Dansk Arkitektur Center /
Danish Architecture Center,
Bryghuspladsen 10, 1473 Copenhagen

As with the exhibition of drawings at the Museum of Copenhagen, the English title for this exhibition is slightly ambiguous whereas the Danish title nails it. Backstage implies something more of the nuts and bolts of what happens through the process of designing and building …. Bag facaden - or Behind the Facade - is much more about the ideas and the discussions and the concept behind the obvious public face of the building …. it’s facade.

The exhibition is arranged into a number of major themes that explore the concepts and the concerns that are driving forward Danish architecture and the headings or titles for these sections …. including Cities are for people; Status quo is dead; Nature is back; Light brings Life and I am my home …. indicate some of the ideas explored.

Bag facaden / Backstage
Dansk Arkitektur Center / Danish Architecture Center

Rigsdagsgården, Christiansborg, København

An exhibition in the great courtyard in front of the entrance to the parliament building. There is access at any time as the courtyard and the route through Christiansborg is open to all pedestrians and cyclists.

There are tours of Slotsholmen with guides from Teatermuseet i Hofteatret / the Theatre Museum and the Court Theatre.

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Det skjulte Slotsholmen
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Dansk Arkitektur Center / Danish Architecture Center,
Bryghuspladsen 10, 1473 Copenhagen

This is an exhibition about how Danish children learn to take good design for granted but in that process learn that good architecture and the best possible design is a crucial part of their lives.

Kids’ City at DAC

note:
following the long closure because of the coronavirus restrictions, the exhibition will continue until the middle of October

Designmuseum Danmark, Bredgade 68, Copenhagen

the design of nightclubs and discotheques from the 1960s onwards …. an exhibition from Vitra Design Museum and ADAM - Brussels Design Museum

NIGHT FEVER at Designmuseum Danmark

note:
with coronavirus restrictions, Designmuseum Danmark is currently closed. Check the online site of the museum for information

A major exhibition of painting in Denmark from the early 19th century to the 1860s … between the disaster of the attack on Copenhagen by the British in September 1807 - when much of the city was destroyed - and October 1864 and the second war with Germany over Danish lands in Schleswig Holstein.

Danish Golden Age
Statens Museum for Kunst

people fleeing to Christianshavn to escape the burning city
as British war ships bombarded Copenhagen in September 1807
illustrated by C W Eckersberg

Øksnehallen, Halmtorvet 11, 1700 København

A survey in photographs that traces the course of graffiti in Copenhagen from the street culture around Hip Hop in the mid 1980s through to today. includes some sketches by the artists and contemporary newspaper articles

Designmuseum Danmark, Bredgade 68, Copenhagen

A major reassessment conceived by the Vitra Design Museum and Bundeskunsthalle Bonn to mark 100 years since the opening of the Bauhaus school of architecture and design.

Designmuseum Danmark

Nationalmuseet / The National Museum,
Prinsens Palæ, Ny Vestergade 10, 1471 Copenhagen K

Thirty objects to show trends or mark events that have had an impact on and in some ways might represent life in Denmark over the 17 years since the beginning of this century. Fifteen objects are from the collection of the museum and fifteen were selected by a committee from objects suggested by the public.

The exhibition continues through to 2020

Nationalmuseet

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art,
Gammel Strandvej 13, Humlebæk

With more than 200 works including paintings, film, music, literature, photographs, maps and scientific instruments, this major exhibition looks at the myths about the Moon; at the way the Moon has been shown in art and at scientific observations and study over centuries leading to the Moon landing fifty years ago.

Louisiana

This is an important and inspiring exhibition at the Danish Architecture Centre in Copenhagen that is primarily about the importance of community involvement at all levels in our cities - from making them really work day to day at the street or district level right through to being involved in major planning decisions.

The introduction panel sets this objective out very clearly … the “right to form our cities is something special. It is a product of a political development, but also the result of idealists all through history having challenged what and how a city could and should be - even when it was not formally possible. Citizens have come up with good ideas, gained support and fought for a better city. And not out of a sense of duty, but because they simply can not help themselves. They want to make something of their city, and they would like us to be part of that journey.”

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An exhibition about future housing in Copenhagen and its role in a city and in a welfare society that is undergoing change.

Collaboration between Royal DanisAcademy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture and the Danish Building Research Institute

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