Christmas at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
18 Dec 2024
Experience our current exhibitions and film programme between Christmas and New Year. Please note special opening hours.
New film program about America
29 Oct 2024
The American people will cast their vote on 5 November 2024. To mark the occasion, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents a series of short films by artists that home in on the America that is heading to the ballot.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg reopens this autumn with a major opening party
9 Sep 2024
Friday 27 September, Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites to a new season with a grand opening party and two very different exhibitions. This year's major themed exhibition on artificial intelligence and the first exhibition in Scandinavia with the New Zealand sculptor Francis Upritchard.
CHART 2024
27 Aug 2024
Look forward to the weekend at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, when CHART opens its doors to this year’s art fair. The program offers a variety of exhibitions, talks, a book fair, and an extensive public program with events in the courtyards of Charlottenborg featuring music, performances, architecture, and installation artworks.
ART 2030 and Kunsthal Charlottenborg Announces Public Art Exhibition Across New York in Response to United Nations ‘Summit of the Future’
22 Aug 2024
Co-Curated by Patricia Domínguez, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Jeppe Ugelvig FUTURE OURS is a large-scale public art project showcasing leading contemporary artists’ visions of a sustainable future.
Join the opening of this summer’s major exhibition with sculpture professor Simon Dybbroe Møller
22 May 2024
Friday 7 June, Kunsthal Charlottenborg opens its doors to the most comprehensive solo exhibition with Simon Dybbroe Møller to date. The opening is celebrated with free admission and a talk with the Danish artist and professor of Sculpture at The Royal Academy of Arts.
Internationally acclaimed Danish artist explores the boundary between the photograph and the physical body
6 May 2024
Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents Thick & Thin, a survey of the work of Danish artist and Sculpture School Professor Simon Dybbroe Møller from the past twenty years. The exhibition is the most comprehensive overview of Dybbroe Møller’s practice to date and includes several new works as well as earlier ones that have been restaged and reconfigured for the exhibition.
Simon Dybbroe Møller presents his most extensive solo exhibition to date
7 Mar 2024
This summer, visitors to Kunsthal Charlottenborg will be treated to the largest-ever institutional solo presentation of the work of Danish artist Simon Dybbroe Møller. Thick & Thin will present works from the last twenty years of the internationally acclaimed artist’s conceptual and rigorous practice – through thick and thin, as it were.
CPH:DOX 2024 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
29 Feb 2024
Kunsthal Charlottenborg forms the headquarters for Copenhagen's international documentary film festival CPH:DOX taking place 13 – 24 March 2024.
Join the exhibition opening with Thao Nguyen Phan when CPH:DOX kicks off
28 Feb 2024
Wednesday 13 March, Kunsthal Charlottenborg opens its doors to the solo exhibition with world-renowned artist Thao Nguyen Phan to coincide with CPH:DOX.
Charlottenborg Live returns in 2024
23 Feb 2024
After 32 well-attended Wednesdays with a focus on contemporary art, Kunsthal Charlottenborg now offers a new series of evenings with Charlottenborg Live throughout the year.
Thao Nguyen Phan opens her first solo show in Scandinavia at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
3 Jan 2024
On the occasion of CPH:DOX, Copenhagen’s international documentary film festival, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents a solo show with Thao Nguyen Phan from 13 March 2024. Internationally recognized for her combined use of moving image, painting, and sculpture, the visual artist creates dreamlike and poetic narratives that trace the history of her country in relation to contemporary environmental and social changes.
Exhibition program 2024
6 Dec 2023
Kunsthal Charlottenborg announces its exhibition program for the new year, featuring internationally recognized artists, a large-scale exhibition on artificial intelligence as well as a large number of talents from the Nordic countries and abroad.
Fourteen contemporary artists create works inspired by Charlottenborg’s history
20 Sep 2023
Kunsthal Charlottenborg celebrates its 140th anniversary in 2023. The occasion is marked by this autumn’s major exhibition Full of Days opening Friday 29 September at 17.00-22.00.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg hires Technical Manager from Tate
5 Sep 2023
In November 2023, Tom Ketteringham will start as new Technical Exhibition Coordinator at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. He comes from a position as Technical Manager at Tate St Ives, which is part of the Tate museums in England, one of the world’s largest and most professional art institutions.
Botanical histories are connected with colonial legacies in new exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
24 Aug 2023
15 September Kunsthal Charlottenborg will open its doors for the autumn season presenting the international group exhibition Seeds and Souls featuring artists from Australia, Barbados, Cameroon, India, Mauritius, United Kingdom, Venezuela and more.
CHART 2023
16 Aug 2023
Taking place from 24 – 27 August 2023, Charlottenborg will be the center of CHART, the leading event for contemporary art in the Nordic region. The program comprises a rich offering of exhibitions, talks, performances, music, film screenings, public art installations as well as the third edition of the art book fair.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg rewrites history in the autumn exhibitions
8 Aug 2023
Look forward to experiencing a comprehensive exhibition on the occasion of the art center’s 140th anniversary, as well as an international group exhibition that connects botanical histories with human and cultural movements through time.
Legendary artist group presents special exhibition in a shop during Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale
22 Jun 2023
The 2023 edition of Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale will occupy a store in central Copenhagen with a special display of the pioneering artwork AIDS by the legendary artist group General Idea. The installation opens Friday 23 June at 14.00-16.00.
What would artists advertise today?
12 Jun 2023
In close collaboration with the curators Hans Ulrich Obrist and Jeppe Ugelvig, Kunsthal Charlottenborg launches its third biennale, Public Structures. The international art exhibition opens Friday 23 June at 11.00-16.00.
Alexander Tovborg transforms Charlottenborg into a church
25 May 2023
This summer, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the most extensive solo show to date featuring Danish artist Alexander Tovborg. The exhibition The Church opens Friday 9 June 17.00-22.00.
Winners found for major exhibition about Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s history
15 May 2023
In 2023, Kunsthal Charlottenborg celebrates its 140thanniversary. To mark the occasion, last spring Charlottenborg launched a competition to find the curator(s) for an upcoming exhibition to delve into the venue’s history. Now, the winners of the competition are announced.
Easter at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
22 Mar 2023
Enjoy the Easter days at Kongens Nytorv with art, market, good food and spring vibes in the city. Remember, we are open on Easter Monday.
CPH:DOX 2023 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
1 Mar 2023
Kunsthal Charlottenborg turns as tradition into the headquarter of CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival 15 – 26 March 2023. During the festival, experience a comprehensive program of film screenings, talks and an interactive exhibition.
Jeremy Deller takes over Kunsthal Charlottenborg in his first solo exhibition in Scandinavia
23 Feb 2023
On the occasion of CPH:DOX, Copenhagen’s international documentary film festival, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents a solo exhibition with the award-winning British artist Jeremy Deller. The opening takes place on 17 March and presents a special evening with the artist.
Look forward to a multitude of art experiences in 2023 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
14 Dec 2022
In the new year, you can experience everything from Alexander Tovborg's monumental paintings to Jeremy Deller's documentary look at our times, biennale all over the country as well as works by a wide range of talents and established stars from both Denmark and abroad.
Open Call: Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2023
15 Nov 2022
For 166th time the Charlottenborg Foundation invites everyone to apply to the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition is one of the most important open submission exhibitions in Northern Europe and has been held annually since 1857.
Free guided tours
28 Sep 2022
This Autumn, join us for free guided tours every Wednesday at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
Temporarily changed opening hours
9 Sep 2022
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is open Tuesday-Sunday at 12.00-17.00 until 16 September 2022.
New mural in Copenhagen asks the question: Can you own a colour?
8 Sep 2022
Danish artist Hannibal Andersen has created a new mural for Copenhagen. Made using two specific colours – ‘Grundfos red’ and ‘Maersk blue’ – the mural takes its starting point in an artwork consisting of so-called ‘colour marks’ associated with forty international companies. The exhibition opens on 21 September.