
Photo: Copenhagen Contemporary

Photo: Copenhagen Contemporary

Photo: Copenhagen Contemporary

Photo: Copenhagen Contemporary

Photo: Lukas Bukoven

Photo: Lukas Bukoven

Photo: Lukas Bukoven

Photo: David Stjernholm
Copenhagen Contemporary
Copenhagen Contemporary (CC) is Copenhagen’s international art center showing installation art created by world stars and new emerging talents
It 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):
Emma Talbot: Are You a Living Thing That Is Dying or a Dying Thing That Is Living? - 1.2 - 31.8.25
British artist Emma Talbot creates vibrant, poetic fantasy worlds that explore human existence in a connected and ever-changing universe. Her first solo exhibition in Denmark presents a captivating installation featuring monumental silk paintings, three-dimensional textile works, animation, and intricate drawings.
Talbot’s works intertwine the mysteries of the universe with the urgent ecological and political challenges of our time. Through a naked, faceless figure—a symbolic stand-in for the artist—she invites us into a dreamlike narrative that encourages reflection on sustainability, resilience, and humanity’s place within the natural cycle.
The exhibition poses an existential question: Are you a living thing that is dying, or a dying thing that is living?
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Opening Hours
02.01.2025 - 23.12.2025:Monday: closed
Tuesday: closed
Wednesday: 11:00 - 18:00
Thursday: 11:00 - 21:00
Friday: 11:00 - 18:00
Saturday: 11:00 - 18:00
Sunday: 11:00 - 18:00
Location
Refshalevej 173A
1432 København K
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Wheelchair Accessible