COPENHAGEN.- In her largest exhibition to date, Larissa Sansour explores loss, memory, and belonging. In a time marked by war and conflict, her works gain a particular resonance by opening spaces for empathy, reflection, and new imaginings of the future.

Central to the work of Palestinian-Danish artist Larissa Sansour (b. 1973, East Jerusalem) is her beautiful and meticulously crafted film works, in which she blends layers of fact, fiction and political history with contemporary issues in aesthetically compelling ways. Visually experimental and richly imaginative, her works invite audiences to immerse themselves in alternative realities, thereby prompting new ways of thinking.

In Sansour’s major exhibition These Moments Will Disappear Too at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, viewers are invited into a compelling and carefully constructed world where science fiction, archaeology, and political realism converge to explore questions of belonging, memory, and national identity.

Through immersive films, sculptural installations, and speculative storytelling, Sansour crafts parallel futures in which Palestine is reimagined beyond geographical borders. From A Space Exodus (2009), where the first Palestinian astronaut plants a flag on the moon, to the high-rise utopia of Nation Estate (2012), and the buried porcelain relics of Archaeology in Absentia (2016), Sansour builds a fictive mythology that both critiques and reclaims dominant historical narratives.

Films such as In Vitro (2019) and her latest installation From the Remains of Those We Lost (2025) extend her post-apocalyptic universe, contemplating cloned memory, inherited trauma, and the mechanics of survival. In As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night (2022), grief is given operatic form in a triptych of mourning, while Familiar Phantoms (2023) becomes the artist’s most personal reflection on family, loss, and fragmented recollection.

The earliest work in the show, Tank (2003), returns to Kunsthal Charlottenborg more than two decades after its debut, grounding this expansive exhibition in the harsh reality that inspired it. Spanning more than twenty years of practice, Sansour’s works offer not only a visual archive of a continuing conflict and war, but also a space for imagining new futures – suspended somewhere between history and science fiction.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s director, Helene Nyborg Bay, emphasizes the relevance of Sansour’s work at a moment when conflict and displacement shape the lives of many people worldwide:

“Larissa Sansour’s practice explores memory, resilience, and identity, urging us to rethink narratives through a shared human perspective. In a time marked by conflict, loss, and uncertainty, her works resonate deeply, creating spaces for empathy, reflection, and imagination. We are proud to present this exhibition as a reminder of art’s power to illuminate the personal within the universal.”

Larissa Sansour has lived in London for over a decade, and her works have been exhibited around the world. She represented Denmark at the Venice Biennale in 2019. Opening in September 2025, the upcoming exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg marks the first time her works will be exhibited on such a large scale. The exhibition comprises ten works created between 2003 and 2025, most of them created in collaboration with author and director Søren Lind.

Larissa Sansour (PS/DK) lives and works in London. She studied Fine Arts in London, New York and Copenhagen. Her work has been exhibited at numerous art institutions around the world.

Most recently, Sansour has had solo exhibitions at Reykjanes Art Centre in Reykjanesbær, Iceland; Extra City Kunsthal in Antwerp, Belgium; Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden; Amos Rex in Helsinki, Finland; Kunsten in Aalborg, Denmark; Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, UK; KINDL in Berlin, Germany; Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark; Museum of Fine Arts in Gifu, Japan; Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai; and Bildmuseet in Umeå, Sweden.

Sansour has participated in group exhibitions at FACT Liverpool, UK; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Today Art Museum in Beijing, China; MoMA in New York, USA; Tate Modern in London, UK; Centre Pompidou in Paris, France; Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain; Palestinian Art Court – Al Hoash in Jerusalem; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark; Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, Germany; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan; and Al Ma'mal in Jerusalem, Palestine.

Sansour represented Denmark at the Venice Biennale in 2019 and has also participated in the Liverpool and Istanbul Biennials; the Karachi Biennale, Pakistan; and the Guangzhou Triennial, China. Her works are included in several notable art collections, including Tate Modern; Guggenheim Abu Dhabi; Kunsten; the New Carlsberg Foundation; and the Fondation Louis Vuitton.