The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art has opened the first major Danish survey of Tracey Emin. "Tracey Emin: A Second Life", organised by Tate Modern, opened on 8 October 2026 and runs until 18 April 2027, after which it travels to the HoAm Art Museum in Yongin and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. The exhibition covers roughly four decades of Emin's work across drawing, painting, embroidery, neon, film and installation, arranged thematically rather than chronologically. Early, defining works appear alongside recent paintings produced after her cancer diagnosis and surgery in 2020, a body of work the artist has linked to survival and reinvention. The installation My Bed, with its stained sheets and scattered personal debris, is shown in a museum setting that underlines how confessional art moved into the mainstream in the late 1990s. The "second life" of the title points to Emin's own account of starting over after serious illness, and the newer canvases address that experience with unusual directness. For Louisiana, the show continues a long habit of staging major British surveys for Scandinavian audiences, and the museum's seaside setting north of Copenhagen gives the confessional, often raw material a distinctive counterpoint. Emin remains among the most commercially and critically visible artists of her generation, and a full-career survey is a significant regional event. The onward itinerary to Yongin and Melbourne makes this an unusually wide-ranging tour for a single-artist exhibition of its scale. By the time the tour closes in Australia, the exhibition will have presented Emin's work across three continents, underlining how an artist once seen as a specifically British phenomenon is now framed as an international figure.