Danish museums have opened a crowded autumn programme, led by Louisiana’s shows on Tracey Emin and Remedios Varo and a Design Museum exhibition devoted to Henrik Vibskov. Major openings also span Copenhagen, Aarhus and the towns around the capital, covering fashion, design, ancient history and contemporary art.
Louisiana in Humlebæk, about 40 kilometres north of Copenhagen, opened its Remedios Varo exhibition on 18 September, the first major museum show of her work in Europe. Its Tracey Emin exhibition opened on Thursday 8 October and covers painting, drawing, sculpture, textile, film and installation. In Copenhagen, the Design Museum’s Henrik Vibskov: The Exhibition brings together music, scenography, costumes, installations and fashion, and Museum Ordrupgaard, north of the city, hosts the annual Cabinetmakers’ Autumn Exhibition, this year themed Light & Form, with work by 88 designers, architects and manufacturers.
Elsewhere in the capital, SMK’s Couple’s Therapy presents four artist duos working in sculpture, installation, video and performance on community and connection. Thorvaldsens Museum opened Life, Longing & Landscape on 9 September, showing paintings from Bertel Thorvaldsen’s private collection that were displayed when the museum opened in 1848. Glyptoteket’s The Power of Fashion in the Roman Empire looks at colour, dress, jewellery and perfume across more than 1,000 square metres, the largest special antiquity exhibition in its history. Kunsthal Charlottenborg runs three shows until 21 February: sculptures by Amalie Smith, photographs by Jochen Lempert and video installations by Som Supaparinya.
The War Museum’s SIRIUS – On Patrol in the Arctic, opening on 7 October, follows the dog sledge patrol in northeast Greenland, where two men, one sled and 13 dogs cover 5,000 kilometres in temperatures as low as minus 50C. Moesgaard, south of Aarhus, opens Maya – The Realm Beneath the Jungle on 9 October, drawing on recent research into the civilisation, with sections on ruler temples, the rainforest and cornfields.
In Aarhus, ARoS pairs a Collection Favourites display, with works by Olafur Eliasson, Ron Mueck, Rose Eken, Shirin Neshat, Bill Viola and Tony Oursler, with Freedom’s Fall: Art from Germany 1910–1945, which brings more than 70 works from Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, by artists including Otto Dix, Hannah Höch, Kandinsky, Klee and Käthe Kollwitz, several of them once banned or confiscated by the Nazi regime. ARKEN in Ishøj shows Animoid by Ann Lislegaard, who uses digital technology and 3D animation to make science fiction-inspired paintings, sculptures and light installations, and Ordrupgaard’s The Call of Finland features paintings by Pekka Halonen.
