Forskning

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.

Eva Steen Christensen probes the boundaries of sculpture in solo show this May.

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A large presentation of ARKEN’s collection, curated by Esben Weile Kjær, awaits in the spring.

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Digital art has arrived at ARKEN!

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Download press material about the appointment of ARKEN's new Director Marie Nipper

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.

Have you ever swung your way through a molecule? You can in Olafur Eliasson’s outdoor sculpture, which mixes art with architecture and play.

Lea Porsager’s world invites you to embark on an erotic expedition far away from rationality – and right into your ear.

Kirstine Roepstorff’s works turns dominant art traditions upside down, creating new narratives in her collages – layer by layer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

Can you feel the weight of the light from above? Perhaps you can if you look up at Lawrence Weiner’s textual work at the entrance to ARKEN.

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.

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?

Love Story by South African artist Candice Breitz can now be experienced at the museum.

Read more about this year's winner and see who were awarded with the ARKEN TRAVEL GRANTS.

Erect, immobile and alone. What can Antony Gormley’s sculpture be on the lookout for?

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.

See the blockbuster movie The Danish Girl in ARKEN's film hall.

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.

Strike a pose – with the object and the body as her material Sophia Kalkau explores themes like staging, identity and transformation.

Read more about this year's winner and see who were awarded with the ARKEN TRAVEL GRANTS.

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.

The Model from the perspective of the curator, the art historian and the play researcher.

Due to change in exhibitions the Ai Weiwei room is closed until Wednesday October 21.

It has nothing to do with Jesus, even though they look like coffins. Instead try touching, sensing and playing with Peter Bonnén’s sculpture.

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.

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

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.

A new landmark is now the visitors’ first encounter with art when they arrive at ARKEN.

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Step out onto the water and into Jeppe Hein’s cage, where you can reflect yourself in the surroundings and experience the world anew.

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?

Can bad taste be great art? Anselm Reyle wraps himself in lushness on the borderline between seductive bling and sophisticated beauty.

Her er der en kort teasertekst.

ARKEN has acquired Palle Nielsen's pioneer work The Model for the collection.