Aleksandra Domanović Opens First Scandinavian Solo Exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Aleksandra Domanović
Canopy Collapse
9 October 2025 – 15 February 2026

Spanning nearly 15 years of work, Canopy Collapse explores how the internet, gender and cultural memory shape who we are in a hyper-connected world.

Aleksandra Domanović (b. 1981, Novi Sad) works across an expansive practice focusing on the intersections of technology, history, and culture. With a playful yet critical approach, she explores how identity and social narratives are constructed in a mediated society.

In the exhibition Canopy Collapse, visitors to Kunsthal Charlottenborg can explore a major survey of Domanović’s conceptually driven and materially sensitive practice. Here, she transforms technological systems and cultural memory into artworks. Working across sculpture, video, photography, and digital media, Domanović explores technology through a gender-conscious lens, delving into themes such as the legacy of Yugoslav cybernetics and the cultural impact of digital networks.

Aleksandra Domanović says about the exhibition:

“Canopy Collapse reflects on how inherited structures—whether architectural, ideological, or institutional—persist or fracture under contemporary pressures. By placing recent student protests in Serbia in dialogue with Yugoslavia’s complex legacy, the exhibition traces the entanglements of history, technology, and power that continue to contour civic space today.”

With works ranging from monuments to living international celebrities to genetically modified bulls and news broadcasts from the post-Yugoslav states, as well as references to the unifying techno rave culture of the 1990s, Domanović creates a complex and often personal perspective on how technological changes shape both who we are and how we remember.

“Aleksandra Domanović’s practice embodies a rare synthesis of research, historical sensitivity and formal experimentation. With Canopy Collapse, she brings a critical perspective to some of the most pressing political and cultural issues in Europe today. It’s a privilege to present her work at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, contributing to a wider conversation about how history, technology, and political structures shape the present,” says curator Henriette Bretton-Meyer.

Aleksandra Domanović has had solo exhibitions at institutions worldwide, including Kunsthalle Wien (2024); Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2018); Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn and Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (both 2017); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2015); and Kunsthalle Basel (2012). Her work has been featured in numerous biennials and triennials, including the 34th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, the 58th Belgrade Biennial, the Baltic Triennial 14 (all in 2021); the New Museum Triennial (2015); and the 12th Biennale de Lyon (2013).

The exhibition is initiated by Kunsthalle Wien, curated by Henriette Bretton-Meyer, and realised with generous support from the Augustinus Foundation, Beckett Foundation, Danish Arts Foundation, Knud Højgård Foundation, Obel Family Foundation and William Demant Foundation.

Practical information
Aleksandra Domanović: Canopy Collapse
9 October 2025 – 15 February 2026
Press preview: 8 October, 11.00–12.00
Exhibition opening: 8 October, 17.00-20.00
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 Copenhagen K
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For more information about the exhibition, please contact:

Henriette Bretton-Meyer
Curator, Kunsthal Charlottenborg
hbm@kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk / (+45) 3374 4680

Press contact

Jeannie Møller Haltrup
Head of Communications, Kunsthal Charlottenborg
jmh@kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk / (+45) 3374 4629

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