Opening event:
Inuuteq Storch – Heart Beats Hope
Look forward to a special exhibition opening in true Summer Lounge style
On Wednesday, June 24, we kick off this year’s Summer Lounge with the opening of the long-awaited Heart Beats Hope exhibition by Greenlandic photographer Inuuteq Storch.
Following his critically acclaimed representation of Denmark at the Venice Biennale in 2024, Inuuteq Storch now presents a major solo exhibition at Kunsten. Through raw, poetic, and deeply personal photographs, he portrays life in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), offering a rare insider perspective on everyday life, relationships, and identity.
In the spirit of Summer Lounge, the Sculpture Park will be open with great music, workshops, and guided tours. The bar will also be open for something refreshing to drink before the exhibition opens. There will be speeches by, among others, museum director Lasse Andersson and exhibition curator Louise Bjeldbak Henriksen. It will also be possible to purchase tickets for tapas at Brasserie Kunsten.
Do you love Summer Lounge as much as we do? Then buy an annual pass and gain access to all Summer Lounges – admission is free with a pass. Find the full program here.
We look forward to sharing a fantastic day in the park with you.
Program
3pm
The bar opens and the DJ starts playing
3.30pm
Poetic Photo Workshop: Create with Kunsten in the Sculpture Park and take part in a poetic, intuitive hands-on photography workshop inspired by Inuuteq Storch’s exhibition Heart Beats Hope.
You will take your photographic work home the same day. Join anytime between 3.30pm and 7pm.
5pm
Opening speeches:
Welcome by Lasse Andersson, Museum Director
Introduction to the exhibition by Louise Bjeldbak Henriksen, Curator
5.30pm
The exhibition opens
5.45pm and 6.15pm
Join a short guided tour in the exhibition
(Limited number of spots. Can be reserved at the information desk throughout the day)
6pm-7pm
Tapas buffet at Brasserie Kunsten. Buy a ticket here no later than June 19
7pm
Music – TBA
8.30pm
Thank you for this evening. The bar and Brasserie Kunsten close
9pm
The museum closes
About Heart Beats Hope
With Heart Beats Hope, Kunsten presents a solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed Greenlandic photographer Inuuteq Storch, following his critically praised representation of Denmark at the Venice Biennale in 2024.
With a rarely seen insider perspective, Storch portrays life in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) through raw, poetic, and deeply personal photographs. The exhibition offers access to Greenland from a Greenlandic point of view – far removed from stereotypes and romantic postcard imagery.
Through portraits, everyday scenes, and grand landscapes, Storch explores questions of identity, belonging, and modern life at the intersection of Inuit traditions, Denmark’s colonial legacy, climate change, and globalization.
Storch works intuitively and often with analogue cameras given to him by friends and family. He combines his own photographs with found images and archival material, creating works in which the personal and historical merge.
The exhibition is structured as a photographic narrative in seven chapters and provides a rare insight into one of the most prominent new voices on the international art scene.
About Inuuteq Storch
Photographer and artist Inuuteq Storch (b. 1989) lives and works in Sisimiut, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), and Copenhagen. He graduated from the International Center of Photography in New York (2016) and from Fatamorgana – The Danish School of Art Photography in Copenhagen.
In 2024, he became the first Greenlandic artist to represent Denmark at the 60th Venice Biennale, and has since exhibited at venues including MoMA PS1 and the Sharjah Art Biennial. Storch’s works are held in a number of prominent collections, including Moderna Museum in Stockholm, MoMA PS1, and ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art.
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