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✨Looking back at an absolutely phenomenal last week of the Toaster Performance Biennale✨

Swipe for highlights from week three —>

📹All captured by: @christian_brems

@mesayer @colette.sadler @jonas_kjeldgaard_soerensen @kristofferakselbo @kleemannjessie @logenstageart @woundedgutfeeling @mollyhaslund @joseftarrak

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

✨Looking back at an absolutely phenomenal last week of the Toaster Performance Biennale✨

Swipe for highlights from week three —>

📹All captured by: @christian_brems

@mesayer @colette.sadler @jonas_kjeldgaard_soerensen @kristofferakselbo @kleemannjessie @logenstageart @woundedgutfeeling @mollyhaslund @joseftarrak

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

✨Looking back at an absolutely phenomenal last week of the Toaster Performance Biennale✨

Swipe for highlights from week three —>

📹All captured by: @christian_brems

@mesayer @colette.sadler @jonas_kjeldgaard_soerensen @kristofferakselbo @kleemannjessie @logenstageart @woundedgutfeeling @mollyhaslund @joseftarrak

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

✨Looking back at an absolutely phenomenal last week of the Toaster Performance Biennale✨

Swipe for highlights from week three —>

📹All captured by: @christian_brems

@mesayer @colette.sadler @jonas_kjeldgaard_soerensen @kristofferakselbo @kleemannjessie @logenstageart @woundedgutfeeling @mollyhaslund @joseftarrak

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

✨Looking back at an absolutely phenomenal last week of the Toaster Performance Biennale✨

Swipe for highlights from week three —>

📹All captured by: @christian_brems

@mesayer @colette.sadler @jonas_kjeldgaard_soerensen @kristofferakselbo @kleemannjessie @logenstageart @woundedgutfeeling @mollyhaslund @joseftarrak

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

✨Looking back at an absolutely phenomenal last week of the Toaster Performance Biennale✨

Swipe for highlights from week three —>

📹All captured by: @christian_brems

@mesayer @colette.sadler @jonas_kjeldgaard_soerensen @kristofferakselbo @kleemannjessie @logenstageart @woundedgutfeeling @mollyhaslund @joseftarrak

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

✨Looking back at an absolutely phenomenal last week of the Toaster Performance Biennale✨

Swipe for highlights from week three —>

📹All captured by: @christian_brems

@mesayer @colette.sadler @jonas_kjeldgaard_soerensen @kristofferakselbo @kleemannjessie @logenstageart @woundedgutfeeling @mollyhaslund @joseftarrak

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

✨Looking back at an absolutely phenomenal last week of the Toaster Performance Biennale✨

Swipe for highlights from week three —>

📹All captured by: @christian_brems

@mesayer @colette.sadler @jonas_kjeldgaard_soerensen @kristofferakselbo @kleemannjessie @logenstageart @woundedgutfeeling @mollyhaslund @joseftarrak

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

✨Looking back at an absolutely phenomenal last week of the Toaster Performance Biennale✨

Swipe for highlights from week three —>

📹All captured by: @christian_brems

@mesayer @colette.sadler @jonas_kjeldgaard_soerensen @kristofferakselbo @kleemannjessie @logenstageart @woundedgutfeeling @mollyhaslund @joseftarrak

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

✨Looking back at an absolutely phenomenal last week of the Toaster Performance Biennale✨

Swipe for highlights from week three —>

📹All captured by: @christian_brems

@mesayer @colette.sadler @jonas_kjeldgaard_soerensen @kristofferakselbo @kleemannjessie @logenstageart @woundedgutfeeling @mollyhaslund @joseftarrak

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

✨Looking back at an absolutely phenomenal last week of the Toaster Performance Biennale✨

Swipe for highlights from week three —>

📹All captured by: @christian_brems

@mesayer @colette.sadler @jonas_kjeldgaard_soerensen @kristofferakselbo @kleemannjessie @logenstageart @woundedgutfeeling @mollyhaslund @joseftarrak

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

⚡️A vibrant second week at the Toaster Performance Biennale!⚡️

Swipe for highlights from week two —>

📹All captured by: @christian_brems
Except Rimini Protokoll captured by: @mikkelhefto

Still lots of performances to come this week at @husetsteater

@lilith_artist_duo @juliennedoko @p.d.gile @kleemannjessie @moribundperformance @sarahamming @team_tender @madamdedangelaim @rimini_protokoll

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

⚡️A vibrant second week at the Toaster Performance Biennale!⚡️

Swipe for highlights from week two —>

📹All captured by: @christian_brems
Except Rimini Protokoll captured by: @mikkelhefto

Still lots of performances to come this week at @husetsteater

@lilith_artist_duo @juliennedoko @p.d.gile @kleemannjessie @moribundperformance @sarahamming @team_tender @madamdedangelaim @rimini_protokoll

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

⚡️A vibrant second week at the Toaster Performance Biennale!⚡️

Swipe for highlights from week two —>

📹All captured by: @christian_brems
Except Rimini Protokoll captured by: @mikkelhefto

Still lots of performances to come this week at @husetsteater

@lilith_artist_duo @juliennedoko @p.d.gile @kleemannjessie @moribundperformance @sarahamming @team_tender @madamdedangelaim @rimini_protokoll

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

⚡️A vibrant second week at the Toaster Performance Biennale!⚡️

Swipe for highlights from week two —>

📹All captured by: @christian_brems
Except Rimini Protokoll captured by: @mikkelhefto

Still lots of performances to come this week at @husetsteater

@lilith_artist_duo @juliennedoko @p.d.gile @kleemannjessie @moribundperformance @sarahamming @team_tender @madamdedangelaim @rimini_protokoll

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

⚡️A vibrant second week at the Toaster Performance Biennale!⚡️

Swipe for highlights from week two —>

📹All captured by: @christian_brems
Except Rimini Protokoll captured by: @mikkelhefto

Still lots of performances to come this week at @husetsteater

@lilith_artist_duo @juliennedoko @p.d.gile @kleemannjessie @moribundperformance @sarahamming @team_tender @madamdedangelaim @rimini_protokoll

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

⚡️A vibrant second week at the Toaster Performance Biennale!⚡️

Swipe for highlights from week two —>

📹All captured by: @christian_brems
Except Rimini Protokoll captured by: @mikkelhefto

Still lots of performances to come this week at @husetsteater

@lilith_artist_duo @juliennedoko @p.d.gile @kleemannjessie @moribundperformance @sarahamming @team_tender @madamdedangelaim @rimini_protokoll

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

⚡️A vibrant second week at the Toaster Performance Biennale!⚡️

Swipe for highlights from week two —>

📹All captured by: @christian_brems
Except Rimini Protokoll captured by: @mikkelhefto

Still lots of performances to come this week at @husetsteater

@lilith_artist_duo @juliennedoko @p.d.gile @kleemannjessie @moribundperformance @sarahamming @team_tender @madamdedangelaim @rimini_protokoll

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

⚡️A vibrant second week at the Toaster Performance Biennale!⚡️

Swipe for highlights from week two —>

📹All captured by: @christian_brems
Except Rimini Protokoll captured by: @mikkelhefto

Still lots of performances to come this week at @husetsteater

@lilith_artist_duo @juliennedoko @p.d.gile @kleemannjessie @moribundperformance @sarahamming @team_tender @madamdedangelaim @rimini_protokoll

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

⚡️A vibrant second week at the Toaster Performance Biennale!⚡️

Swipe for highlights from week two —>

📹All captured by: @christian_brems
Except Rimini Protokoll captured by: @mikkelhefto

Still lots of performances to come this week at @husetsteater

@lilith_artist_duo @juliennedoko @p.d.gile @kleemannjessie @moribundperformance @sarahamming @team_tender @madamdedangelaim @rimini_protokoll

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

⚡️A vibrant second week at the Toaster Performance Biennale!⚡️

Swipe for highlights from week two —>

📹All captured by: @christian_brems
Except Rimini Protokoll captured by: @mikkelhefto

Still lots of performances to come this week at @husetsteater

@lilith_artist_duo @juliennedoko @p.d.gile @kleemannjessie @moribundperformance @sarahamming @team_tender @madamdedangelaim @rimini_protokoll

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

🍀Amazing opening week at the Toaster Performance Biennale!🍀

Swipe for highlights from week one —>

📹Captured by: @christian_brems

Still lots of performances to come until 3 May 2026 across @denfrie.cph and @husetsteater

@esbenweile @kristofferakselbo @edatkinsdiet #linamajdalanie #rabihmroue #bobkil @cam.onfire @kimkimyes @rebamaybury @kariszidore @emilie.gregersen

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

🍀Amazing opening week at the Toaster Performance Biennale!🍀

Swipe for highlights from week one —>

📹Captured by: @christian_brems

Still lots of performances to come until 3 May 2026 across @denfrie.cph and @husetsteater

@esbenweile @kristofferakselbo @edatkinsdiet #linamajdalanie #rabihmroue #bobkil @cam.onfire @kimkimyes @rebamaybury @kariszidore @emilie.gregersen

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

🍀Amazing opening week at the Toaster Performance Biennale!🍀

Swipe for highlights from week one —>

📹Captured by: @christian_brems

Still lots of performances to come until 3 May 2026 across @denfrie.cph and @husetsteater

@esbenweile @kristofferakselbo @edatkinsdiet #linamajdalanie #rabihmroue #bobkil @cam.onfire @kimkimyes @rebamaybury @kariszidore @emilie.gregersen

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

🍀Amazing opening week at the Toaster Performance Biennale!🍀

Swipe for highlights from week one —>

📹Captured by: @christian_brems

Still lots of performances to come until 3 May 2026 across @denfrie.cph and @husetsteater

@esbenweile @kristofferakselbo @edatkinsdiet #linamajdalanie #rabihmroue #bobkil @cam.onfire @kimkimyes @rebamaybury @kariszidore @emilie.gregersen

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

🍀Amazing opening week at the Toaster Performance Biennale!🍀

Swipe for highlights from week one —>

📹Captured by: @christian_brems

Still lots of performances to come until 3 May 2026 across @denfrie.cph and @husetsteater

@esbenweile @kristofferakselbo @edatkinsdiet #linamajdalanie #rabihmroue #bobkil @cam.onfire @kimkimyes @rebamaybury @kariszidore @emilie.gregersen

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

🍀Amazing opening week at the Toaster Performance Biennale!🍀

Swipe for highlights from week one —>

📹Captured by: @christian_brems

Still lots of performances to come until 3 May 2026 across @denfrie.cph and @husetsteater

@esbenweile @kristofferakselbo @edatkinsdiet #linamajdalanie #rabihmroue #bobkil @cam.onfire @kimkimyes @rebamaybury @kariszidore @emilie.gregersen

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

🍀Amazing opening week at the Toaster Performance Biennale!🍀

Swipe for highlights from week one —>

📹Captured by: @christian_brems

Still lots of performances to come until 3 May 2026 across @denfrie.cph and @husetsteater

@esbenweile @kristofferakselbo @edatkinsdiet #linamajdalanie #rabihmroue #bobkil @cam.onfire @kimkimyes @rebamaybury @kariszidore @emilie.gregersen

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

🍀Amazing opening week at the Toaster Performance Biennale!🍀

Swipe for highlights from week one —>

📹Captured by: @christian_brems

Still lots of performances to come until 3 May 2026 across @denfrie.cph and @husetsteater

@esbenweile @kristofferakselbo @edatkinsdiet #linamajdalanie #rabihmroue #bobkil @cam.onfire @kimkimyes @rebamaybury @kariszidore @emilie.gregersen

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

🍀Amazing opening week at the Toaster Performance Biennale!🍀

Swipe for highlights from week one —>

📹Captured by: @christian_brems

Still lots of performances to come until 3 May 2026 across @denfrie.cph and @husetsteater

@esbenweile @kristofferakselbo @edatkinsdiet #linamajdalanie #rabihmroue #bobkil @cam.onfire @kimkimyes @rebamaybury @kariszidore @emilie.gregersen

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

🍀Amazing opening week at the Toaster Performance Biennale!🍀

Swipe for highlights from week one —>

📹Captured by: @christian_brems

Still lots of performances to come until 3 May 2026 across @denfrie.cph and @husetsteater

@esbenweile @kristofferakselbo @edatkinsdiet #linamajdalanie #rabihmroue #bobkil @cam.onfire @kimkimyes @rebamaybury @kariszidore @emilie.gregersen

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

🍀Amazing opening week at the Toaster Performance Biennale!🍀

Swipe for highlights from week one —>

📹Captured by: @christian_brems

Still lots of performances to come until 3 May 2026 across @denfrie.cph and @husetsteater

@esbenweile @kristofferakselbo @edatkinsdiet #linamajdalanie #rabihmroue #bobkil @cam.onfire @kimkimyes @rebamaybury @kariszidore @emilie.gregersen

Supported by @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @detobelskefamiliefond and @thoravej29

Join us tomorrow for the closing night of Toaster Performance Biennale 2026!

We end the biennale with a rap concert by Tarrak in the Orcs & Others installation, set in the foyer of Husets Teater.

Tarrak stands as one of the most prominent voices from Kalaallit Nunaat’s/Greenland’s rap scene. Through his lyrics, Tarrak conveys the connection between the political and the personal, delivering a razor-sharp and hard-hitting critique of colonialist thinking.

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Noget af tidens mest spændende scenekunst bliver til på Thoravej 29 ✨

I vores Black Box arbejder flere af husets medlemmer fra teater- og performancemiljøet løbende med residencies, hvor kunstnere får tid og rum til at udvikle nye værker og hvor idéer testes af og vokser sig større.

Julienne Doko (@juliennedoko), Karis Zidore (@kariszidore), Camilla Lind (@cam.onfire), Sara Hamming (@sarahamming), Jules Fischer (@team_tender) og Jessie Kleemann (@kleemannjessie) er nogle af de kunstnere, der har slået deres folder på Thoravej 29, og hvis arbejde du nu kan opleve resultatet af, som en del af Toaster Performance Biennale 2026 🎭

I 'CRUSH – a psychodrama' danner et forladt kasino rammen om et kollektivt, sanseligt og kaotisk univers, hvor forestillingen om stjernen opløses, og fællesskabet træder frem i stedet, i en koreografi af støtte, begær og sammenbrud. 'Repetition Compulsion' er en intens duet om gentagelser, begær og de mønstre, vi ikke altid selv vælger, men alligevel bliver fanget i, og 'Raven' er en transkulturel fortælling om fællesskab, natur og forbindelser på tværs af verdener,fortalt gennem bevægelse og dans.

Toaster Performance Biennale er en international performance biennale på tværs af Husets Teater og Den Frie, og samler værker i krydsfeltet mellem scenekunst og billedkunst. Her tages temperaturen på feltet lige nu, med nye værker, stærke stemmer og eksperimenter, der peger fremad.

For os er det et levende eksempel på, hvad der sker, når kunstnere får plads til at udvikle sig i fællesskab 💫

Se mere om værkerne og biennalen og find ud af, hvordan du får fat i dine billetter, via @toastercph.

📸: Minh Nguyen

@denfrie.cph@husetsteater @bikubenfonden #Thoravej29 #ToasterPerformanceBiennale #Scenekunst #BlackBox

Noget af tidens mest spændende scenekunst bliver til på Thoravej 29 ✨

I vores Black Box arbejder flere af husets medlemmer fra teater- og performancemiljøet løbende med residencies, hvor kunstnere får tid og rum til at udvikle nye værker og hvor idéer testes af og vokser sig større.

Julienne Doko (@juliennedoko), Karis Zidore (@kariszidore), Camilla Lind (@cam.onfire), Sara Hamming (@sarahamming), Jules Fischer (@team_tender) og Jessie Kleemann (@kleemannjessie) er nogle af de kunstnere, der har slået deres folder på Thoravej 29, og hvis arbejde du nu kan opleve resultatet af, som en del af Toaster Performance Biennale 2026 🎭

I 'CRUSH – a psychodrama' danner et forladt kasino rammen om et kollektivt, sanseligt og kaotisk univers, hvor forestillingen om stjernen opløses, og fællesskabet træder frem i stedet, i en koreografi af støtte, begær og sammenbrud. 'Repetition Compulsion' er en intens duet om gentagelser, begær og de mønstre, vi ikke altid selv vælger, men alligevel bliver fanget i, og 'Raven' er en transkulturel fortælling om fællesskab, natur og forbindelser på tværs af verdener,fortalt gennem bevægelse og dans.

Toaster Performance Biennale er en international performance biennale på tværs af Husets Teater og Den Frie, og samler værker i krydsfeltet mellem scenekunst og billedkunst. Her tages temperaturen på feltet lige nu, med nye værker, stærke stemmer og eksperimenter, der peger fremad.

For os er det et levende eksempel på, hvad der sker, når kunstnere får plads til at udvikle sig i fællesskab 💫

Se mere om værkerne og biennalen og find ud af, hvordan du får fat i dine billetter, via @toastercph.

📸: Minh Nguyen

@denfrie.cph@husetsteater @bikubenfonden #Thoravej29 #ToasterPerformanceBiennale #Scenekunst #BlackBox

Noget af tidens mest spændende scenekunst bliver til på Thoravej 29 ✨

I vores Black Box arbejder flere af husets medlemmer fra teater- og performancemiljøet løbende med residencies, hvor kunstnere får tid og rum til at udvikle nye værker og hvor idéer testes af og vokser sig større.

Julienne Doko (@juliennedoko), Karis Zidore (@kariszidore), Camilla Lind (@cam.onfire), Sara Hamming (@sarahamming), Jules Fischer (@team_tender) og Jessie Kleemann (@kleemannjessie) er nogle af de kunstnere, der har slået deres folder på Thoravej 29, og hvis arbejde du nu kan opleve resultatet af, som en del af Toaster Performance Biennale 2026 🎭

I 'CRUSH – a psychodrama' danner et forladt kasino rammen om et kollektivt, sanseligt og kaotisk univers, hvor forestillingen om stjernen opløses, og fællesskabet træder frem i stedet, i en koreografi af støtte, begær og sammenbrud. 'Repetition Compulsion' er en intens duet om gentagelser, begær og de mønstre, vi ikke altid selv vælger, men alligevel bliver fanget i, og 'Raven' er en transkulturel fortælling om fællesskab, natur og forbindelser på tværs af verdener,fortalt gennem bevægelse og dans.

Toaster Performance Biennale er en international performance biennale på tværs af Husets Teater og Den Frie, og samler værker i krydsfeltet mellem scenekunst og billedkunst. Her tages temperaturen på feltet lige nu, med nye værker, stærke stemmer og eksperimenter, der peger fremad.

For os er det et levende eksempel på, hvad der sker, når kunstnere får plads til at udvikle sig i fællesskab 💫

Se mere om værkerne og biennalen og find ud af, hvordan du får fat i dine billetter, via @toastercph.

📸: Minh Nguyen

@denfrie.cph@husetsteater @bikubenfonden #Thoravej29 #ToasterPerformanceBiennale #Scenekunst #BlackBox

Noget af tidens mest spændende scenekunst bliver til på Thoravej 29 ✨

I vores Black Box arbejder flere af husets medlemmer fra teater- og performancemiljøet løbende med residencies, hvor kunstnere får tid og rum til at udvikle nye værker og hvor idéer testes af og vokser sig større.

Julienne Doko (@juliennedoko), Karis Zidore (@kariszidore), Camilla Lind (@cam.onfire), Sara Hamming (@sarahamming), Jules Fischer (@team_tender) og Jessie Kleemann (@kleemannjessie) er nogle af de kunstnere, der har slået deres folder på Thoravej 29, og hvis arbejde du nu kan opleve resultatet af, som en del af Toaster Performance Biennale 2026 🎭

I 'CRUSH – a psychodrama' danner et forladt kasino rammen om et kollektivt, sanseligt og kaotisk univers, hvor forestillingen om stjernen opløses, og fællesskabet træder frem i stedet, i en koreografi af støtte, begær og sammenbrud. 'Repetition Compulsion' er en intens duet om gentagelser, begær og de mønstre, vi ikke altid selv vælger, men alligevel bliver fanget i, og 'Raven' er en transkulturel fortælling om fællesskab, natur og forbindelser på tværs af verdener,fortalt gennem bevægelse og dans.

Toaster Performance Biennale er en international performance biennale på tværs af Husets Teater og Den Frie, og samler værker i krydsfeltet mellem scenekunst og billedkunst. Her tages temperaturen på feltet lige nu, med nye værker, stærke stemmer og eksperimenter, der peger fremad.

For os er det et levende eksempel på, hvad der sker, når kunstnere får plads til at udvikle sig i fællesskab 💫

Se mere om værkerne og biennalen og find ud af, hvordan du får fat i dine billetter, via @toastercph.

📸: Minh Nguyen

@denfrie.cph@husetsteater @bikubenfonden #Thoravej29 #ToasterPerformanceBiennale #Scenekunst #BlackBox

Noget af tidens mest spændende scenekunst bliver til på Thoravej 29 ✨

I vores Black Box arbejder flere af husets medlemmer fra teater- og performancemiljøet løbende med residencies, hvor kunstnere får tid og rum til at udvikle nye værker og hvor idéer testes af og vokser sig større.

Julienne Doko (@juliennedoko), Karis Zidore (@kariszidore), Camilla Lind (@cam.onfire), Sara Hamming (@sarahamming), Jules Fischer (@team_tender) og Jessie Kleemann (@kleemannjessie) er nogle af de kunstnere, der har slået deres folder på Thoravej 29, og hvis arbejde du nu kan opleve resultatet af, som en del af Toaster Performance Biennale 2026 🎭

I 'CRUSH – a psychodrama' danner et forladt kasino rammen om et kollektivt, sanseligt og kaotisk univers, hvor forestillingen om stjernen opløses, og fællesskabet træder frem i stedet, i en koreografi af støtte, begær og sammenbrud. 'Repetition Compulsion' er en intens duet om gentagelser, begær og de mønstre, vi ikke altid selv vælger, men alligevel bliver fanget i, og 'Raven' er en transkulturel fortælling om fællesskab, natur og forbindelser på tværs af verdener,fortalt gennem bevægelse og dans.

Toaster Performance Biennale er en international performance biennale på tværs af Husets Teater og Den Frie, og samler værker i krydsfeltet mellem scenekunst og billedkunst. Her tages temperaturen på feltet lige nu, med nye værker, stærke stemmer og eksperimenter, der peger fremad.

For os er det et levende eksempel på, hvad der sker, når kunstnere får plads til at udvikle sig i fællesskab 💫

Se mere om værkerne og biennalen og find ud af, hvordan du får fat i dine billetter, via @toastercph.

📸: Minh Nguyen

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Toaster Performance Biennale presents:
Repetition Compulsion by Jules Fischer (DK)

Location: Den Frie, Sal 2 + Sal 5
Time: 23/4 at 21.00-22.30 & 24/4 at 21.00-22.30

Repetition Compulsion is a new performance by Jules Fischer, commissioned by TOASTER for the biennale. The work forms the second part of a trilogy of performances.

In the first chapter, Lesions (2024), we encounter a woman trapped within a scene shaped by a single moving spotlight, a pre-recorded monologue, and her desire to maintain her self-image.

The second performance, Repetition Compulsion, unfolds as a duet. The title refers to a term coined by Sigmund Freud, describing the unconscious drive to reenact traumatic relationships and relational dynamics repeatedly.

Jules Fischer (DK) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2017 and has also studied dance and choreography at the Danish National School of Performing Arts, as well as Art and Social Practice at Portland State University. Their practice focuses on collage-like, large-scale performance works. Jules is interested in fundamental emotions such as love, grief, and loneliness, explored from an ambivalent and queer perspective. In collaboration with talents from diverse disciplines, Jules has created works for institutions such as Glyptoteket, SMK, and Arken. In 2023, they were awarded a three-year working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation.

🟩 Secure your Biennale Pass to experience ‘Repetition Compulsion’ — link in bio 🟩

We hope to see you for Toaster Performance Biennale 2026!

Jules Fischer in collaboration with @sofiastaal__ , @thea_carla_schott, @danicadimefox, Matilde Böcher, @caecilietrier, @w_i_ll__, @odorandfumes, @bella_sky_high, @astavonapfel

Video from Lesion (2024):
Direction, text & concept: Jules Fischer
Performer: Ingeborg Meier Andersen
Light: Sofia Stål
Music: Aase Nielsen & h hartvig
Voice: Susanne Sachsse
Costume: Camilla Lind
Co-produced by UKS & TOASTER

Toaster Performance Biennale presents:
Repetition Compulsion by Jules Fischer (DK)

Location: Den Frie, Sal 2 + Sal 5
Time: 23/4 at 21.00-22.30 & 24/4 at 21.00-22.30

Repetition Compulsion is a new performance by Jules Fischer, commissioned by TOASTER for the biennale. The work forms the second part of a trilogy of performances.

In the first chapter, Lesions (2024), we encounter a woman trapped within a scene shaped by a single moving spotlight, a pre-recorded monologue, and her desire to maintain her self-image.

The second performance, Repetition Compulsion, unfolds as a duet. The title refers to a term coined by Sigmund Freud, describing the unconscious drive to reenact traumatic relationships and relational dynamics repeatedly.

Jules Fischer (DK) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2017 and has also studied dance and choreography at the Danish National School of Performing Arts, as well as Art and Social Practice at Portland State University. Their practice focuses on collage-like, large-scale performance works. Jules is interested in fundamental emotions such as love, grief, and loneliness, explored from an ambivalent and queer perspective. In collaboration with talents from diverse disciplines, Jules has created works for institutions such as Glyptoteket, SMK, and Arken. In 2023, they were awarded a three-year working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation.

🟩 Secure your Biennale Pass to experience ‘Repetition Compulsion’ — link in bio 🟩

We hope to see you for Toaster Performance Biennale 2026!

Jules Fischer in collaboration with @sofiastaal__ , @thea_carla_schott, @danicadimefox, Matilde Böcher, @caecilietrier, @w_i_ll__, @odorandfumes, @bella_sky_high, @astavonapfel

Video from Lesion (2024):
Direction, text & concept: Jules Fischer
Performer: Ingeborg Meier Andersen
Light: Sofia Stål
Music: Aase Nielsen & h hartvig
Voice: Susanne Sachsse
Costume: Camilla Lind
Co-produced by UKS & TOASTER

Toaster Performance Biennale presents:
Repetition Compulsion by Jules Fischer (DK)

Location: Den Frie, Sal 2 + Sal 5
Time: 23/4 at 21.00-22.30 & 24/4 at 21.00-22.30

Repetition Compulsion is a new performance by Jules Fischer, commissioned by TOASTER for the biennale. The work forms the second part of a trilogy of performances.

In the first chapter, Lesions (2024), we encounter a woman trapped within a scene shaped by a single moving spotlight, a pre-recorded monologue, and her desire to maintain her self-image.

The second performance, Repetition Compulsion, unfolds as a duet. The title refers to a term coined by Sigmund Freud, describing the unconscious drive to reenact traumatic relationships and relational dynamics repeatedly.

Jules Fischer (DK) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2017 and has also studied dance and choreography at the Danish National School of Performing Arts, as well as Art and Social Practice at Portland State University. Their practice focuses on collage-like, large-scale performance works. Jules is interested in fundamental emotions such as love, grief, and loneliness, explored from an ambivalent and queer perspective. In collaboration with talents from diverse disciplines, Jules has created works for institutions such as Glyptoteket, SMK, and Arken. In 2023, they were awarded a three-year working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation.

🟩 Secure your Biennale Pass to experience ‘Repetition Compulsion’ — link in bio 🟩

We hope to see you for Toaster Performance Biennale 2026!

Jules Fischer in collaboration with @sofiastaal__ , @thea_carla_schott, @danicadimefox, Matilde Böcher, @caecilietrier, @w_i_ll__, @odorandfumes, @bella_sky_high, @astavonapfel

Video from Lesion (2024):
Direction, text & concept: Jules Fischer
Performer: Ingeborg Meier Andersen
Light: Sofia Stål
Music: Aase Nielsen & h hartvig
Voice: Susanne Sachsse
Costume: Camilla Lind
Co-produced by UKS & TOASTER

Toaster Performance Biennale presents:
Game Changer by LILITH Artist Duo (SE)

Location: Den Frie, Sal 4
Time: 18/4 at 21.00-24.00 & 24/4 at 17.30-20.30 & 25/4 at 17.30-20.30

Rebellious individualism, pliable group belonging, and collective grief work are explored in the public, interactive performance Game Changer. Performers and audience move through an uncertain borderland in a dark club environment, all reverently dressed in anonymous hoods adorned with carnival feathers. The longing for intimacy, comfort, and expression is tested and processed through gestures, rituals, dance, and impulses. A group of performers and dancers follow a predetermined choreography – sometimes individually, sometimes as a group. A ten-year-old girl leads the play, occasionally moving both audience members and performers around the space. The work dissolves and shifts the boundaries between audience and performers, as each participant chooses how they wish to engage.

LILITH is the artist duo Elin Lundgren and Petter Pettersson. In performances that explore community, group belonging, and exclusion, LILITH constructs their works as living images with absurd humor and a stripped-down documentary narrative. Their underlying focus is on universal human questions such as love, loss, and grief, driven by a desire to enter the viewer’s consciousness as both noise and a hope to understand what it means to be human. Elin Lundgren and Petter Pettersson have collaborated in visual and performing arts in various forms since 1999. In 2007, the duo founded Lilith Performance Studio – an independent arena for practical artistic research, focusing on newly produced large-scale art performances by invited artists from around the world.

🟩 Secure your Biennale Pass to experience ‘Game Changer’ — link in bio 🟩

We hope to see you for Toaster Performance Biennale 2026!

Toaster Performance Biennale presents:
Game Changer by LILITH Artist Duo (SE)

Location: Den Frie, Sal 4
Time: 18/4 at 21.00-24.00 & 24/4 at 17.30-20.30 & 25/4 at 17.30-20.30

Rebellious individualism, pliable group belonging, and collective grief work are explored in the public, interactive performance Game Changer. Performers and audience move through an uncertain borderland in a dark club environment, all reverently dressed in anonymous hoods adorned with carnival feathers. The longing for intimacy, comfort, and expression is tested and processed through gestures, rituals, dance, and impulses. A group of performers and dancers follow a predetermined choreography – sometimes individually, sometimes as a group. A ten-year-old girl leads the play, occasionally moving both audience members and performers around the space. The work dissolves and shifts the boundaries between audience and performers, as each participant chooses how they wish to engage.

LILITH is the artist duo Elin Lundgren and Petter Pettersson. In performances that explore community, group belonging, and exclusion, LILITH constructs their works as living images with absurd humor and a stripped-down documentary narrative. Their underlying focus is on universal human questions such as love, loss, and grief, driven by a desire to enter the viewer’s consciousness as both noise and a hope to understand what it means to be human. Elin Lundgren and Petter Pettersson have collaborated in visual and performing arts in various forms since 1999. In 2007, the duo founded Lilith Performance Studio – an independent arena for practical artistic research, focusing on newly produced large-scale art performances by invited artists from around the world.

🟩 Secure your Biennale Pass to experience ‘Game Changer’ — link in bio 🟩

We hope to see you for Toaster Performance Biennale 2026!

Toaster Performance Biennale presents:
Game Changer by LILITH Artist Duo (SE)

Location: Den Frie, Sal 4
Time: 18/4 at 21.00-24.00 & 24/4 at 17.30-20.30 & 25/4 at 17.30-20.30

Rebellious individualism, pliable group belonging, and collective grief work are explored in the public, interactive performance Game Changer. Performers and audience move through an uncertain borderland in a dark club environment, all reverently dressed in anonymous hoods adorned with carnival feathers. The longing for intimacy, comfort, and expression is tested and processed through gestures, rituals, dance, and impulses. A group of performers and dancers follow a predetermined choreography – sometimes individually, sometimes as a group. A ten-year-old girl leads the play, occasionally moving both audience members and performers around the space. The work dissolves and shifts the boundaries between audience and performers, as each participant chooses how they wish to engage.

LILITH is the artist duo Elin Lundgren and Petter Pettersson. In performances that explore community, group belonging, and exclusion, LILITH constructs their works as living images with absurd humor and a stripped-down documentary narrative. Their underlying focus is on universal human questions such as love, loss, and grief, driven by a desire to enter the viewer’s consciousness as both noise and a hope to understand what it means to be human. Elin Lundgren and Petter Pettersson have collaborated in visual and performing arts in various forms since 1999. In 2007, the duo founded Lilith Performance Studio – an independent arena for practical artistic research, focusing on newly produced large-scale art performances by invited artists from around the world.

🟩 Secure your Biennale Pass to experience ‘Game Changer’ — link in bio 🟩

We hope to see you for Toaster Performance Biennale 2026!

Toaster Performance Biennale presents:
SWEAT. A MuscLical
by Rimini Protokoll / Daniel Wetzel (DE)

Location: Husets Teater, Sort Sal
Time: 24/4 at 18.00-19.00 & 25/4 at 16.00-17.00

Who composes? Who plays? On what? For SWEAT Rimini Protokoll pose these questions in a humorous new way. Fitness machines – taken from the world of physical self-optimization – now become music machines on the concert stage, and training muscles now means making music. 

 SWEAT. Songs of Push and Pull. The concert  

The concert SWEAT. Songs of Push and Pull was composed by multidisciplinary musicians such as AIGEL, Brigitta Muntendorf, Güner Künier, Sophia Wind, Schneider TM, Fabian Tombers, Bush.ida, Black Mirror Park and Wooly Aziz as an entire concert evening for this unique and innovative group of instruments. But who can play these instruments? People who have been unknowingly rehearsing for a long time by exercising on the original machines. People who may never have played a concert before, but whose regular training has given them a precise feel for their tendons and muscles. The Songs are a work-out and an evening of music at the same time, with a soundscape between gym, pop and contemporary compositions. 

Daniel Wetzel was born in Constance in 1969, studied Applied Theater Studies in Giessen and now lives in Athens and Berlin. Since 2000 he forms an author and director-team with Helgard Haug and Stefan Kaegi, running under the name Rimini Protokoll. Their projects in duo or trio-constellations as well as solo works cover the fields of theatre, audio play, film and installation.  Central to their work is the further development of the respective art fields to allow for unconventional views on our reality.

🟩 Secure your Biennale Pass to experience ‘SWEAT. A MuscLical’ — link in bio 🟩

We hope to see you for Toaster Performance Biennale 2026!

Toaster Performance Biennale presents:
SWEAT. A MuscLical
by Rimini Protokoll / Daniel Wetzel (DE)

Location: Husets Teater, Sort Sal
Time: 24/4 at 18.00-19.00 & 25/4 at 16.00-17.00

Who composes? Who plays? On what? For SWEAT Rimini Protokoll pose these questions in a humorous new way. Fitness machines – taken from the world of physical self-optimization – now become music machines on the concert stage, and training muscles now means making music. 

 SWEAT. Songs of Push and Pull. The concert  

The concert SWEAT. Songs of Push and Pull was composed by multidisciplinary musicians such as AIGEL, Brigitta Muntendorf, Güner Künier, Sophia Wind, Schneider TM, Fabian Tombers, Bush.ida, Black Mirror Park and Wooly Aziz as an entire concert evening for this unique and innovative group of instruments. But who can play these instruments? People who have been unknowingly rehearsing for a long time by exercising on the original machines. People who may never have played a concert before, but whose regular training has given them a precise feel for their tendons and muscles. The Songs are a work-out and an evening of music at the same time, with a soundscape between gym, pop and contemporary compositions. 

Daniel Wetzel was born in Constance in 1969, studied Applied Theater Studies in Giessen and now lives in Athens and Berlin. Since 2000 he forms an author and director-team with Helgard Haug and Stefan Kaegi, running under the name Rimini Protokoll. Their projects in duo or trio-constellations as well as solo works cover the fields of theatre, audio play, film and installation.  Central to their work is the further development of the respective art fields to allow for unconventional views on our reality.

🟩 Secure your Biennale Pass to experience ‘SWEAT. A MuscLical’ — link in bio 🟩

We hope to see you for Toaster Performance Biennale 2026!

Toaster Performance Biennale presents:
SWEAT. A MuscLical
by Rimini Protokoll / Daniel Wetzel (DE)

Location: Husets Teater, Sort Sal
Time: 24/4 at 18.00-19.00 & 25/4 at 16.00-17.00

Who composes? Who plays? On what? For SWEAT Rimini Protokoll pose these questions in a humorous new way. Fitness machines – taken from the world of physical self-optimization – now become music machines on the concert stage, and training muscles now means making music. 

 SWEAT. Songs of Push and Pull. The concert  

The concert SWEAT. Songs of Push and Pull was composed by multidisciplinary musicians such as AIGEL, Brigitta Muntendorf, Güner Künier, Sophia Wind, Schneider TM, Fabian Tombers, Bush.ida, Black Mirror Park and Wooly Aziz as an entire concert evening for this unique and innovative group of instruments. But who can play these instruments? People who have been unknowingly rehearsing for a long time by exercising on the original machines. People who may never have played a concert before, but whose regular training has given them a precise feel for their tendons and muscles. The Songs are a work-out and an evening of music at the same time, with a soundscape between gym, pop and contemporary compositions. 

Daniel Wetzel was born in Constance in 1969, studied Applied Theater Studies in Giessen and now lives in Athens and Berlin. Since 2000 he forms an author and director-team with Helgard Haug and Stefan Kaegi, running under the name Rimini Protokoll. Their projects in duo or trio-constellations as well as solo works cover the fields of theatre, audio play, film and installation.  Central to their work is the further development of the respective art fields to allow for unconventional views on our reality.

🟩 Secure your Biennale Pass to experience ‘SWEAT. A MuscLical’ — link in bio 🟩

We hope to see you for Toaster Performance Biennale 2026!

Toaster Performance Biennale presents:
Poor Devil by Ed Atkins (UK/DK)

Location: Den Frie, Sal 6
Time: 17/4 at 18.00-18.30

Poor Devil is a performance about art’s reparative failures, memory, and sentimentality. There is a poem, singing, and special effects. Poor Devil is Atkins’s only performance piece — its title changes with each iteration.

Ed Atkins is a British artist living in Copenhagen. He is best known for realistic computer-generated videos that expose and scrutinise otherwise unavailable feelings by the profanity of their artifice.

In recent years, Ed Atkins has presented solo exhibitions at Kunsthaus Bregenz; the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; K21, Düsseldorf; MoMA PS1, New York; and the Serpentine Gallery, London, among many others.

In 2025 Atkins wrote the libretto for Rebecca Saunders’ opera LASH at Deutsche Oper, and a mid-career retrospective opened at Tate Britain, London. Alongside the poet Steven Zultanski, Atkins wrote and directed the play Sorcerer (2022) and the feature film Nurses Come and Go, but None for Me (2025).

He is the author of the collection, A Primer for Cadavers (2016), the epic anti-poem Old Food (2019), and the confessional nothing Flower (2025), all published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. He is a professor of Freie Kunst at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

Photo and video: ‘Pianowork 2’, Ed Atkins, 2022. Courtesy the artist; Cabinet, London; Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin; Gladstone, New York; dépendance, Brussels.

🟩 Secure your Biennale Pass to experience ‘Poor Devil’ — link in bio 🟩

We hope to see you for Toaster Performance Biennale 2026!

Toaster Performance Biennale presents:
Poor Devil by Ed Atkins (UK/DK)

Location: Den Frie, Sal 6
Time: 17/4 at 18.00-18.30

Poor Devil is a performance about art’s reparative failures, memory, and sentimentality. There is a poem, singing, and special effects. Poor Devil is Atkins’s only performance piece — its title changes with each iteration.

Ed Atkins is a British artist living in Copenhagen. He is best known for realistic computer-generated videos that expose and scrutinise otherwise unavailable feelings by the profanity of their artifice.

In recent years, Ed Atkins has presented solo exhibitions at Kunsthaus Bregenz; the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; K21, Düsseldorf; MoMA PS1, New York; and the Serpentine Gallery, London, among many others.

In 2025 Atkins wrote the libretto for Rebecca Saunders’ opera LASH at Deutsche Oper, and a mid-career retrospective opened at Tate Britain, London. Alongside the poet Steven Zultanski, Atkins wrote and directed the play Sorcerer (2022) and the feature film Nurses Come and Go, but None for Me (2025).

He is the author of the collection, A Primer for Cadavers (2016), the epic anti-poem Old Food (2019), and the confessional nothing Flower (2025), all published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. He is a professor of Freie Kunst at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

Photo and video: ‘Pianowork 2’, Ed Atkins, 2022. Courtesy the artist; Cabinet, London; Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin; Gladstone, New York; dépendance, Brussels.

🟩 Secure your Biennale Pass to experience ‘Poor Devil’ — link in bio 🟩

We hope to see you for Toaster Performance Biennale 2026!

Toaster Performance Biennale presents:
Poor Devil by Ed Atkins (UK/DK)

Location: Den Frie, Sal 6
Time: 17/4 at 18.00-18.30

Poor Devil is a performance about art’s reparative failures, memory, and sentimentality. There is a poem, singing, and special effects. Poor Devil is Atkins’s only performance piece — its title changes with each iteration.

Ed Atkins is a British artist living in Copenhagen. He is best known for realistic computer-generated videos that expose and scrutinise otherwise unavailable feelings by the profanity of their artifice.

In recent years, Ed Atkins has presented solo exhibitions at Kunsthaus Bregenz; the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; K21, Düsseldorf; MoMA PS1, New York; and the Serpentine Gallery, London, among many others.

In 2025 Atkins wrote the libretto for Rebecca Saunders’ opera LASH at Deutsche Oper, and a mid-career retrospective opened at Tate Britain, London. Alongside the poet Steven Zultanski, Atkins wrote and directed the play Sorcerer (2022) and the feature film Nurses Come and Go, but None for Me (2025).

He is the author of the collection, A Primer for Cadavers (2016), the epic anti-poem Old Food (2019), and the confessional nothing Flower (2025), all published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. He is a professor of Freie Kunst at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

Photo and video: ‘Pianowork 2’, Ed Atkins, 2022. Courtesy the artist; Cabinet, London; Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin; Gladstone, New York; dépendance, Brussels.

🟩 Secure your Biennale Pass to experience ‘Poor Devil’ — link in bio 🟩

We hope to see you for Toaster Performance Biennale 2026!

Toaster Performance Biennale presents:
Hardcore Freedom by Esben Weile Kjær (DK)

Location: Den Frie, Salene
Time: 16/4 at 20.30-01.00

As the official opening of the Toaster Performance Biennale 2026, Esben Weile Kjær’s groundbreaking performance ‘Hardcore Freedom’ (2020) will be presented at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning as both performance and party. The work was originally created as an exhibition at Copenhagen Contemporary, where weekly performances gradually evolved into actual parties.

For Toaster Performance Biennale, ‘Hardcore Freedom’ is a four-hour work where the audience is invited into an intense, collective space at the intersection of art, club culture and performance. Throughout the evening, performers and dancers activate the space, alongside live DJ sets by Courtesy and the German producer Europa.

Esben Weile Kjær (b. 1992 in Aarhus, Denmark) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Esben Weile Kjær’s work spans sculpture and performance, drawing on the history of pop culture to investigate themes of nostalgia, authenticity and generational anxiety. In his performances, installations and sculptures, he examines identity among his own generation and explores the role of  popular culture and technology in shaping experiences of community and  freedom.

🟩 ‘Hardcore Freedom’ has free admission for all — link in bio 🟩

We hope to see you for Toaster Performance Biennale 2026!

Video: Harcore Freedom, 2020, Copenhagen Contemporary.
DOP: Mikkel Ulriksen
Additional footage: Troels Rasmus Jensen and Gloria Berenice Moreno
Music: Kid Machine - Lost Discotheque Lovers
Performers: Aske Høier Olsen, Nathan Compiano, Johan Bech Jespersen, Annah Ritah Nagadya, Camilla Lind, Anton Cornelius, Ezra Shami, Judith Shyambala Heinemann, Thea Carla Schøtt, Kofi Møller, Esben Weile Kjær

Photos: Philip Messmann

Toaster Performance Biennale presents:
Hardcore Freedom by Esben Weile Kjær (DK)

Location: Den Frie, Salene
Time: 16/4 at 20.30-01.00

As the official opening of the Toaster Performance Biennale 2026, Esben Weile Kjær’s groundbreaking performance ‘Hardcore Freedom’ (2020) will be presented at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning as both performance and party. The work was originally created as an exhibition at Copenhagen Contemporary, where weekly performances gradually evolved into actual parties.

For Toaster Performance Biennale, ‘Hardcore Freedom’ is a four-hour work where the audience is invited into an intense, collective space at the intersection of art, club culture and performance. Throughout the evening, performers and dancers activate the space, alongside live DJ sets by Courtesy and the German producer Europa.

Esben Weile Kjær (b. 1992 in Aarhus, Denmark) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Esben Weile Kjær’s work spans sculpture and performance, drawing on the history of pop culture to investigate themes of nostalgia, authenticity and generational anxiety. In his performances, installations and sculptures, he examines identity among his own generation and explores the role of  popular culture and technology in shaping experiences of community and  freedom.

🟩 ‘Hardcore Freedom’ has free admission for all — link in bio 🟩

We hope to see you for Toaster Performance Biennale 2026!

Video: Harcore Freedom, 2020, Copenhagen Contemporary.
DOP: Mikkel Ulriksen
Additional footage: Troels Rasmus Jensen and Gloria Berenice Moreno
Music: Kid Machine - Lost Discotheque Lovers
Performers: Aske Høier Olsen, Nathan Compiano, Johan Bech Jespersen, Annah Ritah Nagadya, Camilla Lind, Anton Cornelius, Ezra Shami, Judith Shyambala Heinemann, Thea Carla Schøtt, Kofi Møller, Esben Weile Kjær

Photos: Philip Messmann

Toaster Performance Biennale presents:
Hardcore Freedom by Esben Weile Kjær (DK)

Location: Den Frie, Salene
Time: 16/4 at 20.30-01.00

As the official opening of the Toaster Performance Biennale 2026, Esben Weile Kjær’s groundbreaking performance ‘Hardcore Freedom’ (2020) will be presented at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning as both performance and party. The work was originally created as an exhibition at Copenhagen Contemporary, where weekly performances gradually evolved into actual parties.

For Toaster Performance Biennale, ‘Hardcore Freedom’ is a four-hour work where the audience is invited into an intense, collective space at the intersection of art, club culture and performance. Throughout the evening, performers and dancers activate the space, alongside live DJ sets by Courtesy and the German producer Europa.

Esben Weile Kjær (b. 1992 in Aarhus, Denmark) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Esben Weile Kjær’s work spans sculpture and performance, drawing on the history of pop culture to investigate themes of nostalgia, authenticity and generational anxiety. In his performances, installations and sculptures, he examines identity among his own generation and explores the role of  popular culture and technology in shaping experiences of community and  freedom.

🟩 ‘Hardcore Freedom’ has free admission for all — link in bio 🟩

We hope to see you for Toaster Performance Biennale 2026!

Video: Harcore Freedom, 2020, Copenhagen Contemporary.
DOP: Mikkel Ulriksen
Additional footage: Troels Rasmus Jensen and Gloria Berenice Moreno
Music: Kid Machine - Lost Discotheque Lovers
Performers: Aske Høier Olsen, Nathan Compiano, Johan Bech Jespersen, Annah Ritah Nagadya, Camilla Lind, Anton Cornelius, Ezra Shami, Judith Shyambala Heinemann, Thea Carla Schøtt, Kofi Møller, Esben Weile Kjær

Photos: Philip Messmann

Toaster Performance Biennale presents:
Sjæl gør dig smuk by Jessie Kleemann (GL/DK)

Location: Den Frie, Sal 1
Time: 22/4 at 18.30-19.15 & 23/4 at 18.30-19.15

Jessie Kleemann’s new performance ‘Sjæl gør dig smuk’ (The Soul Makes You Beautiful) explores the idea that everything has a soul. The performance’s soundscape blends recordings, news broadcasts and live sound, as gentle singing and chanting respond to the omnipresent contemporary declarations about the takeover of land and territories. In a world that is growing increasingly ugly, the soul must be beautiful. The title of the exhibition is borrowed from Ole Jørgensen’s 1981 book Sjæl gør dig smuk: Om inuit-menneskene (The Soul Makes You Beautiful: On the Inuit People).

The spine keeps our inner selves in place and holds us upright in the world. “We’ve got your back,” as we also say. In Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland, some of the world’s oldest rocks are found — forming a geological pillar, or backbone, that carries the globe. In Sjæl gør dig smuk, Kleemann continues and internalises movements in which the arch and curvature of the back repeat ancient customs and traditions.

For three decades, Jessie Kleemann (GL/DK) has been a prominent figure on the contemporary art scene with her original approach to video art, experimental theatre, and performance art. Her work is rooted in the complex relationships between Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland, where she was born and raised, and Denmark, where she lives today. In her practice, she incorporates objects from traditional Inuit culture, from colonial history, and from contemporary Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland. Kleemann challenges stereotypes and the notion of an unspoiled Kalaallit Nunaat / Greenland.

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Photo: Orsoq, 2005. Credit: Randi Broberg.

Toaster Performance Biennale presents:
Sjæl gør dig smuk by Jessie Kleemann (GL/DK)

Location: Den Frie, Sal 1
Time: 22/4 at 18.30-19.15 & 23/4 at 18.30-19.15

Jessie Kleemann’s new performance ‘Sjæl gør dig smuk’ (The Soul Makes You Beautiful) explores the idea that everything has a soul. The performance’s soundscape blends recordings, news broadcasts and live sound, as gentle singing and chanting respond to the omnipresent contemporary declarations about the takeover of land and territories. In a world that is growing increasingly ugly, the soul must be beautiful. The title of the exhibition is borrowed from Ole Jørgensen’s 1981 book Sjæl gør dig smuk: Om inuit-menneskene (The Soul Makes You Beautiful: On the Inuit People).

The spine keeps our inner selves in place and holds us upright in the world. “We’ve got your back,” as we also say. In Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland, some of the world’s oldest rocks are found — forming a geological pillar, or backbone, that carries the globe. In Sjæl gør dig smuk, Kleemann continues and internalises movements in which the arch and curvature of the back repeat ancient customs and traditions.

For three decades, Jessie Kleemann (GL/DK) has been a prominent figure on the contemporary art scene with her original approach to video art, experimental theatre, and performance art. Her work is rooted in the complex relationships between Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland, where she was born and raised, and Denmark, where she lives today. In her practice, she incorporates objects from traditional Inuit culture, from colonial history, and from contemporary Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland. Kleemann challenges stereotypes and the notion of an unspoiled Kalaallit Nunaat / Greenland.

🟩 Secure your Biennale Pass to experience ‘Sjæl gør dig smuk’ — link in bio 🟩

We hope to see you for Toaster Performance Biennale 2026!

Photo: Orsoq, 2005. Credit: Randi Broberg.

Toaster Performance Biennale presents:
Sjæl gør dig smuk by Jessie Kleemann (GL/DK)

Location: Den Frie, Sal 1
Time: 22/4 at 18.30-19.15 & 23/4 at 18.30-19.15

Jessie Kleemann’s new performance ‘Sjæl gør dig smuk’ (The Soul Makes You Beautiful) explores the idea that everything has a soul. The performance’s soundscape blends recordings, news broadcasts and live sound, as gentle singing and chanting respond to the omnipresent contemporary declarations about the takeover of land and territories. In a world that is growing increasingly ugly, the soul must be beautiful. The title of the exhibition is borrowed from Ole Jørgensen’s 1981 book Sjæl gør dig smuk: Om inuit-menneskene (The Soul Makes You Beautiful: On the Inuit People).

The spine keeps our inner selves in place and holds us upright in the world. “We’ve got your back,” as we also say. In Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland, some of the world’s oldest rocks are found — forming a geological pillar, or backbone, that carries the globe. In Sjæl gør dig smuk, Kleemann continues and internalises movements in which the arch and curvature of the back repeat ancient customs and traditions.

For three decades, Jessie Kleemann (GL/DK) has been a prominent figure on the contemporary art scene with her original approach to video art, experimental theatre, and performance art. Her work is rooted in the complex relationships between Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland, where she was born and raised, and Denmark, where she lives today. In her practice, she incorporates objects from traditional Inuit culture, from colonial history, and from contemporary Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland. Kleemann challenges stereotypes and the notion of an unspoiled Kalaallit Nunaat / Greenland.

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We hope to see you for Toaster Performance Biennale 2026!

Photo: Orsoq, 2005. Credit: Randi Broberg.

Toaster Performance Biennale presents:
Don’t make a fuss about it. You are dead to me
by Adam Christensen (DK)

Location: Den Frie, Sal 1
Time: 25/4 at 14.30-15.00 & 26/4 at 15.00-15.30

Adam Christensen is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans performance, music, and textile installation, blurring the boundaries between everyday life and fiction. Drawing on his immediate experiences—colored by the theatricality of the everyday, the spectacle of domesticity, chance encounters, and emotional and physical dramas—Christensen conveys these moments through his performances.

A central focus of his practice is the construction and representation of space and the unfolding narratives of heartbreak, desire, memory, and identity. He creates a kind of ‘stage’ from which he interacts with the audience and reshapes the narrative, often by singing with the accordion and reading short stories, adding layers to the story in a process of continuous development.

Adam Christensen (DK) graduated from Goldsmiths University of London, as well as from the European Film College in Ebeltoft in 2007. Recently, he has had exhibitions at Den Frie in Copenhagen, Hunt Kastner in Prague, Tønder Art Museum, and LISTE Art Fair in Basel among others. He lives and works in London, UK.

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Toaster Performance Biennale presents:
Don’t make a fuss about it. You are dead to me
by Adam Christensen (DK)

Location: Den Frie, Sal 1
Time: 25/4 at 14.30-15.00 & 26/4 at 15.00-15.30

Adam Christensen is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans performance, music, and textile installation, blurring the boundaries between everyday life and fiction. Drawing on his immediate experiences—colored by the theatricality of the everyday, the spectacle of domesticity, chance encounters, and emotional and physical dramas—Christensen conveys these moments through his performances.

A central focus of his practice is the construction and representation of space and the unfolding narratives of heartbreak, desire, memory, and identity. He creates a kind of ‘stage’ from which he interacts with the audience and reshapes the narrative, often by singing with the accordion and reading short stories, adding layers to the story in a process of continuous development.

Adam Christensen (DK) graduated from Goldsmiths University of London, as well as from the European Film College in Ebeltoft in 2007. Recently, he has had exhibitions at Den Frie in Copenhagen, Hunt Kastner in Prague, Tønder Art Museum, and LISTE Art Fair in Basel among others. He lives and works in London, UK.

🟩 Secure your Biennale Pass to experience ‘Don’t make a fuss about it. You are dead to me’ — link in bio 🟩

We hope to see you for Toaster Performance Biennale 2026!

Toaster Performance Biennale presents:
Don’t make a fuss about it. You are dead to me
by Adam Christensen (DK)

Location: Den Frie, Sal 1
Time: 25/4 at 14.30-15.00 & 26/4 at 15.00-15.30

Adam Christensen is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans performance, music, and textile installation, blurring the boundaries between everyday life and fiction. Drawing on his immediate experiences—colored by the theatricality of the everyday, the spectacle of domesticity, chance encounters, and emotional and physical dramas—Christensen conveys these moments through his performances.

A central focus of his practice is the construction and representation of space and the unfolding narratives of heartbreak, desire, memory, and identity. He creates a kind of ‘stage’ from which he interacts with the audience and reshapes the narrative, often by singing with the accordion and reading short stories, adding layers to the story in a process of continuous development.

Adam Christensen (DK) graduated from Goldsmiths University of London, as well as from the European Film College in Ebeltoft in 2007. Recently, he has had exhibitions at Den Frie in Copenhagen, Hunt Kastner in Prague, Tønder Art Museum, and LISTE Art Fair in Basel among others. He lives and works in London, UK.

🟩 Secure your Biennale Pass to experience ‘Don’t make a fuss about it. You are dead to me’ — link in bio 🟩

We hope to see you for Toaster Performance Biennale 2026!