Easter at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
22 Mar 2024
Visit Kunsthal Charlottenborg during the holidays and immerse yourself in Thao Nguyen Phan's poetic and dreamy exhibition that has just opened.
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.
Christmas at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
20 Dec 2023
Experience our current exhibitions and film program between Christmas and New Year. Please note special opening hours.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is temporarily closed
27 Aug 2023
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is closed 27 August - 15 september during the installation of this autumn's exhibitions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Create your own version of historic painting in unique VR experience at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
30 Aug 2022
All images are seen from a specific point of view that is never neutral. But how does a given point of view actually affect our way of looking at the world? The new VR experience The Female Gaze lets audiences create their own version of an iconic artwork. The Female Gaze can be experienced during Golden Days Festival 3 - 18 September 2022.
How would you curate the history of Kunsthal Charlottenborg?
17 Jan 2022
OPEN CALL: In 2023, Kunsthal Charlottenborg will celebrate its 140th anniversary. To mark the occasion, Kunsthal Charlottenborg now launch a competition to find the right curator(s) to arrange an upcoming exhibition that will tell the story and history of the exhibition building.
Charlottenborg Art Cinema presents The Why
18 Oct 2021
Charlottenborg Art Cinema presents WHY PLASTIC? is a three-part investigative documentary series about the causes, consequences and possible solutions to plastic pollution.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s first biennale focuses on poetry all over Denmark
18 Oct 2021
In close collaboration with Manchester International Festival and the curators Hans Ulrich Obrist & Lemn Sissay, Kunsthal Charlottenborg launches its first biennale titled Poet Slash Artist. The international art exhibition is shown in the streets, train stations and bus stops all over Denmark.
Connect your body with the world on Culture Night at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
1 Oct 2021
Does your body know what time it is? Are you affected by what you grandparents ate? How is your bacteria today? Hvad will you wear, when you go on your first spacetrip? Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Medical Museion put full spotlight on our major exhibition this fall 'The World is in You' for the whole family on Culture Night Friday 15. October from 6 pm - 12 am.
Art Week 2021 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
23 Sep 2021
Art Week takes place from 28. Sep - 3. Oct, and at Kunsthal Charlottenborg you can experience a program with both guided art tours at Christiania, opening of a new exhibition, talk, and filmscreening.
Internationally acclaimed artist Mohamed Bourouissa portrays masculine culture in disadvantaged communities
16 Sep 2021
In a few weeks, Kunsthal Charlottenborg will present a solo exhibition featuring French-Algerian artist Mohamed Bourouissa. Working in the field where documentary and fiction intersect, Bourouissa uses photography, rap music and other modes of expression to call attention to the peripheries of society and challenge the mainstream media’s portrayals of young people from ethnic minority backgrounds. Widely exhibited around the world, the artist was awarded the British Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize last year.
‘DO IT’: CREATE ART AT HOME DURING THE PANDEMIC
25 Jan 2021
55 international artists have created instructions for works of art that you can make yourself at home. Kunsthal Charlottenborg is now launching the concept 'Do it (home)' in Denmark, working in collaboration with Independent Curators International (ICI) in New York and the world-renowned curator Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is temporarily closed
8 Dec 2020
Due to the new Covid-19 restrictions in Denmark, Kunsthal Charlottenborg will be closed until 28 February 2021.
CHARLOTTENBORG ART CINEMA presents ‘Aftershocks’ curated by Mai Takawira
2 Jul 2020
This film programme presents a number of selected documentaries, records and video works which call attention to aftershocks that are local in nature and/or connected to ‘a Danish reality.’ The series launches interventions into the museum space, the written word, the archives, the asylum system and the EU border control policy.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg launches streaming platform DIS.ART in Denmark
13 Mar 2020
In collaboration with DIS, Tranen and CPH:DOX, Kunsthal Charlottenborg will make all films and series on the streaming platform DIS.ART available free of charge for all people in Denmark until September 1, 2020.
CPH:DOX at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
6 Mar 2020
From Wednesday 18 March through Sunday 29 March, Kunsthal Charlottenborg transforms into the head quarter for the documentary film festival CPH:DOX. During the festival, you can experience film screenings, concerts, talks, and the exhibition 'DIS presents: What Do People Do All Day?’ opening 19 March.
Groundbreaking New York-based artists’ collective opens video exhibition during CPH: DOX
20 Feb 2020
The internationally renowned artists’ collective DIS, who curated the 9th Berlin Biennale, are now coming to Copenhagen. The exhibition DIS presents: What Do People Do All Day? shows a selection of spectacular video works from the newly developed video platform dis.art as well as cinematic settings and installations that question the future of society – and what we humans do in our everyday lives to influence that future. The exhibition is created by Kunsthal Charlottenborg in collaboration with Tranen – Space for Contemporary Art and opens on Thursday, 19 March 2020 5-10pm as part of CPH: DOX.
International acclaimed artist takes a satirical look at power, desire and global politics in new exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
11 Oct 2019
In his first-ever solo show in Denmark, the artist, writer, director and professor Roee Rosen presents his 'Vladimir’s Night' series and the film 'The Dust Channel', which was previously shown at documenta 14. 'The Mosquito-Mouse and Other Hybrids' will be on display at Kunsthal Charlottenborg from 31 October.
Rising Czech star Eva Koťátková ready with her first solo exhibition in Scandinavia
23 Aug 2019
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to present the first solo exhibition in Scandinavia with the emerging contemporary artist Eva Koťátková. 'Confessions of the Piping System' opens at Kunsthal Charlottenborg 20 September.
Opening of Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019
31 Jan 2019
Friday 1 February the Charlottenborg Foundation and Kunsthal Charlottenborg open the doors to the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019. The opening will take place from 7pm, the admission is free and everyone is welcome.
Rising star Alicja Kwade ready with her first Danish solo exhibition
3 Sep 2018
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to present the first major solo exhibition in Denmark with the emerging contemporary artist Alicja Kwade. ’Out of Ousia’ is the title of the international acclaimed artist’s poetic sculptural universe, which is presented at Kunsthal Charlottenborg from 20 September.
New bike route takes you to great art works in Copenhagen
4 Jul 2018
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is launching its BIKE ART TOUR – a new, curated bike route that takes you to ten public works of art created by contemporary artists such as BIG & SUPERFLEX, Eva Koch and John Kørner. The objective is to highlight leading examples of Danish contemporary art to all those who occupy and visit Copenhagen – locals and tourists alike.