Metro Art Guide

For CHART 2025 we are delighted to partner with The Copenhagen Metro, whose transport network is filled with inspiring contemporary artworks by leading Danish and international artists.

We recommend purchasing the 50 kr 24 hr ticket to explore everything that the city has to offer. Head to the special billetter section of the Rejsebillet APP — click HERE to buy yours today.

For CHART 2025, we are shining a spotlight on art in the public space. Throughout the year we are expanding the dialogue around public art, exploring the ways in which it can build community, inspire new ideas, spark discussion and shape our shared environment.

A great way to experience public artworks is while travelling on the Metro! In this article we guide you around the different stations, pointing out where artworks by Pernille With Madsen, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Superflex and Jeppe Hein, among others, are transforming familiar transport routes into inspiring art experiences.

Make sure to use the Metro when you visit CHART 2025 – especially if you are going between the art fair at Kunsthal Charlottenborg and CHART in Tivoli at Tivoli Gardens.

Henrik Plenge Jakobsen – Stella Nova (2024)

Location: København Syd

Down in København Syd station, Danish artist Henrik Plenge Jakobsen has created a large-scale astronomical clock which offers a precise representation of the current positions of the sun, moon, and planets as seen from the site.

Complementing the clock is a spatial experience blending with the station’s architecture. As you move along the escalators, the surrounding walls gradually shift through different shades of blue. The work invites for a moment of reflection in the midst of the flow of everyday transit.

Henrik Plenge Jakobsen is represented by Lagune Ouest and will be exhibiting with the gallery inside the art fair at CHART 2025.

Pernille With Madsen – Enghave Brygge (2023)

Location: Enghave Brygge

At Enghave Brygge metro station, Danish artist Pernille With Madsen has created subtle yet detailed installations at various places inside the station. Using light, reliefs and the use of materials such as glowing onyx and ceramics, With Madsen plays with layering to create striking illusions.

In collaboration with the Danish Technological Institute, the artist has used robotics to achieve a meticulous placement of fibre optics within the works, intricately woven into delicate, mesh-like structures, highlighting the geological as well as archaeologically-inspired elements of the pieces.

Pernille With Madsen is represented by Galleri Susanne Ottesen and will be exhibiting with the gallery inside the art fair at CHART 2025.

Anne Prytz Schaldemose – Fanø Nationalpark Vadehavet (2015)

Location: Forum

Down in the bicycle basement at Forum Metro station in Fredriksberg, photographer Anne Prytz Schaldemose has covered the walls of the tunnel in panoramic photos of Fanø Nationalpark. The distinctive West Jutland dune landscape was declared a nature reserve in 1985 and added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 2014.

The view of the Wadden Sea’s horizons opens up the spaces and provides a brief opportunity to let your thoughts flow. To further enhance the experience, the floor has been painted in a light sandy colour.

Superflex - Super Metro (2024)

Location: Havneholmen

At the Metro station on Havneholmen, the artist group Superflex bends the usual Metro experience in unexpected directions. Bins, benches and clocks appear to defy gravity by hanging from the walls and the ceiling. On the platform, time itself seems to unravel thorough a series of rapidly spinning clocks.

Super Metro suggests that traveling through the tunnels is like traveling through black holes: the clocks change speed, space curves, and the passengers grow younger on the journey. The ceiling becomes the floor and the floor becomes the ceiling. An invitation to lose oneself to speed, Super Metro transforms a commute through the city into a multidirectional journey through time and space, offering passengers the chance to imagine a world where the laws of nature are constantly shifting.

Jeppe Hein – Coloured Mirror Balloons (2017-2020)

Location: Kongens Nytorv

Inside Kongens Nytorv Metro station, Danish artist Jeppe Klein has created the installation 'Coloured Mirror Ballons' consisting of 17 vibrant reflective balloons crafted from glass fibre reinforced plastic that are distributed throughout the station.

As light hits their surfaces, the balloons mirror fragments of the constant motion of the station below, offering fleeting glimpses of travellers at one of Copenhagen’s busiest transit points. The installation adds a playful and dynamic layer to the station’s architecture, offering a moment of visual surprise.

Pernelle Maegaard – from PLACE to PLACE (2017)

Location: Kongens Nytorv

Further down in Kongens Nytorv station, Danish artist Pernelle Maegaard has created the work 'from PLACE to PLACE', where the walls and floor of the station's bicycle cellar have been painted with brightly coloured geometrical figures consisting of abstract lines and circles.

The artwork gently invites and guides you through the passage and encourages exploration of the space, making the area more than just a place where you can park your bike.

René Schmidt – Siphonophore Geometry and Diatom Crystal (2024)

Location: Sluseholmen

At Sluseholmen metro station, Danish artist René Schmidt, recognized for his distinctive 3D-modelled works, has created two large-scale sculptures drawing inspiration from the shapes of the sea creatures that inhabit the waters around Sluseholmen.

Descending down the escalators, you find the first sculpture hanging above your head. ‘Siphonophore Geometry’ is eight metres tall and made of shiny steel, reflecting its surroundings and playing with the light of the space.

Continuing down towards the platform, you may also spot the concrete relief ‘Diatom Crystal’ , casted on site. The piece seamlessly integrates with the station's architecture, but also features a wide range of organic details on its surface.

Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen - Ud af barndommen (2024)

Location: Mozarts Plads

Inside Mozarts Plads Metro station, Danish artist Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen has created a monumental imaginative mural that draws inspiration from the unique atmosphere of the surrounding Sydhavnen area.

The mural, which took six months to paint and finish, is filled with imagination and carefully placed details. As a viewer, you are invited into a world that’s nearly impossible to step away from, as each section of the work can be seen as a story waiting to be discovered.