In connection with CC10, Johanne Anastasia Stoffersen presents the work FOUNTAIN, which is activated during the festival at Copenhagen Contemporary. The work is conceived as an opulent Baroque-style fountain that, through its intense colours and rich detailing, radiates an almost euphoric abundance, with sangria flowing in endless streams.

However, the artist will transform the water feature into an actual drinking fountain, where the audience will be indulged with servings of the artist’s special brew between 12:00 and 13:00.

Stoffersen’s practice revolves around performativity within an art space, the rituals surrounding a dinner table, and the social codes embedded in our eating habits. She unfolds her practice through extravagant dinner parties, sculpture, text, and performance.

The fountain is immediately seductive, inviting the audience to approach and participate. From a distance, the work can be read as a classical marble fountain, but upon encountering the work, its deceptive materiality and mode of address are revealed: the fountain functions as a prop that stages the viewer as a participant, casting the audience in the role of extras in a game revolving around pleasure, desire, and greed.

Johanne Anastasia Stoffersen (b. 1994, Denmark) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts, in 2024. Most recently, she has presented works at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Kunsthal Spritten, the National Gallery of Denmark, O-Overgaden, and Gl. Holtegaard.