Alice Presencer is a singing and dancing choreographer. Since getting her BA in Music and Dance and MFA in Performing Arts, she has nurtured a busy freelance career centered around voice and dance practices. Her endeavours span across various disciplines, including singing, dancing, theatre, filmmaking and choreography. Through the merging of different artistic practices, she strives to encourage the contemplation of accepted norms within emotional expression. Her piece strives to recognise play and non-productivity as valuable, necessary acts of resistance against a culture that systematically deprioritises joy and spontaneity in adult life. “Playing Killjoy” invites adult audiences on an interactive journey that challenges the suppression of play and bodily joy, often lost to youth.

Ásta Guðrún‘s work explores the intersection of photography, collage, and sculpture to examine themes of feminism, representation, and cultural memory. She is particularly interested in how women have been rendered invisible or symbolic within public and historical narratives, and how alternative visual strategies can challenge inherited hierarchies. Through projects such as “Anonymous Woman”, she engages imagination and material experimentation to reframe these figures, bringing them into dialogue with physical space and contemporary contexts. Her practice embraces process, imperfection, and play, creating layered works that invite reflection on identity, history, and the relationship between people and their environments.

Joachim Fleinert is a lens-based visual artist based in Copenhagen. He holds an MFA from HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design. Through his work, he explores themes such as Danish history, national identity, and heritage, often addressing taboo or controversial subjects at risk of being overlooked or forgotten. His work “The Sugar Monarch” is a digital installation that envelops the square at the open air art-space in augmented reality, based on the equestrian statue of King Frederik V. Removed from its usual position at Amalienborg Palace Square, the statue is recontextualized in the “white gold” of the era—sugar. The work is accessed via QR codes placed around the square.

Photofuss and Young Visual Art represent a group of young visual artists from Finland. The Finnish Museum of Photography’s year-long and annually re-forming youth group Photofuss works with photography-based media. Young Visual Art is a cultural youth work and visual art initiative organizing exhibitions, events as well as web and social media-based activities nationwide to bring out diverse artistic work of young visual art practitioners. Their second collaborative zine includes an audio guide which narrates auto-ethnographic stories told by the group members living in their beat of young adulthood. Community of art makers, processes of creating together, and complexity of today’s living environment frame their outcome. The audience is invited to join for an hour-long facilitated audio walks in English.

Thomas Seest is a Copenhagen based visual artist, whose work explores ecology and regenerative ideas. In his project “Two Sisters” Thomas will create a living installation in the post-industrial landscape on Refshaleøen (with a reference to the symbiotic cultivation method, three sisters).

On the day of Summer Solstice, Thomas Seest and Tora Balslev (Daily Fiction / RÆVSHALE ) will present a participatory workshop performance called “Celebrating Photo Synthesis”. Together, we explore and celebrate photosynthetic life at the festival site—both cultivated and wild. On this day, when the sun is at its highest, the plants are peaking. We greet and honour their photosynthesis, their past and their future.