Performance

On the weekend of March 22-23, 2025, MAPS will open its doors to the museum’s largest international exhibition to date, The Story of Public Art – Dancing in the Streets (On Power), which explores groundbreaking artistic experiments in public spaces from 1960 to today. You are invited to the opening celebration, spanning the entire weekend with a program of events and performances taking place both at the museum and in public spaces in Køge and Copenhagen. During the opening weekend, you can experience Göksu Kunak’s site-specific performance VENUS Vol. 2 in front of the City Hall in Copenhagen.

At sunset, Göksu Kunak—one of the most acclaimed young artists on the international art scene—will present the performance VENUS Vol. 2 directly in front of Copenhagen City Hall, featuring five dancers. VENUS was originally commissioned by the Neue National Galerie in Berlin and has now been created in a new version for the Copenhagen urban space.

You can experience VENUS Vol. 2 at 6:30 PM Sunday, March 23 at Copenhagen City Hall Square.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Göksu Kunak (they/them, b. 1985) is a Berlin-based Turkish artist, writer, and researcher, working across performance, installation, and text. Since the early 2010s, they have developed a distinctive practice that explores chronopolitics, hybrid narratives, and the intersection between contemporary lifestyles and non-Western dramaturgies. Kunak’s works have been performed and exhibited internationally, addressing themes such as Orientalism, hetero-patriarchal structures, and speculative futures. Their projects have been presented at renowned venues and institutions, including Performa Biennial in New York, Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Bergen Assembly in Norway, Sophiensaele Theater in Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva, and Pilevneli Gallery in Istanbul. Kunak won the Akademie der Künste (Kunstpreis) Berlin Art Prize 2025 for Performing Arts.

Photo credit: VENUS by Göksu Kunak with Felix Beer, Bugra Büyüksimsek, Markus Hausmann, Nomi Sladko originally commissioned by Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin Germany. Photo by: Jiri Abendt.