Latest Events in Hovedstaden(March Updated)

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!

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.

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."

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.

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.

CPH:DOX, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, is one of the world's largest documentary film festivals. It discovers the work of leading international talent and emerging artists, promising to present the best experimental films and videos in the film and visual arts. Staying true to its tradition, the program will screen a large number of documentaries, showcasing the world we live in from scientific, artistic, critical power, human nature, youth, experience, unwavering, witty, and utterly absurd perspectives. CPH:DOX will be held from March 11th to 22nd, 2026.

The night is a joint celebration of St. John the Baptist, who is said to have been born on June 24, and the shortest night of the year. Traditionally, the night is celebrated with bonfires, speeches, and the singing of the Danish midsummer song "We Love Our Country" ("Vi Elsker Vort Land"), written in 1885 by Danish poet Holger Drakeman. The top of the bonfire is sometimes decorated with a straw witch. Legend has it that when the witch is burned, she flies to Bloxberg in Germany, where witches are said to meet.

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.

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