2:00 pm - 12:00 amIn English. The ticket price includes admission to the exhibition and 20% discount on the publication Frida Orupabo: On Lies, Secrets and Silence.
Limited number of participants.
The richly illustrated catalogue Frida Orupabo: On Lies, Secrets and Silence offers critically and creative texts in response to the exhibition. It begins with an introduction by Yuvinka Medina (Senior Curator at Bonniers Konsthall) and Owen Martin (Curator at Astrup Fearnley Museum), who highlight the significance of the artist’s early digital work and its relation to On Lies, Secrets and Silence. The catalogue also features original essays by Nina Cramer (PhD candidate at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies) and Mai Takawira (freelance curator and researcher), who explores the position of Orupabo’s work within a Nordic context, as well as by Dr. Portia Malatjie (curator and lecturer in Visual Cultures at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town), who considers the connections between race, discomfort and play. Additionally, C. LeClaire (poet and author) and Hilton Als (award-winning journalist, critic and curator) contribute creative, deeply personal texts that open up for singular readings of the exhibition. The design is by Gabrielle Guy. The catalogue is published in collaboration with Astrup Fearnley Museum and Skira Editore. It will also be published in a German edition in collaboration with Sprengel Museum Hannover and Stiftung Niedersachsen, coinciding with Frida Orupabo receiving the prestigious Spectrum International Prize for Photography in 2025.
Biographies
Nina Cramer is a PhD candidate at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Arts and Cultural Studies. Her research examines contemporary artistic practices and discourses of the African Diaspora in Denmark, drawing on frameworks from Black Studies and queer feminist art history. Her PhD project is part of the research network The Art of Nordic Colonialism.
Mai Takawira is an independent curator and researcher. She holds an MA in Modern Culture from the University of Copenhagen. Often her work centres on experiences of Blackness in the Nordics, from the precarious to the politically potent, as well as African-Diasporic dialogues across time and space and the translation work it produces. She has given lectures and workshops throughout Denmark and has been involved in various projects initiated by many of the leading museums and art institutions in the country.
G/HOSTING is a platform that uses curatorial, editorial, educational and dissemination projects to activate critical and reparative approaches to ongoing colonial histories. Emphasis is on perspectives from the global majority. In collaborations with artists, writers, and cultural institutions, G/ HOSTING facilitates interventions into exhibitions, collections, public spaces, and professional discourses. The name G/ HOSTING describes the platform’s two core concepts. Firstly, hosting as a means to create dialogue among Danish-based racialized cultural workers and with colleagues in other geographies (hosting). Secondly, attending to repressed colonial histories that haunt the present, the challenge of representation and the liberation of disappearing (ghosting). The platform is based in Denmark, but works in extension of transnational decolonial and black feminist movements.
Marie-Louise Richards is an architect, lecturer and researcher. She is the founder and leader of the experimental course Reconstructions in the Department for Research and Further Education in Architecture and Fine Art at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Her work explores ‘black feminist spatial futures’ as embodiment, critical strategy and spatial category through architectural and artistic research, curatorial practice and writing. Together with Cathryn Klasto she is co-editor of the special issue Citations for PARSE Journal (September 2023).
Frida Orupabo, Trauma catches up, 2024. Detail, sculpture. Photo: Gerhard Kassner, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Berlin / Stockholm / Mexico City.
