May 2027
May at a glance: 2 exhibitions opening, 3 closing, and 5 more on view across the city.

Danish Architecture Center
A major show on the Danish parcelhus, the detached home with garden, from postwar welfare dream to everyday life, asking whether future homes already exist.

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Lina Ghotmeh, Snøhetta's Kjetil Thorsen and Toyo Ito pay personal tribute to the architects who inspired them and shaped their practices.

The 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.

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.

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
First Scandinavian solo show of the Indian video-art pioneer, centred on her immersive installation 'Of Woman Born' about memory, violence and displacement.

ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art
The first exhibition on Danish and Nordic artistic responses to HIV/AIDS, from the 1980s to today, set against the epidemic's cultural history.
A short note now and then when something new opens worth your time.