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The Hope Forum 2024

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Super Reef

Restoring 55 km² of lost reefs in the Danish ocean

Art Charter for Climate Action

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Circular Museum by MoMA and ART 2030

A virtual panel discussion series

Art for a Healthy Planet 2023

Sharing great art to inspire action for climate, our environment, and biodiversity

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Committing to real climate action

The Hope Forum

ART 2030 for the UNITED NATIONS Agenda for Sustainable Development & UNESCO ResiliArt

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Art responds to the climate catastrophe

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Hignline New York City

Art for a Healthy Planet 2022

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Interspecies Assembly

SUPERFLEX

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Danh Vo

Art for a Healthy Planet 2021

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UN high-level event on Culture & Sustainable Development

Art Sector Luminaries Address the United Nations

Art for a Healthy Planet 2020

Sharing great art to inspire action for climate, our environment, and biodiversity

GOALS

Christian Falsnaes

Breathe with Me

Jeppe Hein

Vertical Migration

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Interspecies Assembly

Part of Interspecies Assembly by SUPERFLEX: About the Artwork

ART 2030 New York

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Tow with The Flow

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen

Planet Art

Amapá

YES

Yoko Ono

Soleil Levant

Ai Weiwei

Soleil Levant

2017

Ai Weiwei

In 2017, ART 2030 facilitated Ai Weiwei's installation Soleil Levant (2017) on the façade of our partnering institution Kunsthal Charlottenborg, in the centre of Copenhagen, Denmark.

The name Soleil Levant stems from Claude Monet’s painting Impression, Soleil Levant from 1872, depicting the harbor of Le Havre at the end of the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian war. Whereas Monet captured the political and social reality of its time with cranes, steamboats and images of industrialization, Ai Weiwei’s Soleil Levant draws attention to the political and social realities of today, through lifejackets once worn by fleeing migrants.

With over 3,500 lifejackets collected from the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos barricading the outer wall of the Kunsthal, Soleil Levant renewed focus to the ongoing migration crisis, as well as issues surrounding the topics of equality and justice in mainstream and public discourse.

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Ai Weiwei, “Soleil Levant”, 2017. Installation view, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2017.
Lifejackets in front of windows of façade. Courtesy of the artist.
Photo by Anders Sune Berg.

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Ai Weiwei, “Soleil Levant”, 2017. Installation view, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2017.
Lifejackets in front of windows of façade. Courtesy of the artist.
Photo by Anders Sune Berg.

Artist Bio

Photo by Alfred Widinger, 2015.

Ai Weiwei (b.1957 Beijing) is one of the most respected living artists today. His artistic practice covers a wide array of mediums, from sculpture, film, photography to architecture among many others.

Always looking outwards to the world with a perspective tinted by a strong sense of justice and social conscience, Ai Weiwei is one of the great examples of an artist working with art for the world.

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Future Ours

Future Ours

Art for Action

Inspiring action for the Sustainable Development Goals

Art for a Healthy Planet 2024

Sharing great art to inspire action for climate, our environment, and biodiversity

The Hope Forum 2024

Accelerating system-wide concrete action for sustainability

Super Reef

Restoring 55 km² of lost reefs in the Danish ocean

Art Charter for Climate Action

Uniting the visual arts sector in climate action

Circular Museum by MoMA and ART 2030

A virtual panel discussion series

Art for a Healthy Planet 2023

Sharing great art to inspire action for climate, our environment, and biodiversity

Getting Climate Control Under Control

Committing to real climate action

The Hope Forum

ART 2030 for the UNITED NATIONS Agenda for Sustainable Development & UNESCO ResiliArt

Art for Hope

Art responds to the climate catastrophe

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Hignline New York City

Art for a Healthy Planet 2022

Sharing great art to inspire action for climate, our environment, and biodiversity

Interspecies Assembly

SUPERFLEX

ART 2030 Presents

Conversations on Art and Sustainability

Danh Vo Presents: A Haven for Diverse Ecologies

Danh Vo

Art for a Healthy Planet 2021

Sharing great art to inspire action for climate, our environment, and biodiversity

UN high-level event on Culture & Sustainable Development

Art Sector Luminaries Address the United Nations

Art for a Healthy Planet 2020

Sharing great art to inspire action for climate, our environment, and biodiversity

GOALS

Christian Falsnaes

Breathe with Me

Jeppe Hein

Vertical Migration

Part of Interspecies Assembly by SUPERFLEX: About the Artwork

Interspecies Assembly

Part of Interspecies Assembly by SUPERFLEX: About the Artwork

ART 2030 New York

For Art and the Global Goals

Tow with The Flow

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen

Planet Art

Amapá

YES

Yoko Ono

Soleil Levant

Ai Weiwei

Soleil Levant

Related Global Goals

Reduced Inequalities

Sustainable Cities and Communities

Peace and Justice

Artist Bio

Location

Kunsthal Charlottenborg

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