Exhibitions in Copenhagen
March 2027
March at a glance: 0 exhibitions opening, 4 closing, and 7 more on view across the city.
Closing in March
Cities for People29 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 Lislegaard29 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 Song29 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 Empire29 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.
Also on through March
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.
Vilhelm Hammershøi: With the Future as Horizonto 23 MayOrdrupgaard
70+ works by Hammershøi shown alongside modernists like Mondrian, revealing how his light, line and repetition anticipated twentieth-century modernism.
Martin Kippenbergerto 20 JunLouisiana 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.
Sylvie Fleuryto 29 AugARKEN 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.
Lene Adler Petersento 29 AugSMK – 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.
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