Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is Denmark's most visited art museum, set on the Øresund coast in Humlebæk north of Copenhagen. Founded in 1958, it holds a significant collection of modern and contemporary art shown across an architecturally celebrated complex surrounded by a sculpture park overlooking the sea. Throughout the year Louisiana presents major international special exhibitions alongside literature, concerts and activities for children.
Now on view
10 exhibitions
Sophie Calle
With her ingenious mix of fact and fiction, seriousness and playfulness, cool distance and unabashed intimacy, Sophie Calle stands as one of the most influential voices of contemporary art. For five decades, Sophie…
Arthur Jafa: APEX
Arthur Jafa is widely considered one of the most important artists working today. His key work APEX, a part of the museum’s collection, bombards the viewer with images that never have time to settle and reveals the…
Lucian Freud
Louisiana's summer exhibition focuses on Lucian Freud's lifelong preoccupation with the human face and figure. Exploring the artist's supreme mastery of drawing in all its forms – from pencil, pen, and ink to charcoal…
700 Nimes Road
Glamour is mirrored in everyday life and stardust meets subculture in this documentary project by Catherine Opie. 700 Nimes Road was created in and named after the address of the home of Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor.…
Giacometti Gallery
The works of Alberto Giacometti constitute a great pillar of the Louisiana Collection. The museum’s large collection of his original sculptures – large even from an international perspective – interplay in an almost…
Jorn Gallery
Asger Jorn's paintings form a focal point in Louisiana's collection. A great selection can currently be seen in the last, high-ceilinged room of the North Wing. Asger Jorn was a giant in both Danish and European…
The Concert Hall
Please do not forget to visit Louisiana's Concert Hall, a beautiful and harmonious space where two important and monumental key works from Louisiana's collection are on permanent display. The acquisition of his 2 x 7.5…
Kusama installation
'Gleaming Lights of the Souls' by the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026) is one of the most beloved pieces in the museum collection. The installation, dating from 2008, consists of a single space, four by four…
Collection in the South Wing
The South Wing currently presents a selection of works that have all become part of the museum's collection in recent years. Experience masterpieces by Catherine Opie, Nan Goldin, and Martha Rosler, among others.…
Villa & North Wing
The walk from the Old Villa towards the Cafe takes you through the museum's characteristic glass corridors and halls of the so-called North Wing. Here you can experience a wide-ranging selection of works from the…
Opening soon
8 upcoming
Remedios Varo
Dream worlds and scientific exploration merge with magical thinking in Remedios Varo's incredible, surreal imagery. With a unique blend of precision and poetry, the Spanish-Mexican artist conjured a universe of…
Tracey Emin
Wild, confessional brutally honest as well as tender and extremely vulnerable. In the groundbreaking practice of Tracey Emin, one of the most important figures of contemporary art, art and creativity literally become…
Martin Kippenberger
The German artist Martin Kippenberger (1953–1997) is considered one of the greatest artistic talents of his generation. In this first major international presentation of his work in many years, Louisiana seeks to…
Nalini Malani
Fragments of myths, texts, and contemporary realities merge in Nalini Malani's large, immersive installation 'Of Woman Born'. It forms the centerpiece of this first solo presentation in Scandinavia of the influential…
Matthew Wong
Matthew Wong (1984-2019) was a Chinese-Canadian self-taught artist who, in just seven years, developed one of the most remarkable painterly practices of recent times. The exhibition focuses on his interiors, which stand…
Sleep
Did you sleep well? Across art and science, Louisiana presents a major thematic exhibition exploring one of life’s most fascinating and enigmatic phenomena. A journey through the universe of sleep – from lullabies to…
Sleep
Have you slept well? Across art, literature, cultural history, and science, Louisiana opens a major thematic exhibition on one of life's most fascinating and enigmatic phenomena. A journey into the universe of sleep,…
Lynda Benglis
For more than five decades, the American artist Lynda Benglis has experimented with materials in a playful, physical, and unpredictable body of work, expanding our understanding of what sculpture can be. In a career…
