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A small blue burrowing cow among red sandbanks. A deep black hole -- or is it a small blanket that is black as the darkest darkness? A hovering hat dressed in red or a big sticky mass that is slowly scraped round and round...

Anish Kapoor's vast sculptures and installations speak directly to our senses and emotions. We are drawn, seduced, puzzled as his works -- often quite literally -- turn the world upside down.
In the process, we will take a tour of Anish Kapoor's artworks together. Through our senses, with our body and creativity, we let ourselves be immersed and lost in the materials, sizes, stories and spaces of the works.

Exhibit Anish Kapoor — Unseen showcases a selection of the artist's works created during his so far 40-year career. As a direct intervention in ARKEN's architecture, it paves the way for new ways to see and experience both the works and each other.
The teaching process takes hold of our senses and body and, through practical and dialogical exercises, sets sail for a journey around a world where everything may not be quite as it usually is.

The course is adapted to the age and requirements of the target audience.

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Anish Kapoor 90 mins. Primary school
Anish Kapoor 90 mins. Youth education ‍

Group Therapy — on a group tour of contemporary art. When was the last time you gave a chicken a name? Held a council debate about a burned-down preschool? Wondered how a boat engine works? If it's been a long time, you should try a group tour of contemporary art. Join us on an expedition into some of the very latest works of contemporary art at ARKEN. We let the works kick-start new and unusual conversations and create space for us to see and experience together new ways of seeing the world. On this group tour, we zoom in on the works of three different artists and three different ways of looking at contemporary art. The three works and the methods are merged to provide a connecting thread, but also variation in expressions and approaches. The tour is adapted to the age and prerequisites of the participants.

Target audience: All primary and secondary schools.

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Group Therapy 90 min. - primary schools
Group Therapy 90 min. - secondary schools

Come alone or bring your colleagues to ARKIEN for inspiration for your teaching.

On ARKEN's courses for educators, you will gain insight into current exhibitions and have the opportunity to test selected teaching methods and exercises from ARKEN's learning courses on your own.

If you're interested in hearing about opportunities for organising a special course for educators/pedagogical day for a teachers' college, professional group, teacher network or similar, please write to us at booking@arken.dk

Dates for upcoming courses for educators are announced on this page.

You are also welcome to write to us at booking@arken.dk for more information.

Educatorss and educational science students gain first-hand experience of what it means to participate as a student in one of ARKEN'S topical learning lessons when they're thrown into a lesson as if they were a primary school class. Afterwards, we frame a reflection room where ARKEN's methods and practices are in focus.

Target audience: Educators and educational science students.

For educators and educational science students, participating in a "meta" course can be a valuable experience on several levels. They gain insight into special art-pedagogical methods developed at ARKEN with art as a field of study. They also gain insight into applying the methods widely: in professional or interdisciplinary contexts, as well as from an educational perspective.

Furthermore, testing ARKEN's learning course on their own provides general insight into the unique potentials in experiential learning in an external learning environment such as a cultural institution.

Write to us at booking@arken.dk if you would like to book a “meta” course.

Our preschool course is based on stories from picture books, which have been presented to the children in advance by their educators. We identify with the characters of the book and “play the story forward” at ARKEN. The museum's spaces and works of art become selected props for a scenography for a sensory journey. Along the way, we explore art and architecture with our senses and take creative approaches that include all children and that support a common experiential language. There is room to integrate children's ideas and curiosity for the museum space and their shared history.

Target audience: Preschoolers from the age of 4

These are partnership courses that include pre-education and workshops and are arranged with municipal contact persons as well as preschool leaders in advance of a school year.

The special methods of our preschool course were developed in the project 'Visual art spaces on short legs'. Through close collaboration with local preschools, we have developed preschool courses that cater to children's interests when they visit a large art museum 'on short legs', perhaps for the very first time.

Write to us at booking@arken.dk for more information about our partnership process.

This course in the Creative Elective Studies Laboratory (KV-LAB) addresses the subject of visual arts in education. We focus on how to experiment and utilise non-linear creative processes. We also focus on putting words to art, experiments and processes. KV-LAB is currently part of a development project and will only be put into operation as a partnership programme in the 2024-25 school year.

The KV-LAB also aims to develop the competences of visual arts teachers through educator workshops and mutual learning in partnership.

Target audience: Primary school 7th and 8th grade (visual arts electives)

In our Creative Elective Studies Laboratory (KV-LAB), we work in-depth with the study of selected works of art or exhibitions. We also take a deep dive into the experimental and creative workshop processes that arise from the encounter with art. The course lasts three days of 4 hours each and takes place both at ARKEN and at the school. KV-LAB courses are partnership courses that are agreed with the school management/municipality prior to a new school year.

Previous experience with educator workshops is an integral part of the KV-LAB partnership.

The methods and partnership approach taken in KV-LAB have been developed in the Creative Elective Studies Laboratory development project.

Target group: Primary schools