Ishøj, Denmark
ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art
A ship-like building on a beach south of Copenhagen, built for contemporary art.
The deconstructivist architecture reads as a stranded vessel; inside, a long curved Art Axis leads past Hirst, Kusama and Danish contemporaries. The dunes are directly outside.
Opening hours and prices change regularly — always check the museum’s own site before you travel.
Do not miss
- — The Art Axis
- — Damien Hirst and Kusama
- — The beach setting
On show & coming up
All exhibitions →
The Danish artist group SUPERFLEX turns ARKEN into an ark factory, asking what we would save — and who decides — when the water rises.
Thomas Dambo builds giant friendly figures entirely from waste wood and discarded materials — a favourite with families, indoors and in the sculpture park.
Ann Lislegaard's animated worlds blur the line between animal, machine and language — science fiction as a way of rethinking who gets to speak.
