Past Exhibitions

Gregory Crewdson: In a Lonely Place

23 September 2011 - 28 January 2012

LAST DAY "... a scoop at The National Museum of Photography" - Weekendavisen. Experience one of the greatest photographic artists of our time: Welcome to Gregory Crewdson's world of melancholic beauty In a Lonely Place

Touching Dreams

13 May 2011 - 27 August 2011

Helsinki School vol. 3. Photo and video works by the latest generation of young artists from the renowned photography degree at the Aalto University School of Art and Design in Helsinki

Carsten Niebuhr And The Arabian Journey

9 May 2011 - 6 September 2011

The story of a dramatic journey and a unique scientific contribution

Jim Campbell: Material Light

11 February 2011 - 16 April 2011

Suggestively simple works on the border between video art and photography, high technology and sensuality by one of the most innovative figures on the international art scene.

UNDERCOVER – The Library as a Physical Narrative

24 April 2010 - 11 September 2010

Hotel Pro Forma takes a loving look at the Royal Library's impressive collections

Tiina Itkonen: Kullorsuaq I, 2006

Songs from the cold seas

28 November 2009 - 6 March 2010

Olaf Otto Becker's monumental icescapes opposite Tiina Itkonen's sensitive portraits

Henrik Saxgren: Unintended Sculptures

20 September 2009 - 19 December 2009

With his thought-provoking landscape photos, one of the foremost Danish documentary photographers portrays the beauty of nature and human imprint on nature

Maps, Myths and Narratives

13 July 2009 - 26 September 2009

Were there ever forests and castles in Greenland? Grab a map and explore the history of cartography throughout the Black Diamond

A Building is not a Building

29 May 2009 - 29 August 2009

Architectural abstractions by Ola Kolehmainen

Jim Dine: This is how I remember, now

13 February 2009 - 9 May 2009

LAST CHANCE A Pop Art pioner has taken up photography

Everything you can think of is true

3 December 2008 - 4 April 2009

A strange and wonderful exhibition about artist's sketches staged by Robert Wilson

Danish Prime Ministers - a satirical portrait

17 May 2008 - 25 October 2008

Fogh Rasmussen as a caveman, Nyrup Rasmusen in a much too small bicycle helmet and Schlüter fumbling with the carpet

Sally Mann Photographs

9 May 2008 - 20 September 2008

US photographer Sally Mann continues to stir up controversy with her photographs.

The Image of Turkey?

15 February 2008 - 19 April 2008

An unusual and exciting encounter: Melchior Lorck's woodcuts from Istanbul in the 1500's and Finn Larsen's sober and surprising photographs.

Hans Bendix – the erotic line

7 December 2007 - 1 March 2008

Hans Bendix' sensual drawings of women

ART AS IDEA

10 November 2007 - 15 March 2008

Groundbreaking exhibition about the great new departures in Danish art in the 1960s and 1970s

Understanding Nature - from fables to systems

2 October 2007 - 29 December 2007

Progress and dead ends in the history of biology

Portrait (P. Grote), Thomas Ruff (Tyskland, f. 1958) , 1985, C-print

Achtung! Art!

22 June 2007 - 18 August 2007

The National Museum of Photography shows contemporary photographic art from the collection

Bulgarian Poster Art

20 June 2007 - 20 August 2007

The Cyrillic alphabet - a new alphabet in The European Union

Written images

25 May 2007 - 25 August 2007

An extraordinary exhibition of contemporary and historical calligraphic works of art from the Arabic countries

TRACES

2 March 2007 - 26 May 2007

LAST CHANCE - Danish identity and photography through time

Crossing the Border

3 February 2007 - 28 April 2007

How Danish musical life has been inspired and challenged by currents from south of the border

FROM DUST TO GOLD

11 November 2006 - 1 May 2010

See the exhibition FROM DUST TO GOLD in the library's spectacular new Montana Hall.