Henrik Vibskov

For more than 25 years, acclaimed Danish designer and artist Henrik Vibskov has shaped and developed his own distinctive and captivating universe, where music, scenography, costumes, installations and fashion constantly intersect and inspire one another in surprising and exploratory ways. From 18 September, Vibskov takes over Designmuseum Danmark in central Copenhagen with his largest exhibition to date, taking visitors on an eventful journey through the designer’s universe.

When Henrik Vibskov creates his fashion collections and large-scale installations, he draws inspiration from cultural, social and political issues – but also from the most familiar aspects of everyday life: how we sleep, wash in the morning or do the dishes. In Vibskov’s hands, the familiar is transformed in surprising ways and re-emerges in the designer’s distinctive, playful universe, which always invites new perspectives and experiences.

From fashion highlights to large-scale installations
With Henrik Vibskov: The Exhibition, visitors can look forward to an immersive exhibition featuring a wealth of different works and visual worlds – from 44 display cases containing objects, prototypes and works from Vibskov’s studio and highlights from his fashion collections over the years to large-scale art installations that visitors can move through. The major exhibition at Designmuseum Danmark offers a unique insight into how Vibskov’s approach to play, improvisation and collaboration creates space for an endless flow of creativity, and how his various projects intersect across time and themes. The exhibition is a journey into a branching, wildly growing universe – mysterious, humorous, surprising and moving.

A colourful preview
The first work from the exhibition has already taken up residence in the museum’s green garden. Henrik Vibskov created the installation The Umbrico Spiral especially for the museum’s programme during the 3daysofdesign festival in June. Standing almost nine metres tall, the installation features red and white double spirals that turn in the wind. It now rises in the middle of the museum garden as a colourful, playful monument heralding the upcoming exhibition. Inside the museum, too, visitors can get a taste of the major exhibition in the month leading up to the opening, with a selection of works on display.

Largest museum exhibition
Henrik Vibskov has exhibited at numerous museums around the world, but the exhibition at Designmuseum Danmark is his largest solo exhibition to date. Henrik Vibskov: The Exhibition presents a selection of highlights from 25 years of the designer’s projects, alongside a wide range of objects, models and other material that has never previously been exhibited.

About Henrik Vibskov
Henrik Vibskov works at the intersection of art and design. Since graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2001, he has created more than 50 fashion collections and exhibited at international design fairs, festivals and museums around the world, including MoMA in New York and Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Alongside his work in the studio, he is a professor at Design School Kolding and regularly serves on juries and gives lectures at institutions including Central Saint Martins in London and Parsons School of Design in New York. In addition to his biannual fashion collections, he has designed costumes for numerous operas and performing arts productions. Most recently, he created the costumes for Alexander Ekman’s ballet Hammer at GöteborgsOperan in Sweden. Throughout his career, Henrik Vibskov has received numerous awards, including the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize, the Thorvald Bindesbøll Medal and the Crown Prince Couple’s Culture Prize. In 2025, he was awarded a lifelong honorary grant by the Danish Arts Foundation. Vibskov is also active as a drummer and has performed with, among others, Hess Is More, Mikael Simpson and Trentemøller.

Henrik Vibskov: The Exhibition is on view at Designmuseum Danmark from 18 September 2026 to 21 February 2027.