9 November 2026
The David Collection opens an Ottoman sex manual on 6 November, free as always, which in Copenhagen is more than you can say for a coffee. Designmuseum Danmark opens goldsmith Kim Buck a week later. Thomas Dambo's upcycled world leaves ARKEN on the 29th; Remedios Varo at Louisiana and Pekka Halonen's winter landscapes at Ordrupgaard run into January.
The David CollectionOpens 6 November
A rare Ottoman manuscript with explicit illustrations of desire, power and sexuality, set against older traditions from Iran, Central Asia and India, and against contemporary Japan and Europe. Admission is free.
Louisiana Museum of Modern ArtUntil 10 January
Europe's first major museum show of the Spanish-Mexican surrealist: fantastical interiors and dreamlike landscapes peopled by musicians, scientists and travellers. Humlebæk is about 40 minutes north by train, which makes you one of the travellers.
Designmuseum DanmarkOpens 13 November
Goldsmith Kim Buck has spent decades asking what jewellery can be. The show pairs key works from that career with new pieces made for the exhibition.
ARKEN Museum of Contemporary ArtCloses 29 November
Thomas Dambo, known for giant troll sculptures built from recycled materials, brings his upcycled world into a museum for the first time. After years of trolls hidden in Danish woods, these ones you can find without muddy boots.
OrdrupgaardUntil 10 January
A major retrospective of Pekka Halonen, Finland's "Snow Painter": hushed winter landscapes and Nordic symbolism from the Tuusula artists' colony. All the snow a Copenhagen winter usually forgets to deliver.
The Hirschsprung CollectionUntil 24 January
Three Funen colony couples, including Fritz and Anna Syberg and Alhed and Johannes Larsen, and what it took to share a life and a practice. Anyone who has shared a flat and a desk with a partner knows the problem.
Ny Carlsberg GlyptotekUntil 29 March
Tiberius's marble mantle was once pink, a shade of snail-dyed purple, and a reconstruction puts the colour back. It reads Roman drapery, hair and shoes for rank; at the scent stations, the floral perfume turns out to be the men's.
ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art
Thomas Dambo, famed for giant troll sculptures made from recycled materials, brings his playful upcycled world indoors for the first time in a museum.
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
The Glyptotek's world-class Gauguin collection in dialogue with Yuki Kihara's video, where Samoan and Tahitian voices respond to his paintings.
Ordrupgaard
88 designers, architects and manufacturers push the boundaries of furniture design, this year exploring how light meets material and form.
Copenhagen Contemporary
Camille Henrot's largest Scandinavian solo show spans film, sculpture, painting and installation, led by the Scandinavian premiere of her film In the Veins.
Copenhagen Contemporary
Eight contemporary artists connected to Greenland, including Jessie Kleemann and Inuk Silis Høegh, explore identity, heritage and belonging in new commissions and established works.
ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art
SUPERFLEX stage ARKEN as a sunken ark in blue light, with 30 years of work in crates and a working factory building an artificial reef for rising seas.
The David CollectionFree
160 original postcards from North Africa, Egypt, Turkey and the Levant (1900-1940), the social media of their day, and the dreams of the 'Orient' they spread.
Ordrupgaard
Major retrospective of Finland's "Snow Painter" Pekka Halonen (1865-1933): hushed winter landscapes and Nordic symbolism from the Tuusula artists' colony.
Danish Architecture Center
How Bryghuspladsen became BLOX: OMA's strategies, a large sectional model and the compromises behind the harbourside building that still divides Copenhagen.
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Europe's first major museum show of the Spanish-Mexican surrealist: fantastical interiors and dreamlike landscapes peopled by musicians, scientists and travellers.
The Hirschsprung Collection
A rehang of 116 Danish masterpieces of the Modern Breakthrough, pairing stored works with icons by Hammershøi, Krøyer, the Anchers, L.A. Ring and Bertha Wegmann.
SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
Four Danish artist duos (Bank & Rau, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, J&K and Randi & Katrine) put society on the couch in sculpture, installation, video and performance.
The Hirschsprung Collection
Three artist couples from the Funen colony, including Fritz and Anna Syberg and Alhed and Johannes Larsen, and the struggle to share both a life and an artistic practice.
Designmuseum Danmark
Immersive major show on designer Henrik Vibskov's playful process: installation models, 44 cases of studio objects and prototypes, and walk-through installations.
Copenhagen Contemporary
Architect Kengo Kuma's sensory installation built around komorebi, sunlight filtering through leaves, with hands-on making for visitors of all ages.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Thai artist Som Supaparinya's first Scandinavian solo show: two video installations tracing how roads, dams and wartime alliances shaped Thailand's collective memory.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg
First Danish solo show for German biologist-turned-photographer Jochen Lempert: unframed black-and-white photographs of wings, insects, light and wind on water.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Danish artist-author Amalie Smith's largest solo show yet: hybrid sculptures in display cases and an immersive sound work exploring how life emerges and leaves its traces.
Museum of Copenhagen
67 photographs by Christopher Egeberg "Flip" following graffiti artist SPYO's paint-roller slogans across a Copenhagen reshaped by a building boom.
The Workers Museum (Arbejdermuseet)
Marks 100 years of the red Workers' Songbook, showing how singing mobilised Danish workers, from union meetings and parades to factory floors and song clubs.
Danish Architecture Center
The city at human scale, drawing on Jan Gehl's ideas: how streets, squares and bike lanes in Copenhagen, New York, Buenos Aires and Shanghai shape health and community.
ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art
First major Danish survey of Ann Lislegaard, pioneer of feminist futurism: 30+ years of sci-fi animations, sculpture and immersive sound and light works.
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
The Glyptotek's largest-ever antiquity show: how Romans used clothing, jewellery and perfume to signal identity, status and power, read through marble and bronze.
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Confessional, raw and tender: Tracey Emin uses the female body to explore passion, trauma, pain and healing. Organised by Tate Modern, London.
The David CollectionFree
A rare Ottoman manuscript with explicit illustrations of desire, power and sexuality, set against older traditions from Iran, Central Asia and India, and contemporary Japan and Europe.
A short note now and then when something new opens worth your time.
