Pre-graduation exhibition by Karen Segall

Don’t miss out when our good friend, and upcoming design talent Karen Segall hosts an exhibition of her stuff in our part of town; Kødbyen. More specifically Slagtehusgade 5E, the vernisage is on Sunday the 12th of July. Karen is about to graduate from the Danish school of design, and will be showing off her amazing final project, which draws inspiration from a novel about a twisted, dark, Russian circus. Fascinating indeed!

WAS presents 03:16 pm

Don’t forget to swing by gallery WAS on Saturday, as our ever innovative art friends over there are ready with another exciting vernisage. This will according to tradition make for a good time with plenty of cheap drinks, but to focus on the art for a bit, WAS is presenting a solo exhibition with photographer Thomas Skou.
The exhibition is a documentary narration based on a random meeting between the artist and a group of local Brooklyn hang-arounds at “03:16 pm”. This evolved into a one day mission in search of a hidden graffiti spot, somewhere in upstate NYC!
We are looking forward to it, and the cheap drinks!

Paper Cuts 2.0.

The creative community ArtRebels are back with a second edition of their innovative poster project Paper Cuts. The rebels have gathered creative influences from the underground in Denmark and Scandinavia, with three new exciting artists on the line-up. In this way ArtRebels are ready to present you with six posters, at what will no doubt be a massive release party in Christiania’s ‘børneteateret’, this Thursday.

The idea behind Paper Cuts is to give young, not yet fully established talents on the artistic scene a display window, and thereby a chance to bring forward their unusual creative abilities. The edgy expressions Paper Cuts promotes, is sold in the ArtRebels shop and at www.artrebels.com, for no more than 200 kr. Another intention for this project is that everyone should have the possibility to have some interesting art on his or her walls, without having to pay a fortune.

This time, ArtRebels are collaborating with Jan Håkon Robson, Anne Munnecke Christensen and GoAheadRobUs. Come and join us when their posters are revealed for the very first time on Thursday 25th of June, as part of the Christiania festival. The event begins at 6 PM in Christiania’s ’Børneteater’, there will be a cheap bar and a groovy music line-up that ArtRebels have put together.

WHERE & WHEN: Thursday 25th of June, 6 PM – 2 AM, Christiania’s ‘Børneteater’, Bådmandsstræde 43, 1407 Kbh. K. Free entry.

About the artists
Jan Håkon Robson is a Norwegian illustrator who primarily works from his old room in his mother’s basement. The room he grew up in, spent his days drawing teenage mutant ninja turtles and built up a vast collection of Charles Barkley basketball cards in. His style is built on hand drawn patterns, to which music and visions deriving from music are a great influence.

Anne Munnecke Christensen is currently on her third year at The Funen Arts Academy and mainly works with drawing. The house as a phenomenon is often a recurring theme in her works. The house usually represents a home, a place of comfort and familiarity. Despite this Anne’s work also encloses the strange, the abandoned and human absence. This is an atmosphere she describes using Sigmund Freud’s concept ”Das Unheimliche”. Anne works with a mixture of watercolours, ink, filled tips and copic-markers.

GoAheadRobUs is the collaboration between Stine Tranekjær and Anne Werner. The girls are respectively from the Danish Design School and the tailoring school, they have previously worked together on a range of projects. What characterises their work is colours and the way in which these are combined. This has always been their utmost passion. They have produced two portraits of a palm tree. Depending on how they are hung, they tell different stories.

The Ink Boy in Barcelona.

If you are anywhere near Barcelona tonight, we recommend you to go to the Chandal store, where the danish talent Phuc Van Dang is show his art and design. This includes hand painted cups, badges, drawings and his limited T-shirt prints.
Phuc and DJ Nam Nam are ready to invade the Chandal store tonight, June the 19th, with the concept “The Ink Boy”. We are personal fans of Phucs work, and you can find a few items of his on our site, the rest you will have to come down to Kødbyen to lay your eyes upon.
More about Phuc Van Dang can be found at www.puchisme.dk

Dream Voyages and Sand Castles

This summer Artrebels will be infiltrating the rather conventional settings of Copenhagen’s art fortress Charlottenborg, situated right in the heart of the city. True to form, we will be using our rebellious spirit to shake things up, leave traditions behind and create a rather extraordinary expression.
We were invited to take part in the exhibition ”Værker Der Virker”, which runs from June 20th to August 30th For this purpose we´ve arranged for some pretty outstanding artist in our network to join forces, and there is plenty of reason for excitement, as both Christian Kornum, Maria Torp, Line Bech, Shft, and the Ultra Grøn boys, are involved.



The collaboration has resulted in two separate pieces, connected still, as they are somehow representing each other’s opposite elements. Appearing as a complex installation, mixing a variety of media, from sand and wood, to video projection and a Morris Minor, one is called “Den Fantastiske Luftfærd”. In this piece we find the artists playing with the idea of the ultimate journey of discovery, as they have actually build an airship, ready to fly out and explore the world from above. The other piece by Maria Torp is a giant sculpture made from sand, bringing us back to earth.



We think these amazing artworks has taken their unique forms, due to the different creative skills, each artist brought to the collaboration. Christian Kornum for instance, from the Danish School of Design, has in recent years worked with scenography and art installations. Besides he is a very talented visual storyteller, and he always manages to mix elements of playfulness and irony into his work.
In Ultra Grøn, an artist duo consisting of Morten Leck Plesner and Christian Elovara Dinesen, we find a passion for nature and ways of documenting the experience of it. Besides the boys display an urge to explore, act and take responsibility, and they often flash a whole lot of practical, creative skills as well. As they make impressive wall paintings, build mad constructions and so on.



Line Bech who sew and design everything from costumes to haute couture, is all about form, figures and colour, and how these elements interact, besides she is genius at turning things upside down. Further more Maria Torp, educated at the Royal Academy of Art, has an amazing pictorial language, which you might know from stuff like CD covers and posters, she has made for Artrebels, as well as her many amazing accomplishments in the more established art scene.

So, there will defiantly be a lot of talent, inspiration, craziness and vision unfolding at Charlottenborg for this exhibition. Come down and see for yourself from June 20th., and art up you summer. The opening will be held Thursday June 18th from 20-23! Drop by! Facebook event here!

Music For Dreams fredagsbar x 4!

Som et lille juni initiativ har Music For Dreams arrangeret fredagsbarer hvor de "samler vores venner - og deres venner - og inviterer til foreløbigt 4 fredage, hvor vi præsenterer noget af den musik, som vi synes skiller sig ud og peger fremad. Vi kan godt lide når tingene har kvalitet, er unikke og originale. Og har stil."

VEL MØDT!