In 2025, Copenhagen Contemporary opens the doors to a monstrous universe created by the world-renowned British artist Monster Chetwynd.

In Hall 4 – formerly the Royal Danish Theatre’s scenic painting workshop – Chetwynd presents a spectacular total installation that brings together their signature DIY aesthetic with humor, fantasy, and grotesque elements in a sensory exhibition that activates the entire space.

At the center is Big Red Hat Shop, a new work created specifically for CC, where visitors are invited into the artist’s imaginative world and encouraged to participate in a process of transformation — quite literally — through hats, masks, and performative gestures. The shelves overflow with peculiar faces and twisted creatures, and on the green monster stage, anyone can step into a new version of themselves.

The exhibition marks the first chapter of CC Create, a three-year educational and exhibition initiative that transforms Hall 4 into an open studio for play, learning, and co-creation. Specially trained hosts are on hand to guide visitors in exploring their own creative potential in dialogue with Chetwynd’s art.

Chetwynd’s art practice spans a variety of media, including installation, performance, film and painting. The artist’s work is famously playful and effervescent, mixing the glamorous, grotesque and nightmarish. Chetwynd and their performers hand-fabricate costumes, masks, props and set designs, often from recycled materials, embracing a DIY aesthetic. Chetwynd invites visitors to take part in collaborative projects bursting the conventional boundaries between artists, artwork and audience.

CC Create is Copenhagen Contemporary’s new exhibition format, where art and creativity melt together. Inspired by the building’s history as a former atelier for the Royal Danish Theatre’s set painters, the 800-square-meter Hall 4 is transformed into an artistic laboratory. Here, both children and adults can play, experiment, and become co-creators of art.

Monster Chetwynd is the first artist in the series, launching CC Create with an installation that encourages the audience to dare to embrace the monster – and perhaps discover a new side of themselves in the process.

…CC Create is much more than an exhibition. It is also:

• A creative workshop for CC guests of all ages, guided by our skilled hosts. Freely accessible during all opening hours. The workshop is specially developed for CC by Monster Chetwynd.
• Crea Crea – The School of Art & Strength, a new after-school program every Thursday for children aged 7-11. Read more here.
• Educational programs in creativity, available for booking by school classes. Find more information here.
• Workshops in creativity and innovation for businesses and other groups.

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Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee access or space for large groups of more than 12 people in the creative workshop in Hall 4. Out of consideration for other visitors, we kindly ask larger groups to split into smaller units. If you would like to take part in a creative workshop in the exhibition, you can book teaching sessions and workshops here.