Join us as CC opens its doors for a special day celebrating the launch of CC Create with the exhibition Monster Chetwynd: A Feather in Your Hat! – an exuberant, 800 sqm colorful and imaginative studio where children and adults can play, paint, build, and create together.

World-renowned artist Monster Chetwynd has transformed the space into a magical, immersive installation, inviting visitors of all ages to shape their own artworks.

Our skilled hosts are ready to help you get started, so bring the whole family and experience how art and creativity blend into a monstrous universe where imagination runs free.

Welcome to CC Create – a creative community for all ages!

Program

11:00 – 11:30 Free admission
11:30 Opening speech by Director Marie Laurberg

A Feather in the Hat – Workshop in the Atelier
A hat can be many things, and only your imagination sets the limits. Use the materials on the workshop tables, find inspiration in the hat shop, and create your very own hat right in the middle of the exhibition. Afterwards, step onto the monster stage and bring your hat character to life!

18:00 CC closes

About the Exhibition: CC Create x Monster Chetwynd: A Feather in Your Hat!

Monster Chetwynd’s enchanting universe is a portal to the world of imagination. Here you encounter monsters, bats, and cat heads, and you walk among a wealth of inspiring collage images on the floor. At the center of the room stands a large red “hat shop” – but not the kind of shop you know. The shop features peculiar faces and miniature hats on its shelves, and it houses a source of eternal youth! Here, the audience has the opportunity to create their own hat, don it, and step onto the green monster stage. The hat can also become part of the ever-growing hat collection on the large wall. Originally, the hat shop was created by Monster Chetwynd as a prop for the video work Vision Vertical (2014), and it has served as the inspiration for the first workshop in the exhibition.

The monster as a figure is both terrifying and fascinating. It exists in every culture and demonstrates how humans creatively construct images of our worst fears. Yet the monster is also a mask—a role we can step into—a performative act in which we don a hat and transform ourselves into something else. To take on the monster is to step out of oneself and into another state, where identity becomes fluid. The exhibition explores how the monster functions as a performative figure, inviting us to play with transformation and identity.

About CC Create:

The exhibition is the first part of CC’s new communication format, CC Create, which focuses on creativity through play. Over the next three years, an artist will annually transform the hall into a creative universe. The hall has previously served in the building’s history as the painting room for the scenic painters of the Royal Theatre, and with CC Create, it is being revived as a production space—an 800 m² studio. Monster Chetwynd has created a spectacular studio space where the audience can creatively express themselves together and gather around learning and play, inspired by Chetwynd’s own artistic process. The CC Create project is based on a vision of strengthening creative self-esteem in both children and adults.

About Monster Chetwynd:
Monster Chetwynd (they/them, born 1973, London, England) lives and works in Zürich, Switzerland. Chetwynd is known for their playful and anarchic approach to art, where collages, installations, films, paintings, and especially absurd and humorous performances merge together. Their works have been exhibited in galleries around the world, often with a strong focus on community and the collective as a central driving force.

Chetwynd’s artistic universe is a blend of pop culture, folktales, and surrealist film. With their characteristic papier-mâché technique, they repurpose simple and inexpensive materials to create imaginative costumes and scenographies—a working method which Chetwynd themselves describes as “impatiently made.” They have worked under various artist names—first as Spartacus Chetwynd, later as Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, and since 2018 under the name Monster Chetwynd. In 2012, they were nominated for Britain’s most prestigious art prize, the Turner Prize, and were among the first artists ever to be recognized for a performance work in this context.

The exhibition at CC presents a monstrous immersive installation with a special focus on creative co-creation, offering visitors the chance to leave their own artistic mark in various ways.

Click here to learn more about the exhibition and the artist: CC Create x Monster Chetwynd