Tracey Emin’s Biggest Exhibition Is Coming to Denmark. It Has Drawn Hundreds of Thousands of Visitors
“Tracey Emin: A Second Life” is the largest exhibition to date by the uncompromising artist, spanning more than four decades of her career. This year, hundreds of thousands of people visited the exhibition at London’s Tate Modern, and from 8 October 2026, it will be on view at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
Author: MG
Featured image: Tracey Emin, The End of Love, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 202.9 × 280.2 cm. Tate. Purchased with funds provided by the A4 Arts Foundation. © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved. DACS 2026.
Tracey Emin is one of Britain’s most prominent contemporary artists. In 2007, she represented the United Kingdom at the Venice Biennale; in 2012, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to the visual arts; and in 2024, she was made a Dame.
The exhibition “A Second Life” traces the events that have shaped the artist’s life and career. Organized by Tate Modern in close collaboration with Emin, the exhibition brings together more than 100 works. The artist is also involved in preparing the exhibition in Denmark.
The “second life” referred to in the title began for Emin following cancer-related surgery in 2020.
Her approach to art is deeply personal. In her work, Emin confronts her own trauma and pain, breaking taboos surrounding subjects that are rarely addressed publicly. The exhibition explores themes including depression, experiences of sexual violence, abortion, institutional neglect, and social stigma.
One of Emin’s best-known works is “My Bed,” created in 1998. The installation, which is featured in the exhibition and was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1999, caused a major stir and eventually became one of the defining works of 1990s art. According to Tracey Emin, the bed remains in the same state it was in when she spent many days in it, immersed in a period of severe depression.
Alongside the artist’s most famous works, the museum will present a broad range of her practice, including drawings, handwritten notes, films, neon works, paintings, and sculptures. The exhibition is organized thematically, bringing together different periods of her career to create a narrative about her life and artistic exploration.
In recent years, painting has taken on a particularly important role in the artist’s practice. Emin uses it to explore themes of life and death. Her canvases feature figures, couples, landscapes, and interiors, alongside handwritten words and fragments of text. Nudity, which appears in many of her works, does not always carry a sexual connotation.
The exhibition will be on view at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art until 18 April 2027.
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