Latest Events in Hovedstaden(May Updated)

The Ørestad Half Marathon is a professional road race combining city energy with the tranquility of nature. Returning for its second edition, the event offers a fast, flat course starting and finishing at Naturcenter Amager, making it ideal for runners chasing personal bests. In celebration of the upcoming World Championships, additional race distances — One Mile, 5K, and 10K — allow participants to test their speed and fitness. Designed to be one of the world’s fastest routes, this unique summer event delivers a seamless running experience for all levels.

Copenhagen's Mikkeller Beer Festival is an annual beer festival where great beer and the people who make it are celebrated. It's a beer geek's paradise as some of the world's best breweries come out with very special beers brewed just for the occasion. Taste up to 800 different beers!

Copenhagen Fashion Week (CPHFW) is the largest fashion week in Northern Europe and takes place twice a year in January/February and August. The first Copenhagen Fashion Week took place in 2006 when the Danish clothing trade fairs Dansk Modeuge and Dansk Herremodeuge merged, with its history dating back to 1950. Each season, Copenhagen Fashion Week features four days of shows, presentations and events, as well as the two trade shows CIFF and Revolver. Central Europe Fashion Week (CPHFW) is the largest fashion week in Northern Europe and is held twice a year in January/February and August. The first Copenhagen Fashion Week took place in 2006, when the Danish clothing trade fairs Dansk Mode and Copenhagen Fashion Week were held. Herremodeuge, whose history dates back to 1950. Every season, Copenhagen Fashion Week features four days of fashion shows, presentations and events, as well as the two trade shows CIFF and Revolver. [4]年代。

This exhibition begins with the Palmyra funerary portraits from the Griptotec Museum's collection. These portraits, once inlaid on the walls of magnificent family tombs, offer a rare perspective on how the Palmyras wished to be remembered: cosmopolitan citizens, adorned with dazzling jewelry, exquisitely styled, and dressed in luxurious textiles. The bilingual inscriptions in Aramaic and Greek further attest to the reality of social identity transcending language and culture at that time.

Since the invention of money, its workings have remained a mystery. In the "Ding-Dong!" exhibition, we'll explore how and why money has shaped our societies and lives for millennia. Play with coins, banknotes, and numbers! You might just win a million-dollar prize and a visit to the "Money Pool."

The Witch's Omen takes you on a journey through a captivating story, sensory experiences, and the latest scientific discoveries. Recent archaeological finds have given us a deeper understanding of the lives and beliefs of the Vikings a thousand years ago. These discoveries and interpretations may make you realize that the Viking world is not so far removed from our own.

On 8 May, the Glyptotek opens a new exhibition centred on Edgar Degas’ enigmatic painting Dancers Practising in the Foyer and the research that has recently led to a proposed revised dating of the work. Degas’ Obsession delves into this single painting, exploring its history and its significance in understanding Degas’ artistic practice. Ballet scenes were a central theme in Edgar Degas’ career, yet Dancers Practising in the Foyer has long been difficult to place in relation to his other ballet paintings. The painting is immediately puzzling—seemingly not finished, with very unevenly applied paint layers, drastically different tones and a dominant shadow from a partially overpainted figure. These unexplained visual mysteries sparked what became an an extensive research project led by art historian Dr. Line Clausen Pedersen, in a collaboration between the Glyptotek and the Getty in Los Angeles.

collaboration between the Glyptotek and Copenhagen ContemporarySlated for fall 2025, the Glyptotek and Copenhagen Contemporary (CC) are pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in Denmark by artist Alia Farid.The exhibition is the third and final component of an ambitious series of exhibitions titled Hosting Histories - Revisiting Cultural Heritage of the Middle East and Beyond (2023-2025) developed in conjunction between Glyptotek and CC.Alia Farid (b.1985) lives and works in Kuwait and Puerto Rico. Her work explores the relationship of industrial practices and hand-made objects as a method of critical inquiry into the experience of being and belonging amid global precarity.Whether sculptures of drinking fountains in the shape of water vessels, enlarged amulets combining ancient and modern materials, or films witnessing the ecological consequences of extractive industries in the Global South, her work pushes against colonial narratives and explores how materials and forms transmute across time and space.

The exhibition "Voices of the Earth" presents the work of Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist Aliya Farid. Her work explores the intricate past and present of the Arabian Gulf region. Farid connects ancient artifacts with today's global oil industry, tracing how ecosystems, cultures, and life forms are affected by political forces and resource extraction, while also demonstrating their resilience and resistance.