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Coming soon: Per Kirkeby BRICKS
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Coming soon: Apolonia Sokol
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COMING UP: APOLONIA SOKOL
13 October 2023 to 4 February 2024
Meet Apolonia Sokol and all her friends when ARKEN presents her first major solo show in Denmark.
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Coming up: BRICKS – PER KIRKEBY
13 October 2023 to 25 February 2024
This autumn, ARKEN opens its largest exhibition in 2023: Bricks – Per Kirkeby, a spectacular presentation of Per Kirkeby's striking brick sculptures.
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WOLFGANG TILLMANS
If one thing has meaning, then everything has meaning. Wolfgang Tillmans’ snapshots emphasise the beau-ty in the banal.
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SARAH LUCAS
How can to two twisted beer cans be compared to the male sexual organs? In Sarah Lucas’s humorous works, she challenges the associations we often ascribe to the gendered body.
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SCREENING: MOVE ME MOVE YOURSELF
9 February 2023 to 25 February 2024
Video art is for you too! ARKEN’s new zone for children and young people presents a programme of video art. You can hang out here with friends and family, while the oddest things happen on the screen.
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Eva Steen Christensen - HYDRA
5 May to 10 September 2023
Experience Eva Steen Christensen's sensuous solo exhibition and let yourself be seduced by the stories of the materials.
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BUTTERFLY! ARKEN's collection curated by Esben Weile Kjær
10 February to 30 December 2023
Experience the young contemporary artist Esben Weile Kjær's immersive installation with works from ARKEN's collection
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Butterfly! ARKEN's collection curated by Esben Weile Kjær
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New Director at ARKEN
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Marie Nipper new Director of ARKEN
17 May 2022
Marie Nipper, most recently Director of the Copenhagen Contemporary art centre, will take up the position as new Director at the art museum in Ishøj on 1 August. She becomes only the third person to hold the post.
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OLAFUR ELIASSON
Have you ever swung your way through a molecule? You can in Olafur Eliasson’s outdoor sculpture, which mixes art with architecture and play.
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LEA PORSAGER
Lea Porsager’s world invites you to embark on an erotic expedition far away from rationality – and right into your ear.
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KIRSTINE ROEPSTORFF
Kirstine Roepstorff’s works turns dominant art traditions upside down, creating new narratives in her collages – layer by layer.
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TOVE STORCH
Soft silk meets hard aluminium. Tove Storch’s sculpture moves your eyes down into your fingertips and invites you to notice the sensuous moments in everyday life.
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Your safe ARKEN visit
ARKEN has the space for enjoying the art safely, while following the current COVID-19 restrictions
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TUE GREENFORT
What is going on? A flock of horseshoe crabs appear to be heading up onto the shores of the lagoon. A rare sight indeed, for this strange, prehistoric animal does not even live in this part of the world.
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ASTRID MYNTEKÆR
What do humans have in common with conches? Perhaps a common future where we must adapt and mutate in order to survive on a massively changing planet.
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AMALIE SMITH
How will the history of mankind be communicated to a future without people - and who will listen? Experience the wild nature around ARKEN in a whole new way with Amalie Smith's dystopian sci-fi story '51 e.DSO 'in your ears.
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THILO FRANK
Is it a labyrinth? There is only one way to find out! Make your way through the triangular wooden frames and embark on a physical exploration of Thilo Frank’s asymmetrical sculpture 'You and I, wandering on the snake’s tail'.
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ARKEN reopens 18 January
ARKEN will reopen Tuesday 18 January
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Researchers at ARKEN
Meet the people who carry out research at ARKEN.
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VINYL -TERROR & -HORROR
Wander off the straight path and into a sensuous and musical universe of hi-fi equipment, smashed vinyl records and sound fragments from various music genres in ARKEN's recent acquisition THE MAGIC OF.
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CANDICE BREITZ
The video installation Love Story explores the conditions under which empathy is produced. Whose stories are we willing to hear, and how must stories be packaged before we can feel them?
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MEMBERS' CLUB
Are you interested in modern Danish and international art and culture? Become a member of KLUB ARKEN
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New major work in the ARKEN collection
14 March 2018
Love Story by South African artist Candice Breitz can now be experienced at the museum.
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ARKEN Bulletin
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ARKEN ART PRIZE GOES TO FOS
16 March 2017
Read more about this year's winner and see who were awarded with the ARKEN TRAVEL GRANTS.
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ANTONY GORMLEY
Erect, immobile and alone. What can Antony Gormley’s sculpture be on the lookout for?
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ARKEN EDITION
Do you have an art collector in you?
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EVA STEEN CHRISTENSEN
Where do you come from? Perhaps you’ll get to know more about your own culture if you let the palm of your hand slide over the sandblasted pattern on Eva Steen Christensen’s marble sculpture.
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THE DANISH GIRL AT ARKEN
24 June 2016
See the blockbuster movie The Danish Girl in ARKEN's film hall.
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CLARE WOODS
Do you know that moment when darkness falls and the landscape becomes oppressive and threatening? Clare Woods gives us a taste of the fear of the unknown.
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SOPHIA KALKAU
Strike a pose – with the object and the body as her material Sophia Kalkau explores themes like staging, identity and transformation.
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ARKEN ART PRIZE GOES TO CYPRIEN GAILLARD
23 March 2016
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ARKEN TRAVEL GRANT
Young talent travelling the World.
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ARKEN ART PRIZE
And the winner is…
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Elmgreen & Dragset
A boy on a rocking-horse waves a welcome on ARKEN’s forecourt. Elmgreen & Dragset’s equestrian statue pays tribute to play and fantasy rather than victory and power.
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ARKEN ON THE ART ISLAND
Take a look at the museum's new surroundings.
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The latest research: THE MODEL
20 November 2015
The Model from the perspective of the curator, the art historian and the play researcher.
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Ai Weiwei closed temporarily
16 October 2015
Due to change in exhibitions the Ai Weiwei room is closed until Wednesday October 21.
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PETER BONNÈN
It has nothing to do with Jesus, even though they look like coffins. Instead try touching, sensing and playing with Peter Bonnén’s sculpture.
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ØIVIND NYGÅRD
Hello, perfect stranger, what are you doing here on my road? Øivind Nygård’s sculpture, which you meet on your way to ARKEN, invites you to stop and look around.
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This year’s winners of the ARKEN Prize and Travel Grants have been revealed
19 March 2015
This year’s recipient of the ARKEN Prize of DKK 100,000 was Danh Vo, while the two travel grants of DKK 50,000 went to Gudrun Hasle and Karoline H Larsen
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ARKEN Prize and Travel Grants 2015
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PAST EXHIBITIONS
Do you remember? Here you can roll back time and take a look at all the exhibitions ARKEN has presented since its onstart in 1996.
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RESEARCH PROJECTS
What do we research at ARKEN?
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ARKEN gets a new landmark
22 September 2014
A new landmark is now the visitors’ first encounter with art when they arrive at ARKEN.
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ARKEN's architecture
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Elmgreen & Dragset
Powerless Structures, Fig. 101
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ARKEN holds a wide range of activities for families with children.
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JEPPE HEIN
Step out onto the water and into Jeppe Hein’s cage, where you can reflect yourself in the surroundings and experience the world anew.
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GRAYSON PERRY
On Grayson Perry’s modern life-journey from birth to death you meet Madonna with a Chanel bag. What do you have in your luggage?
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ANSELM REYLE
Can bad taste be great art? Anselm Reyle wraps himself in lushness on the borderline between seductive bling and sophisticated beauty.
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ARKEN holds courses for teacher and nursery teacher groups.
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ARKEN provides teaching programmes and special outreach programs for high schools.
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ARKEN provides teaching programmes and digital and practical workshops for pupils in primary school.
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Nurseries
Using dialogue and practical exercises, we create an excellent setting for nursery children in the museum. We provide two sessions for nursery children, each of a 90-minute duration.
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Adults
ARKEN provides creative workshops and courses for adults.
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ARKEN's architecture
ARKEN’s distinctive ship’s architecture blends with its surroundings and creates a sensory frame around the art.
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New installation in ARKEN's collection
10 July 2014
ARKEN has acquired Palle Nielsen's pioneer work The Model for the collection.
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With the opening of ARKEN in 1996, Danish and international art came to Copenhagen’s "Vestegn" district.
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ARKEN’s exhibitions present Danish, Nordic and international art – from new, young talents to established names.
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