Exhibitions in Copenhagen

Ordrupgaard

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Danish Architecture Center · Free

A free sensory installation in the DAC Passage tracing wood's journey from raw tree trunk to finished architecture, with scent and craft.

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Freud's lifelong preoccupation with face and figure, told through his drawings and etchings in dialogue with his paintings. Organised with the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Arthur Jafa's video APEX, from Louisiana's collection, bombards viewers with images revealing the intimate link between beauty and terror in Black American culture.

Designmuseum Danmark

A floating, dreamlike installation of embroidered and woven works by textile artist Nikoline Liv Andersen on life's cycles, in dialogue with the museum's collection.

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.

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Catherine Opie's series of 50 photographs from Elizabeth Taylor's Beverly Hills home, where Hollywood glamour meets everyday life. From the Louisiana collection.

Ordrupgaard

Camilla Berner's site-specific work in the renovated Greenhouse of the Art Park traces the history of the sequoia and our fascination with, and exploitation of, nature.

Designmuseum Danmark

Behind the scenes of Kontrapunkt, the agency that shaped Denmark's visual culture, from the DSB S-train hexagon to TV2's circle, across seven cases and four decades.

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.

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.

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.

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 Collection · Free

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.

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

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.

Copenhagen Contemporary

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

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.