Exhibitions in Copenhagen

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.

Natural History Museum of DenmarkPast

Treasures from 400 years of collecting: from microscopic plankton and whale skeletons to stardust and gemstones, with the stories of the expeditions behind them.

ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art

Thomas Dambo, famed for giant troll sculptures made from recycled materials, brings his playful upcycled world indoors for the first time in a museum.

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.

Ordrupgaard

88 designers, architects and manufacturers push the boundaries of furniture design, this year exploring how light meets material and form.

Copenhagen Contemporary

Camille Henrot's largest Scandinavian solo show spans film, sculpture, painting and installation, led by the Scandinavian premiere of her film In the Veins.

Copenhagen Contemporary

Eight contemporary artists connected to Greenland, including Jessie Kleemann and Inuk Silis Høegh, explore identity, heritage and belonging in new commissions and established works.

ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art

SUPERFLEX stage ARKEN as a sunken ark in blue light, with 30 years of work in crates and a working factory building an artificial reef for rising seas.

The David CollectionFree

160 original postcards from North Africa, Egypt, Turkey and the Levant (1900-1940), the social media of their day, and the dreams of the 'Orient' they spread.

Ordrupgaard

Major retrospective of Finland's "Snow Painter" Pekka Halonen (1865-1933): hushed winter landscapes and Nordic symbolism from the Tuusula artists' colony.

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Europe's first major museum show of the Spanish-Mexican surrealist: fantastical interiors and dreamlike landscapes peopled by musicians, scientists and travellers.

Danish Architecture Center

How Bryghuspladsen became BLOX: OMA's strategies, a large sectional model and the compromises behind the harbourside building that still divides Copenhagen.

SMK – National Gallery of Denmark

Four Danish artist duos (Bank & Rau, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, J&K and Randi & Katrine) put society on the couch in sculpture, installation, video and performance.

The Hirschsprung Collection

Three artist couples from the Funen colony, including Fritz and Anna Syberg and Alhed and Johannes Larsen, and the struggle to share both a life and an artistic practice.

The Hirschsprung Collection

A rehang of 116 Danish masterpieces of the Modern Breakthrough, pairing stored works with icons by Hammershøi, Krøyer, the Anchers, L.A. Ring and Bertha Wegmann.

Designmuseum Danmark

Immersive major show on designer Henrik Vibskov's playful process: installation models, 44 cases of studio objects and prototypes, and walk-through installations.

Copenhagen Contemporary

Architect Kengo Kuma's sensory installation built around komorebi, sunlight filtering through leaves, with hands-on making for visitors of all ages.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Thai artist Som Supaparinya's first Scandinavian solo show: two video installations tracing how roads, dams and wartime alliances shaped Thailand's collective memory.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg

First Danish solo show for German biologist-turned-photographer Jochen Lempert: unframed black-and-white photographs of wings, insects, light and wind on water.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Danish artist-author Amalie Smith's largest solo show yet: hybrid sculptures in display cases and an immersive sound work exploring how life emerges and leaves its traces.

Museum of Copenhagen

67 photographs by Christopher Egeberg "Flip" following graffiti artist SPYO's paint-roller slogans across a Copenhagen reshaped by a building boom.

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.