Exhibitions in Copenhagen

May 2025

May 2025 at a glance: 2 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 1 more was on view across the city.

Edgar Degas, Dancers Practising in the Foyer, 1880s

Paul Gauguin, Arearea no varua ino (The Amusement of the Evil Spirit), 1894

Specimens on display in the Wild Wonderful World exhibition

Opened in May

Degas' Obsession8 May
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
One Degas painting, shown unframed in the round: new research with the Getty reveals he reworked Dancers Practising in the Foyer over some 30 years.
Gauguin & Kihara – First Impressions8 May
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.

Was on view in May

Wild Wonderful Worldto 1 Nov
Natural History Museum of Denmark
Treasures from 400 years of collecting: from microscopic plankton and whale skeletons to stardust and gemstones, with the stories of the expeditions behind them.

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