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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.

Laure Prouvost creates an escapist universe at Kunsthal Charlottenborg where we can dream of embracing each other again

7 Apr 2021

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.

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.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg opens the doors to Art & Porn in Copenhagen

15 Sep 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.

International group exhibition puts Europe and the EU on the agenda this spring at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

4 Mar 2019

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.

Five meter tall golden egg with a sauna inside opens at Copenhagen’s Culture Night

26 Sep 2018

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.

Giant artworks from BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group’s architecture set to wow visitors at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

16 Aug 2018

Kunsthal Charlottenborg kicks off the autumn season with it's most comprehensive exhibition of large-scale contemporary art to date: 'Big Art'. Art works by some of the most acclaimed artists in the world, including Ai Weiwei, Douglas Coupland, Jeppe Hein, Julie Edel Hardenberg, SUPERFLEX and Lars von Trier, are exhibited at 1:1 scale – the original size of the art envisioned for BIG’s buildings and urban projects globally. The exhibition is presented from 21 September 2018 - 13 January 2019.