Experience Copenhagen through photographer Julie Rønnow’s black-and-white images from the 1960s to the beginning of the 21st century, as the Copenhagen Museum offers a guided tour of the special exhibition about a city in transformation.
This guided tour explores the special exhibition Copenhagen in black & white, which is based on the work of photographer Julie Rønnow. From the 1960s until 2004, she documented life in Copenhagen through thousands of black-and-white photographs.
As a freelance photographer living in Christianshavn, she was closely connected to the city’s events and communities. Among other subjects, she photographed demonstrations, police deployments, and squatters — often from within the midst of the action.
Rønnow’s photographs particularly depict the city’s urban spaces: the buildings and the life unfolding between them. The images provide a vivid insight into how Copenhagen evolved from worn-down residential neighbourhoods into a modern capital city with new concrete housing developments.
For the exhibition, artist Julie Boserup has created three works connected to the exhibition’s themes: courtyards, concrete, and the harbour. These works offer a contemporary perspective on the environments that Rønnow documented.
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Museum of Copenhagen
Museum of Copenhagen