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LESS FESTIVAL
OF CONTEMP ORARY COLLAGE TRIENNALE 2024 12.10.24 – 16.02.24
LESS FESTIVAL
OF CONTEMPORARY COLLAGE TRIENNALE 2024

LESS is a new festival for collage art and dialogue around it. Founded in 2020, LESS returns in a new partnership with Skovgaard Museum. Set in the historic town of Viborg, Denmark, LESS festival celebrates how art can transform our visual and urban landscapes through with radical art exhibitions and immersive installations.

LESS: COLLIDED

KATRIEN DE BLAUWER 

KENSUKE KOIKE 

SERGEI SVIATCHENKO

LESS : GARDEN

ADAM BRIERLEY 

GERT MOTMANS

ALICE QUARESMA 

KATE STREET 

TEREZA ZELENKOVA

SKOVGAARD MUSEUM

Skovgaard Museum is proud to host LESS Triennale 2024, a testament to Viborg's vibrant creative spirit and esteemed status as a UNESCO Creative City.

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LESS MANIFEST

 

LESS sees collage as:

a philosophy,

an artistic strategy,

a didactic tool.

 

LESS wants to create

collaboration and experimentation,

meaning and perspective.

 

LESS operates in 

public space and private space, 

local and global, 

loves everyone and excludes no one.

 

LESS is paper, plastic, 

scissors, stones. 

 

Construction deconstruction,

historic futuristic, 

avante-garde tradition. 

 

This is a collage.

Ceci n’est pas une collage.

LESS EDUCATION PROGRAMME, DENMARK

Throughout 2022 Skovgaard Museet and Sergei Sviatchenko collaborated to expand the LESS Education programme through various workshops for young people and students. At these workshops, the participants were introduced to the principals and methods of Sviatchenko’s artistic practice by both the artist himself and teachers from Skovgaard Museet. The participants also got to experiment with creating their own collages inspired by the artist, and one of the workshops became the basis of an ongoing exhibition at Marselisborg Gymnasium in Aarhus.

In 2023, Sviatchenko and Skovgaard Museet have already collaborated on workshops with students from Viborg Gymnasium’s visual arts and communications programme Visual HF as well as students from Viborg Katedralskole. Both workshops resulted in exhibitions, one entitled PLAYFACE at the former town hall of Viborg and another as a part of Viborg Katedralskole’s open day for new students.

Team
Founder and Artistic Director
Sergei Sviatchenko
Curator in Chief
Faye Dowling
Skovgaard Museum Director
Pernille Rom Bruun
Skovgaard Museum Curator
Tanja Toft Rix- Nielsen
Art Direction
Henrik Hegelund
LESS Advisory Board
Christian Kortegaard Madsen, Museum Jorn, DK.
Steen Lindgaard, Center for Culture, DK.
Pernille Rom Bruun, Skovgaard Museum, DK.
Karen ann Donnachie, artist, AUS
Andy Simionato, artist, AUS
Paul Burgess, artist UK.
Louise Colbourne, artist and designer,UK.
DR. ME, artist, Manchester, UK.
Adrian Shaughnessy, designer and writer, UK
COLLIDED: LESS FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY COLLAGE TRIENNALE 2024
LESS Festival of Contemporary Collage and LESS Education are a part of Viborg cultural commitment as a member of the UNESCO Creative City Network. LESS was founded in 2020 by Danish/Ukrainian artist Sergei Sviatchenko and is presented in 2024 in partnership with the Skovgaard Museum, Viborg, Denmark.

LESS Triennale is funded with the generous support of Viborg Kommune, Kulturregion Østjysk Vækstbånd, Dronning Margrethe og Prins Henriks Fond, Knud Højgaards Fond, Palads Hotel, JP Rammer, Expo Partner and Skovgaard Museum.

Skovgaard Museum
Domkirkestræde 2-4,
DK-8800, Viborg,
Denmark.

skovgaardmuseet.dk

LESS Festival of Contemporary Collage Art
Stænderpladsen 2,
DK-8800, Viborg,
Denmark.

lessfestivalofcollage.com
art@lessfestivalofcollage.com
Viborg Kommune
Kulturregion Østjysk Vækstbånd
Dronning Margrethe og Prins Henriks Fond
Knud Højgaards Fond
Palads Hotel
JP Rammer
Expo Partner
Skovgaard Museum