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After a longer pause we are back with a fantastic conversation the artist Nathan Gulick, visiting town from LA for his solo show, Waiting Room, at C4 Projects. We met and had a live recording at C4, and it was both a lot of fun and very interesting. Nathan is eloquent and engaged, and we got a great podcast out of it. Please enjoy and be sure to check out the installation images from the exhibition.

And we are back! Thanks for hanging in there. Today we have a conversation we've been really excited to share with you, with the artist FOS, also known by his government name of Thomas Poulsen. This talk was recorded during the summer when he had a quite ambitious show up at Gallery Nils Stærk here in Copenhagen, and it turned out to be a really fun one. He is one of the guest who was both really easy and really interesting to speak with, and this is a great combination when you are talking about very engaging and expansive exhibition to begin with. We had a good long talk about many subjects, please enjoy.

The warm months have fully settled upon the land, and with every Danish summer comes the yearly tradition of Roskilde Festival, one of the world's largest music festivals. Around 130,000 people attend the festival, which is run by a non-profit organization. For many years now they have also had a surprisingly ambitious art zone during the festival, with running themes and critical commentary on social and political issues. This year, for example they built four one-to-one replicas of the proposed wall types for the donald's anti-cooties barrier between Mexico and the US. We spoke with the head curator, Mette Woller, and three of the exhibiting artists, Jillian Mayer, Oskar Koliander, and previous guest of the program, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen. It was nice to see a large festival working on promoting critical and contemporary art, and we are already looking forward to next years program. This episode is brought to you in collaboration with the Artland App. Please visit artlandapp.com for more information

We have Signe Vad on the show today, which is very exciting, and has been a long time coming. She is an exceptionally hard working artist, with tons of projects always in the works as well has her own production, and she somehow gets it all done. She is a serial collaborator, exhibition space leader and cultural front runner, and we have the pleasure of hearing about it. Our talk is also fascinating because she talks a lot about her doubts, thoughts and dreams about her total practice, and goddamn it, if that isn't what this show is for, then what is it for? Enjoy!

We are back again today with another super interesting talk, with the artist group Mathias & Mathias. They had a show up at Overgaden a little while back, and we were fortunate enough to have the chance to sit down and talk to them. It was a great conversation, touching on many topics, with a lot of behind the scenes talk, which is always interesting. It's good to hear from working artists what their experiences are in the art world, and that always leads into a discussion about their work. They are a group you should keep an eye on, they have a lot of interesting projects in the pipeline. And they are also gentlemen, which also such a nice thing to find out here in these mean streets. So with no further ado, enjoy our talk with Mathias & Mathias!

Today we are terribly excited to bring you an actually well timed conversation, with the wonderful Jonas Liveröd. It's been a while coming, but it fits perfectly, because already on this Friday, April 20th, he has a solo show opening at the great Steinsland Berliner Gallery in Stockholm. So as awesome as the conversation we are about to play for you is, it's always better to go and see the work in real time and space, so if you are anywhere near Stockholm, then you should go see the show. As a bonus, you can have a chat with Jonas, who is really just a sweet and open hearted fellow, so that comes highly recommended as well. It's all good news from the Cultural Bandwidth headquarters today! I feel that Jonas needs no introduction, his work is excellent and lively, and we do a pretty good job of covering things in the talk. Thanks to Jeanette Steinsland for setting this up, and for all the support. Please enjoy our conversation with Jonas Liveröd!

Today, in serendipitous timing, we are joined by the art group Sara, Peter & Tobias, who were kind enough to sit down with us for a wide ranging conversation about their first book, Phenomina. And just last week they won the British Journal of Photography International Photography Award for their new project, The Merge. We had a very interesting conversation together not only about their projects, but also about the role of ego in photography, authorship, research, fundraising, and giving up your individuality to strengthen a group. This is a long one, but only because there was so much good stuff in there. Check out their book, Phenomina, we can't recommend it enough, and keep and eye on their new project as it develops.

When you talk process with an artist, many similarities between practices begin to pop up over time, but there are also those occasions where you hear about more independent ways of working and thinking. Todays conversation with Johan Furåker is of that ilk, one of the ones which are quite inspiring. He's a thoughtful artist, and methodical, and if you look at his work, you can see that his way of producing is certainly working well. There is a balance to doing your homework, research and inspirational legwork, yet keeping a sense of mystery, happy accident and experimentation in your practice, and I think Johan is one of the people who have been on this program who exemplifies that best. Please enjoy this talk with Johan Furåker.

Ah, the march of time, the learning of lessons, the rediscovery of delight! What a great talk we have for you today! In the middle of significant personal and political chaos we are so very proud to bring to you today a wonderful conversation with Ditte Ejlerskov recorded a couple of months ago. Talking to her was a reminder of so many important things one must hold dear as an artist; choosing the harder path at times, about trust in yourself and your relationship to your practice, the value of plain old hardheadedness. As humans we walk a fine line in balancing everything, and as artists' it is essential. We must remember this, it is imperative, if for nothing else then for our own contentedness. Ditte has a big show up at Kristiansand Kunsthal in Norway called The Muse, which looks amazing, so if you are in that part of the world then be sure to check it out. Check out her website, it's amazing just like her work, and check out the sound piece she made for the show, link is below. Enjoy!

We had the great pleasure of meeting and speaking with Yazan Khalili last week, who is the winner of the extract prize 2015 from GLStrand, and just opened his solo show there, by the name of No One Saw The Colours. We had a really fantastic talk about making art, politics, representation and working under tough conditions. Yazan is very dedicated to and active in art and culture in general, and on top of it is an interesting artist, so go see his show at GLStrand (up until 11th march), and enjoy our talk with Yazan Khalili.

One of the great things about making this show is the wide variation in experiences and interests we get to hear from the guests. After talking with Nanna last time, we have a completely different type of artist on the show today, with a very different kind of story. It's nice, because as artists, you slowly start to realize that there isn't a single way forward, or a rule, or a technique to“make it”. So in that spirit, we have Todd James on the show today. Todd is a really interesting artist, because he has been able to straddle so many different worlds throughout his career, and that is something a lot of people are afraid of doing, perhaps feeling that it would somehow dilute what they do, or confuse an audience. Todd doesn't seem to have that fear. His credits are many, his skill plentiful, so let's just get straight to our talk with him. Enjoy!

Welcome back, and happy New Year to all! We have a great artist and incredibly sweet human on the show today; Nanna Debois Buhl. I have gotten to know her a bit over the last year or so and the more I hear about what she does, and how she does it, the more I fall in love with her work. It's thoughtful, well-researched and also very tactile, which I find to be a rare combination today. Often it's hard for artists to lean equally on research and material when creating projects, and it's something I think a lot about it terms of my own work. And so those are the themes of the conversation today, and I think you'll find it really interesting. She also currently has works up in two different exhibitions, check below for links to those and other cool stuff. She is open hearted and very generous in the way she talks about her process, so let's get straight to it. Enjoy!

Hello friends - we are tremendously proud to announce the launch of our new podcast network Cultural Bandwidth, as well as the new podcast we are blasting off with on the new network, By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast. Cultural Bandwidth is the world's first podcasting network based around art, and we couldn't be happier to share this with you. There will be a lot of information about exactly what we are doing here in the new year, but in the meantime you can enjoy 6 episodes of BTW over the break, and we'll be back in January with brand new episodes of both The Undergang Armchair and BTW.

Greetings and salutations friends, nice to be back for another episode here. Things are cranking along here, you might have noticed that we have started to make some changes, especially on the website. But first, let's talk about the guest today, Niels Pugholm. We were introduced to him through a captivating artist run space out in Valby, (an outer neighborhood of CPH) called KVADRAT16, and we sat down and talked right before he opened his show there. He a thoughtful, interesting artist who has been super active the last couple of years, popping up here and there with some wry and interesting shows. The only other news is really to ask you to excuse the mess while we build a new site. We are making some major changes to basically everything except this program, so stay tuned, we hope to unveil everything next week! In the meantime, please enjoy the talk with Niels Pugholm, and go check out his show at KVADRAT16! Links: Niels Pugholm | Instagram KVADRAT16 | Instagram

A couple of weeks ago the National Gallery of Art (SMK) here in Copenhagen unveiled a bronze sculpture in front of the museum by Gillian Wearing called A Real Danish Family. This is also in conjunction with an exhibition of her works, they are both well worth seeing. We were lucky enough to have the chance to sit down with Gillian to talk both about the sculpture she made about this danish family, and about her work in general. You are indubitably familiar with her work, she is quite well known, both as a YBA - the young british artists, and for her work since. If you have a chance to see the show here at SMK then you definitely should, several of her works are much stronger in person, for example the self-portraits of her as her family are pretty breathtaking in person. Enjoy, and stay tuned for some big news next time around!

One of the great pleasures of making this show is having conversations with people who have some history behind them, people who have seen the ins and outs of the art world through many years, and to hear what is and is not important to them. The guest today is Jean Marc Bustamante, and he is a perfect example of the type of experienced artist and person we speak of. He of course has a long and storied art career, well worth looking into, but he also has a history as a teacher, and now as the director of École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, which is a prestigious art school in Paris. For those who are around CPH at the moment, he also has a show up at Gallery Susanne Ottesen, which functions as a retrospective of sorts, and is very much worth seeing. He is a wise and humorous man, so please enjoy our talk with him!

We are joined today by artist extraordinaire Malin Gabriella Norden, who was here in town for the CHART art fair, because the homies over at Steinsland Berliner gallery were showing some of her works. She was awesome to talk to, and she keeps the game of being an artist to it's bare basics, and we mean that positively. There isn't a lot of extraneous material around her work and practices, and it's a pleasure to talk to the people who's work is dictated by a relationship to their materials and their drive to move said work forward. These are practitioners who dedicate themselves to the process of making, and view their work in the long term. And to put it simply, it's refreshing, and not at all a disadvantage.

We have the fantastic Zven Balslev on today, which has been a long time coming, and we ended up talking about many facets of the art world, having a practice, and about the kind of expectations-slash-priorities you might have. One of the great things about making this show is hearing diverse viewpoints on this mess of making art, and Zven's view on it is great. It's one you honestly don't here often enough. You can currently see his work at Sydhavn Station and at Grafik Galleriet, as well as cop his book, Pulp Magma, links on the show notes page. Please enjoy our talk with Zven Balslev!

We are back again here on the other side of CHART Art Fair with our wrap up from the events this year. It's a two part episode, with the first part featuring a short discussion with the panel of speakers from one of the Chart Art Talks, namely Peter Pakesch, chairman of the Maria Lassning Foundation, Shwetal Patel, director of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Sofia Hernández Chong Cuy, curator at the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC), Hans-Ulrich Obrist, artistic director at Serpentine Galleries, and editor of ArtReview magazine Mark Rappolt. The second part of the show is guested by Helga Christoffersen, curator at The New Museum, who curated an exhibition of emerging nordic artists for the fair, by the name of CHART Emerging. We personally had a great time, sneaking around in journalists clothes and chatting with about 10 thousand different folks. It's also overwhelming at the end of the day, but we're sure we'll be fresh again by the time next year rolls around. Keep your fingers crossed! Thanks to all the folks appearing on the show, and of course thanks to CHART for the collaboration. Enjoy!

In honor of our new collaboration with the CHART Art Fair, we have special episode out today, featuring some of the founding galleries and the director of the fair. Through talking with them about the ideas behind the fair and some of the guiding principles, we've compiled an oral history of sorts as a warm up to the event, which opens here in Copenhagen on Friday the 1st of September. It's the 5th anniversary of the fair, and it was tremendously interesting to hear from the folks behind it, and there were even a few surprises along the way. We'll be doing a bunch of recording and meeting of folks, so say hi if you catch us there, and stay tuned for the next few weeks of programing from the fair.

Hello everybody, welcome back once again. We are back in the swing of things again here, and have a fantastic guest on the show today, Kenneth Balfelt. For those who don't know, his practice is one which truly is social, and it's really incredible. The level at which he engages with the world around him is inspiring to us not just as artists but as a humans. He's our new superman. He works with marginalized groups, often in the public sphere, on a political, architectural and artistic level, and it's often highly collaborative. But we'll let him tell the story himself. Enjoy! www.undergang.net

Here we are, back again! How is everybody? We've been trotting about all summer, but are finally home in Copenhagen, and chomping at the bit to get going again. We have some new projects in the works, which we are excited to unveil for y'all in the coming months. But more importantly, we have Jesper Carlsen on the show today. His exhibition at Martin Asbæk Gallery unfortunately just came down, but we managed to grab him and hear about the show before it did. He has a diverse and forward thinking practice which utilizes many tools from the digital and technology worlds, and since we are big fans of the crossover between tech and art it was great to hear about his work. It's current, it's interesting and it's engaging. So let's get straight to it, enjoy our talk with Jesper Carlsen! www.undergang.net

Hello friends, we felt that we owed you another episode before we drift off to summer vacation here, so here we are. Today we have Peter Voss-Knude on the show, this was recorded live at Overgaden together with the director there, Marete Jankowski, who was also a guest on this program back in episode number 75. Overgaden is fantastic exhibition space, and you can see Peter's show there, which is up until the 6th of August. We suggest you do that, because the show is quite engaging, and the premise for the show is really quite incredible. Peter has created an album of music as well, in collaboration with the Danish Army, please check the links below to hear that. After our talk we have included one of the tracks which is called Goodbye my Friend. Stick around and listen to that. Peter will also be performing the songs live here in Copenhagen on the 25th and the 31st of August, links for that are also below. We on summer vacation for about 4 weeks, but we'll hit the ground running again in August. Until then, have a good summer, and enjoy!

We are back with our special 100th episode! It's been over three years of this program, 100 guests, and a lot of ups and downs. We are thankful to each and every one of you, as well as to all the galleries who have been supportive along the way. Did we mention that Tal R is the special guest for the 100th episode? He needs no introduction right? He has a huge show up at Louisiana, and you should go see it if you haven't. We talked about many things, including being in the entertainment industry, teaching, and many other topics, he is very generous in the way he talks about life and art. Also, come out this Sunday at 2pm and take part in a live podcast recording/artist talk with Peter Voss Knude at Overgaden. It should be fun. Enjoy our talk with Tal R!

We are talking adventure and exploration today with Klaus Thymann, a tremendously interesting fellow. He is a photographer, an artist, he founded a non-profit called Project Pressure, and an adventurer, so we invited him on the program because we figured he would have many compelling things to say, and indeed he did. We talked about a lot of themes which we personally find interesting, such as art in a greater social and global context, the development of projects, the role of ego in arts, etc etc. Thanks for being here, please check out Klaus' website, there is a ton of cool stuff on there, and… we'll see you next time for the 100th episode! www.undergang.net

Today we have a big one folks, we visited Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm last month, and this is a compilation of our conversations with some of the many nice folks we met. It was a lot, there were lots of exhibitors, and as usual it's really hard to figure out when is best to try to talk to people, and of course you try not to disturb them while they are working. Fairs are like that, overwhelming, fun, frustrating, interesting, all of it, so this reflects that in it's own way. We had the pleasure of speaking to one of the founders of the fair and to a team member as well as quite a few exhibitors from the event. They will introduce themselves in the conversations, but we encourage you to follow up with the links for them below, because they are all doing great stuff. Enjoy and don't forget to check those links!! www.undergang.net

Greetings friends, we're here with a quick bonus episode before the Easter holiday. We were up in Stockholm recently to check out both the Market and Supermarket art fairs, and ended up meeting all sorts of cool people while we were there. For example, I met with two of my colleagues while I was there, Jenny Danielsson and Oscar Carlson, who have a Stockholm based podcast where they talk about art! It's called Danielsson & Carlson, and I would encourage you to check that out. This recording is actually from when they invited me into their cool ass studio as a guest on their program, so we decided to do a swapcast from that talk. Be sure to check out their show if you understand Swedish, it's quite good, and super professional! Link is below. The other person I had the pleasure of talking to was Johan Norling, who is the artistic director of Market Art Fair. He took time out of his busy schedule during the fair to talk to me for a few minutes, he turned out to be very interesting and open about what his job is like, its super fascinating. Enjoy, and have a great Easter holiday! www.undergang.net

Hello everybody, how are we looking out there? You guys feeling the beginning of Brexit, or just the warm breeze of spring knocking on the door? We have the talented Eva Stenram on the show today, who is a very interesting artist working mostly within photographic mediums. She is a swede living in London, and you've almost certainly seen her work before. It utilizes found imagery, but in a much tighter focus than some other found imagery work, and speaks to much about photographic representation, gaze and issues around women's role in culture and society. But I'm going to let her tell the rest here, please enjoy my chat with Eva. www.undergang.net

Hello friends, welcome indeed to another episode, we are steadily creeping up on towards 100 episodes here. The show has been going for over 3 years, and we are thankful to each and every one of you who have been along for the ride. We have the very interesting Matthias Borello on today, he is a writer, curator and editor and many of you here in Denmark probably know him from the online publication Kunsten.nu. He is a very visible person in the danish arts scene, and he's here to talk about the critical discourse, accessibility, communication and art as a social practice, just to name a few of the topics we got to. Its good stuff! Enjoy. www.undergang.net

Today we fight back at the tyranny of reality together with Ulrik Heltoft. Do you know who Ulrik Heltoft is? He is, in our opinion, one of the more interesting artists here in Denmark, and is also sneakily very influential here. He teaches, he makes art, and he produces the some of the wildest things you've never heard about. If you look at his work on a international level, you'll start to see his name again and again. But he doesn't make it easy either, there isn't much info on his website, and but if you search you shall find. At the end of the day, all this mystery coincides well with his view of unreality, which is excellent, so be sure to hear this one. www.undergang.net

Welcome back as we creep steadily towards episode 100 here at The Undergang Armchair. There is no hiding that this is a tough moment in time, so we figured it was time to release a positive and forward thinking talk with the exceptional artist Jacob Kirkegaard. He came by last year to talk about his work and a great many other subjects, and we were blown away by his way of thinking about the world and his work. He was refreshing and open, and has such a special attitude about the role his work has. We also have two short clips of his sound works in this episode. He has a lot on his plate, We don't think we know any artist who has more shows and projects coming up, so if you are interested then be sure to check out his site for upcoming stuff. He's appearing all over the world. Enjoy! www.undergang.net

And just like that we are back again! Happy time related holiday folks, we hope you had a good one. We are blazing into the new year with this fantastic talk with two of the folks from SixtyEight Art Institute, based here in Copenhagen. For those who might not know SixtyEight is a forward-thinking curatorial and research platform which is run by some tremendously engaged folks who are thinking about art and how it can interact with the real world on so many different levels. We had the pleasure of talking to Iben Elmstrom, one of the founders, and Hugo Hopping, a board member and artist, and I think the result is truly one of the most interesting episodes we've done. It's on the longer side, but that is simply because we touch on so many contemporary topics and so much of it seemed relevant. We hope you get as much out of it as we did. Enjoy! www.undergang.net

Well just like that we have reached the final episode of the year. I just had a great talk with Seimi Nørregaard, an artist who I was not previously acquainted with but who I'm certainly glad to now know. I wanted to release this one right away because she currently has a show up at Overgaden, which will be up until the 8th of Jan. So how about some art over the vacation huh? She is a hard artist to pin down, and we certainly talk about that, but she comes from a theater and performance background, she's a poet and she also makes books. The show is a total installation and it's quite the experience, I really recommend you see it. It's hard to say much else as an introduction, I think hearing her talk about her past and the works she makes is a much better explanation than I could come up with. So, enjoy the holidays if you are so lucky to have them, and let's come back in the new year with our feet on the ground and ready to fight. We're gonna need it. Enjoy! www.undergang.net

We are of course here to talk to A Kassen, the conceptual powerhouse of an artists group. I had the pleasure of talking to half the group, Tommy Petersen and Søren Petersen. I had a lot of questions for them, in the way I usually do, and I found that perhaps at the end of the day their works really speak for themselves. They have a really interesting practice, but in certain cases a lot of artists put all their efforts into the works, and have very little to say about them after the fact. They don't necessarily obscure the meaning of the works and that makes the for a conversation of directly with the works and not the artists. But we still had a relaxing and interesting talk, and I got to hear about their work process and history. Enjoy! www.undergang.net

Hello friends, welcome back, welcome back. We have a fantastic, if a little different than usual, talk for you today. We are joined by Lena Mech, who works in a grey area between independent game design and art, and we found it to be very compelling to hear about her practice. One could perhaps say that one of the complaints often leveled against the art world is it's, correct or not, perceived separation from other spheres of life and society. Talking to Lena really highlighted for us some of the opportunities available for those looking for interdisciplinary collaborations outside of the usual boundaries of their craft. I spent a lot of this talk looking for her to define which work she walks in, but the truth is that it really is several. There are definitely some artists taking advantage of these opportunities, but certainly not enough. Enjoy! www.undergang.net

Hello gang. Well here we are, episode 89, just gliding ever so softly into number 90. Today we have a fun one for you, We think you will enjoy it, it's Olaf Breuning everybody! We've been fans of his special world for a number of years now, and finally had the chance to sit down with him and hear about it. All we can say is that some people just have a personal vision, and there is no school or mentors needed to help them along. Just get out of the way! He has a very special way of thinking, a combination of thoughtful and un-serious at the same time, which is very much reflected in his work, and really helps it be unique. He has a show up at Nils Stærk gallery which opened last friday, and we strongly suggest you go and see it. It's called cold animals, and it's open until the 17th of December. How about that? Enjoy! www.undergang.net

This week we have a man who's production exists outside of any single plane of work, it's Cali Thornhill Dewitt y'all. He has run an independent record label, he makes clothes, worked as a nanny for Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, and of course, is an artist in his own right. He's a hard guy to pin down, and he's a very thoughtful man, so it was a pleasure to hear about his work in all of it's forms and the reasoning behind it in his own words. We were indeed lucky enough to get a hold of him last week to talk about his new show, 29 Flags, which is currently hanging at Eighteen, the new sister gallery of our friends at V1 Gallery. it's a heavy show, and it's most certainly worth going to visit, especially because photos can't do the install justice. We suggest you go on a quiet day and stand among the works he has made. Enjoy our talk! www.undergang.net

The guest on today's episode is somebody we've heard a lot about throughout the years, but through our own intellectual laziness had not seen much work by. We can only assume you, dear listener, have been smarter and more on top of it than we have because Rasmus Høj Mygind has been out there getting good work done, helping run the exhibition space Toves and advancing Danish arts for all of us. The fact that we were completely in the dark is humbling, and the big personal lesson here is to pay better attention and remember to ask the bigger questions. It's a problem which is fairly acute in the art world, and there is always the risk of compartmentalizing your own experience in an already small art world. So thanks to Rasmus for inadvertently reminding us of that, his practice is very much worth looking into. He has shown work many different places and he joins us today to talk about his work, crazy websites and about working in and out of the studio. Enjoy! www.undergang.net

Hello friends, is everybody enjoying this late summer weather in Copenhagen, making sure to talk with strangers about it? Today we are joined by the poet, translator and artist extraordinaire Morten Søndergaard. We had a relaxing sit down on a beautiful deck on a sunny day at the Louisiana Museum here in Denmark, looking out over the water, listening to the waves, watching people swim, and talked about words, art and life. It was glorious. He is an poet/artist who is relentlessly searching for new paths for his work, and isn't held down by format along the way. If you don't know his work then you are in for a real treat, it is word based, but in reality so much more with his constant practice of moving words from the page and out into the world. It's fascinating stuff really. We'll leave the rest up to him, please enjoy the chat with Morten Søndergaard! www.undergang.net

The inaugural edition of the CODE Art Fair was this last week weekend, and we were there with a booth in order to meet the art going public and having some talks with folks working at the fair. It was certainly a mixed result in many ways, but not without it's successes. Our guess is that many who were there could say the same thing. CODE is ambitious, and it was interesting to see all the new faces there, and it's always good to see all that art. Today on the program we have two talks we recorded with some new friends, Martina Tosi and Steven Cox. Martina came by to talk about Cinnamon Gallery, a fairly new space from Rotterdam, which was here in Copenhagen for the first time and Steven is a painter, writer and proprietor of a online space you are going to love which is called Hunted Projects. Join us to hear about what it's like to start a new gallery from scratch, impressions from CODE and about audience engagement. www.undergang.net

Hello team, we hope you guys had a good summer. We'd like to thank you for your patience while we've been getting our shit together after a long and discombobulating summer. So many exciting things happening, just have to get everything in the right order. We have two items of good news to discuss today, and the first one is todays guest, Søren Behncke aka Papfar. We have been woefully ignorant of his work until recently, but when we finally were introduced to his practice we were simply blown away. He's been working hard for over 15 years on his strange, funny and beautiful universe, and it was a real pleasure to dive in. He recently released a book which functions as a type of mid-career retrospective, Sorry No Image Available, and it's nothing short of enlightening. We strongly recommend it, you can follow the links below to pick that up. Don't remain as ignorant as us. The other piece of news is that we will have a large booth at the brand new CODE Art Fair here in Copenhagen, which jumps off already next week, from August 26th-28th. We'll be there talking our usual shit, showing some artwork, live streaming and otherwise being a public nuisance. Be sure to come and check it out. Don't forget also to check out the beautiful CHART Art Fair at Charlottenborg and Photo Collect at Museumsbygning. Look at Copenhagen, all grown up with three art fairs! Enjoy! www.undergang.net

Welcome to episode 83, featuring the first Danish director to sit in the armchair, the extraordinarily thoughtful Andreas Dalsgaard. He has made quite a few films in a pretty short amount of time (he's also a hard worker) and caught our attention with his most recent, Life Is Sacred. He has a rare capacity for people and an inquisitive nature which he uses to try to meet the subjects of his films with humility and respect, and it shows in his works. He came in for the earliest talk we've had yet, and shared his thoughts on film school, using film language and applying it to real life and about how the process defines the style. He also tells us about his newest project, which sounds jaw dropping and we can't wait to see. Enjoy! www.undergang.net

Hello friends, welcome back to the second part of our talk with the scintillating Anders Reventlov. We bring it all home here in the second half, and this talk is chock full of pertinent information for young artists, all artists really. There is a lot of worthwhile conversation about some pretty burning issues in the art world today and issues it might be important to think about as practicing artists. We are going to hear about the exhibition space he started, the thoughts behind (it's not what you think) and about the slow evolution of his own thoughts on his work. It can be glacial, but the rewards are sweet. You'll also hear about the journey of context, the books which changed everything, and why you have to do what feels wrong. Let's do this. www.undergang.net

Greetings gang, here we are back again. In the midst of some upheaval and expansion, we bring you part one of our stellar talk with Anders Reventlov. He is the perfect guest for times of change, and he's the first one ever we've met through the show itself. He is an unusually engaged fellow (and we meet a lot of engaged people) and since meeting him we've found he is a talented artist as well. He has a really interesting story, he works harder than just about anybody we've met, and he seems to retain an unflaggingly positive attitude throughout. He's a teacher, he runs and independent art space, he's a father, an artist, he does just about everything. But we'll let him tell you the rest of the story, such as growing up painting Warhammer figures, getting harassed in the conservative graffiti world and being traumatized by art teachers. Ando also has a little announcement about the show. Enjoy! www.undergang.net

Alright gang, welcome to episode 80. Today we are presenting some of the conversations we had during the 1000 Books Art Book Festival which was at Charlottenborg about a week and a half ago, even if we did promise that we would never cover a festival again. Never say never right? We spoke to a handful of folks, from the organizers to some of the exhibiting artists and on to the publishers. It was a fun and challenging event, and we got a wide range of opinions on the current status of independent book publishing and what the future might hold. We spoke with Flemming Ove Bech, Erik Steinbrecher, Christian Aschman, Bruno Ceschel (Self Publish Be Happy) and Åse Eg Jørgensen (Pist Protta), so there is something for everyone. We recommend that you take a look at some of the images from the show beforehand in order to contextualize the conversations and afterwards that you check out the site for the festival with the list and links for all the publishers. www.undergang.net

We couldn't be more excited to bring you this talk with Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos and Sean Naftel today. They are the masterminds behind the show, Mastering The Art of Contemporary Art, which just had it's run here in Denmark at Aarhus Kunsthal, and it's simply fantastic. They created a TV Kitchen in the space, invited a row of artists on, and produced a series of performances where artists presented “recipes” for creating art. The audience was invited to create works from the recipes, and those works were exhibited as well. Amazing. The whole thing has a new life online, where it lives on as a tv show, an archive for the show, and a rock solid presentation of the exhibition. It's well worth the look. They took the time to sit down with us and talk about the process the project was conceived under, the serendipity it took, and about how far you can get with just 500 words and a mood board. This is one of our best shows ever guys.

We have a fantastic show for you today, with the great Albert Elm here to talk. We've know Albert for a bit, but didn't really get to know him until we sat down and had this conversation, and man, it turned out great. He worked for several years for our friend and former guest of the show, Jacob Aue Sobol, while he developed his craft as a photographer, and has since published a book and had his work shown all over. He's a secretive fellow, so we hadn't seen his work until fairly recently, and if you haven't yet either, you are in for a treat. It doesn't come as a surprise that he has been published on a ton of sites and has been named as a talent to look out for by the British Journal of Photography. We had a deep conversation about his work and philosophy of photography, and it's quite relevant for anybody who is thinking about how to define their own art. We also touched on his stint as a sailor, about working for other photographers and the illusion of photography as truth. Join Us.

We are happy to say that today we have our first conversation with an art collector on the show, yes sir, the great Jens Peter Brask came by. We have been wanting to talk to collectors for a long time now, because they serve an integral part of any art scene out there. Feel how you may about the idea of selling art, but it's been a part of art since nearly time immemorial, and we are fascinated with hear what people have to say. We got to talk about how and why he collects work, about his relationships to artists (and other collectors), and about his love of graffiti. We also got to hear a little about his book, Brask Studio Visit, and other projects coming down the pipeline. Join us!

Peter Callesen works in many media, but he is mostly know for his works with paper. It feels wrong to label his work as paper cuts, but that is undeniably the tradition it rises from. But it's so much more. There is a delicacy, emotion and weight to his works which are made all the much more incredible by the materials he uses, namely plain white A4 paper. The thing that always wins us over is the combination of technique together with emotion and expression in works. If you can make it exquisite, beautiful and precious, and then with a sound foundation of idea or emotion to carry it, well it's rare we won't be a huge fan.

Welcome to episode 75! That's some sort of milestone, right? We are continuing our run of the movers and shakers in the art world, and we are happy to share our conversation with Merete Jankowski, the director of Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art with you. As far as we are concerned, someone like Merete makes the best kind of institute director out there. She is consistently anti-careerist, she is a soldier in service of art and she isn't afraid to try new things. All this adds up to a fascinating talk, and a good insight into one of the great art institutions here in Copenhagen. Overgaden is a historical place, and it is famous for being a safe haven for artists to experiment, and we can honestly say that nobody has a profile like they do. Please enjoy our talk with Merete! www.undergang.net

This is it folks, perhaps the most helpful episode we have ever concocted. And it's all thanks to Ditte. For those who don't know, she is the co-founder and co-runner of Green is Gold, an exhibition and curatorial platform here in Copenhagen and a talented artist in her own right. We cover so much ground in our talk, and it's chock full of good lessons and tips for you up and comers out there. For everyone really. We got through the hidden importance of having a studio, about working analogically, about starting and running a non-profit exhibition space, and she ever shares her secret weapon for getting curators to care about your work. Oh, and she fires some shots at her hometown. It's everything we ever wanted, and so much more. www.undergang.net