Christmas at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
18 Dec 2024
Experience our current exhibitions and film programme between Christmas and New Year. Please note special opening hours.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Opening of Golden Days Festival
26 Aug 2022
This year Golden Days marks the 50 years anniversary of HM The Queen of Denmark’s accession to the throne with the festival QUEENS – an occasion to celebrate the role of women in Denmark, from past to present.
International group exhibition addresses the nature of production, consumption and wealth in the 21st century
24 Aug 2022
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to present this autumn’s major exhibition Post-Capital. The exhibition takes its starting point at the inherent paradox within a capitalist system that is both dependent upon and threatened by technological progress. The official opening takes place on 16 September 2022.
Chart 2022
23 Aug 2022
Taking place from 26 – 28 August 2022, Kunsthal Charlottenborg will once again house CHART Art Fair. The program comprises a rich offering of talks, performances, music, film screenings, public art installations as well as the second edition of the art book fair.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is closed until CHART 2022
8 Aug 2022
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is temporarily closed until CHART 2022, which this year will be held on 26-28 August.
Art Week 2022 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
2 Jun 2022
Art Week 2022 takes place 9 – 19 June and at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, you can experience a packed program of exhibition openings, performances, talks, film screenings and guided tours.
International art exhibition takes over significant places in Copenhagen
23 May 2022
This summer, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents an exhibition that moves out of the galleries and on to selected locations in the city of Copenhagen. Intensity and intimacy are in focus, and audience can look forward to great art experiences when a number of internationally leading video and performance artists create works for the city's scenic spaces and halls.
Art in a Day reveals full program for 24 hours of performance art throughout Copenhagen
17 May 2022
The full program for the first annual Art in a Day is ready. On June 24, a plethora of artistic performances will take place throughout Copenhagen. Renowned international artists, such as VALIE EXPORT, Peaches, Wu Tsang, and Martin Creed, are set to participate in this spectacular celebration of performance art.
Jeannette Ehlers interweaves the spiritual, rebellious and poetic in her largest solo show to date
9 May 2022
In recent years, Jeannette Ehlers has taken on a key role in the Danish art world by raising awareness of Denmark’s past as a colonial power. She is particularly known as the co-creator of the monument I Am Queen Mary in the Port of Copenhagen. Over the summer, Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s visitors can explore her insistently powerful works, in which she points to connections that reach across continents, oceans, and human destinies.
New Red Order connects Indigenous peoples from Oceania to Scandinavia in new international group exhibition
21 Mar 2022
Kunsthal Charlottenborg has invited New Red Order to curate an international group exhibition and a brand new film programme on the occasion of CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival. The exhibition occupies the entire north wing from March 23 - August 7 2022 and connects artists, works and experiences from different places around the world including California, Canada, Greenland, Hawaii and Scandinavia.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is closed until CPH:DOX
13 Mar 2022
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is closed 14 – 22 March during the installation of CPH:DOX 2022 that begins 23 March.
CPH:DOX finally returns to Kunsthal Charlottenborg
11 Mar 2022
After two years of pandemic, Kunsthal Charlottenborg turns as tradition into the headquarter of CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, 23 March – 3 April 2022.