Fire & Ice opens at Copenhagen Contemporary on 10 September. Eight contemporary artists who live, work or have roots in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) take the floor across visual art, performance, literature and activism. An exhibition about belonging, grief, anger and hope — and about the right to tell your own story at a time when everyone is talking about Greenland.
Copenhagen Contemporary opens Shapeshifters – Magic in Art & Fashion on 26 June — an exhibition exploring the ritual and transformative power of clothing. Featuring 12 Nordic artists, the works examine how fashion marks life transitions, blur reality and fantasy, and build new communities. Free exhibition opening on the evening of 25 June.
Camille Henrot's largest solo exhibition in Scandinavia opens at Copenhagen Contemporary on 5 June. Paper Planes brings together a decade of major installations, new sculptures and drawings, and the Scandinavian premiere of her new film In the Veins — already called "an instant classic" by Art in America.
Copenhagen Contemporary presents the first Danish exhibition by Kengo Kuma/KKAA. Earth | Tree transforms Hall 4 into a sensorial landscape of wood and earth, inviting visitors to experience “gentle architecture” through the body and explore the creative process hands-on.
Copenhagen Contemporary enters 2026 with a strong program, continuing landmark exhibitions while opening new ones: from CCreate with Monster Chetwynd and Kengo Kuma, to Nordic fashion in Shapeshifters, a major solo exhibition by Camille Henrot, and Arctic perspectives in Fire & Ice.
Copenhagen Contemporary celebrates its 10-year anniversary with CC10, a three-day performance festival from 23–25 January 2026 at Refshaleøen. The festival brings together international artists and strong local voices, including Nadya Tolokonnikova (Pussy Riot), and features performances, talks, and concerts that celebrate art as a space for experimentation, resistance, and community.
Soft Robots, one of Copenhagen Contemporary’s most popular exhibitions, has been extended until 19 April 2026. Featuring fifteen international artists, the show explores how rapidly evolving technologies shape our emotional and cultural lives. With acclaimed reviews, it invites visitors to reflect on the shifting line between humans and machines.
On October 2 2025, the Glyptotek and Copenhagen Contemporary will open A Sounding of the Earth, the first exhibition in Denmark by Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist Alia Farid (b. 1985). The exhibition is the largest solo presentation of her work in Scandinavia, exploring the terrain of the Arab Gulf region – a landscape shaped both by one of the world’s oldest civilizations and by modern forms of warfa
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 ChetwyndA 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 world-r
‘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.
