CHART ART FAIR 2026

CHART ART FAIR, 27.8.-30.8.2026,
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, COPENHAGEN 

At the end of august CHART will take place at Kunsthal Charlottenborg for the fourteenth time, continuing its ambition to expand its role as the leading Nordic art fair. Joined by additional galleries from across the region and with an increasingly broad public programme in the city’s public spaces, CHART strengthens its position as the central gathering point for the Nordic contemporary art scene. 

This year three Finnish galleries are participating, exhibiting both Finnish and international artist. Galeria Anhava will present Essi Kuokkanen (FI), Päivi Takala (FI) and duo Grönlund-Nisunen (FI). Galeria Forsblom will present Kim Somervuori (FI), Susanne Gottberg (FI) and Anna Fasshauer (DE). And Helsinki Contemporary will present Kent Matsubara (JP) and Roland Persson (SE). 

The Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark is this year supporting the CHART Public Programme, that is free and open for everyone.

For CHART 2026, Aapo Nikkanen and Raudie McLeod participate with the performance Subvocal. The audience is hypnotised and their relationship with technology briefly suspended, while attention is reoriented through suggestion, metaphorical storytelling, and audiovisual stimuli.

Artist, researcher, and trained hypnotherapist, Aapo Nikkanen uses hypnosis to examine the cognitive effects of new technologies, asking how they inconspicuously shape the ways we interpret, trust, and respond to the world.

Subvocal (2026), directed and performed by Nikkanen, with music and sound design by Raudie McLeod, treats the unconscious not as a neutral inner space, but as contested territory – one shaped by extraction and influence, but still open to self-determination. Performed in the movie theatre of Charlottenborg, the piece combines hypnotic suggestion, music, and projected light to construct a "cognitive cinema."

At this years Talk programme we find finnish photography artist Emma Sarpaniemi in conversation with Nadine Wietlisbach, curator, author, and former Director of Fotomuseum Winterthur (2018–2026). Emma Sarpaniemi explores womanhood and femininity through playful and performative photographs. Sarpaniemi´s practice engages with themes of joy, empowerment, and the construction of gender roles and the gaze. 

CHART ART FAIR er Nordens førende kunstmesse og samler hvert år nogle af regionens stærkeste gallerier samt markante kunstnere, samlere og kunstinteresserede. På Charlottenborg præsenteres et kurateret udvalg af samtidskunst fra de mest toneangivende gallerier i Norden, suppleret af et omfattende offentligt program med talks, performances og musik.