Magic in Art & Fashion
26.06.26 – 13.09.26
Shapeshifters
"Representing a generation shaped by migration and global perspectives, the works engage with heritage, spirituality, loss, healing, and transformation."
Vogue Scandinavia
Shapeshifters. Magic in Fashion presents 11 Nordic fashion designers and artists working at the intersections of fashion, art, and performance. Through new and existing works, they explore the ritual and transformative potential of clothing, showing how garments can mark life transitions, blur boundaries between reality and fantasy, and create new narratives and communities.
The artists represent a new, diverse Nordic generation with global outlooks and diasporic experiences. Their practices revolve around origin, spirituality, loss, healing, and transformation — and a search for meaning beyond the material. Attentive to both culture and nature, the visible and the hidden, they use the magic of fashion to challenge norms and rethink identity.
The exhibition is developed in collaboration with Ane Lynge-Jorlén (ALPHA) and is part of a Nordic partnership between EMMA (Finland), the National Museum (Norway), the Röhsska Museum (Sweden), and Copenhagen Contemporary (Denmark).
Ruin Drive II (Black Hair), 2025. Steel pipes, car rim, motorcycle helmet, synthetic hair. Photo: Adrian Abeshu Leversby
What's on
The next 7 days at Copenhagen Contemporary
James Turrell, Aftershock
CC Create x Monster Chetwynd, A Feather in your Hat!
CC10, Performance Festival
Alia Farid, A Sounding of the Earth
CC10 x Unearth: Thaiboy Digital + tonser + Atusa + DJ Srirachas
CC10: Fame Hunter & Nadia Marquard Otzen – Don’t Talk About Me
CC10: Alicja Kwade – Drei Hubwagen
CC10: Alicja Kwade – Drei Hubwagen
CC10: Alicja Kwade – Drei Hubwagen
CC10: Aske Thiberg – Shutting Out The Sun
CC10: Performance Festival – Celebrating 10 years of art with performances, talks and music
CC10: Lina Hashim – Odalisque
CC10: Opening speech by Marie Laurberg
CC10: Monster Chetwynd in Conversation with Marie Laurberg
CC10: Monster Chetwynd performance – Day for Night
CC10: Johanne Anastasia Stoffersen – Fountain
CC10: Jonas Erboe – Gyldne Tider
CC10: Jonas Erboe – Gyldne Tider
CC10: Jonas Erboe – Gyldne Tider
CC10: Kristoffer Akselbo – o Monster A.S.I.C.S
CC10: Kristoffer Akselbo – o Monster A.S.I.C.S
CC10: Silas Inoue - Anthropack
CC10: Johanne Anastasia Stoffersen – Fountain
CC10: Johanne Anastasia Stoffersen – Fountain
CC10: Future Bodies – a conversation about the future of performance art
CC10: Pussy Riot & Miriam Kongstad – SOLD OUT
CC10: Lea Korsgaard – Inden året er omme
CC10: Nadya Tolokonnikova (Pussy Riot) in Conversation with Marie Laurberg
