f.eks. is
a roaming exhibition platform for contemporary art that seeks to generate
critical and speculative dialogues between audiences, artists, and broader
publics. f.eks. produces temporary art events that are
located in and around the urban spaces of Aalborg and the Northern Jutland region – activating architecture,
infrastructure, ecological sites, and public spaces through a series of live
art engagements. These include
performances, talks, workshops, readings, pop-ups, social installations,
screenings, and many other forms of interactive and ephemeral art making.
f.eks. is an award-winning, non-profit organization supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, Den Jyske Kunstfond, Augustinus Fonden, Det Obelske Familiefond, Ny Carlsbergfondet, William Demant Fonden, Dansk Tennis Fond, Region Nordjylland, 15. Juni Fonden, Aalborg Kommune, UMMK, and Himmerland Boligforening as part of an ongoing artist-initiated program.
f.eks. is an award-winning, non-profit organization supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, Den Jyske Kunstfond, Augustinus Fonden, Det Obelske Familiefond, Ny Carlsbergfondet, William Demant Fonden, Dansk Tennis Fond, Region Nordjylland, 15. Juni Fonden, Aalborg Kommune, UMMK, and Himmerland Boligforening as part of an ongoing artist-initiated program.
S for Sound, S for Solidarity:
“Listening Lounge”
Featuring Artist Project Group (APG) & Aalborg Artist’s Association (AAAA)
“Listening Lounge”
Featuring Artist Project Group (APG) & Aalborg Artist’s Association (AAAA)
S for Sound, S for Solidarity: Listening Lounge is a double feature collective listening session of the two new episodes of S for Sound, S for Solidarity - episode 4 with Aalborg Artist’s Association (AAAA), and episode 5 with Artist Project Group (APG) as they are premiered on Radio Alhara.
Drawing from The Collective Voice, an experimental vocal workshop hosted by Aalborg Artist’s Association (AAAA) at Håndværkerhuset in October 2025, the fourth episode of S for Sound, S for Solidarity presents a remixed montage of voices by local artists and art workers from Aalborg, Denmark.
In the fifth episode of S for Sound, S for Solidarity the Vienna based Artist Project Group (APG) sonically unfold various social, economic, and political possibilities for artists to engage institutions differently via their experimental practice as an “artist consultancy agency”. Through interviews, discussion, testimonies, and sound bites from artists who have operated within their consultancy infrastructure, APG suggests “artists have the answers”. APG sets this broader narrative to a soundtrack of Aalborg’s local music scene as a contextual connection to their previous artist consultancy work in Northern Denmark. This includes their 2019 project Aalborg Anti-Artwashing Agreement (AAAA), which later helped motivate the establishment of the Aalborg Artists Association (AAAA).
A special thank you to Radio alHara راديو الحارة, Huset i Hasserisgade, Korma, Håndværkerhuset, Parsa Sanjana Sajid, Miriam Simun, Andrea Steves, Kamilla Mez, TWIIID, Bureau of Analogies, Vægtløs, Oskar Krusell, Tone, Hummerdreng, Grassat, Bjørn Svin, Angst, HaremSluts, Wäldchengarten, Twelve Tone Ballads Trio, Simi The Curse, Morten Poulsen, and Nikolaj Legaard for helping in the realization of this project.
Drawing from The Collective Voice, an experimental vocal workshop hosted by Aalborg Artist’s Association (AAAA) at Håndværkerhuset in October 2025, the fourth episode of S for Sound, S for Solidarity presents a remixed montage of voices by local artists and art workers from Aalborg, Denmark.
In the fifth episode of S for Sound, S for Solidarity the Vienna based Artist Project Group (APG) sonically unfold various social, economic, and political possibilities for artists to engage institutions differently via their experimental practice as an “artist consultancy agency”. Through interviews, discussion, testimonies, and sound bites from artists who have operated within their consultancy infrastructure, APG suggests “artists have the answers”. APG sets this broader narrative to a soundtrack of Aalborg’s local music scene as a contextual connection to their previous artist consultancy work in Northern Denmark. This includes their 2019 project Aalborg Anti-Artwashing Agreement (AAAA), which later helped motivate the establishment of the Aalborg Artists Association (AAAA).
A special thank you to Radio alHara راديو الحارة, Huset i Hasserisgade, Korma, Håndværkerhuset, Parsa Sanjana Sajid, Miriam Simun, Andrea Steves, Kamilla Mez, TWIIID, Bureau of Analogies, Vægtløs, Oskar Krusell, Tone, Hummerdreng, Grassat, Bjørn Svin, Angst, HaremSluts, Wäldchengarten, Twelve Tone Ballads Trio, Simi The Curse, Morten Poulsen, and Nikolaj Legaard for helping in the realization of this project.
Saturday, November 29th:
Collective Listening Session from 4:30 - 7:30 pm
Håndværkerhuset (Second Floor Meeting Room), Kattesundet 20, 9000 Aalborg
Program:
4:30 pm Welcome with snacks & drinks
5:00 pm Listening to The Collective Voice
6:00 pm Listening to Artists Have the Answers
Collective Listening Session from 4:30 - 7:30 pm
Håndværkerhuset (Second Floor Meeting Room), Kattesundet 20, 9000 Aalborg
Program:
4:30 pm Welcome with snacks & drinks
5:00 pm Listening to The Collective Voice
6:00 pm Listening to Artists Have the Answers
Artist Project Group (APG) is a collaboration between Lukas Heistinger, Bernhard Garnicnig, and Andrea Steves. They employ performative and collective forms of organization-building in their curatorial and artistic practices to interrogate phenomena of capitalism. APG is formalized as an association for criticism and production and is based in Vienna, Austria.
AAAA, or the Aalborg Artist’s Association, is a hybrid non-profit organization and collective artist-run initiative. Founded in 2019, it is located in Aalborg and also operates in the greater Northern Jutland Region of Denmark. The organization’s goals focus on creating better economic, social, and political circumstances for contemporary and visual artists working in Aalborg. AAAA is a multi-faceted organization that acts as an independent political advisor, arts policy platform, artist collective, project space, and social forum.
AAAA, or the Aalborg Artist’s Association, is a hybrid non-profit organization and collective artist-run initiative. Founded in 2019, it is located in Aalborg and also operates in the greater Northern Jutland Region of Denmark. The organization’s goals focus on creating better economic, social, and political circumstances for contemporary and visual artists working in Aalborg. AAAA is a multi-faceted organization that acts as an independent political advisor, arts policy platform, artist collective, project space, and social forum.
S for Sound, S for Solidarity:
“The Collective Voice”
Featuring Aalborg Artist’s Association (AAAA)
“The Collective Voice”
Featuring Aalborg Artist’s Association (AAAA)
The Collective Voice is a site-specific sonic workshop and visual artist gathering featuring Aalborg Artist’s Association (AAAA).
The Collective Voice seeks to provide an experimental format for the collective expression of creative and critical voices in a welcoming environment. The gathering draws inspiration from speeches, songs, discussions, chants, people’s mics and other forms of sound utilized to express solidarity and unity across public protests, strikes, and other activistic and organizational contexts. The Collective Voice will provide a platform for understanding the local situation in Aalborg, in which artists often experience economic, social, and institutional challenges, as well as function to contextualize this in relation to wider artistic struggles and broader global frameworks.
The Collective Voice takes place at a time when artistic cultural policy in Northern Jutland is tenuous; funding is being cut, Kunsthal Nord has closed, Aalborg University is slated to remove entire cultural departments, and municipal studios are in jeopardy. This is in a climate where local artists stated they experienced exclusion, marginalization, and are lacking a seat at the table in many decisions that immediately affect their socio-economic and cultural positions. The Collective Voice seeks to provide a space for expression free from (self-)censorship, drawing on historical forms that share knowledge, create new awareness, and energize audiences.
A special thank you to Radio alHara راديو الحارة, Huset i Hasserisgade, Korma, Håndværkerhuset, TWIIID, Morten Poulsen, and Nikolaj Legaard for helping in the realization of this project.
The Collective Voice seeks to provide an experimental format for the collective expression of creative and critical voices in a welcoming environment. The gathering draws inspiration from speeches, songs, discussions, chants, people’s mics and other forms of sound utilized to express solidarity and unity across public protests, strikes, and other activistic and organizational contexts. The Collective Voice will provide a platform for understanding the local situation in Aalborg, in which artists often experience economic, social, and institutional challenges, as well as function to contextualize this in relation to wider artistic struggles and broader global frameworks.
The Collective Voice takes place at a time when artistic cultural policy in Northern Jutland is tenuous; funding is being cut, Kunsthal Nord has closed, Aalborg University is slated to remove entire cultural departments, and municipal studios are in jeopardy. This is in a climate where local artists stated they experienced exclusion, marginalization, and are lacking a seat at the table in many decisions that immediately affect their socio-economic and cultural positions. The Collective Voice seeks to provide a space for expression free from (self-)censorship, drawing on historical forms that share knowledge, create new awareness, and energize audiences.
A special thank you to Radio alHara راديو الحارة, Huset i Hasserisgade, Korma, Håndværkerhuset, TWIIID, Morten Poulsen, and Nikolaj Legaard for helping in the realization of this project.
Friday, October 31st:
Workshop & Gathering from 4:00 - 7:30 pm
Håndværkerhuset (Second Floor Meeting Room), Kattesundet 20, 9000 Aalborg
Program:
4:00 pm Presentation & Group Discussion (Scott William Raby & Kamilla Mez)
5:30 pm Collective Vocalization Exercises
6:30 pm Food & Drinks
Workshop & Gathering from 4:00 - 7:30 pm
Håndværkerhuset (Second Floor Meeting Room), Kattesundet 20, 9000 Aalborg
Program:
4:00 pm Presentation & Group Discussion (Scott William Raby & Kamilla Mez)
5:30 pm Collective Vocalization Exercises
6:30 pm Food & Drinks
AAAA, or the Aalborg Artist’s Association, is a hybrid non-profit organization and collective artist-run initiative. Founded in 2019, it is located in Aalborg and also operates in the greater Northern Jutland Region of Denmark. The organization’s goals focus on creating better economic, social, and political circumstances for contemporary and visual artists working in Aalborg. AAAA is a multi-faceted organization that acts as an independent political advisor, arts policy platform, artist collective, project space, and social forum.
Bodies of Waves is a new iteration of the site-specific sonic art project Bodies of Waves by Razan Sabbagh (SY/DE).
Bodies of Waves uses sound as an artistic tool to delve into the complex interplay between language devices in mass media and the profound issues of migration, colonialism, and climate change. Bodies of Waves appropriates, collages, and examines audio from media outlets’ use of water as a linguistic metaphor to frame refugees and migrants. Terms such as “flood” and “wave” not only evoke images of overwhelming natural forces, but also subtly perpetuate colonial attitudes, reducing individuals to faceless masses and increasing notions of “otherness”. Bodies of Waves also confronts a modern form of colonialism: climate change.
This is the third episode of the ongoing program S for Sound, S for Solidarity (SfS, SfS) - an audio infrastructure for artists co-founded by f.eks. and artist Yazan Khalili in 2023. SfS, SfS seeks to utilize sonic and radio programming to highlight artistic, socio-political, and cultural conversations in relation to localized power dynamics and broader geo-political contexts, launching public sonic artworks, listening sessions, and radio broadcasts that connect Northern Denmark to wider global contexts in collaboration with partner Radio alHara راديو الحارة.
A special thank you to Radio alHara, Huset i Hasserisgade, Korma, Thomas Birket-Smith, and Morten Poulsen for helping in the realization of this project.
Bodies of Waves uses sound as an artistic tool to delve into the complex interplay between language devices in mass media and the profound issues of migration, colonialism, and climate change. Bodies of Waves appropriates, collages, and examines audio from media outlets’ use of water as a linguistic metaphor to frame refugees and migrants. Terms such as “flood” and “wave” not only evoke images of overwhelming natural forces, but also subtly perpetuate colonial attitudes, reducing individuals to faceless masses and increasing notions of “otherness”. Bodies of Waves also confronts a modern form of colonialism: climate change.
This is the third episode of the ongoing program S for Sound, S for Solidarity (SfS, SfS) - an audio infrastructure for artists co-founded by f.eks. and artist Yazan Khalili in 2023. SfS, SfS seeks to utilize sonic and radio programming to highlight artistic, socio-political, and cultural conversations in relation to localized power dynamics and broader geo-political contexts, launching public sonic artworks, listening sessions, and radio broadcasts that connect Northern Denmark to wider global contexts in collaboration with partner Radio alHara راديو الحارة.
A special thank you to Radio alHara, Huset i Hasserisgade, Korma, Thomas Birket-Smith, and Morten Poulsen for helping in the realization of this project.
Thursday, June 26th:
Listening Session from 2:00 - 3:30 pm
*Online Broadcast Event with Radio alHara راديو الحارة
Click here for full episode no. 3 (soundcloud)
Listening Session from 2:00 - 3:30 pm
*Online Broadcast Event with Radio alHara راديو الحارة
Click here for full episode no. 3 (soundcloud)
Razan Sabbagh’s practice explores identity, sociopolitics, and questions oppressive power structures, such as investigating the infrastructure of institutions, prisons, and other liminal spaces. Sabbagh often collects oral narratives and stories or appropriates and reconfigures existing texts, interviews, and testimonies as a starting point for her work. Through installation, video, sound, and performance her work explores the relationship between art, activism, aesthetics, and power. She has participated in numerous exhibitions globally, including at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Kampnagel, and Thalia Theater, Hamburg (DE), Simian, Copenhagen (DK), the Sharjah Art Museum (AE), the Goethe Institute, Paris (FR), Kunshalle Bremen (DE), f.eks., Aalborg (DK), and Casino Display in Luxembourg (LU).