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ANIMOID – Ann Lislegaard
First major Danish survey of Ann Lislegaard, pioneer of feminist futurism: 30+ years of sci-fi animations, sculpture and immersive sound and light works.
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A three-metre owl looms out of an LED screen, talking in fragments and in several voices. Every so often it nods off, as if about to drop from its branch, then jerks awake and looks around, slightly lost. The image flickers the whole time, so you never forget it's made of pixels.
That owl is Oracles, Owls… Some Animals Never Sleep, and this is Ann Lislegaard's first big survey in Denmark: more than 30 years of 3D animation, sculpture and rooms of sound and light. She was working with projectors and computers in the early 1990s, when almost no women were. The title comes from Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, where extinct animals are replaced by robot "animoids". In Spinning and Weaving Ada, you lean into a row of mirror boxes and the full picture keeps slipping away.
Berlingske's Holger Dahl gave it five stars. It's included in the ARKEN ticket (DKK 150, free for under-18s), and Thursdays run to 21:00.
Editor's pick
A three-metre animated owl talks in riddles, dozes off and jerks awake. Ann Lislegaard's first major survey in Denmark: thirty years of sci-fi animation and sound rooms, and five stars from Berlingske.
Look for
Oracles, Owls… Some Animals Never Sleep (2012/2021)
Look up at a three-metre animated owl that speaks in riddles and broken sentences, dozing off and waking with a start as colours slide across the screen.
Spinning and Weaving Ada (2016)
An animated spider weaves a web of letters across a series of mirror boxes until they spell Ada Lovelace, one of computing's first women.
Good for
- Evening Visits
- Teenagers
Skip if
You want paintings: Lislegaard works with projectors, speakers and 3D animation, never canvas.
With kids
Under-18s get in free.
Free in the same building
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Image credits
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- ANIMOID – Ann LislegaardPhoto: Anders Sune Berg / ARKEN
- Gauguin & Kihara – First ImpressionsCourtesy of Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
- The Cabinetmakers' Autumn Exhibition: Light & FormThomas Ibsen
- Camille Henrot, Paper PlanesPhoto: David Stjernholm / Copenhagen Contemporary
- ARKEN Museum of Contemporary ArtHenry Kellner / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0