Art, architecture and travel in Copenhagen
Let Wallpaper* guide you through the worlds of art, design and architecture in Copenhagen - and discover where to go and what to see when you travel to Copenhagen.
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‘It’s a human story’: Baserange is creating underwear for real bodies
As Copenhagen-based brand Baserange reaches ten years – and adds menswear and homeware to its offering – we catch up with the founders about their non-conformist approach to body- and underwear
By Mary Cleary Published
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Meet Mast, the emerging masters of floating architecture
Danish practice Mast is featured in the Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2024
By Jens H Jensen Published
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Five emerging Copenhagen Fashion Week designers to have on your radar
Nicole DeMarco picks five on-the-rise designers to watch from Copenhagen Fashion Week S/S 2025, which took place in the Danish capital earlier this month
By Nicole DeMarco Published
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3 Days of Design 2024: best of Danish design and beyond
What to see at 3 Days of Design 2024, the Copenhagen-wide design festival spotlighting the best of Danish and international design (until 14 June)
By Sujata Burman Last updated
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Where to eat in Copenhagen: designers’ favourite haunts
Local designers Charlie Hedin, Christian+Jade, David Thulstrup, Julius Iversen and Maria Bruun reveal where to eat in Copenhagen
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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Nicklas Skovgaard is the Copenhagen-based designer spearheading a 1980s fashion revival
Chosen by Wallpaper* in January as a fashion star to watch, Scarlett Conlon travels to Copenhagen to meet Nicklas Skovgaard, an on-rise-designer whose warped partywear is inspired by outré 1980s style codes
By Scarlett Conlon Published
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Copenhagen Fashion Week A/W 2024: the key shows and takeaways
Scarlett Conlon reports from Copenhagen Fashion Week A/W 2024, where the event’s sustainable credentials met creative and pragmatic collections from the locale’s eclectic designers
By Scarlett Conlon Last updated
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Ambra Copenhagen marries traditional Italian cuisine with sleek Danish design
Ambra Copenhagen is Space Copenhagen’s latest design-centred hospitality venture
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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The Opera Park in Copenhagen is an urban green island where ‘nature comes first’
The Opera Park creates a new urban green lung near Copenhagen's fast-developing Paper Island district, courtesy of Danish architecture studio Cobe
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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How Copenhagen’s Chart Art Fair celebrated its first decade
The 11th Chart Art Fair highlights span architectural installations, an ongoing sculpture show, and a novice collectors’ exhibition
By Nargess Shahmanesh Banks Published
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American artist Rachel Rose reaches for the sun and the moon in her Nordic exhibition debut
Rachel Rose’s ‘Good Morning Midnight’ at GL Strand, Copenhagen, centres on her cinematic Enclosure (2019) and recent video The Last Day (2023)
By Alice Godwin Published
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24 hours in Copenhagen: stay, bike, dine, and discover Danish design
Plan your 24 hours in Copenhagen: sleepover in a former brewery, wake up with a wild swim, and immerse yourself in the home of a modernist master
By Simon Mills Published
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A weekend in wonderful Copenhagen
The ultimate weekend in Copenhagen starts here: discover the latest openings across the UNESCO World Capital of Architecture, stay in a hotel afloat, start your day with brilliant baked goods and ski down a power-station piste
By Simon Mills Published
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3 Days of Design 2023: best of Danish design, and more
Our highlights from 3 Days of Design 2023: a city-wide programme of launches and exhibition by leading Danish and international design brands
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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Kimsooja transforms Copenhagen’s underground Cisternerne into a laboratory of light
We exclusively preview South Korean artist Kimsooja's ‘Weaving the Light’, an illuminating, kaleidoscopic installation in Copenhagen’s subterranean Cisternerne (26 March – 30 November 2023)
By Alice Godwin Published
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Tora Schultz: ‘Bitch on Wheels’ is a surreal, witty take on a world designed for the male body
From crash test dummies to pitchfork stilettos, Tora Schultz’s show ‘Bitch on Wheels’ at Copenhagen’s O–Overgaden is a tragic comedy exploring gender bias, stereotypes, and the surrealism of everyday life
By Alice Godwin Published
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Jaime Hayon launches Room 506 at Copenhagen’s iconic SAS Royal Hotel
By Lauren Ho Last updated
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Modern monastery for cycling opens in 1990s industrial building in Copenhagen
By Elly Parsons Last updated
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Kaktus København opens succulent new concept store
By Aimée McLaughlin Last updated
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Truncated pendants: ’Out of the woods’ by OOOJA for Rewired
By Jens H Jensen Last updated
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Nordic nous: new Danish brand Million launches with an eclectic furniture offering
By Sujata Burman Last updated
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Public art pioneer: Poul Gernes at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
By Elly Parsons Last updated
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’No Limits’: Mario Testino opens Copenhagen’s art season with a bang
By Yoko Choy Last updated
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Copenhagen's new Metro station reflects its brutalist dockland location
Tracing the outline of a shipping container, the over ground Orientkaj station references the large-scale volumes and working materials of the adjacent docks
By Simon Mills Last updated
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Print perfect: a look inside the rise of Danish label Cecilie Copenhagen
By Ellie Packer Last updated
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Light work: Louis Poulsen opens a two-storey showroom in Copenhagen
By Giovanna Dunmall Last updated
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Modern movements: Georg Jensen reworks its classic Koppel watch
By Emma O'Kelly Last updated