INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition
The INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition probes the intersection of creativity and technology, each year exploring how emerging technologies are reshaping art and society. Discover this year's exhibition titled HYPERVIGILANCE at Kunsthal Charlottenborg from 11-22 March 2026.
Curatorial statement by Mark Atkin, Head of Studies at CPH:DOX
In an age of digital saturation, global unrest, and pervasive surveillance, artists are increasingly exploring the cultural and psychological state of hypervigilance that seems to define our era. The works in this year’s INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition expose the collective anxiety of a society on high alert, where we struggle to retain agency over our image, body, and voice. For queer, disabled, and displaced communities, this state of watchfulness is deeply ingrained, a survival instinct in a world built on scrutiny and exclusion. For others, it has become the new norm shaped by 24-hour news cycles, extractive capitalism, authoritarian violence, and the pressure to conform in a world where we’re always being watched.
The artists in HYPERVIGILANCE expose and reconfigure these conditions allowing us to take back control through activism, sexual expression, defiance, and artistic invention. Across immersive experiences and multisensory installations, HYPERVIGILANCE transforms this psychological unease into aesthetic inquiry, taking us from anxiety to agency, capturing both the disquiet of the present and the human drive toward reconnection.
Tickets for the INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition
Get information and tickets for the INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. The ticket grants access to the entire exhibition space for 1 hour and 30 minutes, and you are guaranteed to experience at least three interactive works. Admission: 110 DKK.
Artworks
Brains in the State of Suspension
'Brains in the State of Suspension' is a live performance horror film exploring disembodied intelligence, domination, and horror as self-aware brains confront the monstrous consequences of their own drive for control.
Kakia Konstantinaki / Greece / 2025 / International Premiere
Celestis Obscura
Falkenstrøm’s work aligns the Gold Rush with today’s space race, examining how corporate power in asteroid and lunar exploitation threatens to replicate Earth’s inequalities across the solar system.
Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm / Denmark / 2026 / International Premiere
Coded Black
'Coded Black' is a social justice game exploring the insidious and haunting histories of systemic racism in the US and UK, revealing stories of racial injustice and Black resilience.
Maisha Wester / United Kingdom / 2025
Dark Rooms
'Dark Rooms' invites intimate exploration across virtual spaces where real stories of sexual awakening ask us to confront taboos, and move beyond shame and prejudice into the realm of unspoken desire and personal liberation.
In the Current Of Being
A haptic VR experience chronicling the harrowing journey of a survivor of electroshock conversion therapy.
Cameron Kostopoulos / United States & France / 2025
Inside: The Childhood of an Artist
This beautiful multi-sensory biography transports you to a sun-kissed 1950’s family home in Ohio, placing you at the heart of artist Judith Scott’s devastating story of love and separation.
Sacha Wares / United Kingdom / 2025 / International Premiere
My Tent Is Not a Shelter
Stitched from the artist's own clothes, a fragile tent becomes a haunting memorial for Gaza, and a powerful symbol for people who are still living in tents over the rubble of their destroyed homes.
Mohamed Jabaly / Norway & Palestine / 2026 / International Premiere
No Place at Home
'No Place at Home' follows a mother and her trans teen deciding to leave the US after gender-affirming care restrictions, allowing us to feel the pain of leaving their world behind.
Sam Wolson & Lilli Carré / United States / 2025
Tales of a Nomadic City
This VR experience, co-created with Nouakchott youth, artists, poets, and scholars, weaves personal stories, archives, and immersive sound to portray the city’s complex history and ongoing urban transformation.
Med Lemine Rajel & Christian Vium / Denmark & Mauritania / 2026
The Lost Golden Lotus
'The Lost Golden Lotus' reimages China’s foot-binding legacy through multisensory art and Deaf-led performance, connecting historical beauty ideals to today’s exacting body standards.
Chisato Minamimura / United Kingdom & China / 2025
The Pledge
'The Pledge' is an interactive installation turning encounters with AI bias into a collective digital monument.
Daniela Nedovescu & Octavian Mot / Germany / 2025
The Sanctuary of Dreams
'The Sanctuary of Dreams' invites audiences into a collective future-dreaming ritual, where imagination becomes a tool to envision new social, spiritual, and cultural realities shaped by shared human desires.
Events
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition – Opening Vernissage
Join us for the opening Vernissage of the INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition on Thursday, March 11th, from 18:00! The Vernissage will start with an opening speech by Mark Atkin, Curator of the INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition, and the exhibition space will be free to explore until 21:00. Tø Øl will provide the beers!
INTER:ACTIVE talk with Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm
Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm will be present and give a talk about 'Celestis Obscura' on the 16th of March from 18.00 - 19.00 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg by the entrance to the INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition. Attendance is free but with limited capacity, reserve your ticket.
INTER:ACTIVE talk with the Dark Rooms team
The artists will be present and give a talk about the piece on the 21st of March 18.00 - 19.00 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg by the entrance to the INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition. Attendance is free but with limited capacity, reserve your ticket.
INTER:ACTIVE talk by Mohamed Jabaly
Artist Mohamed Jabaly will be present and give a talk about 'My Tent Is Not a Shelter' on the 14th of March 18.00-19.00 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg by the entrance to the INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition. Attendance is free but with limited capacity, reserve your ticket.
INTER:ACTIVE Live Performance by Brains in the State of Suspension
'Brains in the State of Suspension' is a live performance horror film exploring disembodied intelligence, domination, and horror as self-aware brains confront the monstrous consequences of their own drive for control. The experience is a special event of live cinema and will be performed twice on the 17th of March at Kunsthal Charlottenborg for a limited capacity.
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