Copenhagen's Chart Art Fair has built a pop-up gallery designed by architects Emil Dupuis Bernild, Mikkel Harboe Wolff, Jonas Sarantaris and Shwan Soran Ali, marking a major change to its annual architecture programme.
Instead of food and drinks counters, this year the fair commissioned architects to build an outdoor pavilion for exhibiting contemporary artworks.
The winning entrants were young architects Dupuis Bernild, Harboe Wolff, Sarantaris and Ali, whose design is titled Breeze.
Breeze was installed for Chart Art Fair 2024
The pavilion was built from standard timber components, with a roof of recycled ship sails held in place with jute rope, another Danish maritime reference.
Its installation coincided with the 10th anniversary of the fair, which took place from 29 August to 1 September. The move marks a series of changes brought in by Julie Quottrup Silbermann, who took over as director of Chart Art Fair in 2022.
It hosted Start Collecting with Chart, featuring affordable artworks
"When I started, I wanted to look at the format with new eyes," said Quottrup Silbermann.
"We were looking for architects to challenge the traditional gallery format," she told Dezeen. "I thought it could be an interesting way of showing art in another way."
Recycled sails provided the pavilion roof
The pavilion hosted Start Collecting with Chart. This is a new exhibition format featuring only pieces priced under 20,000 DKK (£2,257), making them more affordabl...