TeaterKUNST

TeaterKUNST was founded in 2003 by playwright and actor Vivian Nielsen, actor and director Solveig Weinkouff, and director, playwright, and concept developer Nina Larissa Bassett.

The company was established as an artistic platform to challenge conventional theatre by creating unconventional, site-specific projects that explore themes such as diversity, identity, and the relationship between minority and majority. Our work is developed in collaboration with a culturally and artistically diverse group of professional performers.

TeaterKUNST creates theatre that breaks out of traditional frames, staging performances in alternative spaces and questioning the role of the audience. Selected works include Wall 2 Wall, FACEBUS, and What is Danish?

We collaborate with theatre and interdisciplinary artists from across the globe and have presented work in cities such as Berlin, Vilnius, Stockholm, Helsinki, Athens, Montreal, São Paulo, Lusaka, Maputo, among others.

In 2005, TeaterKUNST co-founded the transnational artistic research platform @work network, initiated with support from EU Culture Moves Europe. The network includes members from eight different European countries and works across a wide range of artistic disciplines, fostering collaboration between theatres and artists internationally.
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Artistic Vision

TeaterKUNST creates theatre projects that challenge existing boundaries by adopting and transforming physical spaces. We address contemporary dilemmas and explore the audience's role in theatre and public space — as seen in youth productions like the recent DRINK ME.

TeaterKUNST’s Vision:

To stimulate conscious decision-making by exploring new perspectives on reality through site-specific dialogue and theatre art.

  • Breaking the boundaries of conventional spaces and performances

  • Nudging dialogue about identity through a language that is accessible to all

  • Facilitating encounters that promote understanding and tolerance between people

The Anthropophagic Approach

Oswald de Andrade’s Anthropophagic Manifesto (Manifesto Antropofágico), written in 1928, is a key text in Brazilian modernism. The manifesto uses anthropophagy (cannibalism) as a metaphor for cultural absorption and transformation — a dynamic process of digestion, reinvention, and evolution, rather than passive imitation of European culture.

Inspired by this concept, TeaterKUNST applies anthropophagy to theatre by rethinking audience roles and performance spaces. Our approach creates an anthropophagic theatre experience, where site-specific performances "consume" urban environments and histories, blending different cultural narratives into immersive storytelling. This reflects the manifesto’s vision of a fluid, evolving identity rather than a fixed, exclusionary one.

Board of Directors

  • Flavia Haule Jepsen: BA in Anthropology. Minority Ethnic LGBT+ Crime Prevention Specialist, Unit for Crime-Preventive Initiatives

  • Peter Campbell Bensted: Artistic Director at WoWiWo (WorldWideWords), Roskilde, Denmark

  • Nina Larissa Bassett: MA in Theatre Studies and Gender Studies, University of Copenhagen

  • Nadja Liukko: Master of Law (cand.jur.), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

  • Benazir Braae: MA / Master of Arts