2012
VISIT TINGBJERG
You are hereby invited to the opening of VISIT TINGBJERG Friday the 11th May 16-20, Tingbjerg Kunsthal, Ruten 14, Tingbjerg
APRIL
WHO’S NEXT? book release at The Hasselblad Center ; Sweden
Release reception with talks by Charlotte Haslund-Christensen, Eva Borgström, Senior Lecturer at Gothenburg University and Louise Wolthers, researcher at The Hasselblad Foundation.
In 2009 Charlotte Haslund-Christensen photographed over 40 LGBT (lesbian,gay, bisexual and transgender) people at Copenhagen's main police station - capturing them in mugshots like the criminals they would be many places in the world.
The work is a comment on the fact that 76 countries continue to criminalise homosexuality - that LGBT people are still stigmatised, attacked and killed, with at least 5 countries making being gay punishable by death or life imprisonment.
The title WHO'S NEXT? is inspired by Pastor Martin Niemöller's famous statement protesting political apathy during the rise of Nazism.
First they came for the communists,
And I didn't speak out
Because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I didn't speak out
Because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
And I didn't speak out
Because I wasn't a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me.
The need to protest against the daily persecution and prosecution of LGBT people is as relevant today as at any point in history. With slated legislation for the death penalty in Uganda, a recently passed ban on even uttering the word 'gay' in St. Petersburg, and a walkout staged by numerous nations from the UN Human Rights Council on violence and discrimination against LGBT people, the need to speak out and express solidarity is stronger then ever.
Each of the LGBT people photographed in WHO'S NEXT? - participating to raise awareness of the human rights of sexual minorities - was taken down to the prison basement of Copenhagen Central Police Station. They were escorted past cell doors, stripped of jewellery, had their fingerprints taken and were photographed by the artist from the front and in profile in the starkly lit studio of the police authorities.
The resulting mugshots are printed in the original police format and individually inserted in archival plastic sleeves. The entire collection is assembled in a limited edition box that underlines the archive they represent and mimic, but also enables the project to travel discretely across borders to regions where homosexuality continues to be a crime.
As the artist Charlotte Haslund-Christensen says: "WHO'S NEXT? is an act of solidarity and symbol of support. The box can be 'smuggled' past censorship and prejudice in the suitcases of a broad and international network that supports human rights, then handed over to contacts in the LGBT community in each of the 76 countries that criminalise their lives". The purchase of each box supports the distribution of WHO'S NEXT? to countries where LGBT people face daily prosecution and persecution and are denied basic human rights.
WHO'S NEXT? is published and distributed by Space Poetry - www.spacepoetry.dk
EDITION: 250 signed box sets containing 42 photographic prints
PRICE: 1.000 DKK
2011
SEPTEMBER
Charlotte Haslund-Christensen is exhibiting at PINGYAO International Photography Festival 2011, China's largest photography festival with works from her project Natives: The Danes.
The work has been awarded one of five Special Prizes by the jury.
Has become a member of BKF, The Danish Association of Visual Artists
AUGUST
Is teaching at Holbæk Art School
JUNE/ JULY
is in Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia producing her latest video project HOPE & FEAR.
MAY
Come to our open house at Fabrikken for Kunst and Design on the 12th of May from 16.30.
More then 70 artist and designers will open their studios for you.
MARCH/ APRIL
is in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania were she is doing a workshop in Photography at NAFASI Art Space and producing her latest video project HOPE & FEAR
FEBRUARY
WHO'S NEXT? exhibited at Generous Gestures. An exhibition on Art and Interculturalism in Denmark.
Exhibition opening 4th February 17-20 at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art.
Exhibition period
5th-13th Febryary
2010
OCTOBER
Charlotte Haslund-Christensen has been awarded the Fogtdal Photography Travel Bursary 2010 for her contribution to Danish art photography
AUGUST
Natives: The Danes at GRID2010
Opening October 1st 6pm
Cultuurhuis Diamantslijperij, Tolstraat 129,
Amsterdam. Holland.
1 October - 7 November 2010
Natives: The Danes
Opening August 6th, 7pm
Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Until 29th August 2010
Who's Next? is being projected at City Hall Square Copenhagen as part of Copenhagen Pride on the 21st of August
August 10th
Charlotte Haslund-Cristensen will hold a public lecture on "Natives: The Danes" at Alianza Francesa-Auditorium, Cordoba 946. Buenos Aires. Argentina.
You are welcome.
2010 JUNE
Opening of Charlotte Haslund-Christensen's site-specific installation at Nørre Alslev School/ SFO, Falster, Denmark. Commissioned by The Danish Arts Council.
2010 MAY
Charlotte Haslund-Christensen and WHO'S NEXT? are exhibiting at 25CPW Gallery in NYC.
2010 MARCH
Charlotte Haslund-Christensen is participating in The Silverstein Annual at Bruce Silverstein Gallery, Chelsea, NYC.
From the 27th of March through 8th of May 2010
WHO'S NEXT? work in progress
Portraits of 40 homosexuals taken in the basement cells of Copenhagen's central police station - mugshots from the front and in profile of the criminals they could be so many places in the world. WHO'S NEXT? continues Charlotte Haslund-Christensen's investigation of the role of photography in framing and creating prejudices and minorities - as an instrument of control in categorising, recording and archiving 'the other'.
Showing at Gallery Signe Vad from 24th of July-12th of August 2009.
SEPTEMBER 2009
ACTION AUCTION
Charlotte Haslund-Christensen is one of the Danish artists donating artworks to ACTION AUCTION.
ACTION AUCTION is a declaration of solidarity and fundraiser - art support for the Iraqi asylum seekers denied the humanitarian residency or asylum in Denmark they deserve.
Links: http://aktionauktion.dk/
JULY 2009
Charlotte Haslund-Christensen is starting the project GAY GIRLS during World Outgames 2009 in Copenhagen.
http://politiken.tv/ibyen_dk/ibyen/article760624.ece
JUNE 2009
Charlotte Haslund-Christensen has donated a limited edition work of art to World Outgames.
The edition is limited to 325 pieces.
You can buy the work through World Outgames.
MAY 2009
EXHIBITION IN NEW YORK
Group exhibition CATALOGUING ATTITUDES: CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE ARCHIVE, Staten Island, N.Y.
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