Opening: New exhibition ‘Being Safe is Scary’ at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Join us when Kunsthal Charlottenborg opens the doors to two new exhibitions this spring on Thursday, March 20. The exhibitions open in collaboration with one of the world's largest documentary film festivals, CPH:DOX, which again has its festival center at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
Join us when Kunsthal Charlottenborg opens the doors to two new exhibitions this spring on Thursday, March 20. The exhibitions open in collaboration with one of the world’s largest documentary film festivals, CPH:DOX, which again has its festival center at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
Experience the exhibitions BEING SAFE IS SCARY by Banu Cennetoğlu and Disobedience Archive (The Open Storage), which presents a wide-ranging collection of video works depicting almost fifty years of social struggles on different continents. Admission to the opening is free. Book a free ticket for the talk here.
PROGRAM
16.00-20.00 The exhibitions open
Free entrance and bubbles for the first 100 guests. DJ Aida Mai is playing and the bar is open.
17.00-18.00 Launch and talks
HUMAN:RIGHTS in Social Cinema, the event is in English
Book your free ticket here.
17.00-17.10 Welcome
Opening speeches by Henriette Bretton-Meyer, Acting Director of Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Niklas Engstrøm, Artistic Director of CPH:DOX.
17.10-17.25 The Art of Human Rights – defending global human rights in 2025
Yasmine Ahmed, UK Director at Human Rights Watch gives a brief status on human rights in 2025.
17.25-17.55 Artist talk
Conversation between artist Banu Cennetoğlu and curator Katarina Stenbeck.
Hear more about the exhibition, with a focus on the main work right? (2022-), which deals with the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
17.55-18.00 Screening
Highlights from the HUMAN:RIGHTS film program.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 Copenhagen K
16.00-20.00, free admission
Book your free ticket to the launch and artist talk HERE
Banu Cennetoğlu:
Experience the first presentation in Denmark of Istanbul-based visual artist Banu Cennetoğlu (b. 1970, Ankara). She has exhibited at prestigious exhibitions such as documenta and the Venice Biennale with works that reflect a strong engagement with how the production and distribution of text- and image-based information shapes our world. The exhibition BEING SAFE IS SCARY takes its title from one of Cennetoğlu’s works and raises topical questions such as who can be safe and with what consequences? Read more here.
Disobedience Archive (The Open Storage):
Dive into a wide-ranging collection of video works depicting nearly fifty years of social struggles on different continents. Disobedience Archive explores the relationship between art and political action by looking at how resistance struggles are translated into moving images in what can be called a form of artistic visual activism. Since 2005, Disobedience Archive has been presented at institutions around the world, most recently at the Venice Biennale in 2024. Read more here.
The exhibitions are part of HUMAN:RIGHTS – a new collaboration between Kunsthal Charlottenborg, CPH:DOX and Human Rights Watch Denmark, which with support from the Frececo Foundation will focus on human rights in the coming years. The exhibition is also supported by Augustinus Fonden, Det Obelske Familiefond, Statens Kunstfond.