, Biitsi, Rune Bosse, Viktor Timofeev, and Alfredo Aceto
Sixty-Eight Art Institute, Copenhagen.
February 2- March 3
Curated by Irene Campolmi
Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Adrien Missika, Biitsi, Rune Bosse, Viktor Timofeev, and Alfredo Aceto
Sixty-Eight Art Institute, Copenhagen.
February 2- March 3
Curated by Irene Campolmi
2017
ART REACTS
Artistic Program Code Art Fair
Code Talks, Film and Performance, Copenhagen
August 31- September 2
Curated by Irene Campolmi
ART REACTS
Artistic Program Code Art Fair
Code Talks, Film and Performance, Copenhagen
August 31- September 2
Curated by Irene Campolmi
40 DAYS / 40 NIGHTS IN MONTECRISTO
Davide Tranchina
Copenhagen Photo Festival Italian Embassy in Copenhagen
Curated by Irene Campolmi and Luca Panaro
June 1-July 31
Pdf of the catalogue (link)
Davide Tranchina
Copenhagen Photo Festival Italian Embassy in Copenhagen
Curated by Irene Campolmi and Luca Panaro
June 1-July 31
Pdf of the catalogue (link)
Davide Tranchina, Book cover "40 days and 40 nights in Montecristo", edited by Irene Campolmi and Luca Panaro.
APPARIZIONI DI SUPERFICI (APPEARING SURFACES)
Trine Søndergaard & Nicolai Howalt
Special Guest Section curated by Irene Campolmi
Collaboration Copenhagen Photo Festival & CENTRALE FOTOGRAFIA FESTIVAL (2017 edition)
Fano, Italy (June 8th – 30th).
Link to the catalogue
Trine Søndergaard & Nicolai Howalt
Special Guest Section curated by Irene Campolmi
Collaboration Copenhagen Photo Festival & CENTRALE FOTOGRAFIA FESTIVAL (2017 edition)
Fano, Italy (June 8th – 30th).
Link to the catalogue
Trine Søndergaard, Untitled 2017, part of the exhibition "Appearance of Surfaces", FANO Centrale Fotografia.
2016
ICE- AT THE EDGE
Nicolaj Pennestri
Italian Embassy in Copenhagen
Curated by Irene Campolmi
December 10 2016- February 26 2017
Link to the catalogue
ICE- AT THE EDGE
Nicolaj Pennestri
Italian Embassy in Copenhagen
Curated by Irene Campolmi
December 10 2016- February 26 2017
Link to the catalogue
PAST EXHIBITIONS AS CURATORIAL ASSISTANT
2009
Palma Bucarelli and the Museum as Avant-garde, GNAM -National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, curated by Maria Stella Margozzi and Irene Campolmi, PA assistant to the curator (June 5th- November 30th).
Undercurrent red, with Mona Hatoum, curated by Alice Fontanelli and Irene Campolmi, curatorial assistant, Galleria CONTINUA, San Gimignano (Italy), September – December.
2009
Palma Bucarelli and the Museum as Avant-garde, GNAM -National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, curated by Maria Stella Margozzi and Irene Campolmi, PA assistant to the curator (June 5th- November 30th).
Undercurrent red, with Mona Hatoum, curated by Alice Fontanelli and Irene Campolmi, curatorial assistant, Galleria CONTINUA, San Gimignano (Italy), September – December.