About Art Week

Art Week – a festival of VISUEL ART for art lovers

Art Week was established in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2013. Every year the Art Week Festival is created in collaboration with up to 40 exhibition venues from our most prestigious art museums, art galleries and artist-run project spaces on the outskirts of the city. Art Week is packed with new exhibitions, performances, concerts, debates, industry activities, art tours and meetings with the artists themselves.

Art Week consists of two parts, one for the audience and one for professionals.

With the audience program Art Week invites the citizens of Copenhagen as well as our tourists to new and different meetings with the art and artists. 

Art Week is an opportunity to explore Copenhagen’s vibrant and diverse art scene, regardless of whether you are a seasoned art connoisseur or new to the field. In this way, Art Week works to ensure that more people are invited into the field that is our contemporary visual art.

With the program for professionals, we create seminars and symposia and a framework for knowledge sharing ensuring that international professionals are invited to Copenhagen. They will meet selected artists and experience how the capital’s art scene develops. In this way Art Week works for the professional strengthening and forming networks that reach beyond the boundaries of the Art Week and the city.

During Art Week we create meetings with and provide conversations about art itself and with the artists themselves. In other words: Art Week strengthens contemporary visual art in close collaboration with the full Copenhagen art scene.

What our collaborators say

“We have been happy to participate in Art Week Copenhagen. This year’s programme (2019) has offered an abundance of experiences that bring galleries, institutions, business professionals, and audience closer together, and has emphasised the fact that only together can we create a vibrant art scene. It seems that Art Week has by now grown the wings needed to really take off for the coming years, and that is joyous for both Copenhagen and the art scene.”
– Gitte Johannesen from the gallery SPECTA.

“This year’s Art Week started and ended at Copenhagen Contemporary, where you could find a party, performance art, guided tours, and collaborations during the week. The art week in Copenhagen creates a unique possibility for artists, institutions, and guests to meet each other, and we’re thrilled, in collaboration with Art Week Copenhagen, to have played a vital part in many of these meetings.”
– Marie Nipper from Copenhagen Contemporary about their collaboration with Art Week Copenhagen in 2019.

Art Week in pictures

In our audience programme you can find events and exhibitions from the big institutions as well as the small exhibition sites. Photo: Christian Brems.
In our audience programme you can find events and exhibitions from the big institutions as well as the small exhibition sites. Photo: Christian Brems

 

As part of our professional programme in 2019, 50 Danish artists met 25 international curators for a portfolio review in 2019 at Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand. Photo: Frederikke Lind Larsen.
As part of our professional programme Danish artists met international curators, here for a portfolio review at Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand. Photo: Frederikke Lind Larsen

 

In an attempt to create different encounters with art, Art Week each year invites the audience to participate in a number of art tours. We have, for instance, hosted gallery walks to the city’s diverse gallery scene. Photo: Christian Brems.
In an attempt to create different encounters with art, Art Week each year invites the audience to participate in a number of art tours. We have, for instance, hosted gallery walks to the city’s diverse gallery scene. Photo: Christian Brems

 

In collaboration with different institutions, we strive to integrate art in the city’s infrastructure. In 2019 we, in cooperation with Copenhagen Contemporary and Glyptoteket, arranged a performative tour with artist Nanna Lysholt Hansen on one of the inner city bus lines. Photo: Christian Brems.
In collaboration with different institutions, we strive to integrate art in the city’s infrastructure. In 2019 we, in cooperation with Copenhagen Contemporary and Glyptoteket, arranged a performative tour with artist Nanna Lysholt Hansen on one of the inner city bus lines. Photo: Christian Brems

 

During Art Week the city’s institutions host a number of art bars, where the audience can encounter art under special and relaxing circumstances. The tickets were sold out almost immediately when Nikolaj Kunsthal in 2019 opened their doors to an art bar with a performance by artist Andreas Emenius with music from Trentemøller and Henrik Vibskov. Photo: Christian Brems.
During Art Week, the city’s institutions host a number of art bars, where the audience can encounter art under special and relaxing circumstances. The tickets were sold out almost immediately when Nikolaj Kunsthal in 2019 opened their doors to an art bar with a performance by artist Andreas Emenius and music from Trentemøller and Henrik Vibskov. Photo: Christian Brems

 

Together with partners we arrange a number of academic events each year. In collaboration with SMK – The National Gallery of Art, we hosted a seminar on performance art in 2019. Photo: Ingvar Mulvad.
During Art Week we celebrate Copenhagen’s gallery scene, here in the Meat Packing District, now home for a number of galleries. Photo: Christian Brems

 

Together with partners we arrange a number of academic events each year. In collaboration with SMK – The National Gallery of Art, we hosted a seminar on performance art in 2019. Photo: Ingvar Mulvad.

Together with partners we arrange a number of academic events each year. In collaboration with SMK – The National Gallery of Art – we host a seminar. Photo: Ingvar Mulvad