helsingør2032

EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE CANDIDATE CITY

Documents
& press.

You can find background material here. Contact us if you're missing any information.

Printed TO BE bidbooks for Helsingør’s candidacy
The 60-page printed bid book was submitted to the Ministry of Culture on 5 October 2026. An independent EU jury will decide whether the competing cities will be pre-qualified to submit their final application in 2027.

Helsingør 2032 · Bidbook

The ideas behind the bid.

The bidbook brings the cultural community together, outlining the vision, ideas and cultural collaborations behind Helsingør's candidacy for European Capital of Culture 2032. TO BE ... addresses three key questions:

BEINGWho are we?
Art, identity and our relationship with nature and technology.
BECOMINGWho could we become?
Artistic experiments and new opportunities to create and learn.
BELONGINGWhere do we belong?
Participation, local communities and connections across borders.

Our bid book is not available.Only if we win the competition for the title will our application be made public.

Read more about the application

Association statutes

Our purpose, governance and membership.

Open PDFIn Danish

General meeting 2025

Read the minutes and decisions from the general meeting.

Open PDFIn Danish

Open about
the association.

The Elsinore 2032 association is the secretariat for the candidacy, which is being developed in collaboration with Helsingør Municipality.

It was founded in 2021 with the purpose of winning the title of European Capital of Culture for Helsingør in 2032.

The association is also the secretariat for Kulturnatten and, in collaboration with its members and partners, regularly invites the cultural community to cultural events.

Want to know more? Write to  kontakt@elsinore2032.dk.

Let’s talk
about the story.

Send press enquiries, questions about the candidacy and requests for imagery to our shared contact address.

kontakt@elsinore2032.dk

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