The guest on todays episode is somebody we’ve heard a lot about throughout the years, but through our own intellectual laziness had not seen much work by. We can only assume you, dear listener, have been smarter and more on top of it than we have because Rasmus Høj Mygind has been out there getting good work done, helping run...
Read MoreHello friends, is everybody enjoying this late summer weather in Copenhagen, making sure to talk with strangers about it? Today we are joined by the poet, translator and artist extraordinaire Morten Søndergaard. We had a relaxing sit down on a beautiful deck on a sunny day at the Louisiana Museum here in Denmark, looking out over the water, listening to the waves, watching people swim, and talked about words, art and life. It was glorious. He is a...
Read MoreThe inaugural edition of the CODE Art Fair was this last week weekend, and we were there with a booth in order to meet the art going public and having some talks with folks working at the fair. It was certainly a mixed result in many ways, but not without it’s successes. Our guess is that many who were there could say the same thing. CODE is ambitious, and it was interesting to see all the new...
Read MoreHello team, we hope you guys had a good summer. We’d like to thank you for your patience while we’ve been getting our shit together after a long and discombobulating summer. So many exciting things happening, just have to get everything in the right order. We have two items of good news to discuss today, and the first one is today's guest, Søren Behncke aka Papfar. We have been woefully ignorant of his work until...
Read MoreWelcome to episode 83, featuring the first director to sit in the armchair, the extraordinarily thoughtful Andreas Dalsgaard. He has made quite a few films in a pretty short amount of time (he’s also a hard worker) and caught our attention with his most recent, Life Is Sacred. He has a rare capacity for people and an inquisitive nature which he uses to try to meet the subjects of his films with humility and respect, and it shows in his works. He came in for the earliest talk we’ve had yet, and shared his thoughts on film school, using film language and applying...
Read MoreHello friends, welcome back to the second part of our talk with the scintillating Anders Reventlov. We bring it all home here in the second half, and this talk is chock full of pertinent information for young artists, all artists really. There is a lot of worthwhile conversation about some pretty burning issues in the art world today and issues it might be important to think about as practicing artists. We are going to hear about the exhibition space he started, the thoughts behind (it’s not what you think) and about the slow evolution of his own thoughts on...
Read MoreGreetings gang, here we are back again. In the midst of some upheaval and expansion, we bring you part one of our stellar talk with Anders Reventlov. He is the perfect guest for times of change, and he’s the first one ever we’ve met through the show itself. He is an unusually engaged fellow (and we meet a lot of engaged people) and since meeting him we’ve found he is a talented artist as well. He has a really interesting story, he works...
Read MoreAlright gang, welcome to episode 80. Today we are presenting some of the conversations we had during the 1000 Books Art Book Festival which was at Charlottenborg about a week and a half ago, even if we did promise that we would never cover a festival again. Never say never right? We spoke to a handful of folks, from the organizers to some of the exhibiting artists and on to the publishers. It was a fun and challenging event, and we...
Read MoreWe couldn’t be more excited to bring you this talk with Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos and Sean Naftel today. They are the masterminds behind the show, Mastering The Art of Contemporary Art, which just had it’s run here in Denmark at Aarhus Kunsthal, and it’s simply fantastic. They created a TV Kitchen in the space, invited a row of artists on, and produced a series of...
Read MoreWe have a fantastic show for you today, with the great Albert Elm here to talk. We’ve know Albert for a bit, but didn’t really get to know him until we sat down and had this conversation, and man, it turned out great. He worked for several years for our friend and former guest of the show, Jacob Aue Sobol, while he developed his craft as a photographer, and has since published a book and had his work shown all over. He’s a secretive fellow, so we hadn’t seen his work until fairly recently, and if you haven’t yet either, you are in for a treat. It doesn’t come as a surprise that he has been published on a ton of sites and has been named as a...
Read MoreWe are happy to say that today we have our first conversation with an art collector on the show, yes sir, the great Jens Peter Brask came by. We have been wanting to talk to collectors for a long time now, because they serve an integral part of any art scene out there. Feel how you may about the idea of selling art, but it’s been a part of art since nearly time immemorial, and we are fascinated with hear what people have to say. We got to talk about how and why...
Read MoreGreetings gang, I hope you guys are well. It’s busy times here at Undergang HQ, which basically means everything is upside down at the moment, but we are fighting for a better future. There are big plans in the works, now it’s just the time to work our asses off in order to get there. And that is perhaps the best segue there ever could be into todays guest, Peter Callesen. He works in many media, but he is mostly know for his works with paper. It feels wrong to label his work as paper cuts, but that is undeniably the tradition it rises from. But it’s so much more. There is a delicacy, emotion and...
Read MoreWelcome to episode 75! That's some sort of milestone, right? We are continuing our run of the movers and shakers in the art world, and we are happy to share our conversation with Merete Jankowski, the director of Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art with you. As far as we are concerned, someone like Merete makes the best kind of institute director out there. She is consistently anti-careerist, she is a soldier in service of art and she isn't afraid to...
Read MoreThis is it folks, perhaps the most helpful episode we have ever concocted. And it’s all thanks to Ditte. For those who don’t know, she is the co-founder and co-runner of Green is Gold, an exhibition and curatorial platform here in Copenhagen and a talented artist in her own right. We cover so much ground in our talk, and it’s chock full of good lessons and tips for you up and comers out there. We got through the hidden importance of...
Read MoreThis is the third and final episode of January, and today on the show we have Ida Højgaard Thjømøe. You might not recognize that name, but Ida is the young gun who has launched a new art magazine called AF Art, and you know what? It's good. The design is nice, the art is interesting, but perhaps the best thing is that it looks and reads...
Read MoreWelcome back to the final installment of our talk with the engaged and enthusiastic director of the Danish National Gallery of Art, Mikkel Bogh. Last week we heard about where Mikkel comes from, and what brought him to his current job. This week we hear about the challenges and compromises one must make in a position like his. He talks about the inherent politics of his job and the role of the state in the...
Read MoreAn interesting thing about being an adult in the this crazy world is that at a certain point you realize that you can’t do it all. That is, unless you are Mikkel Bogh. He is the director of The National Gallery of Denmark, and the former head of the Royal Art Academy and he really clarified some things about the upper echelons of art institutions for us. We thought that the system favored the pencil pusher type, the business man, the high school principal, and their role was mostly just to slap reality into the face of artist types and scream we can’t...
Read MoreToday we have the last episode of the year, it’s just a great one to go out on. We have Kasper Eistrup on the show. The artist Kasper Eistrup. The musician Kasper Eistrup. More or less every Dane knows who Kasper is, but for y’all out there in the larger world, he was the front man for one of the largest danish bands ever, Kashmir. They made music for over 20 years, and they are huge over here. Also abroad, but especially here. But this show is about art, and Kasper has been making art since even before he began playing music, and now has put the music on pause in order to pursue a career as an artist. He’s been showing work consistently for over 8 years, and now he just had his...
Read MoreToday we have a dose of calm energy and thoughtfulness by the name of Rune Bosse to combat whatever crazy is nipping at your heels. His practice often manifests installations or is performative, and usually with an eye to nature, and it's beautiful work. We only recently saw it for the first time, but it immediately struck us in some of the same ways that Felix Gonzales-Torres' work does...
Read MoreToday we are joined by Kirsten Dehlholm, the founder and artistic director for the groundbreaking performance group Hotel Pro Forma, who have been staging extravagant and spectacular performances for 30 years in Denmark and abroad. Her group is currently exhibiting their first ever museum style show at GLstrand here in Copenhagen, and it's well worth a visit, especially for...
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