Pekka Halonen: The Call of Finland

You walk into the last room and the floor turns white: wool carpet, white poufs that Radioupdate's reviewer took for snowballs, and Halonen's winter canvases all round, where the white "glints in every colour of the rainbow". It's the one snowdrift near Copenhagen you're meant to sit down in.

This is Halonen's first big retrospective in Denmark, 85 works across three halls, grouped by theme and ending on Finnish nature, then snow. Tree-trunk benches and a soundtrack of nature sounds and period music sit between them. He studied briefly with Gauguin in Paris, and Ordrupgaard's own Gauguins hang about 20 metres away, underground.

Kristeligt Dagblad wrote that he "could paint snow like no other Nordic artist", and Politiken called it world class. Kulturkupeen's one complaint: the staging looks almost too slick for paintings that need none of it. On Wednesdays it's open until 19:00, and free for students and under-27s from 16:00. It closes on 10 January 2027.