Paper Planes

At Copenhagen Contemporary, Paper Planes enters Camille Henrot’s restless world of film, sculpture, drawing, installation, and systems that start to misbehave. The exhibition is her largest solo presentation in Scandinavia to date, with the Scandinavian premiere of In the Veins at its center, alongside major installations from the past decade and new works in sculpture and drawing.

Henrot treats a sheet of paper as a way of thinking, something that can become a bird, a map, a weapon, or a plane before the world tells it what to be. That openness runs through works on biodiversity loss, care, childhood, etiquette, spam emails, domesticated animals, and the strange rules we inherit without always seeing them.

Across the exhibition, her practice asks how imagination can stay active under pressure, and how art might loosen the systems that shape our behavior.