Exhibitions

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

HOTSPOT CLUJ - New Romanian Art

From virtuoso figure painting to cool conceptual art. The new hotspot for contemporary art is Romania, and right now in the city of Cluj a young generation of artists is churning out works of art that are arousing attention internationally.

The exhibition turns the spotlight on contemporary art from Cluj with a selection of artists who work in a variety of media and idioms.

CARL-HENNING PEDERSEN 100 YEARS

This year the Danish COBRA painter would have been 100 years old. To mark the occasion ARKEN is showing a major exhibition of over 200 of the artist’s paintings, watercolours, drawings, sculptures, mosaics, ceramic works and poems. Carl-Henning Pedersen had a strong urge to create and throughout his life he sought to conjure up the direc spontaneous image. 

ALL TOGETHER NOW... 

The exhibition is showing 17 contemporary works from ARKEN’s collection and zooms in on our notions of what the concept of ‘community’ covers. The works help us to think about the human community and show us the hypermodern individual, the animal, and nature.

  
ANSELM REYLE DONATION

In march 2012 ARKEN received a great donation from Annie & Otto Johs. Detlefs’ Foundations OJD of nine works by the German contemporary artist Anselm Reyle (b. 1970). Most of the works were created specifically to the DETLEFS HALL at ARKEN, where all nine works now are on display. ARKEN’s collection has thus been enriched with works created by one of the most prominent contemporary artists today.  

Damien Hirst donation

ARKEN has received a very generous donation from The Merla Art Foundation, London, founded by Dennis and Jytte Merla Dresing, consisting of a total of eight works by the world-famous British artist Damien Hirst (b. 1965). This means that ARKEN’s collection has been enriched with a fine representation of one of the absolutely central artists of recent times. Damien Hirst’s works raise existential questions of mankind’s position in the universe.