Performing Landscapes Køge
DATE 22 August between 10h00 and 16h30
PLACE Different starting points in Køge / all walks end on Bramhøjgaard
FREE – registration required via MAPS (opens soon)
Artist walks in Køge
What do our landscapes look like when we experience them through art?
Join a walk with artists who lead us deep into Køge’s hidden landscapes, forgotten times and extraordinary stories – guided by body, senses and curiosity.
The four artists and artist groups invite us into poetic rituals, staged excavations, dancing landscapes and secret plant life, exploring how we are inextricably connected to the environments we inhabit.
Programme
10.00-13.00: Sisters Hope
13.00-15.30: Søren Lose & Thomas Seest
13.00-16.00: Tora Balslev
14.00-16.30: Georg Jagunov
Performing Landscapes Køge is presented by Metropolis – Københavns Internationale Teater in collaboration with MAPS and Køge Municipality as part of the municipality’s project SceneKANT. All walks end on Bramhøjgaard, where you can experience more works from the SceneKANT programme.
SISTERS HOPE
Sisters Sensing (Local) – Køge
Step into a poetic universe where the landscape becomes a space for presence, attention and sensory experience. Through a series of quiet rituals between The Timer and The Sister, Sisters Hope invites us to slow down and experience the poetry of the landscape – and of ourselves. As we listen with our whole bodies, space opens up to sense how we are all interconnected.
The internationally acclaimed performance group Sisters Hope works to strengthen art and the aesthetic as a driving force in society. In their works, the audience is always an active part of the experience.
Practical information
22 August, 10:00–13:00
Meeting point: MAPS, Nørregade 29, Køge / end point: Bramhøjgaard, Ølsemagle Kirkevej 62, Køge
NB: Limited to 10 participants. Age: 16+. The route is approx. 7 km. The walk takes place in silence and without phones, but the rituals are documented. Participants are asked to wear black and white. Suitable for non-Danish speakers.
SØREN LOSE & THOMAS SEEST
Støvdrager Walk
Join this walk through the hidden movements of plants and the deep interconnections of life. We follow traces of seeds, bacteria and organisms that shaped the world long before humans. We move through rewilded landscapes, vast logistics halls and ancient burial mounds. Along the way, we smell, taste, dig and harvest, exploring the cycles we are all part of.
The visual artists Søren Lose and Thomas Seest have, over a number of years, worked with understandings of nature, rewilding and human impact on ecosystems in large-scale, site-specific projects.
Practical information
22 August, 13:00–15:30
Meeting point: Køge Nord Madskov at the corner of Egedesvej and Nordlyset / end point: Bramhøjgaard, Ølsemagle Kirkevej 62, Køge
NB: For anyone able to walk 4 km.
TORA BALSLEV
Jordforbindelser
Between sea and land, we explore how the human body is connected to the body of the Earth. We collect seabed sludge and asphalt. We perform rituals and listen to stories. We move past dancing bodies and living landscapes on a journey through time and space. In the end, we bring together everything we have gathered along the way in a collective gesture towards the future.
Dancer and performance artist Tora Balslev creates sensory and participatory works in which the body becomes a tool for exploring relations between humans, landscapes and the more-than-human world.
Practical information
22 August, 13:00–16:00
Meeting point: Ølsemagle Revle beach / end point: Bramhøjgaard, Ølsemagle Kirkevej 62, Køge
NB: Limited to 20 participants. Age: 16+. You must be able to walk 5 km, be on your feet for 2.5 hours, and get up and down from grass.
The walk includes excerpts from City Matters, created in artistic collaboration between Tora Balslev and sound artist Maiken Vibe Bauer.
GEORG JAGUNOV
Walking with Flint
Join a journey into the world of flint. Flint tells of ancient landscapes that have transformed over millions of years, and of humans who have wandered, struggled and dreamed with flint as their companion. Together, we rediscover our connection to this primordial stone – and to those who came before us, and those who will follow. Here, we sense a connection to a history that stretches far beyond our own time.
Visual artist Georg Jagunov creates installations and sensory environments where nature, geology and technology meet. His works explore the relationship between presence and deep time, and how landscapes and materials can hold hidden stories, memories and future imaginaries.
Practical information
22 August, 14:00–16:30
Meeting point: Skensved Hallen, Højelsevej 1B, Lille Skensved / end point: Bramhøjgaard, Ølsemagle Kirkevej 62, Køge
NB: Limited to 20 participants. All ages welcome. The walk is approx. 4.5 km.
ABOUT PERFORMING LANDSCAPES
Performing Landscapes is a nationwide project bringing together artists who explore how art can bring us closer to the teeming world of life that we are part of – in nature, in landscapes, and within ourselves. Through their work, the artists investigate how new experiences and perspectives can open up ways of living more sustainably and in more equal relationship with the environments that surround us. Performing Landscapes is organised by Metropolis – Copenhagen International Theatre in collaboration with and with support from local partners and the Danish Arts Foundation. www.metropolis.dk
ABOUT SCENEKANT
SceneKANT is a three-year project that explores how landscapes and urban spaces can be staged through art and culture. Building on a long tradition of children’s and amateur theatre in Køge Municipality, the municipality now aims to present theatre and performing arts in a new way. Together with experts and local enthusiasts, a vision for the project has been developed, including visits from a new theatre company each year – in 2026, the Italian company Teatro Stalker will take part. SceneKANT is a collaboration between Køge Municipality and Helsingør Teater. See the programmet in Køge 2026 here.
ABOUT MAPS
MAPS – Museum of Art in Public Space – is both a museum, a workshop and a platform. MAPS holds a collection of more than 19,000 preparatory works for realised and unrealised public art projects. At the same time, new ideas, collaborations and conversations are constantly emerging. MAPS therefore actively engages in research, education, international networks, and close collaborations with artists, researchers and local partners. MAPS believes that art in public space can create community, open up questions, and set change in motion. www.mapsmuseum.com
Photos: The Eye Fé Hedda Rysstad (1,2), Thomas Seest, Lars Bay, Thomas Gunnar Bagge