Guide: Party in the art

1. maj 2024

Drinks overlooking the city rooftops or tarot cards and oysters – you’ll find the coolest parties here!

Drinks overlooking the city rooftops or tarot cards and oysters – you’ll find the coolest parties here!

There's no party without art, read along to find the coolest festive events during Art Matter Festival 2025.
Date: Thu 15. May
Time: 18-22
Price: Free
Adress: Nikolaj Plads 10, 1067 København K
Photo: Lars Vibild
Photo: Lars Vibild
Under the headline Art Bar Extravaganza, Nikolaj Kunsthal is the setting for the opening of Art Matter Festival 2025!
In a packed program you can experience performance, dance, tours and music in a festive setting. Don't miss artist, dancer and choreographer Cassie Augusta Jørgensen performing a new version of the performance The Rite of Nothing. During the evening you can experience Lotte Sigh's dance performance By The Roots, which is inspired by the exhibition Breaking Darkness, an artistic staging of Lars Von Trier's universe.
At Nikolaj Plads you can get carried away by Oladipo's diverse soundtrack. There will also be speeches, free beer from Depanneur and a Poulette pop-up serving the best nuggets in town.
Date: Thu 22. May
Time: 20-22
Price: 60 kr.
Adress: Købmagergade 52a, 1150 København K
Photo: Rundetaarn
Photo: Rundetaarn
Join us this evening when the Round Tower is extraordinarily open in both the exhibition hall and at the top. You can experience the exciting exhibition TID*MULD*STJERNE until 9pm and then souvenirs and ice cream have been swapped for beer and drinks at the Star Bar with the best view in town. Grab a loved one in one hand, a drink in the other and enjoy the sun's last rays from the top of Copenhagen.
Date: Thu 22 May
Time: 17-21
Price: Free
Adress: Gl. Strand 48, 1202 København K
Photo: Joakim Züger
Photo: Joakim Züger
Gammel Strand invites you to a grand opening when they open this year's summer exhibitions with Danish artist Nanna Abell and Swedish painter Sara-Vide Ericson. The raw, poetic and supernatural merge in the exhibitions and until 9 pm you can dive into the exhibitions and experience a special programme with tarot card readings, beer and oysters, a performance by Yuki Tsuji and test whether you are a troll or an elf.
Date: Sat 17 May
Time: 14-22
Price: Free
Adress: Kay Fiskers Plads 17, 2300 København S
Photo: coyote
Photo: coyote
In Inception-like fashion, you can come to the festival Under at the same time as our Festival. It takes place at the large exhibition space SIMIAN right by Ørestad metro station. Here, fourteen independent exhibition platforms have come together to exhibit more than twenty artists with a great diversity of exhibition practices. There is an exciting programme throughout the opening day, and from 18-22, the bar deja-vu by coyote is open as well as a performance by Ville Laurinkoski at 19.30.
Date: Fri 23. May
Time: 16-19
Price: Free
Adress: Vesterbro and Frederiksberg
Photo: Sofus Graa
Photo: Sofus Graa
A number of galleries in Vesterbro and Frederiksberg invite you to a joint evening in the spirit of art. From 16:00 to 19:00, the exhibitions open their doors and invite you to an informal and inspiring experience where art, conversation and great atmosphere merge.
The evening is an opportunity to explore local galleries, experience new works and meet artists at eye level.
Date: Sat 17. May
Time: 20-23
Price: Free
Adress: Bertel Thorvaldsens Plads 2, 1213 København K
O Future, <i>Strawberry Binding</i>, 2025. Courtesy O Future, Thorvaldens Museum.
O Future, Strawberry Binding, 2025. Courtesy O Future, Thorvaldens Museum.
The exhibition ENTER AFTERLIFE by the artist duo O Future opens with a spectacular performance created especially for the occasion, staged in the museum's grand entrance hall.
Video projections combine with an electronically manipulated choir and music as the sculptures come to life in the vaulted ceiling. Afterwards, the museum's inner courtyard is transformed into an atmospheric oasis with cold drinks and delicious tunes from the DJ - and the exhibition can be experienced in the museum's northern marble galleries.