Focus on Denmark

Focus on Denmark

To mark Denmark's presidency of the Council of the European Union, Bozar is organising Focus on Denmark, featuring talks, films, performances, and an exhibition, alongside the finest Danish music.

Films and talks

Close-up: Dogma 95 | 10 → 28 Sept.'25
To mark the 30th anniversary of the Dogme 95 Manifesto, Bozar is celebrating a movement that stripped cinema of its artifice to rediscover the raw power of the image, the urgency of reality and the truth of emotions. Bozar and De Cinema are screening five iconic films of the movement, alongside by meetings with guests: Festen by Thomas Vinterberg, The Idiots by Lars Von Trier, Open Hearts by Susanne Bier and Italian for Beginners by Lone Scherfig.
In 2025, history is repeating itself: at the last Cannes Film Festival, a collective of producers, filmmakers and visual artists launched the Dogme 25 Manifesto, a new provocation to the global film industry. Based on this renewed movement, Bozar proposes a reflection on the future of cinema as a space of artistic urgency and creative freedom, freed from the constraints of entertainment.

Talks & Debates

Meet the Writer: Solvej Balle | 30 Sept.'25 - 19:30
Join us for an evening dedicated to literature, language, and the radical imagination, with one of Europe’s most original literary voices: Solvej Balle. The latest chapter of her groundbreaking seven-volume novel On the Calculation of Volume follows a woman caught in a single day that repeats endlessly, offering a profound meditation on existence and resistance to linear time.

Exhibition

Nina Beier | 4 Oct.'25 → 4 Jan.'26
Bozar presents a solo exhibition by the Danish artist Nina Beier, focusing on her sculptural installations which orchestrate conversations between a variety of loaded found objects. The exhibition displays works from the period 2013 to 2025 that investigate themes such as power, value, and economic and cultural exchange.

Concerts

Concerto Copenhagen | 4 Sept.'25 - 20:00
Bozar is focusing on the colourful life of Handel in the ’25-’26 season. So his most famous work, Water Music, is an unmissable feature. As well as Handel and Haydn, the Concerto Copenhagen and its conductor Lars Ulrik Mortensen will present their national heritage. Johann Adolf Scheibe, the Kapellmeister to the German court, was a self-made man whose compositions and treatises bridged the gap between the Baroque and Classicism. The Romantic composer J.P.E. Hartmann worked on his first opera with his fellow Dane Hans Christian Andersen a century later, but of course he needed no other geniuses for his First Symphony.
85ème anniversaire des Jeunesses Musicales de Belgique | 6 Oct.'25
The first "Concert for Youth," created in the midst of the Second World War in Brussels, gave rise to a global musical network. 85 years later, Rune Thorsteinsson, a Danish composer, joins forces with Belgian musicians for an interactive concert in the Henry Le Bœuf Hall, the historic venue of the event. A unique experience for students and music lovers alike.