Soft Robots is the title of this year’s major exhibition at Copenhagen Contemporary (CC), opening on June 20th with sensory and thought-provoking world-class art. The exhibition brings together 15 prominent international contemporary artists and Danish talents working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and spiritual longing.
CC Create x Monster Chetwynd
A Feather in your Hat!
13.04.25 - 01.03.26
From 13 April, Copenhagen Contemporary will be transformed into a fanciful universe when they open their doors to a new triennial exhibition and learning project, CC Create – a comprehensive educational initiative at CC with focus on creativity as an inherent trait in all humans. For the first part of the project, the
‘I draw to see what I am thinking’, says British artist Emma Talbot, encapsulating her approach to art making. Opening on February 1st at Copenhagen Contemporary (CC), her exhibition Are you a living thing that is dying, or a dying thing that is living? delves into questions of how to live and hope amidst ecological collapse.
At Copenhagen Contemporary, we are excited to welcome you to a year filled with exceptional art experiences. Featuring several new exhibitions made especially for CC, the 2025 spring season unfolds as an exploration of the artist as thinker or philosopher.
The world-famous light artist's major immersive work Aftershock to be the first work in CC's collection of twenty-first-century art.
Marta Minujín, Latin American queen of pop art, finally presents her first major exhibition in Europe when Intensify Life opens at Copenhagen Contemporary in October.
In the 1970s she kidnapped visitors from MoMA. Her colourful and wild labyrinthine works have made her a living legend. Now, trailblazing artist Marta Minujín is about to have her first major museum exhibition in Europe at Copenhagen Contemporary.
With their thought-provoking and visually striking works, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme fill two of Copenhagen’s largest art institutions with electronic soundscapes, sampled archival material, 3D-printed ancient masks and images layered with quotes from critical and poetic texts in Arabic and English.
On 27 April, Copenhagen Contemporary opens its doors to Residential, an exploratory exhibition created by Project Art Works. For more than 25 years, this British artists’ collective has spearheaded collaborative art practice with neurodivergent people, inviting visitors to participate in brand new ways of co-creation and reflection.
Copenhagen Contemporary (CC) kicks off 2024 filling the entire ground floor with new and outstanding art. Two very different exhibitions – the international artist Kapwani Kiwanga and Danish artist Cathrine Raben Davidsen – transform CC’s three large halls, and more than 2.000 m2 of space with mesmerizing paintings, poisonous flowers, and vibrant installations.
Copenhagen Contemporary is delighted to present their 2024 program unfolding a variety of distinctive and inspiring art.
The Beckett Foundation and Copenhagen Contemporary (CC) are proud to announce the winner of the Beckett Prize 2023: the Danish artist Jane Jin Kaisen. The award is a recognition of her ground-breaking artistic work which, through filmic works, navigates the intersection between lived experience, embodied knowledge and political narratives. The prize comes with a grant of DKK 250,000.
In October, the Danish artist Hannah Toticki will open her biggest exhibition to date in Scandinavia. Made specifically for Copenhagen Contemporary, Storage of the Gods earnestly and humorously wrestles with the great questions of life in an age with no shared sense of sacredness.
A new experimental group exhibition at Copenhagen Contemporary (CC) presents the building materials of tomorrow in the intersection of art and architecture. A critical comment on the way we build today, Reset Materials - Towards Sustainable Architecture explores the future of architecture in 10 compelling works created in collaboration between architects, artists and manufacturers.
For the first time in the Nordic region, Copenhagen Contemporary (CC) and the Glyptotek present a solo exhibition by the international artist Abbas Akhavan. The artist recreates Palmyra’s treasured columns and Iraq’s looted National Museum in an exhibition spanning the two art institutions.
Copenhagen Contemporary (CC) unveils the art content of Yet, it Moves!, a pathbreaking research and exhibition project featuring a stellar array of Danish and international artists. Opening in May at CC and in urban spaces across Copenhagen, the exhibition explores the universe’s only constant: movement!
Will our buildings in the future be constructed out of fungi, nettles, and recycled plastic? Can we cultivate bricks like we do crops? And how will sustainable materials change our understanding of architectural beauty and values? This summer Copenhagen Contemporary (CC) proudly open the doors to a large experimental exhibition: Reset Materials - Towards a Sustainable Architecture.
Arts at CERN and Copenhagen Contemporary join forces and announce the first open call for Collide Copenhagen Today, we are pleased to announce a three-year partnership between CERN and Copenhagen Contemporary through Collide, Arts at CERN’s flagship international residency programme.
In a unique collaboration, two of the largest cultural institutions in Denmark are inviting their audiences to join them on a journey across time and space. Over the next three years, a series of exhibitions will help form new perspectives on the cultural heritage of the Middle East and its significance today.
A big, experimental group show at Copenhagen Contemporary presents a new phenomenon in the intersection of art and fashion: the aesthetics of mending. In Beautiful Repair, a stellar array of spectacular, tactile works unfold the visual and material vocabulary of a new creative generation, sparking a conversation about the importance of craft, concepts of beauty, resources and the sociocultural rol