About CAFx

Picture from the Exhibition 'Architecture and Extreme Environments' at Halmtorvet 27

Who We Are: We are Copenhagen Architecture Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of how architecture shapes lives and worlds. Co-founded by Josephine Michau in 2014, we have been an active member of the European platform LINA since 2022, supported by Creative Europe. Our main supporters include the Municipality of Copenhagen, Realdania, and Statens Kunstfond.

What We Do: Our activities include organizing an annual public program, primarily centered around our event and exhibition space at Halmtorvet 27, as well as the Copenhagen Architecture Biennial. Our role in the architectural sphere is to uphold infrastructures of exchange that connect people and knowledges across social, professional, cultural, and methodological boundaries. 

Why We Do It: We see architecture as a catalyst for building communities and a tool for promoting equality, justice, and planetary health. We believe in the importance of noticing and narrating the ways architecture relates to the issues people care about, and that these connections are many and far-reaching. We know that a broader understanding of architecture can inspire change, making it relevant to everyone—not just professionals. 

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Team

Josephine Michau
Co-founder, CEO and Head Curator
Pernille Maria Bärnheim
Acting Director
Søren Nørkjær Bang
Curator, Event Coordinator, Editor
Ida Willadsen Bang Kjeldsen
Curator, Event Coordinator
Janosh Heydorn
Program Assistant

Board members

Nanna Bjerre Hjortenberg
Lone Feifer
Simon Strange
Tina Saaby
Ellen Braae
Previous FEstivals
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2023
Life Form
In 2023, the Copenhagen Architecture Festival puts life at the center: the symbioses, habitats, life balances, and life cycles - the nest, the city, the cave, the den.
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2022
Sense of Place
In 2022, Copenhagen Architecture Festival wants to investigate and discuss how we sense, experience and understand places, and how architecture and urban planning help to create them.
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2021
Landscapes of Care
In 2021, the Copenhagen Architecture Festival will focus its activities on the overall theme of 'Landscapes of care'.
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2020
The Welfare City in Transition
In 2020, the theme for the Copenhagen Architecture Festival is 'The Welfare City in Transition'
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2019
Changing Ideals: 1919 - 2019 - 2119
For the sixth consecutive year, a varied festival programme throughout the country, shedding light on aspects of architecture where it truly makes a difference—in the encounter with human life, aesthetics, and politics.
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2018
Housing Homes
In 2018, we have chosen the theme 'Housing Home', about home, housing and belonging, as the framework for the festival's programme. We look at what constitutes a home, what it means to be at home and create home.
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2017
Architecture as Identity
The fourth edition of Copenhagen Architecture Festival will feature a wide program of more than 150 architectural events and 40 film screenings at 42 venues.
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2016
3rd Edition
The third instalment explores how architecture characterises our lives and the world with 150 events taking place in Copenhagen, Aarhus and Aalborg!
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2015
2nd Edition
Med støtte fra Dreyers Fond afholdes Copenhagen Architecture Festival for anden gang i København.