Guided tours
You can experience art through guided tours, workshop activities, dialogues with our hosts, and much more.
Copenhagen Contemporary considers it a point of honour to offer vibrant and inspiring introductions to art where professionalism, perspective, and curiosity are key. Our learning activities are always based on current exhibitions. Learn more about them here.
A guided tour of CC’s current exhibitions lasts around 45 minutes and is based on any special wishes you might have. Whether you are a company, an art society, a family, or a group of friends, we will strive to give you a special experience of the art and the gallery spaces. Our guided tours are for everyone who would like to share an experience of large-scale contemporary art – both for experienced art-museum goers and those who are new to visiting art exhibitions. We are art professionals and appreciate the dialogue with you.
A group consists of max. 25 persons. Groups of more than 25 will need to book two guides. Please write or call our booking service, giving information on who you are and whether you have special requests for the tour.
Price
A guided tour costs DKK 600 before 17.00 on weekdays, DKK 700 after 17.00 on weekdays, DKK 800 at weekends – plus admission fee of DKK 75 per person aged 18 and over.
Special arrangements
We’ll be happy to arrange special events for you. Contact us for further details and prices.
CC’s art educators all have a curatorial background. They are trained artists, art historians, or students of art-related subjects. Our work is based on dialogue, and questions and discussion are always welcome – whether you’re an enterprise, an art association, a family, a group of friends, whether young or old. The guided tour is for everyone who’d like to have a shared experience of large-scale contemporary art, embracing experienced exhibition-goers and those who don’t visit art exhibitions regularly.
Group visits on your own
Are you a large group planning to visit on your own, we are very happy to welcome you. However, we kindly ask you to let us know in advance, at least one week before arrival.
The visit has to take place within normal opening hours.
Write to us at and book a time slot via ccstudio@cphco.org. Please, write the date and time for your planned visit, and your contact information. You’ll receive a confirmation email also containing guidelines concerning the visit. We place your visit in our calendar and will be ready to welcome you when you arrive.
While enjoying the artworks through our exhibition halls, a set of specific rules apply. We kindly ask you to divide your group into smaller groups of approximately 6 persons. Also, if there are children in the group, they need to be with adults at all times throughout the visit.
Please, cancel your visit, if you are not able to make the trip, after all. We can then offer your spot to other guests. We kindly ask every person in your group to get acquainted with our set of rules in advance before your visit. We’ll send them to you along with the confirmation email.
Price
For groups of 15 persons or more, tickets are DKK 75,- pr. person over the age of 18.
Are you 14 persons or less, the tickets are the normal rate of DKK 125,- pr. person over the age of 18.
Are you visiting with a school class as part of a lesson plan, other rules apply for your independent group visit. Please read more here.
CC STUDIO
Learning
CC arranges set courses such as Contemporary Art, Art for All Senses, Image Analysis, and Performance Scripts. Furthermore, we always design special courses for current exhibitions. Learn more about the exhibitions here.
We offer dialogue-based learning for all age groups – adults, too. There are courses and learning programmes for primary and lower secondary schools, special schools, upper secondary schools, institutions, further education institutions, families, workplaces, and other groups.
Write to us at ccstudio@cphco.org or call our booking service on +45 2989 7288 if you need more information, want to book, or tell us that you will be coming to explore on your own.
Please contact us for questions, ideas, or suggestions for collaboration.
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.
Doug Wheeler and James Turrell
Book this course on Tuesdays between 9.00–15.00 and Wed Fri between 09.00–11.00.
Topics: light, perception, senses, phenomenology
Subjects: physics, visual art.
The artists James Turrell and Doug Wheeler are members of the American art movement Light and Space. CC shows two of their monumental works, which students can experience and explore on this course. They will learn about light- and installation art and will become aware of how light and colours influence emotions, the body, and the perception of space. The course will address questions such as: What is light? Why is the sky blue? How do we perceive colours?
We adapt our course programmes to suit the specific age groups visiting us. Our learning facilitator would like to know if there are special topics you want to focus on.
Workshop: In our two-hour learning programmes, students will be able to investigate and work creatively with the idea of creating light and space. Further, students will have an opportunity to produce their own works based on light, space, and colour theory.
Science & Contemporary Art
Book this course from 01 Aug–30 Dec 2022.
Tuesdays between 9–15 and Wed–Fri between 9–18.
Topics: colours, shapes, space, light, perception, senses
Subjects: physics, chemistry, natural sciences, biology, visual art.
On this course, we will work with the exhibition Science & Contemporary Art and focus on three works of art created by the artists Ann Linn Palm Hansen, AVPD, and Jeppe Hein. We will examine the link between science and art in our science labs and look for answers to a number of questions: Why is the world upside down? What happens when light is refracted and how do we experience this? What are spirals of nature and how is light reflected?
We start from students’ own observations and experience and always use exercises and activities.
We adapt all course programmes to suit the specific age group visiting us. Our learning facilitator would like to know if there are special topics you want to focus on.
Workshop: In our two-hour learning programmes, students will be able to investigate and work creatively with the idea of creating light and space. Moreover, students will have an opportunity to produce their own works based on light, space, and colour theory.
Children's Games – Francis Alÿs
Book this course from 14 Oct 2022 – 9 April 2023
Topics: contemporary art, democracy, debate and society, games
Subjects: Danish, visual art, history, media subjects
The Belgian artist Francis Alÿs creates images and films about the people he meets and the cities and landscapes he visits on his travels around the world. This course focuses on the exhibition Children’s Games, in which films featuring children playing are screened. Students are introduced to video and installation analyses and will work with them in the exhibition space in groups and as teams.
The two-hour courses will be inspired by Alÿs’s work with film scripts, painting, and drawing. We will use them as a tool to unlock the compositional aspects of Children’s Games and as inspiration for creative work in the workshop.
We adapt all course programmes to suit the specific age group visiting us. Our learning facilitator would like to know if there are special topics you want to focus on.
Workshop: In our two-hour learning programmes, students will be able to do practical and creative work inspired by the exhibition.
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.
Doug Wheeler and James Turrell
Book this course on Tuesdays between 9.00–15.00 and Wed Fri between 09.00–11.00.
Topics: light, perception, senses, phenomenology
Subjects: physics, visual art.
The artists James Turrell and Doug Wheeler are members of the American art movement Light and Space. CC shows two of their monumental works, which students can experience and explore on this course. They will learn about light- and installation art and will become aware of how light and colours influence emotions, the body, and the perception of space. The course will address questions such as: What is light? Why is the sky blue? How do we perceive colours?
We adapt our course programmes to suit the specific age groups visiting us. Our learning facilitator would like to know if there are special topics you want to focus on.
Workshop: In our two-hour learning programmes, students will be able to investigate and work creatively with the idea of creating light and space. Further, students will have an opportunity to produce their own works based on light, space, and colour theory.
Science & Contemporary Art
Book this course from 01 Aug–30 Dec 2022.
Tuesdays between 9–15 and Wed–Fri between 9–18.
Topics: colours, shapes, space, light, perception, senses
Subjects: physics, chemistry, natural sciences, biology, visual art.
On this course, we will work with the exhibition Science & Contemporary Art and focus on three works of art created by the artists Ann Linn Palm Hansen, AVPD, and Jeppe Hein. We will examine the link between science and art in our science labs and look for answers to a number of questions: Why is the world upside down? What happens when light is refracted and how do we experience this? What are spirals of nature and how is light reflected?
We start from students’ own observations and experience and always use exercises and activities.
We adapt all course programmes to suit the specific age group visiting us. Our learning facilitator would like to know if there are special topics you want to focus on.
Workshop: In our two-hour learning programmes, students will be able to investigate and work creatively with the idea of creating light and space. Moreover, students will have an opportunity to produce their own works based on light, space, and colour theory.
Children's Games – Francis Alÿs
Book this course from 14 Oct 2022 – 9 April 2023
Topics: contemporary art, democracy, debate and society, games
Subjects: Danish, visual art, history, media subjects
The Belgian artist Francis Alÿs creates images and films about the people he meets and the cities and landscapes he visits on his travels around the world. This course focuses on the exhibition Children’s Games, in which films featuring children playing are screened. Students are introduced to video and installation analyses and will work with them in the exhibition space in groups and as teams.
The two-hour courses will be inspired by Alÿs’s work with film scripts, painting, and drawing. We will use them as a tool to unlock the compositional aspects of Children’s Games and as inspiration for creative work in the workshop.
We adapt all course programmes to suit the specific age group visiting us. Our learning facilitator would like to know if there are special topics you want to focus on.
Workshop: In our two-hour learning programmes, students will be able to do practical and creative work inspired by the exhibition.
Day-care institutions
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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 7288.
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Workshop
CC’s workshop is located on the first floor in the art centre. The workshop is open every Saturday and Sunday from 11.00–17.30.
The workshop host will welcome you and give you inspiration for artistic activities based on the exhibition Science & Contemporary Art. Everyone is welcome and the activities are always tailored to suit both children and adults.
The activities in the workshop and in Hall 4 are free of charge and you don’t have to register.
Children and young people
CC is an art centre geared to welcoming visitors of all ages.
We have rooms where you can enjoy your packed lunches and there’s space for buggies, breaks, a chat, and an afternoon nap.
We always use the very best materials for artistic activities and we prefer non-digital activities. We’re interested in dialogue, play, and immersion.
Exhibition and workshop hosts are ready to welcome you everywhere in the art centre and are always ready for a chat about the art – also with our youngest visitors.
We have developed exhibition material specifically aimed at children.
We offer special activities in the school holidays and, during the summer holidays, we offer summer schools with activities in the exhibitions, the workshop, and the island Refshaleøen. Check our calendar.
Science & Contemporary Art
5 September – 30 December 2022
Science & Contemporary Art examines the connection between science and art. The artworks featured are Fibonacci I (Magenta, Cyan, Yellow) by Ann Linn Palm Hansen, TIMELIGHT II (Los Angeles, GMT -7 hours) by AVPD, and 360° Illusion II by Jeppe Hein.
Science & Contemporary Art invites everyone to take part in activities associated with space, light, colours, and shapes. The activities are based on the works of art shown in the hall. There are also zones where you can build with LEGO and DUPLO, make studies of the sky, and build your own work of art.
Every Thursday from 14‒18 during the exhibition period, there will be an open science club for children and young adults. Everyone is welcome, and you just come and go as you wish. Taking part in all activities is free after you have paid the admission fee. Learn more here.
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.
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
We invite acclaimed international artists to create total installations specially for CC Studio, the so-called playscapes, which everyone can explore, play in, and examine using their bodies.
The exhibition Storeroom of the Gods by the Danish artist Hannah Toticki Anbert will open in November. This will e.g. include a large-scale knitted sculpture, an installation featuring wings, and an informal pub.
Earlier, we showed the exhibition, El barco de barro (The Clay Ship) by the artist Sol Calero, born in Venezuela. She filled the hall with pavilions, furniture, and a large clay workshop open to everyone.
The first playscape, Art is Life, was created by the Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren at CC in 2019, featuring works constructed using 700 dartboards, 300 weights, and 10,000 silk ribbons.
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.