For everyone
You can experience art through guided tours, workshop activities, dialogues with our hosts, children’s birthday parties, and much more.
CC Studio is CC’s learning centre. We’re based on the first floor with workshops, exhibition spaces, and room for immersion, learning, and relaxation. We arrange guided tours, workshops, and art talks for children, young people, and adults and invite them to take part in workshop activities and attend lots of special events during the year.
We want to develop learning activities that will inspire you to experience art on your own and with others. Please contact us if you have comments or suggestions for collaborative ventures or new activities.
Guided tours for children every weekend
On Saturdays and Sundays at 14.00, art educators invite children along with their adults to attend children’s guided tours of the exhibitions. The tour lasts about 30 minutes and is free when the entrance fee has been paid. Together, we examine the art through dialogue, play, and activities.
Recommended age: 4–12 years.
Children’s birthday parties at CC
Birthday celebrations with creative activities, play, and a tour of the exhibitions at CC.
After activities guided by our art educators, you can continue your party in a separate room. You bring your own food and drink and clear up afterwards. The children must be under adult supervision for the duration of the visit. We expect the adults who bring the children to take part and lend a hand with the practicalities, ensuring that all children will have a positive experience. Admission fees are charged for extra adults.
We offer two different formats:
1: Children’s birthday party with a creative activity together with an art educator (about 45 minutes) plus 1 hour in the room on your own.
Price: DKK 1000.
Max. 20 children and 3 adults.
2: Children’s birthday party with a guided tour for children (about 45 minutes), creative activity (about 45 minutes) plus 1 hour in the room on your own.
Price: DKK 1750.
Max. 20 children and 3 adults.
A two-hour birthday party is bookable for Saturdays and Sundays from 11.15–13.15; 12.30–14.30; or 14.30–16.30.
If you want a three-hour birthday party, we’ll find a time that suits everyone.
Enquiries are welcome at ccstudio@cphco.org or by phone on +45 2989 8087.
Book your party at ccstudio@cphco.org.
We look forward to seeing you!
Private events at CC during the weekend
Host your private event at CC with art, creative activities, and socialising. An obvious choice for birthday celebrations, family days, or other events. Our art educator will give you a tour of the exhibitions and afterwards you’re free to spend 1 hour in a separate room at CC. You clear up afterwards. If there are children present, they must be under adult supervision for the duration of your visit.
We offer two different formats:
1: Private event where you spend 1 hour in a separate room at CC plus a guided tour (about 1 hour) with an art educator.
Price: DKK 1500 plus admission fee of DKK 65 per person.
Max. 23 guests.
2: Private event where you spend 1 hour in CC’s room plus a guided tour (about 1 hour) and creative activities (about 45 mins.).
Price: DKK 2400 plus admission fee of DKK 65 per person.
Max. 23 guests.
You bring your own food and drink except alcoholic drinks. Beer and wine are available from us.
Contact CC Studio with your enquiries at ccstudio@cphco.org or by phone on +45 2989 8087.
Book the event at ccstudio@cphco.org.
We look forward to seeing you!
Book a guided tour for children and adults
Join us for an enjoyable, fun, and instructive tour of our exhibitions. Our art educator will tell you about the exhibitions and introduce you to games and creative activities as we go. Participants: max. 20.
The target group is children and adults, for example, families or groups of friends.
Tell us about yourselves when you book, so we can tailor the experience to your needs.
Duration: 1 hour
Price: admission fee of DKK 65 per person aged 18 and above. The guided tour costs DKK 600 before 17.00 on weekdays, DKK 700 after 17.00 on weekdays, and DKK 800 at weekends.
Book a guided tour
Join us for an art tour of the exhibitions currently showing at CC. Whether you are a company, an art association, a family, or a group of friends, we want to give you a special art experience in our exhibition spaces. The tour is for everyone who appreciate a collective experience of large-scale contemporary art.
Regardless of whether you are an experienced exhibition visitor or don’t visit art exhibitions much.
We plan the tour based on your wishes, so tell us who you are when you book.
Duration: 1 hour
Target group: adults, senior citizens, companies, universities, etc.
Price: admission fee of DKK 65 per person aged 18 and above. The guided tour costs DKK 600 before 17.00 on weekdays, DKK 700 after 17.00 on weekdays, and DKK 800 at weekends.
CC STUDIO
Learning
CC Studio invites you to join playful and instructive collective activities based on art. CC Studio is CC’s learning and communication initiative, setting out various creative trails throughout the art centre.
Primary school
Pictorial analysis
Topics: Art history, pictorial analysis
Subjects: Danish, visual art, history
Which methods and tools can we use when looking at art? And how do we tackle contemporary art? This programme takes us round the various exhibitions, prises open the works with questions and activities, and tests various methods of artwork analysis.
We adapt all our programmes to the age group visiting us. Our art educator would like to know if there’s something particular, you want to focus on.
Workshop: In our two-hour programme, pupils will have an opportunity to work practically and creatively with pictorial analysis in CC Studio’s workshop.
Contemporary art
Topics: Contemporary art, perspective, collaboration, analysis, participation
Subjects: Danish, visual art, history
What is contemporary art? How do we define and talk about it? We examine, analyse, and put perspective on contemporary art at CC and try to learn more about the times we live in.
We adapt all our programmes to the age group visiting us. Our art educator would like to know if there’s something particular, you want to focus on.
Workshop: In our two-hour programme, pupils will have an opportunity to work practically and creatively with contemporary art in CC Studio’s workshop.
Performance scripts
Topics: Performance art, contemporary art
Subjects: Danish, visual art, drama
What is performance art and how does a performance artist work? In this programme, pupils will learn about art by creating it themselves. We look at CC’s archive of performance scripts accumulated and extended on a continuous basis in conjunction with international artists. In art history, scripts for performance art are called event scores and have been used by many artists as a means to making their live works more accessible and unconstrained by time and space. With an event score, anyone can stage their own performance as and when it suits them. The programme gives pupils an opportunity to test the event scores of others and produce their own.
We adapt all our programmes to the age group visiting us. Our art educator would like to know if there’s something particular, you want to focus on.
Workshop: In our two-hour programme, pupils will have an opportunity to work practically and creatively with performance art in CC Studio’s workshop, in the exhibitions, and in and outside the building.
Art using all our senses
Topics: Senses, colours, play, motoric function
Subjects: Visual art, Danish, craft and design
This programme examines the exhibitions at CC using every human faculty. We move through the various exhibitions, involve the faculties of hearing, smell, and touch. We challenge the body, play, and discuss what we experience as we go. What happens when viewers are transformed into participants? And how do we experience art when we’re active in it and with it?
Workshop: In our two-hour programme, pupils will have an opportunity to work practically and creatively by involving several faculties and materials in CC Studio’s workshop.
Youth and adult education
Pictorial analysis
Topics: Art history, pictorial analysis
Subjects: Danish, visual art, history
Which methods and tools do we use when looking at art? And what do we do about contemporary art? This programme takes us round the various exhibitions, prises open the works with questions and activities, and tests various methods of artwork analysis.
We adapt all our programmes to the age group visiting us. Our art educator would like to know if there’s something particular, you want to focus on.
Workshop: In our two-hour programme, pupils will have an opportunity to work practically and creatively with pictorial analysis in CC Studio’s workshop.
Contemporary art
Topics: Contemporary art, contextualisation, perspective, collaboration, analysis, participation
Subjects: Danish, visual art, history
What is contemporary art? How do we define and talk about it? We examine, analyse, and put perspective on contemporary art at CC and try to learn more about the times we live in.
We adapt all our programmes to the age group visiting us. Our art educator would like to know if there’s something particular, you want to focus on.
Workshop: In our two-hour programme, pupils will have an opportunity to work practically and creatively with contemporary art in CC Studio’s workshop.
Performance scripts
Topics: Performance art, contemporary art
Subjects: Danish, visual art, drama
What is performance art and how does a performance artist work? In this programme, pupils will learn about art by creating it themselves. In this programme, pupils will learn about art by creating it themselves. We look at CC’s archive of performance scripts accumulated and extended on a continuous basis in conjunction with international artists. In art history, scripts for performance art are called event scores and have been used by many artists as a means to making their live works more accessible and unconstrained by time and space. With an event score, anyone can stage their own performance as and when it suits them. The programme gives pupils an opportunity to test the event scores of others and to produce their own.
We adapt all our programmes to the age group visiting us. Our art educator would like to know if there’s something particular, you want to focus on.
Workshop: In our two-hour programme, pupils will have an opportunity to work practically and creatively with performance art in CC Studio’s workshop, in the exhibitions, and in and outside the building.
Art as a space for play and learning
Topics: Art education, dialogue teaching, user involvement
CC Studio is CC’s learning centre. This programme gives you an introduction to dialogue learning and the various forms of art education which underlie our work. At CC, play, the body, and sensation are always integral to encountering art and with our art educator, you have an opportunity to try out the various exercises we have developed. The programme invites exploration of the special reflective space that art can help create.
An art institution without a collection
Topics: Art institutions, curating, institutional analysis, cultural heritage
Copenhagen Contemporary is an art centre and not a museum. But what’s the difference? And how is an art centre run? Which challenges and special possibilities do we have at CC? Our art educator will take you through the centre and examine exhibitions, activities and spaces. You will get an idea of CC as a cultural institution and an introduction to organising exhibitions, education, events, etc.
Day-care institutions
Info
Programmes for children aged between 2–6. All our programmes are adapted to specific age groups. We are happy to design a programme together with you.
Special price for day-care institutions: DKK 800 for a two-hour programme and DKK 500 for a one-hour programme.
Art using all senses
Together, we take a walk through the large exhibition space. The children’s observations and ideas form the basis of the programme. We spend plenty of time examining the artworks, playing, and discussing what we experience as we go. We focus on the senses, colours, play, and motoric function.
Workshop: In our two-hour programme, the children get an opportunity to make a sensuous portrait of themselves. We work creatively using several senses and different materials in the workshop.
Special programmes
We have, for example, designed special programmes in collaboration with the sixth-form college Det Frie Gymnasium, the artist collective vontrapp, Live Art Danmark, the art school Københavns Kunstskole, Aalborg University, the housing association Bo-Vita, and the citizen’s activity centre Aktivitetscentret Sundholm.
We have also designed extensive thematic programmes for primary and lower secondary schools.
Please contact us for a chat if you have special needs and requirements. We will be pleased to design a programme together with you.
ccstudio@cphco.org or by phone +45 2989 8087.
About CC Studio
CC Studio is the learning and interpretation centre at Copenhagen Contemporary (CC). Besides being a physical place, CC Studio is a term describing the way we think and practice learning at the art centre, generally. ’Studio’ signifies the idea of a workshop offering an opportunity to explore and examine materials as well as providing space for immersion and contemplation.
CC Studio is based on the first floor with creative workshops, gallery spaces, and specially designed areas for learning, relaxation, and reflection.
At CC, we arrange exhibitions that you can experience using your body and hopefully gain inspiration from. Art which perhaps makes you want to ask questions, talk, think, laugh, play, discuss, and interact with other people.
CC Studio develops learning material for everyone to use as inspiration for their visit to the art centre. We value dialogue and exchanging experiences and ideas and our exhibition hosts are always ready to discuss art with you. Just ask them when you see them in the galleries.
Community spirit is the pivot of CC Studio’s work. Our facilities, materials, and activities are designed to bring together children, young people, and adults. New groups take form and existing ones are reinforced when we meet via creative and physical activities in the exhibitions.
If you are not used to visiting exhibitions, we’ll be happy to give you some ideas to experience the house and the art together. The goal is that everyone will have an opportunity to experience art in an engaging and informal manner.
Guided tours for children
Every Saturday and Sunday at 14.00, art hosts will be inviting children and their adults to attend guided tours for children to the exhibitions to dig a little deeper into the art. We try to examine the art with all our faculties and the tour will always be centred on what the children find fascinating.
Workshop
The workshop is open every Saturday and Sunday from 11.00 to 17.30. Here, children and adults work with different materials along with our workshop artists. Once you have paid the admission fee, it is free to use the workshop. The workshop can also be booked on weekdays.
Always a special exhibition in hall 4
Every year, we invite an acclaimed international artist to create a total installation specifically for CC Studio – a so-called playscape, which everyone is welcome to explore, play in, or examine using their bodies. The artist Sol Calero, who was born in Venezuela, has created the current exhibition El barco de barro – The Clay Ship – with pavilions, furniture, and a large clay workshop open to everyone.
Earlier, the Swedish artist, Jacob Dahlgren, created the first playscape Art is Life with works composed of more than seven hundred dart boards, three hundred weights, and ten thousand silk ribbons.
Performance, Art Bar, Culture Night, and much more
In 2021, our focal point is still performance for children and young people via performance workshops, a number of shows, and workshops. We take part in the great Culture Night and Culture Night for Children and invite visitors to attend the Art Bar where children show each other the art and their favourite spots in the art centre.
Schools and institutions
We work with dialogue-based teaching for all age groups – adults, too. We have developed learning programmes and courses for institutions, young families, post-secondary education, workplaces, and other groups. Both set courses in, for example, picture analysis and contemporary art, which can be booked at any time – and special courses based on current exhibitions.
Schools and institutions are also very welcome to visit CC independently.
Write to us at ccstudio@cphco.org or call +45 2989 8087 if you would like more information, to book or announce your independent visit.
Every day, we experience that art is a unique starting point for learning and a fun and inspiring context for activities, play, and dialogue. Working with art can make us active citizens and help us reflect critically on the world around us.
Contact us if you have any questions, ideas, or suggestions for things we could do together.