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.
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.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg forms the headquarters for Copenhagen's international documentary film festival CPH:DOX taking place 13 – 24 March 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
During the first half of 2020, Kunsthal Charlottenborg will present a group exhibition curated by the New York-based artists’ collective DIS, a solo show featuring internationally acclaimed artist Jane Jin Kaisen, focusing on her overwhelming film work from the Venice Biennale, and exhibitions featuring up-and-coming artists from all over the world.
In collaboration with Gyldendal and Apollo Bar, Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you for eight evenings with live talks, performances, guided tours of the current exhibitions, author meetings and long table dinners. Charlottenborg Live takes place every Wednesday from October 23 - December 11, 2019.
Art & Porn marks the fiftieth anniversary of the legalisation of visual pornography and shows how the relationship between pornography and art has developed over the past five decades. What are the implications of changing the boundaries of what citizens may experience in public space? The comprehensive group exhibition is produced in collaboration with ARoS and presents a number of new incorporated works, when the exhibition opens 4 October 2019 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
On Friday 20 September 5-8pm the exhibitions 'Confessions of the Piping System’ and 'Seductive Exacting Realism' will open at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. The solo exhibitions with the Czech artist Eva Koťátková and the Serbian artist Irena Haiduk will be celebrated with free admission and bubbles for the first arriving at the opening.
14 June, Kunsthal Charlottenborg opens its doors to this summer’s big exhibition 'Servitudes'. The solo exhibition with Jesper Just is celebrated with a talk, official opening and party.
From Wednesday 20 March through Sunday 31 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, VR experiences, an interactive exhibition and the exhibition 'Europa Endlos'.
In the group exhibition 'Europa Endlos' a number of today’s most prominent artists such as Monica Bonvicini, Jeremy Deller, Olafur Eliasson, Fischli Weiss, Bouchra Khalili and Wolfgang Tillmans are occupied with themes such as identity, borders, community and migration. The exhibition is curated by Henriette Bretton-Meyer and opens on Thursday 21 March at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in collaboration with the documentary film festival CPH:DOX.
In January 2019 Halfdan Pisket won the award for best comic in Festival International de la Bande Dessinée. Now, the award-winning comic 'Dansker-Triologien' can be experienced at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. The opening takes place Thursday 7 February at 5-7pm.
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.
The European humanitarian crisis is the central narrative in the German born artist Angela Melitopoulos’ comprehensive video- and sound installation ’Crossings’, which is presented for the first time in Scandinavia from 22 November 2018 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
At one of Copenhagen's most well-attended cultural events, Kulturnatten 12 October, a five meter tall golden egg with a sauna inside lands in the middle of Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s courtyard. The prize-winning golden egg titled ‘Solar Egg’ is a social sculpture created by the Swedish art duo Bigert & Bergström for Riksbyggen. Visitors will be able to book sauna appointments three days a week during the exhibition period until 13 January 2019.