While love is already blooming at the festival, Danish visual artist Nicolai Risbjerg is here to spread even more with his performance Action Man Collects Sweethearts. When Action Man and his ‘love-army’ visit the Flokkr stage and the campsite, they'll bring playful energy and create love-filled interactions with the festivalgoers.
Dressed in medieval-inspired costumes and armed with homemade weapons, the performers exaggerate love through body language and actions. They’ll flirt with you, fall in love with you, and hand out love letters and small gifts. Even though Action Man strives to appear hypermasculine, his performance turns these ideals on their head. Through his actions, love becomes both a language and a weapon that challenges traditional gender expectations.
In addition to his performance at Roskilde Festival, Nicolai Risbjerg’s work can also be experienced in Roskilde city center during the festival week and throughout the summer of 2025. The works are a series of sculptural love letters in the form of paper airplanes. The sculptures will be realized in collaboration with Roskilde Municipality and will extend from Stændertorvet into the city center.
Nicolai Risbjerg is a visual artist who investigates through sculpture and performance how we get society to embrace its whole population. He received the Talent Prize from Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Legat (2024). He works and lives in Copenhagen.
Nicolai Risbjerg’s work is presented at the festival in collaboration with Art Hub Copenhagen.