UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
The Searching Human
24 August 2026 – 31 October 2026 The foyer at Farum Kulturhus
There are moments in life when what is familiar is no longer enough. New questions arise. Old experiences stay with us. Something calls for our attention – as unease, a longing or perhaps a desire to understand the world a little better.
In this exhibition, you will meet people who have reflected on life’s big questions about faith and doubt, values and outlooks on life, meaning and existence – in short: people who have searched for and found new spiritual paths.
For some, their search began with an experience of loss or unease. For others, with curiosity and wonder. Their stories are different. But they share the same basic human condition: the desire to understand ourselves, each other and the complex existence of which we are a part.
In one of the world’s most secularised societies, the question of spirituality is still present. Through the stories in the exhibition, you are invited to encounter different ways of being human. Perhaps you will recognise something of yourself. Perhaps you will encounter perspectives that are unfamiliar to you.
For even if our answers are different, we often share the same questions. And perhaps it is precisely the questions that form our common human starting point.
Photo: Saint Nicholas Orthodox service at Ukraine House, 2022. The Migration Museum of Denmark.
New Muslim Homes
8 September 2026 – 31 October 2026 The foyer at Farum Kulturhus
Islam was once primarily an immigrant religion in Denmark, and Muslims were first and foremost people who came here as immigrants or refugees. Today, the picture is different: the Danish Muslim population is no longer dominated by first-generation immigrants, and Islam is no longer ‘foreign’ in Denmark. As a living religion and religious practice, Islam naturally develops within its Danish context, and as Muslim families and communities take root here, new identities and aesthetic expressions emerge.
One example is new Danish Islamic art and decorative objects. These may include posters with Islamic calligraphy or Ramadan ornaments. Increasingly, these objects find their way into Danish Muslim homes, where they simultaneously reflect both the Danish and the Muslim through their stylistic expression and the traditions of which they are a part. In this way, these seemingly inconspicuous objects are part of a negotiation of community and identity.
In the exhibition ‘New Muslim Homes’, we meet the creative Danish entrepreneurs who design and produce the art and decorative objects and who, from the beginning, have helped develop new Danish-Muslim aesthetic expressions. Through their work, ideas and motivations, we gain insight into the new identities that the objects represent and into how what was once perceived as ‘coming from outside’ has gradually become ‘at home’.
The exhibition was created in collaboration with postdoc Maria Lindebæk Schmidt Lyngsøe and the research project Pious Practices Among Danish Muslims at the University of Copenhagen. It is funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.
Photo: Maria Mawla produces Ramadan candles. 2026.
