Exhibitions

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

MIRÓ - I Work Like a Gardener 

I work like a gardener, the world-famous Spanish artist Joan Miró (1893-1983) has stated. Miró felt that his works of art grew forth of their own accord as long as he was sensitive to the material’s inherent power. He wished to create immediate, intuitive art liberated of intellectual and historical baggage. 

ARKEN’s exhibition focuses on the last twenty years of Miró’s life when increasingly he was experimenting with the medium of sculpture. We are introduced to the artist's wondrous universe through painting, sculpture and drawing.

All works are on loan from Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence in southern France which owns a unique Miró collection.

Oluf Høst - Between Heaven and Earth 

We know Oluf Høst as the Bornholm painter who depicted the same subject matter again and again – his farm Bognemark, the round churches, the view over Gudhjem and the herring smokehouses. But Høst was more than that. He was a Nordic romantic. Although his subjects of choice were drawn from Bornholm, it was less the concrete places or subjects that interested him.

Høst was oriented towards mysticism and the spiritual dimensions of the physical world – the enigmatic space between heaven and earth. Through painting he wished to reach beyond the physical form of things in order to understand their innermost essence. He wished, in his own words, to reproduce “the silent godhead in nature.” This autumn exhibition emphasises the metaphysical and enigmatic aspects of Høst’s paintings. His peculiar pictorial universe holds a timeless power that continues to influence and seduce us.

UTOPIA - KATHARINA GROSSE

 Katharina Grosse pulls the painting out of the frame and lets us step into it. Colorful clouds of paint, a 200 cubic meter mound of earth and arced paintings 12 meters high fill the Art Axis, making up an all-encompassing three-dimensional painting.
 
Paint strokes flow across the floor and the walls, merging the architectural surfaces. The whole room changes shape, creating a new, potential space – a utopian “no-place” inspiring us to think beyond our existing circumstances to a new and better world. 

ARKEN’S COLLECTION

We present ARKEN’s collection as a permanent exhibition. ARKEN’s collection contains works by the greatest international stars on the art scene. The museum owns more than 300 works of Danish, Nordic and international contemporary art. ARKEN’s COLLECTION shows some of the best ones. See for example the recent acquisition Your Negotiable Panorama (2006) by the world-famous artist Olafur Eliasson. Uniquely in Denmark ARKEN also presents a special room with works by the British artist Damien Hirst.