Art

ARKEN Museum of Modern Art south of Copenhagen shows exhibitions with the greatest, Modernist and contemporary artists.

Artists have been moving into galleries and studies ever since the 1990s. Today you can visit as many as 25 different artists in the street.

The galleries are open the first Sunday of every month.

With the exhibition From Buddha to the Baroque the Glyptotek will exhibit brewer Carl Jacobsen's unknown collections that reveals a great diversity including both Baroque sculptures and Buddha statues.

The Danish Design Museum in Copenhagen offers displays of decorative art, crafts, and industrial designs from the Western world and Asia from the late Middle Ages and up to the present.

This spring, the Research Programme at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen will operate under  New York-based designers-editors-publishers,

Dexter Sinister (Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt) and Danish thinker-curator-writer Lars Bang Larsen under the compound title 'Dexter Bang Sinister'.

The museum tells the history of Dragør's development.

The museum consists of Havnemuseet and of the fishing vessel Elisabeth K571 that took an active part in saving the Danish Jews during world war 2.

This year the Danish designer Finn Juhl would have turned 100. This causes for a celebration, and so The Art museum Ordrupgaard and the Finn Juhl House invites everybody to come by for a day with tours, jazz and beautiful furnitures.

Gallery for fine art photography.

In the high ceiling and well lit galleries a full range of fine art photography is shown, with an equal emphasis on both classic and contemporary artists of both Danish and international origin.

At the J. F. Willumsens Museum in Frederikssund you can see the collection of artist J. F. Willumsen's painting, drawings, ceramics, sculptures, photographies and architecture.

KØS is Denmark’s only museum of art in public spaces.

Beautiful exhibition hall focusing on contemporary art.

Throughout the year, the Charlottenborg Exhibiton Hall mounts different Danish and international exhibitions of contemporary art, architecture and decorative arts.

Lousiana's changing exhibitions bring world class art to the forefront of the Danish art scene.

You can always be sure to take in refreshing and innovative contemporary art as well as modernist classics when you visit Lousiana.

Visit Denmark’s largest art museum, featuring collections of Danish and international art, from the past 700 years, as well as, contemporary displays.

The National Gallery has special exhibtions for kids and a nice café serving brunch and lunch.

You will find the impressive National Museum of Photography in the basement below the Black Diamond.

The Royal Library has collected an impressive array of photographic materpieces. A careful estimate suggests a collection of more than 50.000 photos.

Experimental and innovative art.

Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, is located in the former Nikolaj Church at Nikolaj Plads in the centre of Copenhagen and functions as the city's exhibition space for contemporary art.

The art museum is founded by the brewer Carl Jacobsen and contains two main departments of ancient and modern art in fabulous architectural surroundings.

You can view collections of Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman art as well as Danish and French paintings and sculptures of the 19th and 20th century.

Ordrupgaard comprises one of Northern Europe's finest collections of French anf Danish art.

A very different integration of old and new architecture can be seen here. The architect, Iraki-born Zaha Hadid, was inspirated by the landscape when designing flowing lines of concrete and glass follow the gentle undulation of the North Sjælland landscape.

Modern portraits at the castle

This is the third year in a row that the J.C. Jacobsen's portrait competition has been held.

This has now resulted in an exhibition with 129 participating portraits at The Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle.

Students from 8 different art schools around the world is exhibiting their works at Projekt8 - a popup art gallery at 8-Tallet in Ørestad.
8-Tallet is awarded the World's best housing.

The Rudolph Tegner Museum and Statue park is the place to by to view the work of Danish sculptor Rudolph Tegner (1873 - 1950).

Rudolph Tegner was viewed as a provocateur at his time, but is today regarded as a ground breaking artist.

Contemporary art gallery showing the future trends and directions of the international art scene.

The GL STRAND Art Gallery has had a solid reputation for ground-breaking exhibitions of Danish and international art for the past 180 years.

This gem of a private collection embraces the largest collection of Islamic art in Scandinavia. Furthermore the collection contains European 18th century fine and applied art - displayed in interiors from the period.

The Kronborg Galleries are a collaboration between numerous galleries all located around Kronborg Castle in Helsingør.

The Hirschsprung Collection, featuring masterpieces by the Skagen Painters in Copenhagen.

The museum is built around the personal art collection of Heinrich Hirschsprung, a tobacco manufacturer, who donated his collection to the Danish state in 1902.

The National Historic Museum, located at the scenic Frederiksborg Castle, shows many years of Danish history.

The Museum offers a chronological collection including portraits, historical paintings, furniture, art industry, highlighting the history of Denmark from Christianity's introduction to today.

Embark on a historical time-travel adventure at the National Museum.

The museum boasts a very large ethnographical Collections, a Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities, a Coin- and Medal Collection, and a Toy Museum. Also, you can visit a Victorian apartment, practically unchanged since 1890.