SIC │ Sharing is Caring

Between Not Knowing and Knowing åbner i aften kl 16:00-20:00. Udstillingen er åben 14-16 maj kl. 13-16. Vi giver en bid mad og vin fra @artoftherefill Christina König er uddannet fra Det Fynske Kunstakademi og blev efterfølgende inviteret til at deltage i udstillingen Landing 2026 // Seks Nye Talenter på Kunsthal Kongegaarden i januar. Hendes afgangsværk Kvistgang blev antaget til Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling 2025 og flere af hendes værker er en del af samlingen hos Kunst på Arbejde.

I morgen, onsdag d. 13. maj, kulminerer Christina Königs tre ugers residency hos SIC, når vi åbner dørene til open studio-udstillingen Between Not Knowing and Knowing. At turde læne sig ind i uvisheden og stole på sin intuition er et aktivt greb i Christina Königs kunstneriske praksis. Hun arbejder sjældent med skitser eller prøver i sit maleri, og det at blive i usikkerheden – uden at kende værkets endelige form – er en vigtig del af processen og læringen. Ved at åbne et lille vindue ind til sine metoder håber König at inspirere andre til at lytte mere indad og bruge intuitionen mere aktivt i de valg, vi træffer hver dag. Vi fejrer afslutningen på residenciet med et åbent atelier, et udvalg af værker skabt under opholdet på Flensborggade 57, et glas, lidt mad og en samtale med kunstneren. 📍 SIC – Sharing is Caring Flensborggade 57, Vesterbro 🗓 Onsdag d. 13. maj ⏰ Kl. 16–20 Alle er velkomne.

~ between not knowing & knowing ~ Christina König Opening May 13 from 16-20 Sharing is Caring Flensborggade 57 Copenhagen ~~~~ Join us for the opening of ~between not knowing & knowing ~ a solo exhibition by artist in residence Christina König. For two weeks König has unfolded her painting practice for neighbors and other people passing by to see. For the exhibition she will show a selection of paintings and needle felt works. We will serve cold brewed tea and wine, as well as a vegetarian dish. Thank you to Tearoad and Art of the refill for supplying us with drinks. ~~~~ The exhibition is open May 14, 15 and 16 from 13.00-16.00 Photos: ~ Flyer design @riperiperiperipe ~ Proces photo courtesy of the artist

Wrapping up day 3 of the residency at @sic_cph with some opening layers to a new large scale painting. It feels so nice and relaxing to be able to focus my attention on just painting while I’m here for the next couple of weeks. And I’m excited to show you the works soon. Put a little 🩶 in your calendar on May 13 from 16-20 where we will open the doors to my solo exhibition “Between Not Knowing and Knowing”. An open studio exhibition showcasing some (or maybe even all) of the works I have made during the residency. There will be drinks, food and hopefully the beautiful weather continues so we can hang out and enjoy the sun 🌞 Please bring a friend or two, it’s open for everyone. Soundtrack by @eeegeephonehome always!

I dag er @christina__konig flyttet ind hos os ✨ Over de næste uger kan I følge med i Königs skabelsesproces, som imponerende hurtigt folder sig ud i rummet. Hvis nysgerrigheden allerede har meldt sig inden ferniseringen den 13. maj, er I meget velkomne til at række ud og aftale et studiobesøg direkte med kunstneren. “Vi ønsker med Christina Königs open studio ophold, at dele rummet og platformen med en af Danmarks mest interessante, nyuddannede kunstnere, og samtidig dele oplevelsen med vores naboer, kolleger og lokalmiljø, som får muligheden for at dykke ind i kunstnerens praksis. Vi er utroligt glade for at Christina takkede ja til idéen om et mini-residency, og vi glæder os til at følge med i hendes process. Forhåbentlig kan vi inspirere hinanden begge veje rundt.” siger Malou Solfjeld, kurator og medstifter af SIC - Sharing is Caring. Læs mere i bio 👆

Kom med ind i et sårbart og ærligt rum for kunstnerisk skabelse, når billedkunstner Christina König rykker sit atelier ind på SIC de første tre uger i maj i et residency og derefter åbner dørene til en open studio udstilling med titlen “Between Not Knowing and Knowing”.  Som titlen refererer til, er det at turde læne sig ind i uvisheden og stole på sin mavefornemmelse noget Christina König bruger som et aktivt greb i sin tilgang til at skabe kunst. Hun arbejder sjældent med skitser eller prøver i sin maleriske praksis, og det at blive i usikkerheden ved ikke at vide hvordan et værk ender ud, er en del af læringen. Med lokaler i stueetagen og et stort vindue ud til Flensborggade, vil naboer og forbipasserende kunne følge med i tilblivelsen af nye værker og derved få et unikt indblik i den kunstneriske skabelsesproces. Det er også muligt at aftale et studio visit, for dem der gerne vil endnu tættere på i processen.  Ved at åbne et lille vindue op ind til sine metoder, håber hun på at inspirere andre til at turde lytte indad og bruge deres intuition meget mere aktivt i de valg der dagligt træffes. Det hele kulminerer i en open studio udstilling Between Not Knowing and Knowing d. 13. maj kl. 16-20. Christina König åbner her døren for alle ind til atelieret og viser et udvalg af de værker som er blevet skabt under opholdet hos SIC. Vi fejrer Königs ophold på Flensborggade 57 og byder på et glas, lidt mad og en samtale med kunstneren. Datoer Residency: 27. April - 15. maj Fernisering / open studio: 13. maj kl. 16.00-20.00 Åbningstider og studio visits: Efter aftale med kunstneren eller SIC frem til og med 15. maj.

Thank You All so much for visiting “Beyond the Direct Gaze” show in March. It was a blast having you at the opening night ✨experiencing the performance of @ulakarotki ✨discussing during the art talk conducted by @martulious and our incognito Belarusian partners ✨and later during the talk hosted by @sic_cph 🙏🏻 Thank you to @artmatter.dk for featuring us as a “must see” show in Copenhagen and to @last_week_in_denmark and @alicjapeas for her kind words about the project🙏🏻 big thanks to @artoftherefill for keeping our glasses always half full 🍷 . Love to the best hosts @annafernstennilen @malousolfjeld @jfity for their warm welcome and hospitality-the name “sharing is caring” aka @sic_cph reflects your practice 💯 Our work was kindly supported by @statenskunstfond 🙏🏻 Last but not least to the artists-these that we can name here and the ones we can’t say due to safety protocols: @volhasavich @olga.mzhelskaya @juvetrovus @ulakarotki ulakarotki @arobal @magda_buczek

Come and celebrate the launch of MARKET on April 10, Flensborggade 57 at 17-20.00 We will host a little market and show some of the crafts that will be available online. We will serve snacks, tea and wine. You can hear more about everything if you are curious to join and sell on MARKET - get 50% off the first month. MARKET is a non-profit online marketplace for all things handmade, local & sustainable. on MARKET you can sell physical products, workshops and courses, digital products and bookings <3

BEYOND THE DIRECT GAZE 11 – 29 March 2026 Artists: Volha Savich , Olga Mzhelskaya, Ula Karotki , Magda Buczek , Bartek Arobal Kociemba and incognito artists Curator: Olga Mzhelskaya @vlp_galleri @sic_cph @statenskunstfond A heavy accent reveals a person before they have the chance to say anything about themselves. Voice and intonation render the body immediately legible, allowing others to construct around it a framework of interpretations burdened with stereotypes and expectations. In this sense, following Sara Ahmed, belonging is experienced not as an inner identity but as an orientation of the body in space – as the ways one is seen, stopped, permitted, or denied a place within a given system of coordinates. But what remains unreadable? The exhibition turns to the Eastern European experience, where history resists direct perception and refuses to cohere into a unified image. Drawing on Theodor Adorno’s notion of “damaged” history, the past appears here as a material of rupture – fragmented, vulnerable, resistant to seamless reconstruction. This condition is particularly palpable in Belarus, where political and historical processes have repeatedly interrupted the continuity of memory. Any attempt to assemble this past into a continuous narrative according to the template of a “grand” history produces simplifications, reducing complex lived experience to empty and easily manipulated constructs. The artists presented in Beyond the Direct Gaze engage with these ruptures through archives, family photographs, traditions – and their absence – exploring how identity is formed within conditions of violence, surveillance, and historical discontinuity. Gaps and lacunae emerge not only as the result of forced erasure, but also as outcomes of everyday tactics of evasion and self-preservation. These strategies of survival and self-definition introduce further breaks into an already damaged historical fabric. As a result, the fragment proves more honest than reconstruction, and memory becomes less an inheritance than an ongoing process of reassembling oneself – one that requires particular sensitivity to time and space.

Magda Buczek (PL/DK) Heavy Accent, 2026 Installation 41 helium-filled foil and latex baloons with printed text, synthetic hair Video 3 shows exhibition view woth works by Volha Savich, Olga Mzhelskaya, Bartek Arobal. Accent and intonation render the body “readable” before a person has the chance to speak for themselves. Drawing on the ideas of Sara Ahmed, belonging here is experienced not as an inner identity, but as an orientation of the body in space—a kind of geolocation on the political map of the world. The work takes the form of helium balloons, playing with the symbolics of light vs heavy, and evoking a festive yet strange atmosphere. They sink downwards with time. Each balloon bears the inscription Heavy Accent, executed in a Gothic typeface characteristic of the heavy metal subculture, yet rendered in pink—a gesture that deconstructs the traditionally brutal aesthetics of this style. In this way, the work balances tension with subtle irony. Instead of a string - there are long hair attached to each balloon, enhancing the feeling of uncanny or an unwanted gift, something that is too intimate to be touched by a stranger. The social marker of accent is one from which it is nearly impossible to escape. Drawing on her experience as a migrant, Magda Buczek proposes an alternative strategy: transforming the Eastern European accent from a source of vulnerability into a conscious gesture. The accent becomes a form of resilience—a candid and open expression of one’s identity, which in turn calls for an equal openness in response.it is a part of a bigger body of work and artistic research, “Heavy Accent / Slavic Bitch” that Buczek develops from 2025, about female postcolonial experience.

Olga Mzhelskaya Nameless, 2024 Video installation Single-channel video with sound (14′ 23″), photographic print from family archive, vintage chairs, crystal plate Camera: Iwona Ogrodzka The video installation Nameless is the result of an intervention at the Museum Pan Tadeusz in Wrocław (Poland) during the exhibition of Belarusian artist Andrei Loginov. Olga Mzhelskaya positions herself in front of a photographic backdrop, which was discovered by Andrei Loginov in a deserted house in the village of Charomushki*, where her ancestors once lived and where the family home remains. The backdrop depicts Lake Svityaz — a symbolic image of the region, preserved in the poetic legacy of Adam Mickiewicz**. This backdrop had been used by a local anonymous photographer to capture residents of nearby villages from the 1930s through the 1950s. Nameless is dedicated to Olga’s great-grandmother and to the fates of women whose stories have survived only as faint shadows of time. Family memory preserved only fragments — a traumatic story of the birth of an illegitimate son, whose father, a local landowner, did not acknowledge his role in the event. Whether this occurred by mutual consent or through violence remains a secret, taken to the grave by her son and his children. All that is known is that her life was filled with weight and hardship. Nameless also evokes the myths of the mermaids of Lake Svityaz — beings who were once women, whose fates and emotions dissolved into the waters of oblivion, inspiring Mickiewicz’s poetry. The video is accompanied by the lullaby of Olga Mzhelskaya, sung to her daughter at bedtime or when the child needs soothing

Wednesday, March 25 at 12:00 - 13:00, the new creative office community and exhibition space 7-9-13 (now SIC Cph), in collaboration with VLP Gallery, invites you to an artist talk at Flensborggade 57. Participation: Free Registration: [email protected] or just show up on the day The event is supported by the Vesterbro Local Committee. We will serve drinks and snacks. About SIC Cph Vesterbro is developing in a direction with more offices and chains, and fewer community-oriented and artist-driven spaces. SIC Cph is an antidote to this development and is being established as a movement by people passionate about offering ordinary people a caring space for creative expression, public debate, and a special focus on solidarity among the precariat. The creative class is, after all, the essence of Vesterbro’s unique identity, and we aim to revive the creative spirit that has filled the streets ever since the time of Tove Ditlevsen.