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WHEN: 11 February - 13 March 2010 WHERE: Fondazione Stelline, Corso Magenta, 61 - 20123 Milan, Italy WHAT: Alan Rankle “Selected Works” (paintings from 1992 – 2009) and Kirsten Reynolds and Alan Rankle “On The Edge of Wrong” (new collaborative works). The exhibition Selected Works 1992-2009 brings together a group of paintings from public and private collections and provides an insight into the evolution of Alan Rankle's ideas and works leading to his collaborations with Kirsten Reynolds. Alan Rankle takes as his main subject the development of landscape art as a concept related to changes in attitude to the environment. On the edge of wrong is a new set of collaborative pieces by Rankle and Reynolds created especially for Fondazione Stelline. It comprises paintings, photographs, texts, and light-box pieces and will be shown alongside a video work WARP FACTOR, first presented at Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen >> more
WHEN: 9 December 2009 - 28 February 2010 WHERE: Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy WHAT: Alliance Française de Venise and the Fondazione Querini Stampalia present Salva/guardala! "La terra è sotto i tuoi occhi e nelle tue mani" (Save / look! ... The earth is under your eyes and your hands). The exhibition presents 60 pictures made by Yann Arthus Bertrand and other French photographers which deal with three issues related to the environment: sustainable development, energy and biodiversity. The goal is to awaken public opinion to the ongoing climate change problems and their menaces to the word >> more
WHEN: January 2010 WHERE: Southbank Centre, London, UK WHAT: SHIFT is a festival with a climate focus inspired by Cape Farewell’s expeditions to the High Arctic and the rainforests in Peru. Leading up to two special concerts - Marcus Brigstocke with special guests (29 January) and Robyn Hitchcock presents a Maritime Evening with special guests (30 January) - Southbank Centre hosts free events engaging artists, architects and scientists in discussion about climate change and showcasing creative work in response to questions of sustainability >> more
WHEN: August 2007 - July 2010 WHERE: Southbank Centre, London, UK WHAT: In August 2007, Cape Farewell organisation began its three year artists residency at Southbank Centre. Cape Farewell will operate as a cultural eco-hub at the heart of the centre's creative climate change initiatives >> more

Exhibitions in Copenhagen: Venue of COP-15

WHEN: 5 December 2009 - 21 February 2010 WHERE: Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenaghen Denmark WHAT: Created by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris, NATIVE LAND Stop Eject is an exhibition in two parts focusing on the consequences of globalisation and climate change. "Hear Them Speak" is a film by the world famous photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon, presented as a vast video projection giving voices to those threatened with exile though rooted in their homeland. "Exit" gives form to concepts on human trajectories across the globe in relation to urbanist and philosopher Paul Virilio's theories of speed, acceleration, and the global sprawl of the ultracity. Using his ideas as a launching pad, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan and Ben Rubin have created impressive dynamic maps of global human migrations and their causes based on data from international organizations >> more
WHEN: 7 - 18 December 2009 WHERE: DGY byen – Hall 55, Copenhagen, Denmark WHAT: ARTPORT in collaboration with the Global Gender and Climate Alliance presents (Re-) Cycles of Paradise. Artists such as Kim Abeles, Subhankar Benerjee, and Charley Case will explore links between the destruction of nature and the suffering of women, revealing hidden or unknown aspects of the interrelation of gender and climate change. "Paradise" is no longer a long-lost ideal world but can be recreated as a contemporary, more sustainable place on earth >> more
WHEN:12 and 13 December 2009 WHERE: Streets, cafés and restaurants in Copenhagen, Denmark WHAT: Café Carbon is a musical performance written by The Gluts (Gina Birch, Kaffe Matthews and Hayley Newman) which will be performed on the streets of Copenhagen during the Climate Conference in December 2009 >> more Other performances: 13 March 2010 The Star and Shadow Cinema AV Festival, Newcastle 19 March 2010 Café Oto, London
WHEN: 13 November-18 December 2009 WHERE: Ørestad, Copenaghen, Denmark WHAT: Glowing Climate Art and Climate Festival presents a range of events that open up for alternative and wonderfully strange ways of talking about and viewing climate related issues. The centre piece of the festival is a light and media art exhibition, which is framed by the urban landscape of Ørestad. Scheduled to be happening in the lead up to COP 15 in December, Glowing Climate offers an alternative forum for contemplating climate issues presented from an untraditional angle >> more
WHEN: 07 December 2009 – 10 January 2010 WHERE: Tycho Brahe Planetarium, Copenhagen, Denmark WHAT: CO2 CUBES: Visualize a Tonne of Change is an international contemporary art exhibition presented by Millennium ART in partnership with the United Nations Department of Public Information and The Baum Foundation. In an effort to respond to the challenge of climate change, the CO2 CUBES exhibit brings large-scale art cubes, each uniquely designed by world-renowned artists, to iconic locations around the globe including New York, Kyoto, and Copenhagen. This timely exhibit helps generate awareness about the importance of reaching an agreement at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Conference of the Parties (COP-15), held in Copenhagen in December 2009 >> more
WHEN: 5 September 2009-28 February 2010 WHERE: North Atlantic House, Copenhagen Denmark WHAT: Experience this exhibition about climate changes in the North. The changes are especially visible in the Arctic area, causing radical changes to nature and animal life, which are immensely vulnerable to changing living conditions. Burning Ice focuses on this massive problem and gives thorough insight into which species, how and why they will be affected by the raising temperature in the Arctic >> more

WHEN: 31 October 2009 – 10 January 2010 WHERE: National Gallery of Denmark (Statens Museum for Kunst), Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre, Det Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark and at the online gallery at www.rethinkclimate.org WHAT: RETHINK is an art project that thematizes climate changes through Nordic and International contemporary art. The project consists of four large art exhibitions that present works by Nordic and international contemporary artists working on the intersection of arts, climate changes, culture and technology. The Nordic Culture Fund has nominated the exhibition "Nordic Exhibition of the Year 2009-2010" >> more
WHEN: 03 October 2009 – 28 February 2010 WHERE: The National Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark WHAT: The Hiwi, Hoti, and Panare Indians are among the indigenous groups who have lived in the rainforest region of the Orinoco River in southern Venezuela for thousands of years. The National Museum’s new exhibition, Indians of the Rain Forest, follows the Indians in the forest, on the rivers, and in the communal houses. Including hammocks, poison arrows, bat necklaces, and much more, these are installed along with large color photographs so as to create an immersive environment, in which visitors feel like participants rather than onlookers. Each of the exhibition’s three main sections – Household, Nature, >> more
WHEN: 05 December 2009 – 31 January 2010 WHERE: Cultural Committee Slagelse Municipality, Slagelse Art Association, Department of Culture and Leisure Slagelse Municipality, Slagelse, Denmark WHAT: Art exhibition with the works by the Danish artist Claes Birch, who through the 1970's and 1980's dedicated his work to environmental problems. In the beginning of the 1970's Claes Birch started expressing his views on pollution through his work. He was quoted in a newspaper for saying that pollution mentally and physically attacks and destroys the human being. Nuclear technology, radioactivity, the increasing consumption of plastic and pollution were some of the issues he addressed. Claes Birch expressed his fear for the future, but he was not afraid to be controversial or provocative >> more
WHEN: 09 October 2009 – 28 February 2010 WHERE: The national museum for natural history, Copenhagen, Denmark WHAT: "Climate Change", a special exhibition, addresses one of the most complex and urgent issues of the 21st century. The many items in the exhibition-from bleached tropical corals to a starving polar bear-present the irrefutable evidence of climate change to visitors of all ages and the implications of unchecked climate change for future generations. It allows visitors to see how individual, collective, communal, and governmental actions can make a meaningful impact in reducing global warming. The exhibition is produced by the American Museum of Natural History, in collaboration with several other internationally renowned museums >> more
WHEN: 27 August 2009-31 January 2010 WHERE: Danish Design Center, Copenhagen, Denmark WHAT: It's a small world explores new perspectives in Danish design, craft and architecture. With focus on Sustainability, Human Scale, New Craftmanship and Non-Standardised Praxis, the exhibition challenges the traditional role of the designer. Six interdisciplinary scenarios seek a new relevancy for design - in the world. The exhibition is organized as a collaboration between Danish Design Centre, Danish Crafts and Danish Architecture Centre and is generated from an initiative in the Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs and the Ministry of Culture >> more

More art events during the COP-15, Copenhagen, Denmark,
7-18 December 2009, are available at visitcopenhagen.com

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