Projects

 
Event

Diversity Commons – Event no 1

Wednesday May 15th 2024: Public Discussion with Q and A, 5:00 – 6:30pm 2024
Huset i Hasserisgade (Concert Hall)
Hasserisgade 10 – 9000 Aalborg

UKK is pleased to invite you to Rethinking Class within the Art Sector – a public discussion hosted by UKK with The Aalborg Artist’s Association (AAAA). The event will feature Lawrence Ebelle (UKK board member), Kamila Mez (AAAA member), and Scott William Raby (UKK chair).

Event

Diversity Commons – Arrangement nr. 3: WHAT IF … DIVERSITY WAS NOT AN ISSUE ?

Thursday October 31st 2024:
Workshop with Letícia Stallone (IMMART)
KH7 Artspace
Sydhavnsgade 7, 8000 Aarhus

UKK and Aarhus Billedkunstcenter are happy to invite you to ‘What If Diversity Was Not An Issue?’ - an afternoon at KH7 artspace in Aarhus where diversity (in the Danish art sector) will be addressed through performative workshops and collective meal.

Event

Diversity Commons, Event no 4: Quick Sand, Slow Steps

Saturday November 9th 2024
Event with M.I.S., EIW and Samara Sallam
Ungdomshuset Odense
Nørregade 60, 5000 Odense

Join us at Ungdomshuset Odense for the next installment of Quick Sand, Slow Steps, an event series that challenges traditional ways of learning, sharing, and collaborating within the arts. Inspired by the notion that escaping quicksand requires deliberate, patient movement, our series aims to create thoughtful, inclusive spaces for exploration and dialogue.

Project

FAIR PRACTICE CULTURE

The Fair Practice Culture initiative is based on experiences and statistics from the Danish cultural sector, which reveal a great need to rethink the sector’s structures in new and ambitious ways.

Event

How Artists Work: Alternative Spaces and Post-Studio Contexts

UKK is pleased to invite you to How Artists Work: Alternative Spaces and Post-Studio Contexts – a performative walk hosted by UKK’s Art and Economics Working Group in collaboration with Golden Days.

Event

Art Beyond Barriers: Mapping Disability Access to Danish Art Spaces

Art Beyond Barriers: A panel debate focused on the responsibility of access, cultural heritage, and visual art, through a presentation of the project Mapping Disability Access to Danish Art Spaces. This event is featured in conjunction with a series programmed by UKK on the projects Diversity Commons and Urgent Matters.

Event

Urgent Matters - Arrangement nr. 4: ADVOCACY vs. POLICY

Wednesday, November 27th, 2024
Time: 4-5.30 pm Central European Time (GMT +1)

UKK is pleased to invite you to an online conversation that takes stock of, how foreign artists in Italy, Iceland, Finland, Sweden and Denmark are affected by the restrictions that have recently occurred within each of their national context.

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Urgent Matters, Event no 2: From Advocacy to Policy: Redefining Artistic Economies

Wednesday, June 12th 2024: Talk & Discussion with Q & A, 4:00 – 6:00pm (CET)
Location: Online (link below)
*Event Language: English

UKK is pleased to welcome you to From Advocacy to Policy: Redefining Artistic Economies - a digital discursive event featuring the art organizations NICC (Belgium), Visual Artists Ireland (VAI), and Unge Kunstneres Samfund/Young Artists’ Society (UKS, Norway).

Event

Urgent Matters, Event no 3: Quick Sand, Slow Steps

Saturday, August 24th 2024- 2:00 – 6:00pm (CET)
Location: on the field in front of Refshalevej 151, Old AMASS garden
*Event Language: English

UKK is happy to share the announcement of our 3rd event for our project Urgent Matters. The event is organised by our student working group: Quick Sand, Slow Steps.

Past

Student symposium

Work, collaboration, organisation

In 2019 UKK held a symposium for students at The National Gallery of Denmark

Symposium

Art and organisation

Symposium on art and organization in 2016.

Policy

Studio and workshop conditions

Studio and studio rentals are not cheap and prices are rising, especially in the larger cities. UKK believes that artists should have the opportunity to live and work in the cities despite the rising rents.

Meeting

Dialogue meeting on issues faced by art workers with disabilities

Presentation and dialogue

A “Foster Care Agreement” for Artwork

A conversation with TWIIID and Scott William Raby

Policy

Art Workers with Disabilities

A group working to create an environment that meets the needs of art workers with disabilities to have access to the same opportunities and resources as our able-bodied peers.

Policy

Minimum fee for exhibitions at museums

In 2020 UKK made an agreement with the The Association of Danish Museums (ODM), Danish Artists Association (BKF) and Danish Artists Union (DBF) on recommendations for minimum fees for exhibitions at museums, in 2023 the agreement was updated and Foreningen af Kunsthaller i Danmark (FKD) joined.

Symposium

Mourning money

Three symposiums in 2019, with the aim of investigating questions around art and finance, as they relate to the role of the artist, the circulation of work and novel organisational forms in the field of art.

Symposium

Mycelial networks - organising through crisis

An exploration of how artists and arts organisations can share knowledge, networks and resistance strategies responding to crisis broadly as wells as reflecting the current covid-19 pandemic.

Organisational Development

Development project

How can UKK contribute to the development of the sector of art?

Policy

Study: "Artistic Environments - the Development of the Diverse City"

New study points to the need for artistic environments in the larger cities. Art and artists contribute with creativity and experimentation to create diversity and life in the cities of Denmark. But how do we ensure affordable housing and studios so that artists can stay in the city? The new study ‘Artistic Environments – the Development of the Diverse City’ offers well-substantiated suggestions in the form of concrete scenarios for the artist residences and communities of the future.