Exhibitions in Copenhagen

Ordrupgaard

70+ works by Hammershøi shown alongside modernists like Mondrian, revealing how his light, line and repetition anticipated twentieth-century modernism.

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

The first major international presentation in almost a decade of German artist Martin Kippenberger, re-evaluating the interplay of his persona, works and practice.

ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art

The Swiss artist's first major Nordic solo show: chrome engines, luxury boots, neon and make-up palettes exploring cars, fashion and desire with punk-feminist wit.

SMK – National Gallery of Denmark

SMK's Spring Exhibition 2027: the largest retrospective yet of Lene Adler Petersen, feminist pioneer behind the 1969 action The Female Christ.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Designmuseum Danmark

Goldsmith Kim Buck's decades of questioning what jewellery can be, shown through key works and new pieces made for the exhibition.