THIRD SPACE is ARKEN's new outdoor gathering place for all young people in Vestegnen. Here you can help create whatever you dream of - concerts, workshops and much more. It's up to you. So if you have an idea or a project, please get in touch!

We also offer workshops where you can learn more about everything from how to organize a concert to how to run a workshop.

Then don't hesitate to tell them about THIRD SPACE. Here, young people have a unique opportunity to be culture creators in their own community. If you have an idea that you want to realize, THIRD SPACE is the place for you. We are fully funded, so please get in touch.

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After a spectacular opening party in June 2025, THIRD SPACE returns here in 2026 with a new mini-festival after the summer holidays. It will be a day filled with music, entertainment and community – and yet another opportunity to gather around young voices and the energy of the Western Suburbs. The programme is still under development, so keep an eye on this website – more information will follow.

In collaboration with filmmaker Camilla Ramonn and UCN10 Brøndby, THIRD SPACE hosted the premiere of the short films SIXTEEN 2—a collection of new short films created by young people from Vestegnen—on Thursday, June 18, 2026. In these films, the young filmmakers draw inspiration from pivotal turning points in their own lives and dramatize them in fictional stories about finding the strength to rise above difficult situations. The films are authentic, genuine, and stem directly from their own perspectives—and they themselves play the leading roles in their stories. The films were developed and created in collaboration with friends, families, teachers, and a small production team, with strong support from the Vestegnen community. The evening began with a concert by Divine Listic.

On Saturday, May 30, 2026, THIRD SPACE headed out to Ishøj IF for a day dedicated to community, soccer, and culture. It was an afternoon filled with soccer, music, food, and good vibes for everyone—with a special focus on girls’ soccer. Highlights included a street soccer tournament organized by the Jugadores Association for both girls and boys, music by Naabs, henna tattoos by Henna by Qainat, and free food for the first arrivals.

On Sunday, May 17, 2026, young people were invited to THIRD SPACE City—an event for all young people from across the Vestegnen area. There, they could enjoy a day filled with creativity and fun and try their hand at a variety of fun activities, including painting, graffiti, henna, a poetry workshop for the musically inclined, and panna for soccer fanatics.

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On Saturday, April 18, 2026, attendees heard speeches by six young people from Mino Ung, a strong youth-to-youth community that works to strengthen the opportunities, voices, and participation of ethnic minority Danes in society. Through workshops at ARKEN and with the RØST Public Speaking School, each of them had written a personal and unique speech based on their own experiences and perspectives, drawing inspiration from the exhibition 55.6° North – ARKEN’s Collection. The speeches gave the young people a powerful platform and offered museum visitors a rare glimpse into what matters to them right now. The result was immediate, honest, and insightful narratives from a new generation of voices.

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When ARKEN celebrated its 30th anniversary on Sunday, March 15, 2026, the occasion was marked with concerts and DJ sets featuring, among others, Suburbangirls, Divine Listic & James Njombua, TAY, as well as DJ Fadak, DJ Mirza, and DJ Bayram (Turning Tables). There was a panna tournament organized by the Jugadores Association, a screening of the short film *SIXTEEN*—produced by young people from Vestegnen—and the launch of a publication about *THIRD SPACE* in collaboration with artist Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, followed by a talk.

For the second year in a row, THIRD SPACE attended the RÅ Festival and participated with a sound project developed by a group of young people in collaboration with a sound artist. Leading up to the festival, the young people attended a workshop at ARKEN, where they experimented with sound inspired by contemporary art. The RÅ Festival 2026 was held on April 11, 2026, at Musikteatret and Forbrændingen in Albertslund. The festival was created by young people—for young people—and featured workshops, concerts, graffiti, film, dance, theater, art, and much more.

In the spring of 2025, Brøndby IF visited ARKEN with a special exhibition featuring 150 iconic soccer jerseys and portraits taken by young people from Turning Tables in Brøndby Strand. In the fall of 2025, we met again—this time at Brøndby Stadium—when THIRD SPACE moved into Brøndby IF’s Family Lounge. There, visitors could try out the music workshop “Create Your Sound—Share Your Vibe,” where young people from Ishøj Ungdom demonstrated how to record, mix, and share their own music. Jugadores hosted a panna tournament, and there were also bouncy castles, a pentathlon, stadium tours, a scavenger hunt, contests, and a chance to meet the mascot Nanok—all organized by Brøndby IF in a true stadium atmosphere for the whole family.

Saturday 20 September, THIRD SPACE was filled with energy when football, music and fashion came together for one intense afternoon. The Jugadores association from Glostrup invited to a panna tournament where you could show off your best tricks and compete against others. The winner walked away with a prize of DKK 1,000. Turning Tables presented a sneak peek at their brand new streetwear collection, created in collaboration with Brøndby IF. Turning Tables also provided the soundtrack for the entire day, inviting DJ Fadak, DJ duo Bayram & Mirza and DJ A, among others. The event was a collaboration between the Jugadores Association, Turning Tables Denmark and ARKEN.

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In September 2025, THIRD SPACE came to life with music, art, and street culture! Hip-hop legend and Hip Hop Hall of Fame inductee Kurtis Blow led an exclusive rap workshop, and attendees could also try their hand at digital street art at the VR graffiti station or dive into a graffiti workshop with Azit, one of Denmark’s leading graffiti artists. Young talents from Vestegnen took the stage for a special record release event. Headliner OTS closed out the evening with their energetic and innovative sound, which has made them one of the most exciting acts on the Danish hip-hop scene right now. The event was a collaboration between ARKEN, Glostrup Street Festival, Ishøj Ungdom, and Vestegnen Youth Leaders.

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In August 2025, we filled THIRD SPACE with music, games and community. There were FIFA competitions on PlayStation, quick games on the panna court, and food along the way. In the middle of the afternoon there was a unique Record Release Event with Divine Listic, EHZ THI3RRY, Ashish Gurung, Mateusz Fratczak, James Njombua with more.

The event was a collaboration between ARKEN, Ishøj Ungdom and Foreningen Jugadores.

Dreaming of making your own music or taking your sound to the next level? Ishøj Ungdomsskole organised a music camp Create your sound - share your vibe for young people between the ages of 13 and 25 on Saturday 21.06.25 in THIRD SPACE. Here you could meet other young people with the same dreams and be part of a creative community with room for everyone. The music camp started with a studio session where you learnt how to use professional tools, followed by a listening session where you could “preview” your music for the others in the community.

The film SIXTEEN premiered Thursday 19.06.25 in THIRD SPACE. SIXTEEN is a short film about young people on the edge in Vestegnen. The film is produced by young people from UCN10 Brøndby and is about life changes they have experienced themselves. The film was followed by a concert with up-and-coming Vestegnen talent DIVINE LISTIC.

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Saturday 14.06.2025 we opened Vestegnen's new meeting place and cultural community for and by young people! We celebrated community, creativity and young voices with a strong music programme that gave the microphone to some of Vestegnen's talented and up-and-coming artists: ZK, NØX, BFL, SubUrban Girls, TAY and DJs from Turning Tables! Helin Erdem from P3 was host all day. Admission was free and free slushice!

From 01.05.25-09.06.25, the museum showed a photo exhibition created by four children and young people from the NGO Turning Tables in Brøndby Strand. With camera in hand, they have portrayed both Brøndby IF players and fans, providing a personal and intimate look at fan culture, football culture and community. The exhibition is part of the museum's collaboration with Brøndby IF and marks the start of a further collaboration with Turning Tables in THIRD SPACE.

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Another World is part of the THIRD SPACE project and is a site-specific artwork developed by Henrik Plenge Jakobsen in close process and collaboration with different groups of young people from Ishøj Ungdomsskole, where the artist and the young people had conversations and workshops over two months. Another World is inspired by the urban landscape of Vestegnen and the architecture of ARKEN and will be a sculptural environment created primarily with concrete fragments from the demolition of buildings in Vestegnen and will be reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich's painting The Arctic Ocean. The work is a relational sanctuary that will hopefully create meetings and new communities between young people on their own terms, and is one of ARKEN's first artworks created specifically for the site and the museum's cultural context.

As part of their studies, two 1st-year design teams from NEXT/Enghøj in Hvidovre worked on campaigns targeting young people in 2024 and 2025. Among other things, the young people have investigated how best to reach their target group and through which formats, and have prepared material for specific campaigns that inform young people about THIRD SPACE. The collaboration has been a success and will continue in 2026.

The working group for THIRD SPACE consists of members of ARKEN’s Community Board and brings together committed forces. The group contributes ideas and inputs to the development of THIRD SPACE supporting ARKEN in creating opportunities for young people to shape their own leisure life and promote the role of art as a community builder. ARKEN wants to listen more and involve more people in the museum’s work making art accessible and inspiring to everyone. The board meets three times a year, while the working group meets more frequently to support the work with THIRD SPACE.