Festivals and Films
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Golden Days: Søren Kierkegaard
This year's Golden Days festival is dedicated to Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), the Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author who is widely considered the first e...
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German World Images 1890-1939: from Kollwitz to Nolde
20 April - 12 August. The Statens Museum for Kunst focuses on the period in German art history that ushered in Modernism, with an exhibition that presents more than 70 drawings, watercolours and graph...
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4 February - 20 May. The National Gallery of Denmark presents an exhibition dedicated to the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammersh
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2 March - 13 May. The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek presents an exhibition of 100 works drawn from the collection of Carl Jacobsen.
The diverse selection reflects Jacobsen's eclectic tastes and includes...
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18 November - 12 February. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art presents an exhibition of works by leading contemporary Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, from the years 2003-2010.
Weiwei's artistic practice ext...
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30 September - 8 January. The Louisiana presents an exhibition which explores the important relationship between Paul Klee and the Cobra group of artists from Denmark, Belgium and The Netherlands....
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3 September - 11 January. Copenhagen's Museum of Modern Art presents Warhol & Basquiat, an exhibition that traces the story of an unlikely collaboration between two very different artistic talents in...
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10 September - 23 October. Entitled Entropia, this photographic exhibition at the Dansk Arkitektur Center documents the architectural and urban development of Copenhagen in recent years, as seen throu...
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TOULOUSE-LAUTREC: THE HUMAN COMEDY
17 Sept-19 February 2012.
A major exhibition at the Royal Collection of Graphic Art focuses on Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and the immense contribution he made to the world of graphic art in the late 1...
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Hammershøiana: Drawings, photographs and other memories
10 June-23 Oct. In honour of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Hirschsprung, the museum is holding a number of exhibitions of works from the archives, normally kept out of the public eye....
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Tour de France: French Landscapes
8 April-11 September. This exhibition comprises over 60 works by some of the leading exponents of Impressionism and Post Impressionism, all from Ordrupgaard
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Teater og Kultur (Theatre and Culture)
28 May-31 December. The Theatre Museum examines theatre in Copenhagen in the 19th century with an interesting exhibition comprising several different shows and installations, taking place in the museu...
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The Dispute on Art: Artists from Funen
8 April-11 September. The Ordrupgaard and Faaborg museums present an exhibition of some 50 paintings by three Danish artists: Fritz Syberg (1862-1939), Johannes Larsen (1867-1961) and Peter Hansen (18...
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David Hockney: Me Draw on IPad
8 April-28 August. This slightly unorthodox exhibition sees the work of leading British artist David Hockney but is not what one might expect.
Over the last few years Hockney has created over 400...
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11 February - 29 May 2011. The spring exhibition at the Louisiana museum is dedicated to the work of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and examines how the artist related to contemporary historical and politi...
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5 March - 25 April. An institution in itself, the Spring Exhibition at the Charlottenborg is one of the highlights of Copenhagen's art calendar.
This year a jury of five Scandinavian art experts h...
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5 February - 15 May. The Mother & Child exhibition by French-American painter and sculptor Louise Jos
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Encountering Japan: Degas, Monet, Gauguin
11 September - 23 January 2011. At the World Fair in Paris in 1867, for the first time Japan presented its woodcuts to an instantly receptive Western audience.
The previously unseen material becam...
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10 September - 9 January 2011. The final segment of a four-part exhibition series of prominent post-war German artists, the Louisiana museum presents the work of Anselm Kiefer. As a painter Kiefer is...
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4 September 2010 - 30 January 2011. Robert Allen Zimmerman, or Bob Dylan as he is better known, has long been hailed as a talented songsmith, a poet, some might even say prophet; something he is less...
