Exhibitions
Water is Coming
October 7, 2024 – March 23, 2025
Poles are melting, groundwater is rising, and torrential rain is flooding roads and houses. It’s no longer a question of if, but when the water is coming – and how we adapt.
So Danish!
Denmark’s national gallery of architecture
So Danish! is Danish Architecture Center’s first permanent exhibition on Danish architecture. The exhibition unfolds the history of Danish architecture from the Viking Age to present day and gives you the opportunity to travel into the architecture and understand how absolutely vital it is to our democratic society.
Teenage Dreams
June 12, 2024 – January 5, 2025
The exhibition Teenage Dreams offers a glimpse into the future of teenage bedrooms. Designing for teenagers means designing for a generation whose values will shape our future. Experience three installations by talented young Danish designers. These installations offer insights into how contemporary challenges impact and alter teenagers’ needs and desires for their personal spaces.
True Nature
May 24, 2024 – February 23, 2025
Fire dam. Depot landscape. Flood barriers. Visual artist and architect Christina Capetillo is fascinated by the man-made landscape that characterizes our contemporary world. Experience her pragmatic yet poetic black and white landscape photographs in the exhibition.
Note! This is a small-scale photo exhibition
CPH in Common – mini
From June 1, 2024
This small scale exhibition is a distillation of our large, critically acclaimed 2023 exhibition Copenhagen in Common.
Read more about CPH in Common – mini
Note! This is a free mini exhibition
Permanent installations
DAC Slide
Permanent art installation
Challenge your senses on a unique 40-meter, 4-story spiral slide.
The City Map
Aerial photo of Copenhagen
Start your exploration of Copenhagen’s architecture on the floor just beneath BLOX. Here, you can walk around on a gigantic aerial photo of the city and get a complete overview.
We Dare You
Permanent VR installation
Do you dare to take the plunge? We challenge you to an out-of-building experience in virtual reality.
Upcoming exhibitions
Danish Design Award 2024
November 20, 2024 – March 9, 2025
Danish Design Award showcases innovative ideas on how we can create positive change for both people and the planet, and it is precisely this type of design solution that is celebrated in this award.
Nanna Ditzel: Breaking free
January 23 – May 11, 2025
Explore Nanna Ditzel’s groundbreaking designs centered on freedom and movement. The exhibition presents some of Ditzel’s most iconic designs. Designs that challenge our ideas of traditional furniture and let us discover new ways of experiencing the body and spending time together.
Around the world
La Biennale di Venezia 2025
2025
Venice, Italy
Architect Søren Pihlmann has been selected as the curator for the Danish Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2025. The exhibition at the Danish pavilion will seek to answer the question: “Can we keep on building the world without building anew?”
La Biennale di Venezia 2027
2025
Venice, Italy
The exhibition in the Danish Pavilion will explore how architecture can contribute to the welfare society of the future under the theme Towards a New Architecture.