Past exhibitions

To express what she considered the basic nature of humanity, the American artist Nancy Spero (1926-2009) in her final years entirely stopped representing men in her work. Spero was a feminist pioneer and an activist, and in the 1960s she levelled her art against all existing power structures, notably political oppression, racism and male hegemony.

A visual shell shock: With 'Generation Wealth' Lauren Greenfield has created a unique document of the recent decades' crazed consumerism in a world, which is increasingly obsessed with the dream of looking both beautiful and rich.

On show now in the Louisiana South Wing are 15 striking video works. Several have gained classic status with the museum’s visitors and in art history.

The first major presentation in Denmark of the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist (b. 1962). The exhibition revolves around themes such as the body, technology, space, gender and nature — and spans the whole output of the artist’s oeuvre, from early works in the TV format to large spatial video and audio installations.

This summer presentation of works from Louisiana’s collection tells the story of how and what we see when looking at art. On show in the West Wing and comprising six themes, this presentation boasts a number of remarkable recent acquisitions by George Condo, Sam Gilliam, Wolfgang Tillmans and David Hockney. Comprising some 90 works the...

Louisiana presents a thematic display, which focuses on the artistic movements and the artists that shaped the beginning and the early history of the collection. In the East Wing you will find a selection from the historical part of the Louisiana Collection, centring on some of its core areas – European and American art from the post-war years,...

Works by German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann (born 1941) have become an increasingly popular part of Louisiana's collection over the past few years. It is obvious to see why, now that these works have been gathered in a presentation on show at the far end of the South Wing. The warmth and humor that underlies the art of Hans-Peter Feldmann were, for...

In the series The Architect’s Studio Louisiana presents the Chilean studio ELEMENTAL headed by artistic director Alejandro Aravena. IIn 2016 Aravena was awarded the prestigious Pritzker Prize and was director of the Venice Architecture Biennale with the support of the entire ELEMENTAL group.

The Louisiana’s collection is rich in pictures of people, many of them men. The theme Men and Masculinity, on display in the East Wing, clearly shows that masculinity has many faces. While numerous artists after World War II turned to an abstract vocabulary, others stayed with figuration, creating radical counter-images to war-propaganda...

The exhibition took a present-day look at the long and multi-faceted artistic career of German painter Gabriele Münter (1877-1962) – an artist who deserved recognition for her striking contribution to the art of the twentieth century.

Louisiana proudly presents a less well known aspect of Picasso's work: the ceramics. This will in fact be the first chance in Scandinavia to see a major exhibition focusing on the original ceramic works by this universally revered artist.

Louisiana’s Director Poul Erik Tøjner mixes works across the dimensions of genre, size, expression, space and time in this new presentation of the Louisiana Collection shown in the South Wing.

Featuring video works, sculptures and installations this exhibition presented a range of prominent, younger artists who are all intent on questioning and seeking answers to the human condition in an ever more digital and radically changing world.

Few artists in the world today evoke such strong emotions and reactions as the pioneer of body and performance art Marina Abramović. Louisiana presented the first major retrospective presentation of Abramović's work in Europe.

This Summer presentation of selected works from the Louisiana Collection focused on three classic art-historical genres which have been cultivated over time with different intensities and varieties of expression. Works by artists as diverse as Léger, Picasso, Avedon, Warhol, Kirkeby, Tillmans, Demand, Doig and Dubuffet.

The Chinese architect Wang Shu was the starting point of Louisiana's new exhibition series The Architect’s Studio II. Along with his wife Lu Wenyu he stands at the head of the Amateur Architecture Studio based in Hangzhou in China.

Louise Bourgeois, one of the most striking and influential artists of the 20th century took centre stage of the major autumn and winter exhibition at Louisiana. On show were her large spatial units – the Cells - filled with carefully arranged objects.

Louisiana presented the first major exhibition in Scandinavia of Daniel Richter, one of the most important artists of his generation. The German artist is born 1962, and the show traced him from the earliest abstract improvisations to his figurative pictures, which he describes as a new from of history painting.

Works by the very young Picasso clearly contain the seeds of the genius who left his mark on most of the history of art in the first half of the twentieth century.

A selection of the collection’s great, classic works and names – including Lichtenstein, Warhol, Picasso and Yves Klein – held a ‘rendezvous’ in the West Wing of the museum in a gratifying summer reunion. Louisiana’s collection of modern and contemporary art is both a foundation for the activities of the museum and a sounding-board for the actual...

A fascinating encounter with the best contemporary artists in the genre, including William Kentridge, Candice Breitz, Rineke Dijkstra and Ed Atkins. Louisiana has an ambitious acquisitions policy and every year, with the support of generous foundations and private donors, adds new works of art to the collection in the fields of both contemporary...

Within a few years, Yayoi Kusama (born 1929) has become a favourite of Louisiana’s guests because of her Gleaming Lights of the Souls installation at the museum – a mirror-lined room with hundreds of lamps in various colours that give the viewer a cosmic sensation of being in an infinite space.

Presenting graphic works from a unique collection, Lucian Freud - A Closer Look offers a rare and intriguing chance to examine one of Britain's most influential and compelling artists. Louisiana presents a large selection of works on paper by the renowned British artist Lucian Freud (1922-2011). The works are almost all drawn from the UBS Art...

Terry Winters’ beautiful graphic works use patterns that recall biological forms and mathematical formulae. This summer a wide selection of the American artist’s print works is on show as a part of the Louisiana On Paper exhibition series. Terry Winters (b. 1949 in Brooklyn, New York) is also a painter, but it is in prints that he displays his...

This summer a large-scale presentation of works from the Louisiana Collection is on show. A variety of media such as painting , sculpture , photography , video and more conceptual categories such as ’ caviar painting ’ can be experienced in the museum’s South Wing . Though one can find aesthetic, thematic and historical similarities between the...

Jeff Wall (born in 1946) is the master of modern photography. Many contemporary painters and photographers are indebted to this artist from Vancouver who prepares every single image with the same care as if it were a theater piece developing in several acts.

Irish artist Richard Mosse utilizes an outdated military surveillance film to envision the civil war in eastern DR Congo anew. In this intersection between art and documentary he creates an appalling testimony of a forgotten and complex conflict.

Louisiana is organizing the first major exhibition in Scandinavia of the German painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907). The exhibition comprises about 100 paintings and drawings. The exhibition presents the highly distinctive production of Modersohn-Becker, an artist with the status of one of the radical innovators of German modernism.

This season nobel presentation of works from the Louisiana Collection shows important artistic positions whether painting, sculpture, photography and drawing from a period of almost a century.

This year’s presentation of the collection turned the focus on photography as an artistic medium. The works shown challenged and investigated the special relationship of photography with reality, and showed us a number of points of contact where classic genres such as landscape, portrait and architecture are reinterpreted.

The American painter Philip Guston is a unique figure in twentieth century art history. He will be familiar to Louisiana’s guests since the exhibition of his drawings in 2007, and the Louisiana Collection has two of his paintings, which are often shown.

The history of the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) is fascinating and unknown to most. It is a story of a female artist on the edge of the establishment – like the subjects of the earlier exhibits Women of the Avant-garde in 2012 and Yoko Ono in 2013 – and thus far she has not attracted much attention in art history.

ARAB CONTEMPORARY is a cross-over exhibition that mixes architecture, art, photography, documentary and film. The exhibition is the second chapter in the series “Architecture, Culture and Identity” – and is a successor to the exhibition NEW NORDIC, which Louisiana showed in 2012. The series is about how architecture is both a bearer of identity...

Jorn and Pollock are two important artists who never met, but each in his own way revolutionized painting during and immediately after World War II. They were the same age, one a northern European born in Vejrum, Jutland, the other an American from Cody, Wyoming, in the USA. The war severed the connections of both with the Parisian centre of the...

Often referred to as “the world's most famous unknown artist”, this large-scale Yoko Ono retrospective is sure to surprise, challenge and expand our notion of a legendary and extremely vital artistic pioneer.

Louisiana’s large-scale spring exhibition celebrates the phenomenal Pop Art movement. Featuring many iconic masterpieces - Warhol, Lichtenstein, Hamilton, Eames, Panton and Sottsass - Pop Art Design highlights the close and inspirational collaboration between artists and designers of the period.

Anri Sala creates films in which music and sound are central narrative elements. By creating precise overlaps and pauses dialogue form between the different works of art and use of music and sound structures the viewers' experience. Sala's themes are the political sphere and personal relationships.

NEW NORDIC - sets out to explore if certain specífic ‘Nordic’ features reflect in architecture and if so how these manifest. New Nordic is the story of how we currently build in the Nordic region and express and organise ourselves and our community.

Pink Caviar is a presentation of contemporary art en masse of all genres from all over the world with a look to the world and the narratives about it that the museum wants to follow, and at the thematic intercon­nections that have already been established over the years.

With stark visual power the Israeli artist Yael Bartana works on the borderlines between documentary, fiction and propaganda. Her works revolve around identity, myth, religion and politics.

He is one of the most significant artists of the post-war era. He followed on the heels of the Abstract Expressionists and turned the focus on the dynamic relationships of contour, form and colour, and thus on the perception of space.