Young Danish Photography '24

Opening: November 1, 5-8pm

Young Danish Photography is an annual exhibition at Fotografisk Center, which has showcased emerging talents and trends on the Danish photographic art scene annually since 1998, in collaboration with a guest curator. This year, HEIRLOOM center for art and archives is invited to curate the exhibition.

This year’s exhibition breaks with physical and linear temporality, addressing not only questions about photography as a physical or digital object, but also how we engage with photography today and the role of photography within a broader cultural context and image culture, transcending global connections, and across time and space. The participating artists are Before Forgetting, Ánitá Beikpour, Liesel Burisch, Lydia Ö Diakité, Javier Tapia and Barly Tshibanda / The Bridge Radio.

Today, photographic image culture is largely based on digital technologies and media, rather than individual and physical objects developed on paper. We send and consume photographs through screens, which serve as the interface for our interactions with photography. This serves as the starting point for this year’s exhibition, where digital screens and images quite literally occupy Fotografisk Center’s exhibition space as projections and parallel digital image streams presenting six different artistic practices in a head-on encounter with the audience. This year’s exhibition breaks with physical and linear temporality, addressing not only questions about photography as a physical or digital object, but also how we engage with photography today and the role of photography within a broader cultural context and image culture, transcending global connections, and across time and space.

Two-part exhibition and collaboration 
For the first time, a two-part exhibition is presented in connection with Young Danish Photography. In addition to the exhibition Young Danish Photography '24 at Fotografisk Center, the exhibition Things Change Anyway: Trying, Feeling by MC Coble & Louise Wolthers will be shown parallel at HEIRLOOM's own exhibition space on Sølvgade in Copenhagen.Things Change Anyway: Trying, Feeling is based on the couple’s extensive private photo archive documenting the evolution of their relationship and shared life. Both exhibitions have been developed in conversation with one another, focusing on storytelling as a non-linear temporality. The exhibition in HEIRLOOM opens November 2 from 2-4pm, and is on view until February 1 2025. 

About HEIRLOOM
HEIRLOOM is an art center dedicated to questions regarding archives. We reactivate art practices and collections, bringing them into dialogue with the present. An heirloom is an object that travels through time and generations, imbued with ever-changing meaning, its value never clear-cut. This ongoing negotiation of meaning and value reflects HEIRLOOM’s approach to opening up archives. HEIRLOOM seeks to broaden the diversity of the stories collected and encourage a more critical engagement with the material embedded in cultural heritage. Our ambition is to shed light on previously unseen connections and offer new perspectives on and contexts for the stories told. Read more about HEIRLOOM here.

Publication and curator guided tour 
In connection with the two exhibitions, a joint publication about Young Danish Photography '24 and Things Change Anyway: Trying, Feeling will be released. The publication is free and can be obtained at Fotografisk Center and HEIRLOOM at Sølvgade. Join a guided tour in the exhibition Young Danish Photography '24 with HEIRLOOOM on November 28 at 5-6pm, where you can learn more about the exhibition and the participating artists.