Croatian-American artist Dora Budor will be the first guest professor at the Academy's new Contemporary Concerns program. Under the heading Hierarchies, through teaching, talks, public events, and lectures at Kunsthal Charlottenborg and independent exhibition space Simian, Budor will explore how hierarchies structure the social life of art – its production, circulation, infrastructure, and context, with the focus on unconventional, multifaceted, and ephemeral artistic forms.
The Contemporary Concerns program explores some of the concepts and questions that shape art and the contemporary world. Based on a current topic or artistic focus, the program will bring international contemporary artists to Copenhagen to develop the Academy's programs and open the Academy to a wider public interested in art.
Dora Budor has been one of Europe's most prominent contemporary artists over the past decade. She has had solo exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Kunsthalle Basel, and Swiss Institute in New York, and has exhibited at the 59th Venice Biennale, 2024 Whitney Biennial, PS1 MoMA, and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, among others. In 2019, Budor was awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Art. Budor resides in New York, and she will be staying in Copenhagen during her appointment as a visiting professor at the Academy.
Public program
17, october: Artist talk with Eleanor Ivory Weber at Simian - Facebook event
24, october: Artist lecture with Dora Budor in The Royal Danish Academy's banquet hall, reception afterwards - Facebook event
26, november: Film screening curated by Saim Demircan at Simian
January and february 2025: TBA - More events in Kunsthal Charlottenborg's cinema; talks, screenings etc.
Might be subject to changes. More info on the individual events will follow.