Image: Henrik Vibskov, Observations of Humans. Photo: Josefina Eikenaar. Designmuseum Denmark, Copenhagen
Designmuseum Danmark in Copenhagen will open ‘Henrik Vibskov: The Exhibition’ on 18 September 2026, running to 21 February 2027. The museum describes it as the Danish designer and artist’s largest solo exhibition to date, bringing together objects, prototypes, studio works, fashion highlights and large-scale installations in a sensory presentation that spans his work across design, art and performance.
According to the museum, Vibskov has spent more than 25 years developing a distinct universe in which music, scenography, costumes, installations and fashion continually intersect. The exhibition is built around that cross-disciplinary method rather than a single medium, and the museum frames it as a route through play, improvisation and collaboration — a universe, in its words, where mistakes are gold and beauty emerges in the middle of chaos.
The display runs in scale from very small models of installations, through 44 display cases holding objects, prototypes and works from Vibskov’s studio, to large installations that visitors move through. Selected pieces from his fashion collections over the years are shown alongside the studio material, giving the exhibition both an archival and a physical dimension.
Vibskov graduated from Central Saint Martins in London in 2001 and has since produced more than 50 fashion collections, showing at design fairs, festivals and museums internationally, among them MoMA in New York and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He is a professor at Design School Kolding and lectures at institutions including Central Saint Martins and Parsons School of Design in New York. Alongside the biannual collections he has designed costumes for numerous operas and stage productions, most recently for Alexander Ekman’s ballet ‘Hammer’ at GöteborgsOperan in Sweden. He is also active as a drummer, having played with Hess Is More, Mikael Simpson and Trentemøller.
His awards include the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize, the Thorvald Bindesbøll Medal and the Royal Couple’s Culture Prize, and in 2025 he received the Danish Arts Foundation’s lifelong honorary grant.
The exhibition is supported by Knud Højgaards Fond, Lemvigh-Müller Fonden and Manufakturhandlerforeningen i Kjøbenhavns Almene Fond. Designmuseum Danmark is at Bredgade 68, 1260 Copenhagen K.
