"Kresten Osgood meets Signe Gjessing" is part of a sparkling new concert series during the Copenhagen Jazz Festival in LiteraturHaus.

Kresten Osgood has established himself as a true legend in his field, and with "Kresten Osgood meets..." he has teamed up with 3 absolutely competent word-people.

We at LiteraturHaus are proud to welcome Kresten Osgood & Signe Gjessing.

Signe Gjessing (born 1992) is one of the most surprising (in the true sense of the word) and imaginative poets in Denmark. Since her debut "Ud af det u-løse" (published by Gyldendal in 2014), she has been seen as one of the brightest celestial bodies in Danish literature. Signe Gjessing is one of the kind of poets who helps to inspire even the most cynical stone-hearted to a renewed belief that poetry is and can be unpredictably alive and abstract in its own simplicity. Signe Gjessing's poetry is like a quantum bit in superposition, when you think you've understood it, it's so...

"Kresten Osgood meets Signe Gjessing" is part of a sparkling new concert series during the Copenhagen Jazz Festival in LiteraturHaus.

Kresten Osgood has established himself as a true legend in his field, and with "Kresten Osgood meets..." he has teamed up with 3 absolutely competent word-people.

We at LiteraturHaus are proud to welcome Kresten Osgood & Signe Gjessing.

Signe Gjessing (born 1992) is one of the most surprising (in the true sense of the word) and imaginative poets in Denmark. Since her debut "Ud af det u-løse" (published by Gyldendal in 2014), she has been seen as one of the brightest celestial bodies in Danish literature. Signe Gjessing is one of the kind of poets who helps to inspire even the most cynical stone-hearted to a renewed belief that poetry is and can be unpredictably alive and abstract in its own simplicity. Signe Gjessing's poetry is like a quantum bit in superposition, when you think you've understood it, it's something else, and when you don't, Signe's poetry has already settled right there between the fibers of your body, where it feels like that "completely true".
Signe Gjessing's sources of inspiration go back to people like Arthur Rimbaud, Inger Christensen, Nelly Sachs. Among other things. About Signe Gjessing's latest collection of poems, Information wrote the following: "Signe Gjessing makes the everyday enormous and the enormous everyday".
Signe Gjessing has received the following recognitions: Bodil and Jørgen Munch-Christensen's Debutant Prize, 2014. Dan Turèll Medal, 2024.
We at LiteraturHaus are thrilled to welcome Signe Gjessing to us during the Copenhagen Jazz Festival.

Kresten Osgood is truly a bomb of creativity in Danish cultural life, and is a giant in music in Denmark as well as the world. He is a multi-instrumentalist, and definitely one of the most important we have in improvised music. Furthermore, he has a great love for the art of words and the possibilities of poetry, so what better than to hear him in collaboration with some of the most important Danish authors in Denmark.
Kresten has been a senior lecturer at RMC since 2009, and is one of the founding members behind ILK.
Kresten Osgood has received a multitude of recognitions including: 2005 Steppeulv - musician of the year, 2006 Django d'Or Prize, 2008 DJBFA's Honorary Prize, 2010 Ben Webster Prize and Danmarks Radio's Leo Mathiessen Prize, 2012 Ken Gudman Prize, 2016 P8 Jazz Prize.
Kresten has entered into a multitude of collaborations, in his increasingly powerful career, including: Lars Skinnebach, Hugo Rasmussen, Jason Moran, Bent Jædig, Jim Black, Chris Potter, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Peter Laugesen, Marc Dresser, Peter Brötzman, Ben Street , Joshua Redman, Koichi Makigami, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Gilbert Holmstrøm, LarsGöran Ulander, Ran Blake, Mat Maneri, Herb Robertson, Snöleoparden, Mats Gustafsson, John Tchicai, Billy Preston, Steven Bernstein, Tal R, Teitur, Masabumi Kikuchi, Thomas Morgan, Kristian Leth, Goodiepal, Bent Fabricius Bjerre, Jakob Bro.

We are looking forward to seeing you....

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