Permission to fall is a performance that triggers an event evocative of sculpture that occurs through unexpected encounters. For the first time in the history of Frieze Sculpture, an artist has been commissioned to create a performance work. Connected to the conception and experience of sculpture, Permission to fall will take place at the weekend, in the afternoons at unspecified times. The non-descriptive nature of this announcement is intended to blur the boundaries between routine, everyday acts, events and art encounters. 

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SUPERFLEX's Vertical Migration installation will be featured among an array of large-scale installations in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as part of the Noor Riyadh light festival. The festival runs until December 16, showcasing 120 public installations across 5 hubs in Riyadh. ⁠ ⁠

Displayed on a building within the King Abdullah Financial District, Vertical Migration offers a close encounter with a siphonophore, a jellyfish-like organism entirely distinct from humans. As sea levels rise, humanity is projected to also undertake vertical migration in the forthcoming centuries, relocating to higher grounds and elevated structures. The narrative of the siphonophore mirrors our own impending journey.⁠ ⁠

NILS STÆRK is pleased to announce a temporary pop-up space in Østergade 24, central Copenhagen, featuring a single installation by FOS.

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The Danish artist FOS' artistic practice is diverse and moves through many genres and materials. It encompasses sculpture, installation, music, architecture, and design in the broadest sense. FOS is generally interested in how art can function as an alternative to the systems that typically regulate our behavior in our civil societies. His art often resides in social spaces, which enables new possibilities of sociality to arise – a hybrid form often referred to as Social Design. 

Lea Porsager is part of Fuglsang Art Landscape with the work Exhumed Limy Pool (2023) at Fuglsang Kunstmuseum. ⁠ ⁠

Lea Porsager's work was created with the desire to establish a meeting point on the lawn in front of the museum with respect for the site's cultural history and geography. The work is designed as an excavated area, which in terms of scale and location mirrors the historic irrigation pond. The buried limestone basin is bounded by a stone setting that reflects the area's protected stone walls. In the center of the field, three aluminum sculptures form a horseshoe formation that recalls the history of the place, where horses have played an important role.⁠

Photo credit: Jan Søndergaard

FOS' work "A.L.T." is now up as a permanent installation in Bethaniagade in Herning, DK. 

The over 30 meter work consists of red wide shaped stones, glazed concrete elements, repeated arches and cuts that break the surface as well as a bronze cast gate. The commission was initiated in the early stage in the construction of building, allowing for the work to be integrated into the building process to such a large extent. 

The work is supported by the Statens Kunstfond and has been created in collaboration with Peter Jensen Bronze Foundry and Tommerup Ceramic Workcenter.

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Photos: Herning Kommune 

KLIT is a burgeoning coastal biotope. Here, coastal plants and small reptiles can live and die in a suitable environment. As an ecosystem, Lea Porsager's KLIT is constantly being created, giving the plants in the landscape the opportunity to grow wildly over time.⁠ ⁠KLIT is a donation from Ny Carlsbergfondet to HF & VUC Fyn.⁠
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Kulturhus Risbjerggaard, Hvidovre's new culture- and theatrehouse opens tomorrow, 09.09 16:00.

In addition, there will be a talk about FOS' commission for Risbjerggaard: "SWEEPER", with FOS and Pernille Fonnesbech, at 19:45.

For more info on the event, please click here.

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Photos: Torben Petersen⁠

Ny Carlsbergfondet has made a donation of contemporary Danish art to the Residence of the Danish Consul General in New York to represent Danish culture, creativity and art, a decorative commission called "Art at the Residence". 

SUPERFLEX' It Is Not The End Of The World (2019) is a part of this commission. IT IS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD is a work by SUPERFLEX that presents the familiar phrase as a LED light sign installation reminiscent of a commercial billboard. The viewer is invited to reflect upon our present role in a world of escalating climate change and an apocalyptic human future while imagining a future world of lively, diverse and perhaps even humanlike lifeforms.