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Klára Hosnedlová, To Infinity, 2023. Installation view at Copenhagen Contemporary, 2025 Photo: David StjernholmSoft Robots: the Art of Digital Breathing.
Why do our technologies inspire so much hope and fear? When radical new technologies emerge, they stir up a cloud of utopian dreams and doomsday prophecies. Art is central to that conversation. In recent years, the robot has returned to contemporary art in experimental forms, signalling a shift in technology’s impact on our lives.
In the age of surveillance capitalism, technological utopias are hard to see. We find ourselves in the midst of a new technological revolution. Artificial intelligence, synthetic biology and quantum computers are being introduced into a culture where many already navigate a digital double – the virtual identity we construct on social media, freely handing over our data to giant corporations. The relationship between humans and machines is one of modernity’s defining cultural dramas, and it is intensifying before our eyes.
Soft Robots presents works by 15 artists and artist duos. From different artistic perspectives, they look at life in the new technological ecology, questioning the future we are shaping for ourselves. Many of the works were developed especially for CC’s exhibition. Created with or without new technology, they show art’s capacity to explore the world through poetry. Critically, the exhibiting artists search for the breath and soul that may be hiding in the landscapes of the future, among doppelgängers, digital avatars and seductive machines. They all insist on art as a unique space of reflection.
Copenhagen Contemporary (CC) is Copenhagen’s international art center showing installation art created by world stars and new emerging talents. CC occupies the magnificent former B&W welding hall, remodeled by architect Dorthe Mandrup, offering a total of 7,000 m2 of beautiful industrial halls with plenty of space to show the technical and large formats in which many contemporary artists work: total installations, performance art, and monumental video works. Art that can often be entered and sensed with the whole body.
Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu Curators of the Biennale Architettura 2027
Architects and educators, Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu founded Amateur Architecture Studio in 1997. The Exhibition will run from 8 May to 21 November 2027.
Age of Nature
Danish Architecture Center
How can we make space for both people and nature? Danish Architecture Center presents a major exhibition exploring the relationship between architecture, nature, people, and biodiversity – and asks: How can architecture help us create a future where both nature and humans can thrive?
EXHIBITION, UNTIL MAY 17, 2026
EUmies Awards
2026
The European Commission and Fundació Mies van der Rohe are pleased to announce the nominees and the jury for the 2026 edition of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards (EUmies Awards).
See the 410 nominees!