About Art Matter Festival

Art Matter Festival – a festival of VISUAL ART for art lovers

Art Matter Festival (former Art Week was established in 2013. Every year tArt Matter Festival is created in collaboration with up to 50 exhibition venues from our most prestigious art museums, art galleries and artist-run project spaces on the outskirts of the city. Art Matter Festival is packed with new exhibitions, performances, concerts, debates, industry activities, art tours and meetings with the artists themselves. 

Art Matter Festival consists of two parts, one for the audience and one for professionals.

With the audience program AArt Matter Festival invites the citizens as well as our tourists to new and different meetings with the art and artists. 

Art Matter Festival is an opportunity to explore the vibrant and diverse art scene, regardless of whether you are a seasoned art connoisseur or new to the field. In this way, Art Matter Festival works to ensure that more people are invited into the field that is our contemporary visual art.

With the program for professionals, we create seminars and symposia and a framework for knowledge sharing ensuring that international professionals are invited to Copenhagen/Malmö and Aarhus. They will meet selected artists and experience how the  art scene develops. In this way Art Matter Festival works for the professional strengthening and forming networks that reach beyond the boundaries of the Art Matter Festival of contemporary art.

During AArt Matter Festival we create meetings with and provide conversations about art itself and with the artists themselves. In other words: Art Matter Festival strengthens contemporary visual art in close collaboration with the full art scene.

Art Matter Festival in pictures

In our audience programme you can find events and exhibitions from the big institutions as well as the small exhibition sites. Photo: Christian Brems

 

As part of our professional programme Danish artists met international curators, here for a portfolio review at Gammel Strand. Photo: Selma Bauer

 

In an attempt to create different encounters with art, Art Week each year invites the audience to participate in a number of art tours. We have, for instance, hosted gallery walks to the city’s diverse gallery scene. Photo: Christian Brems.
In an attempt to create different encounters with art, AArt Matter Festival each year invites the audience to participate in a number of Art Tours. We have, for instance, hosted gallery walks to the capital’s diverse gallery scene. Photo: Christian Brems

 

 

Together with partners we arrange a number of academic events each year. In collaboration with SMK – The National Gallery of Art, we hosted a seminar on performance art in 2019. Photo: Ingvar Mulvad.
During Art Matter Festival we celebrate Copenhagen’s gallery scene, here in the Meat Packing District, now home for a number of galleries. Photo: Christian Brems