Exhibition opening: Alia Farid
Thursday 2 October at 5-9 pm
Join the opening of Copenhagen Contemporary and The Glyptotek’s new exhibition ‘A Sounding of the Earth’.
The exhibition ‘A Sounding of the Earth’ presents the Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist Alia Farid, whose work explores the many intertwined past and present histories of the Arabian Gulf. By linking ancient artefacts with today’s global oil industry, Farid’s work traces how ecosystems, cultures and life forms are shaped by political forces and extractive industries — but also how they testify to resistance and resilience.
Read more about the exhibition at Copenhagen Contemporary here.
Read more about the exhibition at The Glyptotek here.
Program
Just like the exhibition, the opening will take place at both CC and The Glyptotek.
The Glyptotek
4 pm Free entrance at The Glyptotek
4.30 pm Free welcome beer in the Central Hall
5 pm Welcome by Director of the Glyptotek Gertrud Hvidberg-Hansen and Director of CC Marie Laurberg
5.15 pm Artist talk with Alia Farid by curators Anna Kærsgaard Gregersen, The Glyptotek and Aukje Lepoutre Ravn, CC.
Afterwards, you can make your own way to Copenhagen Contemporary to enjoy the following program:
Copenhagen Contemporary
6 pm Free entrance to CC
7 pm Welcome by Director of CC Marie Laurberg and Director of the Glyptotek Gertrud Hvidberg-Hansen
7.15 pm Performance TBA
7.30 pm Explore the exhibition
8.30 pm Performance TBA
10 pm Thank you for tonight
‘A Sounding of the Earth’ is the third and final exhibition in the trilogy ‘Hosting Histories: Revisiting Cultural Heritage of the Middle East and Beyond’ (2023-2025). The trilogy is a three-year collaboration between the Glyptotek and Copenhagen Contemporary revisiting ancient cultural heritage and its significance today through contemporary art.
Price and Tickets
To mark the exhibition opening, admission will be free: to Glyptoteket from 4.00 pm and to CC from 6.00 pm. There are a limited number of seats to the artist talk at The Glyptotek.
We recommend visiting both exhibitions and therefore we offer a discount on admission. Holders of season tickets to either CC or The Glyptotek can visit the other venue free. Holders of regular tickets to either exhibition receive a 20% discount on admission to the other venue.
About Alia Farid
Alia Farid (b. 1985 in Kuwait City) lives and works in Kuwait and Puerto Rico. Her practice explores how material cultural heritage intervenes with narratives of migration and extraction. Taking overlooked and omitted histories as a point of departure, Farid creates counter-narratives that defy the oversimplification often found in Western and colonial representations of the Arab Gulf and the Caribbean. In her latest works, Farid traces how materials and forms change as they move from place to place, reflecting on their meanings and relation to society.
The three-year exhibition programme ‘Hosting Histories – Revisiting Cultural Heritage of the Middle East and Beyond’ is generously supported by
Det Obelske Familiefond
The exhibition at Copenhagen Contemporary is supported by
A.P. Møller Fonden. Sponsorship: Flügger
The exhibition at the Glyptotek is supported by
Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond, Ny Carlsbergfondet and Sportsgoodsfonden.
Sponsorship: Trip & Co.