Exhibition space, artist studio or DJ venue?
Header photo: Victoria Langenecker
Are you looking for a unique, alternative setting for your next event, exhibition, or workshop? Our festival playground and venue on Refshaleøen, FRAME, might be the perfect setting for you! We use the venue each year in June, but we think that it deserves to live all year and host many more spectacular events.
Flexible spaces at affordable prices
With the Copenhagen skyline as a backdrop, our venue FRAME and its surroundings are the perfect setting for a wide range of events. It is a multifunctional building that can be re-designed to meet your specific needs or used as it is for many purposes – from exhibition space, photo studio, film location, to DJ venue, workspace or dark room!
It is possible to rent just one room or up to four rooms inside FRAME at the moment – as well as the terrasse area and courtyard outside. The basic rental price is very affordable compared to other event spaces in Copenhagen and we will happily to forward you more material on the specific rooms or send you a quote for your specific event.
360-view of Refshaleøen
FRAME is a two-storey building, designed and built by the Copenhagen Photo Festival team via a sustainable and innovative process made of recycled shipping containers and is located on the former berth of the B&W shipyard for building large ship hulls. Its rooftop allows you to have a 360° view over Refshaleøen and Copenhagen.
It is located in the heart of Refshaleøen – Copenhagen’s new cultural hot spot – right in the sweet spot between Michelin-starred restaurant Alchemist, Copenhagen Contemporary, Lille Bakery and Reffen – Copenhagen Street Food.
👉🏼 Read more about FRAME and take a drone tour of the area
Contact us for more info or a quote
If you want us to FRAME your next event, contact us at info@copenhagenphotofestival.com // +45 4244 2010
We look forward to hearing your ideas and realizing your event vision!
Nominated to Byens Bedste 2022
English text below
Nomineret til Byens Bedste 2022
"Copenhagen Photo Festival rykkede igen i år ind på museer i København – med Refshaleøen som centrum. Som en af Europas største har festivalen et væld af interessante udstillinger og temaer at gå om bord i – i år blandt andet vietnamesiske Hien Hoang, som bidrog med »Asia Bistro – Made in Rice«, hvor hun stiller skarpt på indgroede forestillinger om asiatisk kultur.
Årets festival var også særlig, da den gav et indblik i krigen i Ukraine med udstillingen »The Thin Line«, som bestod af billeder taget af ukrainske fotografer, der skulle have udstillet på Odesa Photo Days. I stedet har de portrætteret krigen i både byer og på landet."
Sådan skriver Berlingske i deres indstilling til nomineringen af Copenhagen Photo Festival som Byens Bedste Oplevelse 2022.
Stem og hjælp os med at vinde
Vi er super stolte over at være blandt de blot fem nominerede i kategorien Byens Bedste Oplevelse 2022, for som Berlingske skriver “Der er altid noget at give sig til i København. Oplevelser venter om hvert et gadehjørne. Men hvilken oplevelse har været den bedste det seneste år?”
Vi håber naturligvis, at du synes, at vores fotofestival har været Byens Bedste Oplevelse i år. Festivalen fejrer fotografiet i store og små gallerier, museer og udstillingssteder i hele København samt i vores festivalcentrum på Refshaleøen.
Vi håber, at så mange som muligt vil bakke op og stemme på os. Det er et flot selskab af oplevelser, vi er nomineret sammen med, så hver stemme tæller! Vinderen findes dels via en åben afstemning samt af en Jury bestående af AOK-redaktionens genreredaktører.
Hop ind og stem på os her!
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Nominated to Byens Bedste 2022
What wonderful news! Copenhagen Photo Festival has just been nominated to Byens Bedste Oplevelse 2022 (Copenhagen’s Best Event 2022) by the Danish national newspaper Berlingske and its Copenhagen section AOK!!
We are so thrilled! The prize is given every year to the best event in Copenhagen – this year for the 21st time! We are super proud to be among the just five nominated in the category Byens Bedste Oplevelse. Because as Berlingske writes “There is always something to do in Copenhagen. New events/experiences are just around every street corner. But which one has been the best the past year?”
We really hope that you think that it is our festival! Copenhagen Photo Festival celebrates photography across Copenhagen in galleries, museums and exhibition spaces as well as at our Festival Center on Refshaleøen.
Help us win!
The winner of the best event of the city is found partly by votes and partly by a jury consisting of editors of the newspaper. The event with most votes obviously has a great advantage. Therefore we hope you will support our nomination – it would truly mean the world to us being a small non-profit festival! Please note you do not have to be a resident of Copenhagen or Denmark to participate in the vote – you can vote wherever you are in the world!
Hop in and vote for us here!
Help us get better!
Photo: Skabertrang by Aftenskolen Fountain House at Den Sociale Blomsterhave, photo by Hans Vedsted.
We are very curious to hear how your experience of this year’s Copenhagen Photo Festival was? What did you like? What would you like more of and how can the festival best meet your expectations in the future?
As a festival that wants to evolve creatively and organically, meet our visitors in the best possible way and present new innovative exhibitions, emerging and established artists as well as present you with great events in a nice setting, we are always open to suggestions, constructive ideas and new partnerships.
It only takes 5 minutes!
We therefore hope you will use 5 minutes of your time to fill out a short survey about your festival experience. You can also fill it out, if you did not attend. Either way you may have ideas, comments or suggestions for new paths or partnerships for the festival that could be interesting for us.
If you participate you get the chance to win two tickets for next year's festival. We will find the winner 15 August.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Click here for the English survey
Klik her for at få spørgsmålene på dansk
A Big Heartfelt Thank You
Video: Sonia Tomegros Regalado / @noia_de_mon
We want to thank everyone who made Copenhagen Photo Festival 2022 so very special. We are so happy for every single visit to the festival venue and at all the festival partner venues across Copenhagen and Scania – we are grateful you were part of this year's festival!
And of course we also want to thank everyone who made this year’s Festival Center so very special and worth the visit: Our three international solo artists, Hien Hoang, Alexandra Rose Howland and Krista Svalbonas, Tofu Collective’s exhibition at the Space Frame with Chinese artists Luo Yang and Lin Zhipeng, DMJX’s presentation of three photo journalistic talents Jesper Houborg, Louise Herrche and Mads Frost, Odesa Photo Days’ two exhibitions Granny by Olena Morozova, the group exhibition The Thin Line and the Norwegian curator Charlotte Wiig’s group exhibition of a host of female photographers called A Female Gaze and not least the five selected FUTURES Nordic Talents, Iben Gad, Tine Bek, Oscar Scott Carl, Inuuteq Storch and Luna Scales.
Thank you to our generous supporters and helping hands
We are also grateful for all the generous supporters financing the exhibitions: Københavns Kommune, Det Obelske Familie Fond, Creative Europe Programme, Nordic Counsel of Ministers and Værksted for fotografi as well as all the helpful and supportive volunteers and staff that make this festival physically appear at all.
Last but not least we want to thank everyone arranging events and exhibitions around Copenhagen and Scania from the many festival partner venues, the gallery walks and artist talks to DJ sets, sound and image equipment people and all the people engaging with the amazing world of contemporary photography – we genuinely appreciate your flexibility, engagement, good work and happy spirits – we love to make this festival with you!
Thank You! Click here to see all partners and supporters!
Festival Programme for the Weekend
Still not quite sure what to do this weekend? Don't know what to see? We've got the perfect remedy. The last weekend of the festival is going to be buzzling with activities and events at our Festival Center, so do not hesitate to stop by!
To help you navigate here's the programme for this weekend at the Festival Center – to learn more click on the event!
Friday 10 June
11-20 pm Enjoy the 9 exhibitions at the Festival Center and exhibition park
4-6 pm NFT-Friday with eyeeye.me
Saturday 11 June
11-20 pm Enjoy the 9 exhibitions at the Festival Center and exhibition park:
11 am-4 pm Photo Book Market with more than 15 publishers
Sunday 12 June
11-20 pm Enjoy the 9 exhibitions at the Festival Center and exhibition park.
11.30 am - 2.30 pm Cyanotype Workshop by Fotografi på Godsbanen.
1- 4 pm Polaroid Transfer Workshop by Sille Juline Høgly Petersen
4 pm: Apéro light – enjoy the exhibitions, music and a drink at the ROOF TOP BAR
AND as a special closing event:
We hope to see you this last festival weekend!
"You wish you were a Gerry Johansson picture"
“I can’t detect in a single one of Gerry Johansson’s pictures anything, however small, that shows off or pretends to be something else. You wish you could be such a person. Someone who no longer pretends or makes things up. You wish you were a Gerry Johansson picture.” The important Swedish photographer Gerry Johansson's works calls for this type of quotes from his fans.
Exhibition in Landskrona
Johansson's current exhibition at Landskrona Foto, The Books, is definitely worth the travel from Copenhagen – or anywhere if you are a fan of photography. The exhibition of Johansson's photographs also shows 42 of the artist's photo books – his favorite medium to disperse his photographs. The elegant, no-nonsens photographs are from travels all over the world. You can here more about his work in the interesting talk with Niels Bergendal from Landskrona Foto's exhibition above.
Find the full length interview here
Read more about the exhibition
Artist talk in Copenhagen
At this year's festival you can also experience this interesting photographer live when he visits Banja Rathnow Galleri og Kunsthandel and presents his latest book, Spanish Summer, from Mack in collaboration with Fragment Books 7 June.
Read more about the artist talk
Atla Artist Talk & Dinner – A New War in Europe
Dansk tekst nedenfor
During Copenhagen Photo Festival Atla hosts an artist talk with Casper Dalhoff and Miriam Dalsgaard. Through two different reportages from Ukraine and Poland, we will hear the stories about the unbearable outbreak of the war, and also how it quickly became a new and surreal everyday situation for the Ukrainian refugees. The two Danish photojournalists Casper Dalhoff from Jyllands-Posten and Miriam Dalsgaard from Politiken, will present their personal narrations from the Ukrainian people they meet on their reportage trips to cover the stories.
The talk will be in Copenhagen located at the bakery and event space Flere Fugle, which will be the setting for a cosy environment. We will make sure to look at this subject with the seriousness it needs, and also create an informal surrounding with room for curiousness and questions.
Artist talk Thursday 9th of June: 17-22
Flere Fugle will prepare some lovely snacks, cold beverages and a following long-table dinner for the guests.
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Atla Artist Talk & Dinner – En ny krig i Europa
I forbindelse med Copenhagen Photo Festival afholder Atla en artist talk med fotojournalisterne Casper Dalhoff og Miriam Dalsgaard. Talken bliver startskudet på Atlas Danmarksturné, og lægger ud med et emne, der ikke er til at komme udenom. Med Ruslands invasion af Ukraine, står det klart, at vi ser på et forandret Europa. Krig er hverken et nyt eller fraværende begreb, når man kigger ud over resten af verden, men med det russiske angreb på Ukraine, må vi forholde os til, at begrebet på ny er rykket ind i Europa.
Vi skal møde de to danske fotojournalister Casper Dalhoff fra Jyllands-Posten og Miriam Dalgaard fra Politiken, der fortæller og viser deres førstehåndsberetninger fra hhv. krigens ubærlige udbrud, og den nyfundne surrealistiske hverdag, den er blevet til. Med disse to fotografiske reportager tager vi et blik på det land, der nu er under angreb, og vi møder nogle stærke personlige beretninger fra den befolkning, der i årevis har levet med en trussel rettet mod deres frihed.
Med udgangspunkt i de to fotografers nylige vilde beretninger fra Ukraine og Polen, skaber vi en aften med fokus på, hvad det er for et forandret Europa, vi står i.
Artist talk Torsdag d. 9. Juni kl. 17-22
Eventet vil foregå i København på bageri og eventsted Flere Fugle, der også vil danne rammerne for et behageligt og uformelt forum, hvor der er plads til nysgerrighed og spørgsmål. Efter talken vil der være en lækker middag og drikkevare tilberedt og serveret af Flere Fugle.
From 100 Year Old Negatives to NFTs
Do you know what an NFT is? Do you know what use it has or how to purchase one? Many of us have no clue about NFTs, the potential of this new blockchain technology or even its use and influence on the art world. But on NFT Friday 10 June you can get wiser on all of this when we invite you to join us for an afternoon about NFT technology and photography. Together with EyeEye.me we investigate its potentials, possibilities and the many new perspectives NFT’s have in relation to art, archives and photography.
Join us for NFT Friday
Friday 10 May Copenhagen Photo Festival invites everyone with an interest in photography, art or archives to join us at the Festival Center for NFT Friday, a talk and workshop on NFT technology with the three guys behind the Danish online NFT gallery EyeEye.me. The eyeopening afternoon begins with a talk and ends with a workshop about art and NFTs.
The Blossom Expedition
The Copenhagen based online gallery will talk about their own story and how art and technology can benefit from each other. They use the NFT-technology to turn old negatives from The Blosson Expedition, an Atlantic expedition, into digital art on the blockchain.
When the three-masted schooner Blossom traveled the Atlantic Ocean in the 1920s, exploring exotic locations in Africa and South America, its crew members could hardly have imagined that the photographic records of their expedition would become the focal point of an art project almost 100 years later.
From 100 year old negatives to NFTs
Had anyone tried to explain to them what the project entailed, they would have dismissed it as pure science fiction. Indeed, the technological gap between the fragile, faded negatives that still exist as memories of ‘the Blossom Expedition’ and today’s digital space is almost unimaginable. Nevertheless, it has been bridged by three Danes who decided to join forces and introduce a way of making art that is quite unusual in Denmark.
Unique digital art objects
The idea of making digital art out of the negatives was born. Marc Fluri, Sebastian Tiku Lybecker and the third project member, Jesper Munk, decided to conduct an experiment – they would transform some of the photographs from the expedition into NFTs, turning something that was never thought of as artistic into unique digital art objects.
After the talk, Eye Eye’s own crypto currency expert, Jesper Munk, will give an introduction to how you can purchase NFT’s yourself.
Programme for NFT Friday
16-17 Eye Eye talk.
The talk will be in Danish and will take place in the Festival Cinema at Frame and is open for all with a Festival Pass
17-17.45 Eye Eye workshop.
To participate you have to remember your Iphone. The workshop will take place in the Festival Cinema at Frame and take you through:
Understanding what an NFT is.
How to create a wallet to store the NFT.
Purchase cryptocurrency for the NFT.
View it in your wallet.
(sign up at hello@eyeeye.me)
17-20 Apéro with DJ Henrique Hinnerfeldt
Join us for an afternoon drink and some great tunes with DJ Henrique Hinnerfeldt.
Eye Eye Me – NFT Friday: Talk & Workshop
Join us at the Festival Center for eyeopening afternoon with a talk and workshop about art and NFTs. Get wiser on the NFT technology, its potentials, possibilities and the many new perspectives NFT's have in relation to art, archives and photography.
The Danish online gallery eyeeye.me based in Copenhagen opens this NFT Friday with a talk about their story and how art and technology can benefit from each other. EyeEye use the NFT-technology to turn old negatives from The Blosson Expedition, an Atlantic expedition, into digital art on the blockchain.
When the three-masted schooner Blossom traveled the Atlantic Ocean in the 1920s, exploring exotic locations in Africa and South America, its crew members could hardly have imagined that the photographic records of their expedition would become the focal point of an art project almost 100 years later.
Had anyone tried to explain to them what the project entailed, they would have dismissed it as pure science fiction. Indeed, the technological gap between the fragile, faded negatives that still exist as memories of ‘the Blossom Expedition’ and today’s digital space is almost unimaginable. Nevertheless, it has been bridged by three Danes who decided to join forces and introduce a way of making art that is quite unusual in Denmark.
The idea of making digital art out of the negatives was born. Marc Fluri, Sebastian Tiku Lybecker and the third project member, Jesper Munk, decided to conduct an experiment – they would transform some of the photographs from the expedition into NFTs, turning something that was never thought of as artistic into unique digital art objects.
After the talk, Eye Eye's own crypto currency expert, Jesper Munk, will give an introduction to how you can purchase NFT's yourself.
Program
16-17 Eye Eye talk.
The talk will be in Danish The talk will take place in the Festival Cinema at Frame and is open for all with a Festival Pass – you do not have to sign up.
17-17.45 Eye Eye workshop.
To participate you have to remember your Iphone. The workshop will take place in the Festival Cinema at Frame and take you through:
Understanding what an NFT is.
How to create a wallet to store the NFT.
Purchase cryptocurrency for the NFT.
View it in your wallet.
(sign up at hello@eyeeye.me)
After the event we invite you to stay and enjoy the music of DJ Henrique Hinnerfeldt and enjoy a drink on our ROOFTOP BAR!
Artist Talk – Astrid Kruse Jensen
During Copenhagen Photo Festival Martin Asbæk Gallery hosts two artist talks with Astrid Kruse Jensen about the exhibition Resonance.
Martin Asbæk Gallery's exhibition Resonance by Astrid Kruse Jensen presents a number of new photographic works that seek to capture what is everchanging and goes beyond the tangible. The viewer gets the sense of standing across from an abstraction without reference to any specific time. Deconstructed dream images, rooms, and memories merge. The relationship between photography and remembrance is an important drive for the artist, who has worked with memory as a form of shifted reality in her entire oeuvre.
Artist talk Friday 3 June 5-6 pm
Artist talk Friday 10June 5-6 pm
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I forbindelse med Copenhagen Photo Festival afholder Martin Asbæk Gallery to artist talks, hvor kunstneren Astrid Kruse Jensen fortæller om sine nye værker.
Martin Asbæk Gallerys udstillingen Resonance af Astrid Kruse Jensen præsenterer en række nye fotografiske værke, som forsøger at indfange dét, der er i evig forandring og som rækker udover det håndgribelige. Dekonstruerede drømmebilleder, rum og minder går i ét, og netop fotografiets relation til erindringen er en vigtig drivkraft hos kunstneren, der igennem hele sit virke har arbejdet med erindring som en forskudt virkelighed.
Artist talk fredag d. 3. juni kl. 17-18
Artist talk fredag d. 10 juni kl. 17-18