Exhibitions in Copenhagen
December 2026
December at a glance: 0 exhibitions opening, 4 closing, and 21 more on view across the city.
Closing in December
Gauguin & Kihara – First Impressions6 DecNy 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.
The Cabinetmakers' Autumn Exhibition: Light & Form13 DecOrdrupgaard
88 designers, architects and manufacturers push the boundaries of furniture design, this year exploring how light meets material and form.
Fire & Ice: On Belonging and Becoming in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)31 DecCopenhagen 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.
Camille Henrot, Paper Planes31 DecCopenhagen 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.
Also on through December
Come Hell Or High Water – SUPERFLEXto 3 JanARKEN 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.
Sending all my love — Vintage Postcards from the Middle Eastto 3 JanThe David Collection · Free
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.
What the BLOXto 10 JanDanish Architecture Center
How Bryghuspladsen became BLOX: OMA's strategies, a large sectional model and the compromises behind the harbourside building that still divides Copenhagen.
Remedios Varoto 10 JanLouisiana 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.
Pekka Halonen: The Call of Finlandto 10 JanOrdrupgaard
Major retrospective of Finland's "Snow Painter" Pekka Halonen (1865-1933): hushed winter landscapes and Nordic symbolism from the Tuusula artists' colony.
Couples Therapy – Society on the couchto 24 JanSMK – 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 Modern Breakthrough: Masterpieces from the Museum's Collectionto 24 JanThe 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.
The Funen Painters. Art Above All!to 24 JanThe 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.
Amalie Smith: Levendeto 21 FebKunsthal 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.
Henrik Vibskov: The Exhibitionto 21 FebDesignmuseum Danmark
Immersive major show on designer Henrik Vibskov's playful process: installation models, 44 cases of studio objects and prototypes, and walk-through installations.
Jochen Lempert: Flora Incognitato 21 FebKunsthal 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.
Som Supaparinya: Reroute:to 21 FebKunsthal 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.
CCreate: Kengo Kuma/KKAA, Earth | Treeto 21 FebCopenhagen Contemporary
Architect Kengo Kuma's sensory installation built around komorebi, sunlight filtering through leaves, with hands-on making for visitors of all ages.
What's the Big Rush?to 28 FebMuseum of Copenhagen
67 photographs by Christopher Egeberg "Flip" following graffiti artist SPYO's paint-roller slogans across a Copenhagen reshaped by a building boom.
Cities for Peopleto 29 MarDanish 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.
ANIMOID – Ann Lislegaardto 29 MarARKEN 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.
All Things Begin with a Songto 29 MarThe 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.
The Power of Fashion in the Roman Empireto 29 MarNy 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.
Tracey Emin: A Second Lifeto 18 AprLouisiana 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 Art of Desire – an Ottoman Sex Manual and its Context (Begærets Kunst)to 2 MayThe David Collection · Free
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.
LABORATORIUM: Kim Buckto 9 MayDesignmuseum Danmark
Goldsmith Kim Buck's decades of questioning what jewellery can be, shown through key works and new pieces made for the exhibition.
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