20/08/2026
CAMILLE HENROT’s largest solo exhibition in Scandinavia to date, “Paper Planes”, curated by Marie Laurberg, is on view at Copenhagen Contemporary, through December 31, 2026.
Central to the exhibition is the Scandinavian premiere of the artist’s new film “In the Veins”, – already deemed “an instant classic” by Art in America – alongside major installations spanning the last ten years of her practice and a selection of new works in sculpture and drawing.
With “Paper Planes”, Henrot’s work looks to the possibilities of counterfactual, non-linear thinking as a way of coping with contemporary existence. In the hands of a child, a piece of paper is never just paper – it is a bird, a map, a weapon, a plane. This is not naïveté but a different mode of processing: open, risk-taking, alive to potentialities that experience and societal codes have not yet ruled out. It is a capacity that most of us unlearn as we move into adulthood – and, Henrot suggests, one we urgently need to reclaim. To care for the world, we must first be able to imagine it differently.
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Photo: David Stjernholm