Der er andet i verden end skamstøtter - Isam B. - Connie Hedegaard

Der er andet i verden end skamstøtter

Isam B. - Connie Hedegaard - Rosa Lund m.fl. på Galleri Galschiøt

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Der er stadig vildt gang i min Skamstøtte i Hong Kong. Vi arbejder på højtryk med at få den ud af Hong Kong. Vi er ved at lave 5 nye kobber Skamstøtter på værkstedet. Der er stadig en masse presse, bl.a. laver Inside Business Magasinet (23 mil. abonnenter) en stor artikel om Skamstøtteprojektet og Galschiøt.
Der 3D-printes Skamstøtter på livet løs overalt i verden. I Taiwan arbejder de på at bygge en 3D-printer, der kan lave Skamstøtten i fuld størrelse på 8,5 m. Og der sker meget, meget mere.

MEN der er andet i verden end Skamstøtter og også på Galleri Galschiøt

Vi har gang i en masse andre spændende ting, som du hermed inviteres til. Måske mødes vi i forbindelse med de spændende arrangementer, der alle foregår på Galleri Galschiøt, Banevænget 22, 5270, Odense N, tlf. 66184058

ISAM B. - Torsdag d. 24. februar kl. 19

Foredrag på galleri Galschiøt. Den kendte sanger fortæller om sit liv og musik.

I bogen "Fædreland" åbner sangeren Isam B. for første gang for sin samlede familiefortælling, der begynder med farens liv i en bjerglandsby i 1940'ernes Marokko.

Med faren som papirløs arbejder kommer vi igennem Europas fabrikker og videre til sommeren 1967, hvor han ankommer til København. I første del af bogen giver Isam B. sin far ordet.

"Fædreland" er fortællingen om denne gæstearbejders søn, en genert dreng fra Vestegnen, der i 1990'erne var med til at skabe en af danmarkshistoriens mest populære rapgrupper, som rakte langt ud over landets grænser med sange, som for eksempel "Aicha". Isam B. beskriver arven fra sine forældre og fortæller, hvordan musikken løftede ham.

Tilmelding igennem AOF her: Foredrag med Isam B. (aof.dk)

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TV stationen Odense ser rødt (OSRTV.DK) har sammen med Galleri Galschiøt arrangeret en række spændende debatter.

Debat på galleri Galschiøt

Kan DK og EU leve op til sine egne klimamål?

Onsdag 9. marts kl. 18.00

Galschiøt forsøger at styre tropperne, der består af:

Connie Hedegaard, fhv. Klimakomissær i EU

John Nordbo, Klimachef i Care

Morten Lisberg, Repræsentant for den
utålmodige ungdom i den grønne studenterbevægelse

Fri entré

Debat på galleri Galschiøt

Human og solidarisk asylpolitik i EU – Utopi eller Nødvendighed

Onsdag 23. marts kl. 18.00

Debat med:

Ninna Nyberg Sørensen, migrationsforsker v. DIIS

Martin Lemborg-Petersen, Amnesty Danmark

Rosa Lund, Enhedslisten

Og en repræsentant fra socialdemokratiet

Fri entré

Gerne tilmelding til NillerMadseb@osrtv.dk eller telefon 40 215 415
så er vi sikker på, at der er kaffe nok
Begge debatter transmitteres live på Osrtv's facebook sider

Kursus i smykke- og skulptur støbning

Efter mange Corona lukninger har vi endeligt fået gang i vores støbekurser igen. Hver tredje uge fyldes vores kunstskole med kunstnere og andre, der støber på livet løs i bronze og sølv. De frembringer mange spændende skulpturer og smykker. Se kursusprogram og tilmed dig. De bliver hurtigt fyldt op.

Galschiøt og hans skulpturer deltager i en masse aktiviteter rundt omkring i ind- og udeland. Her er et udpluk:

ÅLBORG: d. 20. og 21. marts inviterer Musikkens Hus i samarbejde med Clement Kjersgaard for anden gang til Danmarks nye Demokratifestival.

Vi stiller den kæmpestore spiddede isbjørn fra Paris Cop 21 op foran Musikkens Hus på Ålborgs bedste plads - lige ud til Limfjorden . Samtidig har vi premiere på en 6 meter høj Skamstøtte-top i kobber. Det er én ud af flere, der skal bruges til et permanent monument på verdens universiteter. Skulpturen stilles ved siden af isbjørnen, og for at de ikke skal kede sig, stiller vi en kobbersvinehund op for at holde øje med dem alle sammen. Inklusiv Clement Kjersgaard.

Jens Galschiøt vil deltage i nogle af de spændende paneldebatter under Demokratifestivalen inde i Musikkens Hus. Det er gratis at komme ind, og der er virkelig noget at opleve. Programmet er ikke helt på plads endnu, men kan hentes på Musikkens Hus i Aalborg - Lad dig bevæge

Taiwan : Galschiøt tager til Taiwan (hvis Corona-restriktionerne tillader det) og skal deltage i mindehøjtideligheden omkring massakren på Den Himmelske Fredsplads i 1989.
Taiwanerne har til lejligheden lavet verdens største 3D-printede skulptur - en kopi af den danske Skamstøtten i 8,5 meters højde. Galschiøt deltager samtidig i en større udstilling med nogle spændende kunstnere fra demokratibevægelsen i Hong Kong, bl.a. Kacey Wong og Badiucao, som begge er flygtet fra Kina.

Oslo: I maj skal den store skamstøtte, som står på Galleri Galschiøt køres til Oslo og udstilles forskellige steder i byen sommeren over. Den er inviteret af Hong Kong-komiteen i samarbejde med Amnesty International.

Østfyns Kunstforening d. 17. aug. til 11. september: se Udstillingskalender (oestfynskunstforening.dk). Galschiøt udstiller sammen med sin søster Hanne Galschiøt, som er maler.

Thisted: Juli til sep, Kunstforeningen arrangerer en Galschiøt-udstilling med nogle af kunstnerens større værker i det gamle rådhus sommeren over.

P1. Radio: Galschiøt her netop deltaget i Bagklog lørdag d.19. februar. Du kan høre udsendelsen her, og hvis du stadig gider høre mere Galschiøt på P1, har han også været ugens gæst i kulturnyt Tjek her.

Årets Fynbo: Galschiøt blev i starten af året hædret ved at få titlen Årets Fynbo, som er en af de største hædersbevisninger, man kan få på Fyn. Han var rigtig glad for prisen, da han jo er født og opvokset på Nordsjælland i Frederikssund og ”kun” har boet 50 år på fyn. Se begrundelsen her.

Derudover sker der en frygtelig masse andre ting, som du får med i et senere nyhedsbrev.

Med kærlig hilsen Galeristerne fra Galleri Galschiøt

Mange gode hilsener fra

Jens Galschiøt og hans gæve gallerister.

Link til nyhedsbreve udsendt i 2021

Background and history

The Pillar of Shame in Hongkong

See Galschiøt webside

See the press

17 Oct. 2021

China has attacked art symbol of Tiananmen Square crackdown. We won the first two battles - but everything is uncertain!

We are under attack from China in Hong Kong. In a letter the democracy movement was given a deadline of 4 days to move the 9 m high sculpture, which is a memorial to the Tiananmen square crackdown in 1989, otherwise China would destroy the sculpture that has beeb standing at Hong Kong University for 24 years.

We are quite pressed for time, so we just send this short newsletter.

Everything has been chaos since, and we have mobilized our networks all over the world to prevent the sculpture from being destroyed. And it's been successful so far.

Thousands of NGOs, artists, activists, politicians and other good people have joined the fight to preserve the sculpture, and we have succeeded to postpone the destruction of the artwork.

At the same time, it has succeeded in setting a new standard for what U.S. law firms can allow themselves to do to help the Chinese goverment. Part of the pressure to prevent the destruction of the artwork has been directed at getting the law firm Mayer Brown to withdraw from helping Hong Kong University destroy and remove the sculpture. And we succeeded on the 15th of October.

So 2 battles have been won, but it is still uncertain whether we can get the opportunity to get the sculpture out of Hong Kong.

So we need all the help we can get, by informing about China's attacks on art and freedom of speech. If necessary, Forward this email to a friend or create one yourself.

All the activities have been continuously described by a huge press campaign. We have made a selection of the articles here - good reading - you can probably find something from your own country as well.

We have posted our own press releases and all documents in the on Galschiot's website.

Although we have worked ourselves to death, this struggle for art and the Chinese's right to remember their own history is also a very life-affirming experience. The whole process shows that it is possible for ordinary people to enact a little influence on the global stage.

7.380.000 link: A quick Google search word combination "Pillar of Shame" (a word that comes specifically from this sculpture, as we created it ourselves) today gives 7.380.000 links.

"We are still alive". We have written history and shown that there are limits to what the world will allow.

All the best

Jens Galschiøt - The artist behind The Piller of Shame
and his hard-working staff

Denmark 17 Oct 2021

Email: Jens @galschiot.com

Mobile: Tlf: +45 4044 7058

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The monument in Hong Kong

In 1997, I erected an 8 meter tall monument in Hong Kong in memorial of the massacre. This monument is so far still the only memorial about the Tiananmen Square massacre on Chinese soil.

Placing this sculpture in Hong Kong cost me a permanent expulsion from China and two expulsions from Hong Kong. I think it's important that artists, cultural groups, and others that defend human rights use their freedom of speech to tell the story of the massacre. I hope that you will help in doing this.

32 years after the massacre history seems to be tragically repeating itself. Now with Hong Kong as the epicenter for youth demanding their basic Human Rights and the Chinese Government forcefully fighting down the youth. China has passed landmark legislation to force national security laws in Hong Kong, effectively crushing the city's autonomy, removing pro-democratic forces from the parliament and sending pro-democrats in jail.

In February 2020 I erected ‘A Pillar of Shame’ sculpture in front of the Danish parliament, as a protest against that China is once again using extreme force against youth people demonstrating for their democracy rights, this time in Hong Kong.

The China's National People's Congress are now directly interfering with the justice system and the freedom of speech in Hong Kong, which is an unprecedented violation of the agreement between England and China for the handover of Hong Kong. China has fundamentally changed the status of Hong Kong and basic Human and Democracy rights are no longer respected as they used to be.

I hereby encourage everyone to protest against China’s assault on Hong Kong citizens.

Let us remeber the youth that lost their life at Tiananmen Square and let us support the youth in Hong Kong, so we will not see the same tragic outcome once again.

Kind regards,

Jens Galschiøt

About Hong Kong at the moment

China’s supression of free speech is spreading to Hong Kong. Galschiot is just one of many critics who have been denied entry. So the city is deprived of a cultural exchange that is taken for granted in all open democratic societies. The expulsions are a blatant violation of the principle of ‘One country – Two systems’ that was guaranteed as part of Hong Kong’s reunion with China in ‘97.

In 2013 Galschiøt managed to enter Hong Kong to repair ‘The Pillar of Shame’. In these very years Hong Kong stands on the precipice of realizing the 1997 agreements with China, to develop a real democracy in Hong Kong. But they are under a lot of pressure from non-democratic forces. The results of these negotiations are crucial for the future of Hong Kong.

Throughout 2019 and 2020 massive demonstrations in Hong Kong took place. They fought for their basic human rights that China promised Hong Kong's citizens when they took over the country in 1997, But the peaceful demonstrations have been met with comprehensive violent force from Hong Kong's police.

Today China has passed landmark legislation to force national security laws in Hong Kong, effectively crushing the city's autonomy, removing pro-democratic forces from the parliament and sending pro-democrats in jail.

A functioning democracy on Chinese ground, even though only in Hong Kong, is an extremely important symbol for the more than one billion living in mainland China.

Useful links:

Download the documents about Tiananmen 1989

Galschiot’s activities related to China

The democracy movement in Hong Kong:

HK Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China
E-mail: contact@alliance.org.hk, internet: http://www.alliance.org.hk/

Phone: +852 2782 6111

Contact Jens Galschiot: E-mail: aidoh@aidoh.dk, Internet: www.aidoh.dk, tel. +45 6618 4058, Banevaenget 22, DK-5270 Odense N

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About Jens Galschiøt:

Danish artist Jens Galschiøt has created many socio-critical sculptures and installations through the years. Most often they are placed in public spaces around the world – as needle-sticks and silent reminders of a world that, in his opinion, is out of balance, and where exploitation of the world’s resources, inequality and migration are a constant part of the picture.

General information about Galschiøt can be found at:

See Wikipedia:

Portrait of the sculptors CV (PDF)

To Gallery Galschiot

To Galschot webside