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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is closed 14 – 22 March during the installation of CPH:DOX 2022 that begins 23 March.
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.
Six contemporary art institutions in Copenhagen have joined forces to create the 24-hour performance art festival, Art in a Day. On June 24 the Danish capital will be transformed into a cornucopia of performance art with original showings by prominent artists like Arvida Byström, Henrik Vibskov, Monster Chetwynd, and Tosh Basco (formerly known as boychild).
In 2022, visitors at Kunsthal Charlottenborg can look forward to exhibitions with New Red Order, Jeannette Ehlers and Cao Fei.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is closed from 31 August – 20 September during the installation of this autumn's three exhibitions.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to announce the first solo exhibition in Scandinavia with the French-Algerian artist Mohamed Bourouissa. The charged legacies of colonialism, and contemporary realities of racial and socioeconomic inequality, are present throughout Bourouissa’s work.
In collaboration with art institutions from all over the country, Kunsthal Charlottenborg has launched bicycle routes for art experiences. The cycle routes have been created in collaboration with Art Museum Brandts, Esbj
Laure Prouvost has taken audiences and critics by storm after the opening of the exhibition 'Our elastic arm hold in tight through the claouds' – a total installation incorporating a new major film work. On the occasion of the exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg now presents a very special film programme presenting a selection of the artist’s works, on from 1 June – 4 July 2021 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg’ cinema.
Wind-turbine blades cut into slices, magnetic prayer wheels and sexualised icon paintings are some of the elements featured in Lea Porsager’s solo show STRIPPED, opening June 11 and is on throughout the summer at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
This spring, Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to reopen April 21 with the first solo exhibition in Scandinavia with Turner Prize winning artist Laure Prouvost who represented France at the 58th International Art Biennial in Venice. The exhibition 'Our elastic arm hold in tight through the claouds' presents a new film work and coincides with this year’s programme at CPH:DOX.
On Wednesday April 21, Kunsthal Charlottenborg opens the doors to the opening of two completely new exhibitions with the Turner Prize winning artist Laure Prouvost and this year's graduation exhibition from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts' School of Fine Arts.
CPH:DOX 2020 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg is unfortunately canceled. Instead, the documentary film festival now offers a virtual cinema that audience can attend from home. Choose from 40 films from this year's festival and experience live debates and talks 18 - 29 March.
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.
Kunsthal Charlotteborg reopens Friday on May 29 with DIS: 'What Do People Do All Day" and June 12 with “Community of Parting” by Jane Jin Kaysen.
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.
After a fully sold out start for Charlottenborg Live in the beginning of the year, the presale now opens for a new series of live talks, performances, guided tours, author meetings and long table dinners during spring 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.