Experience a very special evening at Copenhagen Contemporary with drinks and an exclusive guided tour of the Soft Robots exhibition.

Hear unique behind‑the‑scenes stories from the art world when CC Director and curator of the exhibition, Marie Laurberg, discusses her collaboration with the artists and lifts the veil on some of the many considerations that went into bringing the show to life.

The exhibition’s concept is inspired by H.C. Andersen’s classic fairy tale The Nightingale (1843), in which a mechanical (robot) bird is set in contrast to the genuine nightingale’s natural, life‑giving song. This dualism is then unraveled through a series of pan‑Asian philosophies of life, where the notion of objects having a soul opens the door to a closer relationship between technology and biology. With contemporary works and artistic practices that mirror and cross these positions, Soft Robots embraces the idea of animated technology as a human replica and paints a poetic portrait of technology’s branches in our lives, in nature, and in our very being across different modes of existence.

The exhibition presents works by:
A. A. Murakami, Alice Bucknell, Ayoung Kim, Daria Martin, Holly Herndon & Matt Dryhurst, Joan Heemskerk, Jonas Kjeldgaard Sørensen, Klára Hosnedlová, Martyna Marciniak, Nanna Debois Buhl, Rhoda Ting & Mikkel Bojesen, Silas Inoue, Takashi Murakami, WangShui, and Yunchul Kim.

Schedule
6:00 PM
Check‑in at the CC Foyer desk.
If you’re not yet a member but have purchased a member ticket, we recommend arriving at 6:00 PM or joining in advance here: CC MEMBER

6:30 PM
Gather in the foyer for a guided tour of the exhibition

7:30 PM
Drinks and mingling in CC Café Darcy’s & CC

9:00 PM
Thank you for joining us this evening!