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In the solo exhibition
Jeg håber du kan elske en som mig (I hope you could love someone like me) by Noah Holtegaard. Holtegaard presents a sculpture and a series of newly produced sculptural reliefs, as well as premiere the performative bus tour
“The Copenhagen Merman Tour”.
The exhibition takes its point of departure in the love letters that H. C. Andersen wrote throughout his life to civil servant Edvard Collin, who rejected Andersen’s love. When Collin marries his wife Henriette, Andersen writes the fairy tale
The Little Mermaid, about the mermaid who falls in love with a prince, whom she never gets, as the prince marries someone else. With the works in the exhibition, Holtegaard seeks to bring this story to life, from a trans queer perspective.
As part of the opening of the exhibition, author Gry Stokkendahl Dalgas will read a selection of her poems. On the closing day of the exhibition, we host both a performance with the artist Alberte Skronski and the performative bus tour – which visits selected places in Copenhagen, that together formulate a new take on H.C. Andersen’s work. The bus tour starts and ends at
c4 projects.
*To participate in the bus tour, please sign up by writing an email to info@c4projects.dk, as there are limited spots, we recommend reserving a seat.
Jeg håber du kan elske en som mig (I hope you could love someone like me) is part of
c4 projects’ 2025 exhibition program
Past / Present / Future, that collectively takes a critical look at the state of contemporary culture. By reexamining historical references and socio-cultural issues, the program seeks to question the structures of our contemporary living conditions, society, and nature, dealing with the complexities that shape human existence. In this way, perceptions from the past allow for a critical look at the current state of upheaval to foster future change, where greater diversity, less discrimination, and less marginalization on the basis of gender, sexuality, and class are in focus.
Noah Holtegaard (b. 1999, Hjørring, he/him, they/them) is a transmasculine, non-binary artist who lives and works in Copenhagen. In his artistic practice, he works primarily in the digital realm, which includes image manipulation, 3D modeling, animation, and video. His work often revolves around queerness and transness. He describes a desire to give voice to those who have not had one, by telling stories about transgender people that have not been told before and showing bodies that have not been shown before. In his artistic practice, Holtegaard dreams of creating a queer utopia in a digital space without the limitations of the physical world. He graduated from
HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg in 2022 and received a Master of Fine Arts from the
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2025.