FREE ENTRY / IDOART.DK - Open Call for Temporary Decoration in Copenhagen's Town Hall Square

 The project is part of a three-year collaboration between Copenhagen Municipality and Politiken Forhal, where each year an artist is appointed to create a temporary decoration for the Town Hall Square, which is then moved to one of the municipality's area renewal districts. The project is supported by the Obel Family Foundation. The artists Maja Malou Lyse and Lina Hashim have been chosen for the first two projects in collaboration with respectively Area renewal Bavnehøj and Bispeengen.

The aim of the project is to bring contemporary art into the urban space, where it can become the subject of curious, immediate and significant encounters. It is special for the project that the temporary nature of the decoration does not place the same demands on material and structure as with a permanent work. There is thus the possibility of free and unconventional approaches to the task. At the same time, the project offers a…