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Exhibition programme 2025
Next year Kunsthal Charlottenborg looks forward to presenting solo exhibitions with Banu Cennetoğlu and Larissa Sansour, the annual Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition and the MFA Degree Show as well as art works all around Denmark.
The exhibitions focus on current issues such as political conflicts, migration, human rights and the future of our planet.
"In a changing world and facing acute global challenges, we believe that the voice of art is crucial in bringing new perspectives and insights. The exhibitions at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in 2025 interweave personal stories with major societal issues and reflect on other realities and alternative ways of thinking," says Henriette Bretton-Meyer, Acting Director and Curator at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
In 2025, the exhibitions at Kunsthal Charlottenborg are generously supported by the 15 June Foundation, Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen Foundation, Augustinus Foundation, Axel Muusfeldt Foundation, Beckett Foundation, Bikuben Foundation, Danish Arts Foundation, Knud Højgaard Foundation, New Carlsberg Foundation, Obel Family Foundation, and the William Demant Foundation.
Read more about the exhibitions here:
Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2025
February 6–March 9, 2025
With a long legacy dating back to 1857, the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition is one of the most significant open-call juried exhibitions in Europe. Each year, a professional jury selects a wide-ranging array of artists from among the many who submit their work in an open application process.
Reflecting current trends on the art scene, the annual exhibition offers plenty of opportunity to explore the rich diversity of contemporary art, architecture, applied art and design.
This year’s jury, who will also curate the Spring Exhibition, is the multidisciplinary artist and curator collective coyote. The exhibition is organised by the Charlottenborg Foundation in collaboration with Kunsthal Charlottenborg. All artists above 18 can apply until December 22, 2024. Further info here
Banu Cennetoğlu
March 19–August 10, 2025
Istanbul-based artist Banu Cennetoğlu (b. 1970, Ankara) is interested in how the production and distribution of text- and image-based information contributes to shaping our world. Her practice often involves extensive collecting, cataloguing and archiving of materials, which subsequently manifest in carefully composed works with wide-reaching perspectives.
In her first solo exhibition in Denmark, critical investigations of the daily press, the migration flows through Europe and the UN Declaration of Human Rights are brought to dialogue with an extensive private image archive, connecting the small and large events of everyday life with urgent global issues.
The exhibition is curated by Henriette Bretton-Meyer and Katarina Stenbeck and presented in collaboration with CPH:DOX. Further info here
MFA Degree Show 2025
April 12–August 10, 2025
The MFA Degree Show 2025 celebrates the work of 30 artists graduating from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Schools of Visual Arts.
Through a wide array of forms including photography, sculpture, painting, sound, video and performance, this annual exhibition presents individual artistic practices in a curated group show that provides a glimpse into current movements in contemporary art.
The MFA Degree Show 2025 is curated by Mariam Elnozahy, Artistic Director at Konsthall C in Stockholm. Further info here
Future Ours
Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale
June 10–August 10, 2025
Future Ours addresses the future of our planet and presents visions from twenty-one artists and collectives from around the world in the courtyard of Kunsthal Charlottenborg and in streets, train stations and bus stops across Denmark in the summer of 2025.
The exhibition explores how art can serve as a unique tool for critical world-building by proposing new social, political and economic models, reweaving a dialogue between social, economic, and ecological equity for the planetary community at large.
The exhibition is initiated by ART 2030 and Kunsthal Charlottenborg in collaboration with AFA Decaux and curated by Patricia Domínguez, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Jeppe Ugelvig. The exhibition was first presented inside the UN Headquarters and across New York City during the Summit of the Future in September 2024. Further info here
Larissa Sansour
September 26, 2025–January 11, 2026
The past, the present and possible futures meet in the darkly expressive exhibition by the Palestinian-Danish artist Larissa Sansour (b. 1973, East Jerusalem).
In her carefully considered and aesthetically refined video works and installations, Sansour addresses the Palestine issue that has lasted for nearly a century, reframing the history of a people and a homeland on the brink of erasure. Using an experimental and imaginative visual language, she weaves together historical and contemporary politics with imagined realities opening up a space for new ways of thinking about history, loss and trauma.
The exhibition is initiated by Amos Rex, Helsinki, and curated by Terhi Tuomi. Further info here
Practical information
Exhibition programme 2025
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 Copenhagen K
Admission: + 16 90 DKK / Students 50 DKK / 0-15 years free admission / Season pass 150-450 DKK / Free admission Wednesdays 17-20 / Free admissions to all exhibition openings
For more information about the exhibitions, please contact:
Henriette Bretton-Meyer
Acting Director and Curator, Kunsthal Charlottenborg
hbm@kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/ (+45) 3374 4680
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Kunsthal Charlottenborg is one of the largest and most beautiful exhibition spaces for contemporary art in Northern Europe. The exhibition space presents an ambitious program with international outlook featuring talents as well as established stars from both Denmark and abroad. The exhibition program is supplemented with a large number of activities like artist talks, performances, concerts and film screenings.
