Previous Exhibitions
Selected exhibitions from previous years
Relive a selection of the Glyptotek’s past exhibitions. We have handpicked highlights that touched, challenged, and inspired
Kai Nielsen - Born of Everyday Life / Special Exhibition / 30.05.2024 - 05.01.2025
You have probably already met The Water Mother, who welcomes visitors to the Glyptotek from her pool in the Winter Garden.
The Danish sculptor Kai Nielsen (1882-1924) created the work specially for the Glyptotek. Nielsen’s works will form the focal point for a collaborative exhibition project involving Faaborg Museum and the Glyptotek – two special exhibitions, which ran in parallel at the two museums.
Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme – The song is the call and the land is calling / Special Exhibition / 13.06 - 20.10.2024
In collaboration with Copenhagen Contemporary, the Glyptotek presented the exhibition The song is the call, and the land is calling with work by the Palestinian artist duo Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme.
Simultaneously on view across Copenhagen Contemporary and the Glyptotek, the exhibition took a deep dive into collective memory and the power of cultural expressions.
“Nature no longer exists. That wild, untamed nature, untouched by human beings, is a thing of the past.” -Josefine Klougart
After Nature – A New Reading of the Glyptotek’s Paintings by Writer Josefine Klougart / Special exhibition / 12.10.2023 - 18.08.2024
An exhibition where the author Josefine Klougart's texts interacted with the Glyptotek’s landscape paintings. The sensuous design of the exhibition was the work of the set designer duo Vang Stensgaard.
In After Nature Josefine Klougart used the prism of art to study the relationship of humans with nature. Nature as we knew it no longer exists.
ABBAS AKHAVAN – curtain call / Special Exhibition / 22.06 - 26.11.2023
In collaboration the Glyptotek and Copenhagen Contemporary (CC) presented the first-ever exhibition in Scandinavia devoted to the work of the artist Abbas Akhavan (b. 1977 in Tehran. Lives and works in Montreal).
In his exhibition curtain call, Akhavan presented two of his most recent large-scale installations, on view for the first time together: variations on a folly (2021–) at Copenhagen Contemporary and cast for a folly (2019–) at the Glyptotek.
Amarna – City of the Sun God / Special Exhibition / 26.01 - 20.08.2023
The Glyptotek invited visitors to a special exhibition about the rise and fall of Amarna. The newly-founded city housed temples for the new god, palaces for the royal family, residential areas, workshops and burial grounds.
About previous exhibitions at the Glyptotek
The list of past exhibitions is still under development and will soon be expanded with a larger archive featuring much more content about each special exhibition.