Copenhagen Contemporary has launched an open call for artists, architects, designers, curators, landscape architects or others who are in any way professionally engaged in art or architecture in the public space.
In 2021 Copenhagen Contemporary was awarded the biggest Scandinavian art prize, the Bikuben Foundation’s Vision Exhibition Award, for the winning project Yet, It Moves! - a visionary research project and public art exhibition that investigate the interconnected movements across scales from the micro- to the macro cosmos. The project aims to bring the overlapping spheres of interest between artists and scientists into play. A series of decentralized art installations will be shown at different locations in Copenhagen from May to October 2023, creating opportunities for people to encounter contemporary art in new ways as the art will live in the city interacting with people on a daily base.
The organisers are looking for artists whose research has investigated or is currently exploring themes related to the interface between art and science like the ones that will be researched in Yet, It Moves! The project and its exhibitionary outcome are divided into three focus areas examining: movement above us, movement within us, movement around us. The project's research partners investigate topics in astrophysics, astronomy, quantum physics, particle physics, cosmology, neuroscience, memory studies, and performance studies.
The Open Call is divided into two kinds of contribution:
1. OPEN CALL FOR A CENTRAL PLATFORM /PAVILION /MEETING POINT
We invite artists and architects to suggest the architecture / design for a platform that could be the central venue for Yet, It Moves!. A visible place, surround-
ed by the hustle and bustle of everyday life in Copenhagen, where performances and talks can take place, and where people can meet and get information on the project. The open call for the platform could be inspired by this constant flux of moving particles, sound, light and gravitational waves, and the movements.
2. OPEN CALL FOR TALKS, EVENTS, PODCASTS, AND PERFORMANCES RELATED TO THE PUBLIC PROGRAMME OF YET, IT MOVES!
The organisers also invite curators, artists, scientists, and architects to propose temporary artworks in the form of installations, sound interventions, per-
formances, talks, workshops or other initiatives related to the topics of Yet, It Moves! that could unfold in the city of Copenhagen, or nearby /on the platform/venue. Proposals for sound works, talks and podcasts could also be designed for online usage only. The project welcomes proposals for initiatives located in urban spaces that might benefit from a requalification.
All applications should be submitted before the deadline of 1 September. The winning proposal will be announced by the end of September 2022. More information about the criteria can be found here.
Copenhagen’s youngest art institution, Copenhagen Contemporary (CC), has established itself as a leading cultural operator, showing large-scale installation art. CC has not just shown world-class art, but also worked specifically towards creating the best possible framework for setting up exhibition and learning activities about contemporary art for children, young people, and adults.
