xÆTER

The exhibition xÆTER is the second edition of Captive Portals Kiosk segment, a video-kiosk placed in the entrance to Captive Portal run by Kristoffer Ørum, with 24/7 access, headphones and comfortable seating.

A viewing and vernissage was held on 3 December 2025 outside Captive Portal on Fredericiagade 12B in Copenhagen, from 16:30 to 18:30, in the open air, with coffee and cocoa. The exhibition ran from 3 December 2025 to 15 March 2026.

Through a selection of video and audio works the public exhibition xÆTER set out to merge our notion of ÆTER with an alternate notion of X. ÆTER should be understood as the surrounding presence of the digital as something aethereal, but also physical. How do we relate to the physicality of the internet, to how data surges through hidden server rooms? How does the digitality of our lives impact not only our way of being, but love, gender and politics?

We merge ÆTER with the X. The X as a denominator for commercial collaborations on the late capitalist stage, where brands collaborate to create something more, some weird intangible value proposition. But as we see it, the collaboration in art is also forerunner for co-creation that can extrapolate new perspectives in places where artists merge in an aether of creation.

Eleven video and audio works invited the viewer into the world of xÆTER.

The collected works ran approximately 45 minutes.

Participating artists

Aron Munk Rösing, Kristina Petukhina, Morten Poulsen, Balka Storm, Meghan Thréinfhir, Adriana-Simona Andresel, Karen Andreasen, bullerup_autoservice, The Hagfags, Nanna Due & Andrew Nelson, Søren Katborg Vestergaard

Curated by

Emil Torp-Rasmussen, Selma Harboe & Filippa Maria Søndergaard Sørensen