Copenhagen Contemporary (CC) is Copenhagen’s international art center showing installation art created by world stars and new emerging talentsIt occupies the magnificent former B&W welding hall offering a total of 7,000 m2 of beautiful industrial halls with plenty of space to show the technical and large formats in which many contemporary artists work: total installations, performance art, and monumental video works. Art that can often be entered and sensed with the whole body.
Copenhagen Contemporary is one of Scandinavia’s largest exhibition venues for contemporary art and a lively meeting place for a wide audience. CC creates collaborative partnerships and organises events with a number of different partners across cultural genres locally and internationally. You can attend art talks, art walks, concerts, creative workshops for children, visit CC’s own shop offering Scandinavian design, and experience the unique and historical city district of Refshaleøen.
Situated centrally in B&W’s iconic welding hall, CC is an international power hub in Copenhagen’s new cultural district. The special quality of this area continues to be defined by its industrial history: the area is raw and green with commanding views across Copenhagen Harbour. The district is a mix of first-class gourmet restaurants and small entrepreneurial initiatives; you can go for a dip in the sea, for a sauna, enjoy a glass of wine, and eat grilled food, buy quality bread and visit Copenhagen’s most popular food market with stalls from across the world and lounge areas by the water’s edge. Not forgetting the climbing, skating,and skiing activities, the flea market, and the theatre and music festivals, which are just some of the many activities this area has to offer.
Exhibtions (copenhagencontemporary.org):
Soft Robots – The Art of Digital Breathing - 20 June – 31 December 2025The exhibition explores how emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and synthetic biology shape our lives and identities. Fifteen artists and artist duos present works that reflect on the relationship between humans and machines, with a poetic and critical approach to the digital age. Inspired by H.C. Andersen’s The Nightingale and pan-Asian philosophies, the exhibition asks whether breath and soul can still be found in future landscapes filled with avatars and seductive machines. Several works are newly created for the exhibition, including pieces developed through the Collide Copenhagen residency in collaboration with CERN.CC Create x Monster Chetwynd – A Feather in your Hat – 13.04.25 – 01.03.26Experience Monster Chetwynd’s spectacular total installation in Hall 4, where her legendary DIY aesthetic is combined with humor, imagination, and grotesque elements. At the center is the Big Red Hat Shop, inviting visitors into the artist’s creative universe through hats, masks, and performative actions. The exhibition is the first chapter of CC Create, transforming Hall 4 into an open studio for play, learning, and co-creation, where hosts help guests explore their creativity.
Project: Gun Gordillo – 16.12.24 – 31.12.25For over 50 years, Gun Gordillo has worked with light as an artistic material and is internationally recognized as a pioneer in light art. Inspired by a trip to Egypt in 1974, neon light became central to her works, where it is combined with materials such as lead, stone, metal, and plexiglass. Her art explores the tension between weight and lightness, presence and absence, and the neon light adds a special energy and movement to the works. Copenhagen Contemporary is exhibiting three of Gordillo’s works, showcasing her unique ability to create magical, ever-changing spaces with light.
Alia Farid – A Sounding of the Earth – 03.10.25 – 06.04.26In October 2025, Glyptoteket and Copenhagen Contemporary open the exhibition A Sounding of the Earth—the first solo exhibition in Denmark by Alia Farid. The exhibition, the artist’s largest in Scandinavia, explores the terrain and cultural heritage of the Arabian Gulf, shaped by both ancient history and modern conflicts. Farid combines handmade and industrial objects to highlight the region’s complex history and ecological changes. The exhibition is part of Hosting Histories, where contemporary artists rethink Middle Eastern cultural heritage. Farid’s works challenge simplified narratives and show how materials and stories are transformed through migration, the oil industry, and archaeology.