Image: Gallery of Maps
Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm will present ‘A Black Hole Calling Us’, a large interactive public-art installation at Stationspladsen in front of Køge Station, Denmark, as part of MAPS – Museum of Art in Public Space’s 2026 season opening on Friday 11 September. The museum says the work can be experienced from 11 September and for one month afterwards, daily between 3pm and 9pm.
The installation places visitors among eight screens. Standing at its centre, the visitor’s own body becomes part of the work as images and sound surround them, creating the sensation of moving towards—and into—another dimension. MAPS describes the work as sitting at the intersection of art, technology and science, bringing an astronomical phenomenon normally millions of light-years away into an everyday urban setting. It is supported by the Ny Carlsberg Foundation and the Danish Arts Foundation.
‘A Black Hole Calling Us’ will be introduced by Falkenstrøm at 5.40pm on 11 September, following the official opening of MAPS’s new season and a presentation of the museum’s forthcoming programme by director Malene Natascha Ratcliffe. The day begins at 4pm with the opening of a student exhibition, made in the museum’s learning programme and departing from the practice of Hélio Oiticica, and continues in the evening with a concert by Emil F and Frederik Valentin and a Movie Mingle screening of ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’. Admission is free.
The station-square installation is one of two new exhibitions opening at MAPS that day. At the museum in Køge, ‘Forarbejder til Tove Storchs Skibet’ examines the process behind Tove Storch’s 17-metre-long red concrete sculpture ‘Skibet’. Models, drawings and sketches document the development of the work, including experiments with plaster, concrete, fabric and gravity. That exhibition runs from 11 September to 3 January 2027.
MAPS, previously known as KØS – Museum of Art in Public Spaces, describes itself as a museum, workshop and platform dedicated to art in public space. Founded in 1977 as Køge Skitsesamling, it holds more than 19,000 sketches, models and preparatory works for realised and unrealised public-art projects. It took the MAPS name in January 2025, the same month it opened ‘The Story of Public Art’, a four-year international exhibition presenting 90 artists from 40 countries and running to January 2029.
The museum’s current programme also includes Ibrahim Mahama’s ‘Labyrinths’, a site-specific work on MAPS’s forecourt built from reused bricks taken from historically and culturally significant Danish buildings, among them Fredensborg Palace, Vor Frue Kloster, Vestre Prison, the Natural History Museum of Denmark and the museum’s own building, a former school in Køge. More than 1,000 children and young people from Køge contributed to the project through workshops.
