Photo: Poul BuchardPipilotti RistOpen My Glade Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark2019ABOUT THE PROJECTAs part of our consultancy work for Kvadrat’s institutional collaboration program, we have worked closely with the artist Pipilotti Rist supporting the development of a major new installation that occupies a entire gallery of the Louisiana museum. The work Reversed Eyelid covers the walls as […]
Chart Art Fair 13 Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen2013ABOUT THE PROJECTChart Art Fair is the first contemporary art fair in Denmark. Its first edition took place from August 30th to September 1st, 2013 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen.South into North was hired in April 2013, to work on building the fair from the ground up. We worked at a […]
Chart 13 Collateral Program and Chart Talks Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen2013ABOUT THE PROJECTSouth into North curated the collateral program of the first edition of Chart Art Fair, in collaboration with then Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s director Jacob Fabricius. The program included the project KERAMIKOS, by Matthew Lutz Kinoy and Natsuko Uchino, a series of posters by Karl Holmkvist, the presentation […]
SUPERFLEXWorking Title: “A Retrospective Curated by XXXXXXXXX” Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen2013 – 2014ABOUT THE PROJECTThe exhibition presents a retrospective view of a twenty years long, ongoing artistic career. Eight international curators/curator teams have been invited to present each their own view of a retrospective exhibition. Show production: South into NorthSERVICESProductionRelated projectsChart 13 Collateral Program and Chart TalksKunsthal Charlottenborg, CopenhagenSIMON DENNYSecret […]
Photo: I DO ART AGENCY. Courtesy of the artist and Kvadrat.FOSClutch Kvadrat Showroom, Copenhagen2016ABOUT THE PROJECT“Clutch”, a temporary architectural installation by FOS, transformed part of Kvadrat’s Copenhagen showroom into a recording studio. Over the course of four days, the artist recorded the second album of his ongoing musical project “Small White Man”. Curated by South into […]
Photo: PolitikenFix&FoxyLampedusa Cruises Copenhagen Harbour2016ABOUT THE PROJECT‘Lampedusa cruises’ is a project by Danish duo Fix&Foxy. It consisted of boat trips around Copenhagen Harbour and beaches nearby, for the course of two weeks in the end of August 2016.A crew of refugees welcomed people on board of a boat that had sailed the actual trip from Egypt […]
Ursula NistrupEncounters Kunsthal 44 Møen, Denmark2016ABOUT THE PROJECTEncounters by Danish artist Ursula Nistrup is the first project of a series of commissions organized by South Into North in response to Henning Christiansen’s archives and was produced in collaboration with the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Glass and Ceramics Workshop, with the support of the Statens Kunstfond. Nistrup’s […]
Pomme de Terre Kulttuurisauna, Helsinki2014ABOUT THE PROJECTIn the summer of 2014, South into North participated to Pomme de Terre, an experimental art workshop initiated and organised by Malene Ratcliffe. The one-week long workshop brought together four art students with a group two artists, an architect, a designer and a curator in a experimental learning environment, taking […]
Henrik Plenge JakobsenLucky Angst Cat Various public spaces, Copenhagen2014ABOUT THE PROJECTLucky Angst Cat is a public art project by Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, commissioned and produced by South into North.When South into North invited Plenge Jakobsen to contribute a work to their home page, as part of the year-long digital commissioning project Nothing Like Home, his contribution ended up spilling […]
Photo: Andrea Rossetti Courtesy of the Artist, Pilar Corridas Gallery, Gladstone Gallery, Esther Schipper, Fondazione Hangar Bicocca, Milan. Philippe ParrenoHypothesis Hangar Bicocca, Milan2015 – 2016ABOUT THE PROJECTThe exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca was Philippe Parreno’s first survey exhibition in Italy, and it was conceived as a choreographed space following a precise script devised by Parreno. Curated by Andrea Lissoni, […]
Nothing Like Home South into North’s webpage2014 – 2015ABOUT THE PROJECT‘Nothing Like Home’ was the title of a series of five digital works that South into North commissioned between 2014 and 2015 for the company’s old website homepage.#1 FOSGoldman Sachs Socialdemokratiet, 2014#2 Simon StarlingPictures for an Exhibition, 2013 – 14 / Work in Progress (Constantin Brancusi, […]
Photo: Jeremiah Wilson Courtesy of the artist, Kvadrat and New Museum, New YorkCally SpoonerOn False Tears and Outsourcing New Museum, New York2016ABOUT THE PROJECTCally Spooner’s project at the New Museum was the first exhibition that Kvadrat supported at the Museum, which also lead to the starting of a dialogue about a more long-term collaboration, eventually resulted […]
Photo: Casper SejersenCildo MeirelesLike a Needle in a Haystack Kunsthal 44 Møen, Denmark2014ABOUT THE PROJECTLike a Needle in a Haystack, curated by Julia Rodrigues, was the first solo exhibition by the celebrated Brasilian artist Cildo Meireles in Scandinavia. The exhibition at Kunsthal 44 Møen presented a selection of works that spams from the early 1970s to the present day […]
© Pipilotti Rist. Photo: Maris Hutchinson_EPW Studio Courtesy the Artist and New Museum New YorkPipilotti RistPixel Forest New Museum, New York2016 – 2017ABOUT THE PROJECTPipilotti Rist, 4th Floor To Mildness (2016), installation view at New Museum, New York. Video and sound installation with two projections onto two amorphous screens hanging horizontally from the ceiling, single and […]
Photo: I DO ART AGENCY Courtesy of the artist and KvadratRoman SignerFlying and Painting Kvadrat HQ, Ebeltoft, Denmark2016ABOUT THE PROJECTIn July 2016, Roman Signer performed an action in Ebeltoft (Denmark), as part of Kvadrat’s own art commissioning program, curated by South into North.The action involved Signer flying custom-modified drones inside a shipping container. The interior of the container […]
Photos of the exhibition. Courtesy of the Artists and SixtyEight Art Institute.CARLA ZACCAGNINII Am Also Stepping on Wet Sand SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen2017ABOUT THE PROJECTSouth into North invited artist Carla Zaccagnini to work in collaboration with writer Santiago Garcia Navarro to make a new work for the Copenhagen exhibition space SixtyEight Art Institute. The exhibition I am also […]
Photo: Jeremiah Wilson Courtesy of the artist, Kvadrat and New Museum, New YorkKVADRAT ART PROJECTS Various venues2015 -ABOUT THE PROJECTSince 2015, we have been working with Kvadrat on their ambitious art collaborations and commissions. In our role, we advise the company on which projects to take on when supporting art projects in institutions around the world. We […]
Photo: Andrew Dunkley © Tate Photography Courtesy of the Artist; Tate Modern and Kvadrat.PHILIPPE PARRENOAnywhen Tate Modern, London2016 – 2017ABOUT THE PROJECTSouth into North role in this project is part of our work consulting Kvadrat on their collaborations with artists and art institutions internationally. Anywhen (Hyundai Commission 2016) was is a site-specific exhibition that changed throughout the day […]
Photo: Dario Lasagni. Courtesy of the artist and New MuseumPETRIT HALILAJRu New Museum, New York2017 – 2018ABOUT THE PROJECTThis collaboration was initiated by South into North together with the museum’s curatorial department, as part of our ongoing advisory and curatorial work for Kvadrat. In Ru Halilaj presents a number of new video works, several large textile sculptures, and […]
Photo credit courtesy of KvadratROMAN SIGNERHouse Kvadrat HQ, Ebeltoft, Denmark2017ABOUT THE PROJECTAs part of Kvadrat’s own art commissioning program, curated by South into North, Roman Signer made a new permanent sculpture for the landscape around Kvadrat’s head quarters in Ebeltoft.The sculpture, titled House, consists of a stylized house made of steel, with an inverted roof that creates a […]
Photo: Michael Berg KARL HOLMQVISTUntitled (WHAT? WHEN? WHY? WHO?) Kvadrat HQ, Ebeltoft, Denmark2018ABOUT THE PROJECTAs part of the commission Karl Holmqvist customized woven textile ‘Verpan’ with six variations of his signature language-based designs. From these, he created the work Untitled (WHAT? WHEN? WHY? WHO?), a sculpture composed of twenty-seven cubes, which can be turned around playfully, randomly creating varying […]
Adelita Husni-Bey: Chiron, 2019. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Photo: Maris Hutchinson / EPW StudioAdelita Husni-BeyChiron New Museum, New York2019ABOUT THE PROJECTAdelita Husni Bey’s solo exhibition Chiron opened on January 22nd. As part of our consultancy work for Kvadrat’s institutional collaborations program, we have supported the artist in the development of 26 textile banners that form part […]
Tamara Henderson, Installation views of the exhibition Womb Life, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2018, photos: Frank Sperling TAMARA HENDERSONWomb Life KW Institute for Contemporary Art2018 – 2019ABOUT THE PROJECTAs part of Kvadrat’s institutional collaboration program, South Into North has worked together with KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin and artist Tamara Henderson.For KW, Henderson transformed […]
Photo: Paolo Monello, Michele CroseraSIMON DENNYSecret Power New Zealand Pavilion, Venice Biennale2015ABOUT THE PROJECTAt the 56th Venice Biennale, New Zealand presented Secret Power, an exhibition by Simon Denny. The show took place in two different locations: the Biblioteca Marciana in Piazzetta San Marco and the arrivals lounges of Marco Polo Airport. Francesca Astesani worked as the project’s Exhibition […]
Goshka Macuga ‘Negotiation sites’ after Saburo Murakami (2016), installation view at Fondazione Prada, Milan Photo: Pasquale Formisano Courtesy of the Artist; Fondazione Prada and KvadratGoshka MacugaTo the son of the man who ate the scroll Fondazione Prada, Milan 2016 “To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll”, developed by the artist for […]