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What's the Big Rush?
67 photographs by Christopher Egeberg "Flip" following graffiti artist SPYO's paint-roller slogans across a Copenhagen reshaped by a building boom.
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Christopher Egeberg "Flip" went back to one of SPYO's spots three months after photographing it and found a new building standing there. Some of the anonymous painter's lines lasted 25 hours, Flip told TV2 Kosmopol, others 15 years. SPYO paints them with a roller on gables, bridges and buildings: NO THANKS TO THE RAT RACE, SCREW YOUR MONEY, THE AGE OF CULTURELESS CLONES.
You walk through two rooms of Flip's photographs, 67 in all, most from his 2024 book SPYO's København, running from Nordhavn to Sydhavn and Vestamager to Vesterbro in the same tight range of greys. Museum historians add the longer story of industrialisation, migration and building in the city. The third room holds Mathias Arvedsen's new 25-minute film of SPYO's night outings, and Mike Sheridan's ambient tracks set the mood.
Entry is included in the 110 DKK museum ticket, free for under-18s and for everyone on Wednesdays, and Thursdays run to 20:00. Leave 25 minutes for the film alone.
Look for
The roller slogans in their settings
Look for SPYO's paint-roller lines like NO THANKS TO THE RAT RACE, photographed on gables and bridges in places waiting to be redeveloped.
The film room
The third room shows Mathias Arvedsen's new 25-minute film, made over five years of following SPYO on his nightly excursions through the city.
Mike Sheridan's soundscape
Three ambient electronic tracks, one each for the show's themes of value, pace and existence, play through the exhibition.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Evening Visits
- Locals Who've Seen It All
Skip if
You want to see graffiti in person: this is photographs and film, no paint on the walls.
With kids
Under-18s get in free, and Wednesdays are free for everyone.
Free in the same building
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Image credits
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- What's the Big Rush?Christopher Egeberg Flip / Museum of Copenhagen
- Gauguin & Kihara – First ImpressionsCourtesy of Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
- The Power of Fashion in the Roman EmpireCourtesy of Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
- What the BLOXPhoto : Claus Troelsgaard
- Museum of CopenhagenLauren Friedman / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
- National Museum of DenmarkIb Rasmussen, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
- Ny Carlsberg GlyptotekDaderot / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Christiansborg PalaceJulian Herzog / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- Danish Architecture CenterLeif Jørgensen / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0