O—Overgaden’s Autumn 2024 Shows

O—Overgaden Presents a Bold Lineup of Emerging Artists for Autumn 2024

This fall, O—Overgaden, one of Denmark’s leading artist-run spaces, presents a series of large-scale exhibitions from a diverse group of emerging artists. Running from August 31 to January 26, 2025, the exhibitions explore various dimensions of human experience, including sexuality, digital identity, and the impact of technological advancements.

Maja Malou Lyse: MM (August 31–October 27, 2024)

Danish artist Maja Malou Lyse investigates the intersection of sex education, feminist theory, and mass media in her exhibition MM. Centered around Marilyn Monroe’s iconic Playboy centerfold, the exhibition draws parallels between Monroe’s involuntary involvement in the early days of Playboy magazine and today’s culture of revenge porn. Through a blend of paraphernalia, videos, and ready-made objects—including Hugh Hefner’s privately owned original photograph—Lyse examines how women’s bodies are commodified and controlled in media. The show is performative in nature, with the artist herself getting a Playboy bunny tattoo removed as a symbolic reclaiming of agency.

Aske Thiberg: Shutting Out the Sun (August 31–October 13, 2024)

Swedish artist Aske Thiberg’s Shutting Out the Sun is a profound exploration of loneliness, digital disconnection, and social media’s impact on our mental states. In his first solo exhibition, Thiberg fuses mechanical dance with themes of social distance. His performances, split into three phases and accompanied by a solo dancer, professional dancers, and a teenager’s song, blend the digital and real worlds in haunting and mesmerizing ways. The exhibit’s live acts and choreography aim to portray how the virtual world increasingly isolates individuals, even as we appear constantly connected.

Villiam Miklos Andersen: Caffè Crema (November 23, 2024–January 26, 2025)

Villiam Miklos Andersen’s Caffè Crema invites visitors into a world of mundane consumerism, male-dominated industries, and logistical efficiency. Drawing on his experience as a truck driver, Andersen uses a mix of hand-carved urinals, coffee machines, slot machines, and other installations to critique the systemic regulations that control daily human actions and interactions. The exhibition not only examines consumer culture but also queers the logistics and transport industries, revealing the hidden dynamics that shape our consumption patterns.

Madeleine Andersson: Degenerative Knowledge Production (November 23, 2024–January 26, 2025)

Swedish artist Madeleine Andersson delves into the history of electricity and its use as a metaphor for intelligence in her thought-provoking video installation Degenerative Knowledge Production. Spanning from 18th-century scientific experiments to modern AI, the exhibit critically examines how electricity has been weaponized to define intelligence, death, and consciousness. Highlighting how these technologies have influenced the objectification and manipulation of the human brain, Andersson offers a chilling view into the intersection of human knowledge, control, and technological experimentation.

Cally Spooner’s DEADTIME Project (October 19–27, 2024)

Cally Spooner’s audio project DEADTIME culminates in a grand finale at O—Overgaden. The artist’s long-term research on time and human attention finds closure in a week-long exhibition, a PhD defense, and a symposium featuring prominent speakers such as Marie de Brugerolle and Hendrik Folkerts. Spooner’s work reimagines how we interact with and understand time, blending audio, performance, and theory into a multi-sensory experience that invites visitors to rethink human consciousness in an era of constant digital distraction.

O-Rooom, designed by Filip Berg, hosts Wilfred Wagner’s publishing and exhibiting platform, Adagio for Things, which will house informal events, communal debates, and live acts. This space complements the larger exhibitions by fostering spontaneous cultural exchanges and supporting local artists in developing their practice.

O—Overgaden’s autumn 2024 program continues its tradition of pushing boundaries in contemporary art. The lineup provides a platform for critical conversations about gender, identity, technology, and consumerism, exploring how these forces shape the human condition in today’s society.