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.
Katrien de Blauwer
Sergei Sviatchenko
Kensuke Koike
KATRIEN DE BLAUWER
KENSUKE KOIKE
SERGEI SVIATCHENKO
Adam Brierley
Gert Motmans
Tereza Zelenkova
Alice Quaresma
Kate Street
ADAM BRIERLEY
GERT MOTMANS
ALICE QUARESMA
KATE STREET
TEREZA ZELENKOVA
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.
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.
Sergei with Students
[ph. Per Fløng]
Teaching the principles of LESS
[ph. Per Fløng]
Sergei with Students
[ph. Per Fløng]
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.