Filip Vest is a strong, distinctive voice on the Danish art scene. Through his performances, installations, films, and texts, he examines queer love, gender, and identity—and how the small and large crises in our lives are interconnected.

Filip Vest invites guests who can both inspire and open up new ways of experiencing everyday life in 2025.

Listen to authors Maja Lee Langvad and Amina Elmi in conversation about their books Tolk and Barbar – The Object of Silence. It’s a conversation about translation, silence, and identity. It’s about translating oneself, making oneself legible to another, and about that “silence that cannot be translated.”

The conversation takes place in the artwork Soft Gallery by artist Marta Minujín. A space made of mattresses, making everything from movement to words feel completely soft. Due to the size of the artwork, seating will be limited.

Admission to the talk is free after paid entrance, but we recommend booking a ticket, as ticket holders will be given priority for seating at the event.

The talk will be held in danish.

Program:

• 18:30 – Engagement in Soft Gallery. Meet Filip Vest, Amina Elmi, and Maja Lee Langvad.
• 19:30 – Explore CC, enjoy a glass of wine, or dine at our café CC & Darcy’s.
• 21:00 – CC closes.

About Maja Lee Langvad:
Adoption and identity form the framework of Maja Lee Langvad’s authorship. With indignation and humor, she challenges entrenched ideas about Danishness, culture, and national identity in her books, which are written with a keen sensitivity to linguistic nuances and the power of language.

About Amina Elmi:
Amina Elmi burst onto the Danish literary scene in the summer of 2023 with the poetry collection Barbar [The Object of Silence]—a wild and sorrowful book about love, longing, diaspora, and much more.

The second part of a series exploring anger, the untranslatable, and the speculative.

Photo: Sara Galbiati