October 2026
October at a glance: 5 exhibitions opening, 3 closing, and 20 more on view across the city.
Permanent guide to October 2026 →

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.
A short note now and then when something new opens worth your time.