Alex Young, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Cecilie Penney, Dirty Time (HeyThere Kapplow & Walker Tufts), Eva Holts, Ethann Néon, Frederik Tøt Godsk, Julia Hechtman, Pablo Serret de Ena, Rodrigo Azaola, Sandrine Deumier, Sarah Dahlinger, Spøgelsesmaskinen (Rune Brink Hansen), Stanislav Kholodnykh, Suresh Babu Madiletty, Vlad Tretiak, Xu Linyu
Kiosque de l'In-visible
Curated by Adrian Preisler, Emil Torp-Rasmussen, Kristoffer Ørum
Exhibition
May 14, 2025 → Sept. 1, 2025
24/7
Opening/vernissage:
May 13, 2025, 17:00-19:00
Captive Portal
Fredericiagade 12B, København K, 1310, Danmark
Admission:
gratis
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Captive Portal is pleased to present Kiosque de l’in-visible.
The exhibition’s format makes accessible contemporary and alternative video art in the shape of a street-level, interactive video kiosk. The kiosk format plays with the etymology of the word itself: the köşk was a Turkish term for an open-air garden pavilion or gazebo belonging to the elites of the 13th century Ottoman Empire, a space of leisure and entertainment. With modern urbanization the term was attached to kiosks, smaller retail stores stocking cigarettes, newspapers or granola bars. And now, the term refers to video kiosks: interactive information-service screens found at university campuses and fast-food megachains.
Thus, the kiosk straddles a Venn diagram of open-air leisure, contemporary modes of consumption and the interactive, unserviced display of digital media. Or, in this case, an outdoor, easily consumed video program.
The multinational selection of artists and works engage in an intense dialogue on our curatorial concept of the in-visible; a reevaluation of how we perceive the visible and representative through what evades the hegemonic ideals of the nature of sight and viewing. At this moment, is the eye, main channel of a stream of painful, screen-fed slices of history, not traumatized, hallucinating, wildly disoriented? We propose a re-negotiation of the visible through an investigation of the in-visible: that which evades visibility as “commonly” - that is to say, hegemonically - thought.
Access to the kiosk at Captive Portal is presented through a door-mounted TV screen with an easy-to-use button interface, two pairs of headphones (for a friend or a date ❤) and a flamboyant cushion created by Hannah Mathiesen Keegan. Kiosque de l’In-visible will be on view 24/7 from May till September 2025.
Practicalities for the opening:
The total runtime of the works will be approximately 65 minutes and will repeat when finished. The entrance to Captive Portal will be open, where a projection of all selected works will loop with sound. The video kiosk will also be available for a closer viewing and interaction with its premise and functionality during the opening. Beer will be served per a come first come serve principle.
Direct sunlight can make the viewing experience disturbed by the reflection in the window during everyday use. During the dark of night and in the early morning and many hours in between the view will be completely undisturbed due to our 24/7 accessibility.
Captive Portal is an exhibition platform and studio run by Kristoffer Ørum. A leading figure of Internet-derived contemporary art in Denmark, he is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD at the University of Copenhagen and serving on the board of the Danish Arts Foundation. Kiosque de l’In-visible is the first installment of Captive KIOSK: a “standby mode” of “screensaver” exhibitions going on while he is busy with other projects.
The exhibition is curated by Emil Torp-Rasmussen and Adrian Preisler.
Torp-Rasmussen is currently undertaking and MA in Visual Culture at the University of Copenhagen, and works as a student assistant at Nikolaj Kunsthal and Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
Preisler is enrolled at the MA Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, London, and works as a curator at the Jamil Collection and a student assistant at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
The vernissage is kindly sponsored by KIHOSKH - because who else?