Exhibitions in Copenhagen
Copenhagen What's on
9 Nov-2 April. The Louisiana exhibits four decades' worth of drawings by New York artist George Condo in an exhibition organised in collaboration with The Phillips Collection in Washington DC. Born in...
Copenhagen What's on
3 Feb-3 June. ARKEN dedicates an exhibition to the career of Czech artist Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), best known for his Art Nouveau decorative depictions of women.
The exhibition showcases Mucha's p...
Copenhagen What's on
Ugo Rondinone: Vocabulary of Silence
16 Dec-30 Dec. ARKEN presents a year-long installation by Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone.
The colourful "dreamscape" features 45 hyperrealistic clown figures, all of whom are in various stages of sleep...
Copenhagen What's on
7 Oct-25 March. ARKEN presents a "sensory explosion" of music videos, video art, sculptures, paintings and installations.
The 22 works on display are designed to raise questions about the interplay...
Copenhagen What's on
Rineke Dijkstra: The One and The Many
21 Sept-30 Dec. The Lousiana dedicates a show to the work of Rineke Dijkstra, one of the most prominent contemporary artists working within the genre of photography and video portraiture.
Based in...
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Kusama Installation at Louisiana
1 Aug-23 Oct. The Lousiana showcases Gleaming Lights of the Souls by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, one of the most popular pieces of its permanent collection. Dating from 2008, the 4-sqm installation...
Copenhagen What's on
8 July-3 Sept. The Louisiana highlights three classical genres of art history: landscape, still life and portraits.
Showing selected works from its permanent collection, the Louisiana's summer exhibi...
Copenhagen What's on
17 June-22 Oct. The Louisiana presents the first major retrospective in Europe dedicated to the work of pioneering body and performance artist Marina Abramović who is known for her physically and ment...
Copenhagen What's on
11 Feb-30 Aug. ARKEN presents an exhibition of light sculptures that shimmer, flash and light up unexpectedly in the dark.
Described as a sensual experience, the show comprises spatial sculptural...
Copenhagen What's on
3 June-17 Sept. ARKEN’s outdoor summer exhibition involves a series of site-specific artworks based on the landscape surrounding the museum, by Danish artists Nanna Debois Buhl and Tue Greenfort....
Copenhagen What's on
3 Feb-3 June. Retrospective dedicated to the career of Czech artist Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), best known for his Art Nouveau decorative depictions of women.
On display is a large selection of Muc...
Copenhagen What's on
4 Feb-6 Aug. ARKEN presents an exhibition of hyperrealist sculptures that promise to leave visitors unsure about what is real and what isn't.
Exhibition organisers say that the works, by 31 intern...
Copenhagen What's on
Louise Bourgeois: Structures of Existence: The Cells
13 Oct-26 Feb. The Louisiana hosts an exhibition by Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), the French-American artist best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art.
The exhibition focuses o...
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Daniel Richter: Lonely Old Slogans
8 Sept-8 Jan. The Louisiana offers a "mid-career retrospective" to Daniel Richter who is regarded as a leading member of the 1960's generation of artists.
Born in 1962, the German artist came to p...
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Martin Bigum: The Great Divide
3 Sept-15 Jan. ARKEN presents an exhibition by Danish visual artist Martin Bigum who describes his latest body of work as an examination of the "art that was to be found – and not found – south of Cop...
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17 March-4 Sept. Exhibition of video work by cutting-edge British artist Ed Atkins who asks: "What happens when we unquestioningly subject to airport security regulations – or other, less overt protoc...
Copenhagen What's on
Poul Gernes: I cannot do it alone—want to join in?
2 June-16 Oct. The Louisiana dedicates its summer show to the late Copenhagen artist Poul Gernes (1925-1996) whose legacy lives on in his large public works around his native city.
Known for his e...
Copenhagen What's on
Poul Gernes: I cannot do it alone—want to join in?
2 June-16 Oct. The Louisiana dedicates its summer show to the late Copenhagen artist Poul Gernes (1925-1996) whose legacy lives on in his large public works around his native city.
Known for his e...
Copenhagen What's on
Eye Attack: Op Art and Kinetic Art 1950-1970
4 Feb-5 June. Louisiana presents the first major presentation of Op Art and Kinetic Art in Scandinavia for more than 50 years.
The two movements are interlinked: Op Art is centred around abstract...
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21 April-18 Sept. Abdoulaye Konaté is one of the most important figures in African contemporary art and the Malian artist's work has been exhibited in major art institutions around the world. Born in...
