Novam Artem

A Cross-Disciplinary Platform — Bridging Art, Space, and Social Imagination

Novam Artem — A Hybrid Artistic Collective

Novam Artem emerged as a cross-disciplinary cultural platform designed to explore the intersections between public art, moving image, urban storytelling, and critical cultural discourse. Novam Artem functioned both as a curatorial project and a conceptual framework for collaborative experimentation across artistic disciplines.

Founded by Jakob Hindhede, Novam Artem emerged as a hybrid artistic collective in Copenhagen — later transition as ART Monday. Jakob & I, joined forces in 2015 and launched an ideology of concepts, to promote contemporary voices in their purest form and shape.

Rooted in the ethos of site-specificity and open access, Novam Artem invited artists, performers, filmmakers, and cultural practitioners to investigate how art can operate in and with public space. Through experimental film screenings, urban performances, and panel conversations, the project brought diverse voices into dialogue — often blending analog and digital practices, institutional and grassroots networks, and static and performative modes of exhibition.

What began as a public program developed into something more dynamic — a living archive and a methodology for activating new types of artistic community. Novam Artem challenged traditional formats of curation and authorship, placing emphasis on co-creation, transdisciplinarity, and shared ownership. Its evolving nature allowed for the project to remain responsive to social, spatial, and cultural urgencies, paving the way for continued experimentation beyond its original scope.

Cross-Disciplinary Exchange

Fostering collaboration across visual art, film, performance, and critical theory — Novam Artem connects diverse creative disciplines through curated projects and open cultural dialogue.

Expanded Narratives

From experimental film to public installations, Novam Artem explores new modes of storytelling in contemporary art — emphasizing site-responsiveness, hybridity, and social engagement.

Collective Infrastructure

Acting as a catalyst for future-facing platforms like Art Monday and ARTICULATE, NA laid the groundwork for hybrid collectives focused on visibility, experimentation, and shared authorship.

The Objective

Novam Artem operates as a framework for public, non-profit cultural interventions—each initiative financially supported by national and regional arts councils, municipalities, and cultural foundations. The objective is to cultivate open, accessible artistic encounters through curated programs that unfold in public space and serve the wider public interest.

Spanning site-specific installations, experimental film screenings, participatory performances, and collaborative workshops, these projects challenge traditional notions of exhibition and authorship. By embedding art directly into the urban and social scapes, Novam Artem fosters cultural dialogue, civic engagement, and cross-disciplinary exchange.

Through its sprouting, work-harder, multi-creative structure, the platform ensures, together with its partners, continuity, equity, and impact—bridging grassroots creativity with institutional trust to shape inclusive cultural ecosystems in service of the public domain.

CINEMATHEQUE

Supported by DFI, Aarhus Municipality for Aarhus 2017 – European Capital of Culture and institutions, such as Øst for Paradis, HUSETs Biograf and Nikolai Bio, the project consists in a curated collection of short films and cultural storytelling from across Europe. Featuring experimental cinema, urban performance, animation, stop-motion and documentaries, this playlist celebrates cross-disciplinary cinematic art in public and private spaces.

From open-air screenings at Store Torv in Aarhus to curated events at HUSETs Biograf and Øst for Paradis, Novam Artem bridges audiences and artistic voices — shaping contemporary dialogue at the intersection of art, space, and society.

IMAGINARIA

Supported by Aarhus Municipality for Aarhus 2017 – European Capital of Culture, OFF Track and Nikolai Kultur, IMAGINARIA functions as a public gallery embedded in the urban landscape. It offers passersby a glimpse into often-overlooked cultural narratives—removing art from traditional gallery settings and placing it directly in the public sphere, where people move through their everyday lives.

In collaboration with both national and international artists, the installation invites the public to question the cultural reality surrounding them. By exhibiting in plain view, it opens an alternative platform for artistic exposure—where new audiences encounter visual storytelling in its raw and immediate form.

The cityscape transforms into a living art collage—injecting creative energy into the streets and colouring the cultural capital with works from the elite of the underground illustration scene.

At Aarhus 2017 – European Capital of Culture, Novam Artem installed the exhibition at both Posthussmøgen and Rådhuspladsen with a duration of 3 months each, while at Nikolai Kultur, the exhibition was installed at the yard. Open air exhibitions and public domain at its best.

X FOR JAZZ

In collaboration with HUSET and Stage, NOVAM ARTEM presents the unique exhibition X FOR JAZZ.

The exhibition has its point of departure in the holistic visual universe of 3 emerging artists, inviting you for a journey through artistic freedom.

Taking place during Copenhagen Jazz Festival, this event has its roots in rhythm, merging visual art, performances, spoken word, music and scenography, during 9 days with a heavy loaded programme. With an essential assumption of improvisational freedom, the three women artists recreate a solid and unique gallery, on STAGE, supported by an emphasizing line-up on the scene and in the foyer.