Exhibitions in Copenhagen

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.

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.