Press release

Residential is an exhibition created in collaboration with the British artist collective Project Art Works. In this exhibition, you can explore a variety of colours, textures, patterns, and motifs displayed salon-style in paintings, and even participate in creating art yourself.

Residential explores art’s potential for expression and creates new spaces for community. Here, regardless of language, body, or abilities, everyone can explore materials and processes, connect with others, and document their presence through art.

Project Art Works is a collective of neurodiverse artists who, through art, activism, and social care, investigate artistic expression and representation as a human right. Over the past 25 years, they have built a collection of over 6000 works created by neurodivergent artists with various complex support needs.

The artworks serve as a powerful visual testament to individuals who are often hidden and marginalized in society. Residential reflects Project Art Works’ collaborative workshop method for co-creation. Here at CC, guests can experience several of the collective’s methods firsthand. The works co-created during the exhibition period will be displayed, documenting the guests’ participation.

The collective’s work draws connections to pioneering artists such as German Joseph Beuys and Danish Poul Gernes, who focused on the social potential of art and the responsibility of art institutions to transform the structures that shape our lives.

The collaboration with Project Art Works is distinctive within a Danish context. Over time, it will shape CC’s practices and efforts to increase representation in the art world and society, thereby strengthening CC’s position as a vibrant institution where all people can participate in the art experience.