Exhibitions in
Copenhagen offers a wide array of museums, from Denmark's National Gallery (Statens Museum for Kunst), with art from the 12th century to the present, to the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, known for classical antiquities and Impressionist paintings. The city’s contemporary scene is represented by venues like Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Den Frie Udstilling. Further afield, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and the Arken Museum of Modern Art display works by artists from Picasso to Dubuffet.
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Shapeshifters – Magic in Art & Fashion
Copenhagen Contemporary
Shapeshifters – Magic in Fashion presents 12 Nordic fashion designers and artists working at the intersections of fashion, art, and performance. Through new and existing works, they explore the ritual and transformative…
OSLO – Senga Nengudi: Sand and Water
Den Frie Udstillingsbygning
For more than five decades, Senga Nengudi has developed a distinctive practice that moves across sculpture, performance, dance, and language, connecting humble everyday materials with philosophical and spiritual ideas.…
NIKOLINE LIV ANDERSEN: THE ETERNAL SMILE
Designmuseum Danmark
Step into a spherical landscape with works created by textile and clothing artist Nikoline Liv Andersen in an exhibition that tells the story of life. The works engage in a dialogue with selected objects from…
Counterpoint
Designmuseum Danmark
LABORATORIUM invites the public deep into the creative engine room of a designer or artisan. In the series' fourth exhibition, visitors get a unique opportunity to get up close to the design processes behind selected…
Nervetråde
Den Frie Udstillingsbygning
The group exhibition Nervetråde (Nerve Fibers) takes inspiration from the nervous state of mind that permeated literature and visual art around the turn of the twentieth century, when Den Frie was founded. Much like…
Degas' Obsession
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
On 8 May, the Glyptotek opens a new exhibition centred on Edgar Degas’ enigmatic painting Dancers Practising in the Foyer and the research that has recently led to a proposed revised dating of the work. Degas’ Obsession…
Gauguin & Kihara – First Impressions
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
The Glyptotek holds one of the world’s finest collections of works by the French artist Paul Gauguin (1848–1903). In recent years, many of the museum’s 58 Gauguin pieces—including paintings, woodcarvings, drawings and…
Camille Henrot Paper Planes
Copenhagen Contemporary
Paper Planes is Camille Henrot’s largest solo exhibition in Scandinavia to date. Henrot is one of the world’s most influential contemporary artists, with a practice spanning film, painting, bronze, drawing, sculpture…
Fire & Ice On Belonging and Becoming in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)
Copenhagen Contemporary
Everyone talks about Greenland. Few let Greenland speak. What does it mean to belong? To a country, a lineage, a language. To carry where you come from with you and become who you are within it. There is no single…
Couples Therapy
SMK — National Gallery of Denmark
Four Danish artist duos explore the art of collaboration and the challenges of working together.
CCreate: Kengo Kuma/KKAA Earth | Tree
Copenhagen Contemporary
There is a unique Japanese concept that describes sunlight filtering through the leaves of a tree canopy: Komorebi (木漏れ日). Few languages have an equivalent word – but our bodies know the feeling. Research shows that…
Amalie Smith
Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Danish visual artist and author Amalie Smith (b. 1985) presents her most extensive solo exhibition to date, featuring new works created specifically for the North Wing of Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Through a series of…
Jochen Lempert
Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Details and patterns of nature are transformed into analogue black-and-white photographs by German artist Jochen Lempert (b. 1958). Trained as a biologist, he blends scientific observation with artistic vision,…
Som Supaparinya
Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Thai artist Som Supaparinya (b. 1973) explores how infrastructure, landscapes, and political alliances shape collective memory across Southeast Asia. Her first solo exhibition in Scandinavia brings together two recent…
Lene Adler Petersen
SMK — National Gallery of Denmark
At the Spring Exhibition 2027, we present one of Denmark’s most important contemporary artists, Lene Adler Petersen, in the largest retrospective exhibition to date of her artistic work. Lene Adler Petersen’s (b. 1944)…
James Turrell Aftershock
Copenhagen Contemporary
Aftershock is an immersive installation created specifically for CC by the American artist James Turrell. The experience of Aftershock begins outside the work, where you are asked to wait before ascending the…
Table, Set Yourself!
Designmuseum Danmark
Just like in the fairy tale of the magic table that sets itself, the exhibition TABLE, SET YOURSELF! invites us into an enchanting world. Amour-adorned plates, sugary porcelain figurines, tureens shaped like cabbage…
Danish Modern
Designmuseum Danmark
Danish design is known and loved – both at home and abroad, but what led to its success, which designs are central, and who are the great Danish designers of the 20th century? The exhibition 'DANISH MODERN' unfolds the…
DANISH SILVER
Designmuseum Danmark
Danish silver plays a significant role in the story of Danish modern. Designs such as Henning Koppel's iconic trinity of jugs – The Swan, The Pregnant, and The African Lady – have for decades inspired design, both in…
In the making
Designmuseum Danmark
When is a cup good to drink from? How does the lamp provide optimal light over the dining table? Are you sitting comfortably on the bench while waiting for the bus? You might rarely think about it, but behind the design…
WONDER
Designmuseum Danmark
The WONDER exhibition showcases a string of Designmuseum Danmark's most fantastic and whimsical objects. The exhibition focuses on how an object becomes an artifact, either in a private collection or in a museum.…
Egyptian Collection
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Ramses II, Tutankhamun, Akhenaten and Nefertiti. They are only a few of the legendary Ancient Egyptians whose acquaintance you can make in the Egyptian Collection. The display runs to more than 300 works. The works come…
Behind the Façade – Discover the Architecture of the Glyptotek
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Once upon a time there was a swamp on the outskirts of the city, next to a timber pit and a hospital for prostitutes with venereal diseases. Today this location is considered the city centre, and you can find one of…
Animals Take the Stage - Sculptures by Antoine-Louis Barye
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Zvířata vstoupila do umění v 19. století. Ovlivněna novou vědou, zoologickými zahradami, rozvíjejícím se průmyslovým zemědělstvím, právy zvířat a příchodem domácích mazlíčků získala zvířata novou roli. Již nebyla jen…