Name: EXHIBITION OPENING: Soft Civic Infrastructures by Cultures of Assembly
Start: 2026-02-19T16:30:00+01:00
Location: Halmtorvet 27, 1700 Copenhagen, Denmark

EXHIBITION OPENING: Soft Civic Infrastructures by Cultures of Assembly

We’re thrilled to announce the next exhibition at CAFx: “Soft Civic Infrastructures” by Cultures of Assembly.
From February 19th, Cultures of Assembly—founded and led by internationally renowned architect and writer Markus Miessen—will take over our exhibition space at Halmtorvet 27 with an exhibition where architecture is mobilised not as representation but as procedure: a method for structuring collective presence, dialogue, and negotiation.
Join us for the exhibition opening on February 19th and meet Markus Miessen & César Reyes Nájera —we’ll be serving drinks! 🍷 ENTRANCE IS FREE
Turning away from the spectacle and familiar choreographies of democracy—with its broadcast debates, election booths, screaming breaking news—the exhibition invites the audience back into their bodies in face-to-face meetings with their fellow citizens, local actors, and policymakers.
Here the audience is forced to rethink what they want from their city and local democracy, in an exhibition building on the Cultures of Assembly’s experience from The Esch Clinics, a citizen assembly located in Luxembourg. To have the discussions in close, friction-filled, and possibly awkward and antagonistic meetings of people in a soft and screaming green landscape of carpets, around which demands for change are draped.
Developed in dialogue with Vesterbro’s civic associations, the project bridges The Esch Clinics’ research on participatory governance with Copenhagen’s established local democratic infrastructure. The central themes will be examined in a series of events taking place in the exhibition over the coming months. More info on those soon.
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The exhibition is devised and curated by Markus Miessen & César Reyes Nájera (Cultures of Assembly, COA).
The exhibition is designed in collaboration with Michaela Prunotto and Gustav Nielsen as part of the Chair of the City of Esch at the University of Luxembourg
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We thank Dreyers Fond, Statens Kunstfond and Københavns Kommune for their support for the exhibition