ARKEN Museum of Modern Art
ARKEN is Denmark's largest museum of contemporary art, showing works created in our time that address people, society, crises and nature. The museum collects contemporary art, builds communities through art education and offers inspiring experiences for visitors and their families. An internationally oriented institution with strong local roots in the Vestegnen region, ARKEN sits among the sea, dunes and beach park south of Copenhagen near Ishøj.
Now on view
4 exhibitions
Thomas Dambo
In spring 2026, ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art will open the doors to a spectacular exhibition conceived by the Danish artist Thomas Dambo. Thomas Dambo is known worldwide for his monumental troll sculptures made from…
Come Hell Or High Water
One day, ARKEN will be underwater. In the solo exhibition Come Hell Or High Water, this future serves as the point of departure for the Danish artist group SUPERFLEX, as they transform the museum into an ark for all…
ANIMOID
From a three-metre-high LED screen, an animated owl towers in front of us. It speaks in fragments and in multiple voices. At times, the owl seems sleepy, as if it is about to fall from its branch, only to suddenly wake…
Sculpture Park
The outdoors area around ARKEN is actually a Sculpture Park that you can explore with family and friends. Find a map of the Sculpture Park here. A bench zigzags through the landscape. A house rises up in the middle of a…
Opening soon
3 upcoming
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» I’m a science fiction nostalgist. Because as much as I love the way every new science fiction idea makes us reflect on what it means to be human, I also love the memories the genre evokes. Dreams that may never have…
Sylvie Fleury
Luxury cars and lip gloss. Shopping, beauty and lifestyle. What do we dream of surrounding ourselves with? And how does what we consume shape our understanding of who we are? For the first time in the Nordic region,…
The One I Love
When the HIV/AIDS epidemic struck the world in the early 1980s, it fundamentally changed our understanding of the body, love, sexuality and the communities that bind us together. For an entire generation, HIV/AIDS…
