1989 Megaplex Exhibition Aarhus – The Concept Story
Written by Letícia Stallone, M’BARAKÁ Until 1989, the world had lived under a clear order, an unstable but somehow organized equilibrium between blocks. There were the good guys and the bad guys, and everybody knew that the bad guy was the other. In 1989, mobile phones were still the size of a house brick; computers […]
disEMPOWERMENT in pictures
WHAT: Set up / Vernissage /Multi-media Exhibition WHEN: Tuesday 1 November 2017 (the exhibition will run 2.11.2017 – 16.1.2018) WHERE: Arbejdermuseet, Rømersgade 22, Copenhagen City BEFORE At 9am on Tuesday I met up with Anna Egebjerg Terp, a trusted curator with ImmigrantART, at the Arbejdermuseet. We made our way down to the basement at the […]
Goodbye 2016 … Hello 2017!!
Goodbye 2016 … Farvel 2016 … … and thank you for all you have brought Immigrant Art! We have had a great start-up this year in Copenhagen with #Artival2016 and three further events. We have engaged with visual, pictorial art and photographic art, and we have held two poetry and two music events. We have […]
Artist Dinner at Sofie’s
(Rul ned for dansk) Artist Dinner – The Artist’s space to be an artist by Sofie Kragh-Müller At some time or another on Sunday – the day after we presented ourselves and our work – I realized that there is something incessantly rebellious about preserving art and artists as a constant in our culture. Artists […]
Artival 2016 Artist Interview: CHRISTINA ENGLUND
Kan du kort beskrive din rejse fra dit hjemland til, hvor du er i København/Danmark idag? Jeg blev født på Frederiksberg i 1974 og har boet i og omkring København hele mit liv. Som 17-årig flyttede jeg hjemmefra for at dele en toværelses lejlighed ved Søerne med et par veninder. Det var den sommer, min […]
Artival 2016 Artist Interview: MIKKEL ANDERSEN
Kan du kort beskrive din rejse fra dit hjemland til, hvor du er i København/Danmark idag? Jeg blev født i Roskilde I 1972. Startede mine studier på konservatoriet i Ålborg og drog siden hen af flere omgange til London for at studere. I sidste omgang blev jeg optaget som studerende på Royal College of Music. […]
Artival 2016 Artist Interview: ARSALAN CHALABI
Could you describe briefly your journey from your place of birth to Copenhagen/Denmark today? In 2014, after the beginning of the Kubani resistance against ISIS (a terroristic group also referred to pejoratively as Daesh) in Syrian Kurdistan, demonstrations were staged in Iranian Kurdistan in the support of Kubani. I was one of the organizers who […]
Artival 2016 Artist Interview: EVANGELENE
Could you describe briefly your journey from your place of birth to Copenhagen/Denmark today? I left Colombo, Sri Lanka in 1995 and migrated to Canada. Sri Lanka was embroiled in a long civil war, and bloody violence was a regular occurrence in the city. My parents made arrangements for me to live with some relatives in Toronto. It was a long and frightening journey to make on my […]
Artival 2016 Artist Interview: ALESSANDRA SICURO
Could you describe briefly your journey from your place of birth to Copenhagen today? I come from South Italy. I moved first to Bologna and Milano and then to Copenhagen many years ago. I came to Denmark—and I stay here—for love and curiosity about life and diversity. How have your life experiences, and your journey, […]
Artival 2016 Artist Interview: BEHNAZ
Image by Jane Ellis Designs Photography Could you describe briefly your journey from your place of birth to Copenhagen/Denmark today? I left Iran at the age of fifteen in 1985. It was the chaotic time during Iraq’s attempt to invade Iran and a couple of years after the Islamic Revolution. Millions of Iranians fled in […]
