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.
2020
25 May 2020 – 10 January 2021
ANIMALS IN ART
Cory Arcangel, John Baldessari, Richard Barnes, Pascal Bernier, Sophie Calle, Mircea Cantor, Maurizio Cattelan, Mark Dion, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Martin Eder, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Annika Eriksson, Daniel Firman, Laura Ford, Douglas Gordon, Damien Hirst, Peter Holst Henckel, Camille Henrot, Candida Höfer, Carsten Höller, Bharti Kher, Paul McCarthy, Kohei Nawa, Rivane Neuenschwander & Sérgio Neuenschwander, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Patricia Piccinini, Paola Pivi, David Shrigley, Lisa Strömbeck and William Wegman.
29 February 2020 – 10 January 2021
WE ARE THE ALASKAN TOURISTS
Paola Pivi
31 August 2019 – 1 November 2020
JOANNE
Simon Fujiwara
9 June – 4 October 2020
MAKING ROOM
Karolin Schwab
26 May – 6 September 2020
RHYTM AND CALM
Morten Buch, Ruth Campau, Eva Steen Christensen, Torben Ebbesen, Günther Förg, Jeppe Hein, Claus Jensen, Sophia Kalkau, Yan Lei, Freddie A. Lerche, Lars Nørgaard, Kirsten Ortwed, David Ostrowski, Anselm Reyle, Christian Rosa and Fredrik Værslev
Yan Lei, Color Wheel, 2014. ARKEN Museum of Modern Art
2019
12 October 2019 – 23 February 2020
BELOVED BY PICASSO – THE POWER OF THE MODEL
17 August 2019 – 15 March 2020
YOUNG DANISH ART – FORECASTING THE FUTURE
25 May – 1 September 2019
THE ARENA OF THE BODY
Thilo Frank, Jeppe Hein and Lea Guldditte Hestelund
1 March – 23 June 2019
WONDEROUS – WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION
9 February – 8 September 2019
PATRICIA PICCININI – A WORLD OF LOVE
Patricia Piccinini, The Long Awaited, 2008. Installation photo, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art. Photo: David Stjernholm
2018
10 March 2018 – 23 June 2019
CANDICE BREITZ – LOVE STORY
1 September 2018 – 20 January 2019
VAN GOGH
23 June 2018 – 30 December 2018
STARRY NIGHTS
2 June 2018 – 13 January 2019
J.F. WILLUMSEN – COLOURS & FRAMES
16 December 2017 – 9 December 2018
UGO RONDINONE – VOCABULARY OF SOLITUDE
23 June – 23 September 2018
DEAR PLANET
3 February – 3 June 2018
ALPHONSE MUCHA
7 October 2017 – 25 March 2018
MY MUSIC
The Riddle of the Heavens. Third Picture of the Trilogy of Titian Dying, 1938 (detail). Property of The J.F. Willumsen Museum
2017
2 September 2017 – 14 January 2018
MICHAEL KVIUM – CIRKUS EUROPA
3 June – 17 September 2017
NATURE (RE)TURNS
11 February – 3 September 2017
LIGHT IN DARKNESS
4 February – 6 August 2017
GOSH! IS IT ALIVE
Michael Kvium, Illusion, 2016 ( Photo: Anders Sune Berg
2016
3 September 2016 – 15 January 2017
MARTIN BIGUM
4 June 2016 – 18 September 2016
ART IN SUNSHINE
Peter Bonnén, Eva Steen Christensen, Olafur Eliasson, Elmgreen & Dragset, Antony Gormley, Jeppe Hein and Øivind Nygård
21 April 2016 – 18 September 2016
ABDOULAYE KONATÈ
13 February 2016 – 31 July 2016
NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE
2 January 2016 – 5 January 2017
KALEIDOSCOPE
Abdoulaye Konaté, Black and Red Butterfly, 2016. ARKEN Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Todd White
2015
7 November 2015 – 8 January 2017
GERDA WEGENER
13 June 2015 – 17 January 2016
BJØRN WIINBLAD
29 May – 13 September 2015
ART IN SUNSHINE
AVPD, Søren Behcnke a.k.a. Bag Man, Eva Steen Christensen, Jesper Dalgaard, Thomas Dambo, Thilo Frank, Gudrun Hasle, Jeppe Hein, Marianne Jørgensen, Karoline H Larsen
28 February – 14 June 2015
DAVID OSTROWSKI – THE F WORD
31 January – 15 November 2015
RANDI & KATRINE – BETWEEN TOWERS
Jeppe Hein, Modified Social Bench U, 2008. ARKEN Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Tina Agnew
2014
27 September 2014 – 12 April 2015
MICHAEL ANCHER – P.S. KRØYER
FRIENDS AND RIVALS
9 February – 7 December 2014
PALLE NIELSEN: THE MODEL
1 February – 7 September 2014
HUNDERTWASSER – Artist and Eco-activist
1 February – 31 August 2014
NATURALLY
ARKEN’s collection
Superflex, Tony Matelli, FOS, Qiu Anxiong, Per Bak Jensen, Torbjørn Rødland ao.
Palle Nielsen, The Model, 1968/2014. ARKEN Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Sofie Amalie Klougart
7 September 2013 – 12 January 2014
FRIDA KAHLO – A Life in Art
Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco and María Izquierdo
7 September 2013 – 12 January 2014
LOVE ME GENDER
ARKEN’s collection. Jesper Just, Mona Hatoum, Noble & Webster, Peter Land, Elmgreen & Dragset ao.
22. June – 22 September 2013
BLUE ROOM: YANG SHAOBIN
25 May – 9 February 2014
HOTSPOT CLUJ – New Romanian Art
Marius Bercea, Răzvan Botiş, Radu Cioca, Radu Comşa, Adrian Ghenie, Dan Măciucă, Ciprian Mureşan, Cristi Pogăcean and Şerban Savu
9 February – 9 June 2013
QIU ANXIONG: The New Book of Mountains and Seas II
2 February – 11 August 2013
CARL-HENNING PEDERSEN 100 YEARS
2012
24 August 2012 – 29 September 2013
ALL TOGETHER NOW…
ARKEN’s collection. Dan Graham, Jeppe Hein, Micha Klein, Clare Woods, Grayson Perry ao.
18 August 2012 – 13 January 2013
INDIA : ART NOW
Rina Banerjee, Hemali Bhuta, Atul Dodiya, Sheela Gowda, Shilpa Gupta, Subodh Gupta, Jitish Kallat, Reena Saini Kallat, Rashmi Kaleka, Bharti Kher, Ravinder Reddy, Vivan Sundaram and Thukral & Tagra. Reading lounge by the Scottish/Indian design duo DOSHI LEVIEN
18 August 2012 – 13 January 2013
INDIA : FASHION NOW
Morphe by Amit Aggarwal, Little Shilpa, Manish Arora, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Prashant Verma, Varun Sardana and 11.11 by Cell DSGN
12 May – 22 July 2012
TREFFPUNKT : BERLIN
Sophie Calle, Thilo Frank, Agathe Snow, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jeppe Hein ao.
28 January – 1 July 2012
THE ESSENCE OF COLOUR – The Art of Queen Margrethe II
Micha Klein, Crystal Powder from God, 2000. ARKEN Museum of Modern Art
2011
3 September 2011 – 11 January 2012
WARHOL & BASQUIAT
25 June – 14 August 2011
ANSELM REYLE
29 January – 5 June 2011
ANNA ANCHER
Anna Ancher, The Seamstress' Head, Ane, 1890
2010
27 November 2010 – 27 November 2011
UTOPIA – OLAFUR ELIASSON
Your Blind Passenger
18 September 2010 – 25 April 2011
HANS SCHERFIG – Welcome to the Jungle
4 September 2010 – 30 January 2011
THE WILD 80’S
Anette Abrahamsson, Peter Bömmels, Peter Bonde, Werner Büttner, Claus Carstensen, Dorthe Dahlin, Rainer Fetting, Erik A. Frandsen, Walter Dahn, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Inge Ellegaard, Berit Heggenhouen-Jensen, Michael Kvium, Christian Lemmerz, Helmut Middendorf, Kehnet Nielse, Lars Nørgaard, Lars Ravn and Nina Sten-Knudsen
12 December 2009 – 7 November 2010
UTOPIA – KATHARINA GROSSE
Hello Little Butterfly I Love You What’s Your Name
19 June – 22 August 2010
DIRECTOR’S CHOICE
Anselm Reyle, Jesper Just, Hans Hamid Rasmussen ao.
23 January – 30 May 2010
MIRÓ – I Work Like a Gardener
26 September 2009 – 5 April 2010
OLUF HØST – Between Heaven and Earth
Hans Hamid Rasmussen, Tic Tac II, 2008. ARKEN Museum of Modern Art
2009
27 June 2009 – 3 January 2010
CHINAMANIA
Fang Lijun, Li Jikai, Liu Ye, Mao Yan, Qi Zhilong, Wang Guangyi, Wei Jia, Yang Shaobin, Yue Minjun, Zhang Xiaogang and Zhou Chunya
6 February – 22 November 2009
UTOPIA – QIU ANXIONG
31 January – 7 June 2009
MONET, RENOIR, VAN GOGH, GAUGUIN
– Impressionists and Postimpressionists in Israel Museum Jerusalem
Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Degas, Rodin, Gauguin, Cézanne, van Gogh ao.
Claude Monet, Pond with Water Lilies, 1907
2008
27 September 2008 – 4 January 2009
PICASSO & WOMEN
6 September 2008 – 11 January 2009
TRIUMPH OF DESIRE – Danish and International Surrealism
Hans Bellmer, Ejler Bille, Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen, Franciska Clausen, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Sonja Ferlov, Wilhelm Freddie, Henry Heerup, Joan Míro, Ejler Bille, René Magritte, Richard Mortensen, Man Ray, Raoul Ubac ao.
30 May – 14 September 2008
NORDIC MOODS – Landscape Photography of Our Time
Elina Brotherus, Lotte Fløe Christensen, A K Dolven, Olafur Eliasson, Ilkka Halso, Camilla Holmgren, Per Bak Jensen, Martti Jämsä, Aino Kannisto, Kirsten Klein, Finn Larsen, Susanna Majuri, Annica Karlsson Rixon, Torbjørn Rødland, Jari Silomäki, Erik Steffensen, Lars Tunbjörk, Ebbe Stub Wittrup ao.
26 January – 8 June 2008
THE SKAGEN PAINTERS – In a New Light
P. S. Krøyer, Anna og Michael Ancher, Christian Krogh, Oscar Björck, Viggo Johansen, Laurits Tuxen and Carl Locher
26 January – 18 May 2008
ANDREAS GOLDER – It has my name on it
Andreas Golder, gekackt non est pictum, 2006. ARKEN Museum of Modern Art
2007
15 September – 9 December 2007
MAD LOVE – Young Art in Danish Private Collections
Jonathan Meese, Dearraindrop, David Shrigley, Osang Gwon, Dr. Lakra, William Kentridge, Michael Bevilacqua, Torbjørn Rødland, Olafur Eliasson, Tal R ao.
23 June- 2 September 2007
IMAGES OF MAN TODAY
ARKEN’s collection. Jesper Just, Elina Brotherus, Sarah Lucas, Micha Klein, Christian Boltanski, Jouko Lehtola, Peter Land, Stella Hamberg, Lars Arrhenius, Keith Cottingham, Tony Oursler, Nancy Burson, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Vibeke Tandberg ao.
27 January – 3 June 2007
DUANE HANSON – Sculptures of the American Dream
Elina Brotherus, Miroir, 2001. Still. ARKEN Museum of Modern Art
2006
16 September 2006 – 14 January 2007
HI BOB – Greatest hits. New Paintings by Peter Bonde
17 June – 6 August 2006
GO FIGURE! Young Danish Painting
Ivan Andersen, Lise Blomberg, Trine Boesen, Kaspar Bonnén, Anders Brinch, Morten Buch, Kristian Devantier, Jens Robert Jørgensen, Eske Kath, John Kørner, Anders W.Ø. Larsen, Allan Otte, Tal R, Lars Tygesen and Kathrine Ærtebjerg
11 February – 13 August 2006
DREAMTIME – Aboriginal art from the Ebes Collection
Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri og Rover Thomas Joolama ao.
11 March – 30 April 2006
MORTEN STRÆDE – HOMECITY
John Kørner, Post Office, 2000. ARKEN Museum of Modern Art
2005
8 October 2005 – 15 January 2006
CHAGALL’s WORLD OF LOVE
28 May – 11 September 2005
JOHANNES LARSEN & BRUNO LILJEFORS – Life in Nature
5 February – 16 May 2005
FERNAND LÉGER – Man in the New Age
2004
24 September 2004 – 9 January 2005
JYTTE HØY – A Historical Alphabet for You
18 September 2004 – 23 January 2005
PARADISE REGAINED – German Expressionism
Adolf Erbslöh, Erich Heckel, Alexej Jawlensky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Franz Marc, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Wilhelm Morgner, Otto Mueller, Gabriele Münter, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
26 June – 5 September 2004
ANDERS ZORN AND NORDIC CONTEMPORARY ART
Anders Zorn og Miriam Bäckström, Mads Gamdrup, Lise Harlev, Annika von Hausswolf, Peter Johansson, Michael Kvium, Jouko Lehtola, Esko Männiko (FIN), Lillibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Torbjørn Rødland and Lars Tunbjörk
14 February – 18 April 2004
CIARÁN LENNON
31 January – 13 June 2004
PICASSO – FOR ALL TIMES
Bernard Ruiz-Picasso’s Collection
Jouko Lehtola, Young Heroes, 1995-96. ARKEN Museum of Modern Art
2003
1 November 2003 – 8 February 2004
JOHN BOCK – Klynken i knæk
27 September 2003 – 11 January 2004
OSCAR NIEMEYER
13 September – 18 January 2004
HELMUT NEWTON – Sex & Landscapes / Yellow Press
21 June – 31 August 2003
BULL’S EYE – Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection
Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Damien Hirst, Rachel Whiteread, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth ao.
1 February – 9 June 2003
HENRY HEERUP – Faith, Hope and Charity
John Bock, Wühl um die Klumpen, 2002-03. ARKEN Museum of Modern Art
2002
9 November 2002 – 23 February 2003
STOP FOR A MOMENT – Painting as presence
Marcus Eek, Anna Fro Vodder, Jukka Korkeila, John Kørner, Tal R, Elina Merenmies and Tiina Elina Nurminen
14 September 2002 – 19 January 2003
ASGER JORN
16 June – 1 September 2002
SIGRID HJERTÉN AND ISAAC GRÜNEWALD –
Familiy Life and Avant-garde 1910-1919
16 June – 1 September 2002
HOME AGAIN
Annika von Hausswolff, Meta Isæus Berlin, Carin Ellberg, Annika Karlsson Rixon, Pål Hollender, Anneè Olofsson, Lisa Strömbeck ao.
2 February – 2 June 2002
FERNANDO BOTERO – Painter of the Incredible and BOTERO ON STRØGET
Carin Ellberg, Sunrise III, 2002. ARKEN Museum of Modern Art
2001
1 December 2001 – 3 March 2002
RUM 2001 – New Abstraction
Finn Mickelborg, Viera Collaro, Tonny Hørning, Torben Ebbesen, Margrethe Sørensen, Klaus Hillingsøe, Niels Nedergård, Merete Barker, Hjørdis Hack, Eva Öhrling, Bjarne Solberg, Claus Jensen and Peter Holck
6-25 November 2001
CARNEGIE ART AWARD
Carolus Enckell, Jens Fänge, Jan Håfström, Johan Scott, Dag Erik Elgin, Kaspar Bonnén og Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen ao.
8 September 2001 – 20 January 2002
THE WILD WEST
Andy Warhol, Ansel Adams, William Henry Jackson ao.
16 June – 26 August 2001
THE DESIRING EYE – The Best Pictures of the History of Photography. 150 Years of Photograhy from Moderna Museet’s Collection
Nadar, Carleton Eugene Watkins, Man Ray, Bill Brandt, Cartier-Bresson, Eugène Atget, Walker Evans, Ansel Adams ao.
7 April – 27 May 2001
GERHARD RICHTER
3 February – 5 May 2001
ECHOES OF THE SCREAM
Edvard Munch, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Gilbert & George, Yannis Kounellis, Asger Jorn, Per Kirkeby, Georg Baselitz, Antonio Saura ao.
2000
15 September 2000 – 14 January 2001
MAN – Body in Art From 1950-2000
Kulturbro 2000. Francis Bacon, Germaine Richier, Duane Hanson, Tom Wesselmann, Yves Klein, Valie Export, Ana Mendieta, Mona Hatoum, Robert Gober, Louise Bourgeois, Bill Viola, Jana Sterbak, Nancy Burson, Orlan, Stelarc ao.
3 June – 3 September 2000
VERONICA’S REVENGE
Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Jeff Wall ao.
22 January – 21 May 2000
ONLY WHEN I LAUGH
Exhibition for children by Iben Dalgaard
22 january 1999 – 4 June 2000
GÜNTHER FÖRG
19 January – 21 May 2000
EDVARD MUNCH: THE SIMPLE LIFE. Paintings from Ekely 1916-44
Lene Stæhr, Gravity II, 1998. ARKEN Museum of Modern Art
1999
2 October 1999 – 16 Janaury 2000
ROBERT SMITHSON – RETROSPECTIVE – Works 1955-1973
24 September 1999 – 16 January 2000
TREE AND THOUGHT
Exhibition for children by Viera Collaro
15 September 1999 – 9 January 2000
DALÍ
5 June – 19 September 1999
AMERICAN MASTERPIECES FROM THE LILJA COLLECTION
Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist
12 May – 12 September 1999
HOME SWEET HOME – Enter the Picture
Exhibition for children
13 February – 25 April 1999
FLUXUS 1962-1994 – Pictorial art-film-music-poetry
Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Volf Vostell, Emmet Williams, Nam June Paik, Robert Filiou, Daniel Spoerri ao.
5 February – 2 May 1999
A ROOM WITH A VIEW
Exhibition for children by Malin Lobell and Martin Petéus
30 January – 2 May 1999
EUROPOP – A Dialogue With the US
Richard Hamilton, KP Brehmer, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Wolf Vostell, Martial Raysse, Jörg Immendorf, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana, Tom Wesselmann, Claes Oldenburg ao.
1998
24 October 1998 – 31 January 1999
CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI – Disappearance
26. September 1998 – 17. January 1999
CARL-HENNING PEDERSEN & MARC CHAGALL
27 June – 11 October 1998
DANISH DESIGN: Richness & Simplicity
13 June – 13 September 1998
THE FERVOUR OF DADA – Ernst Schwitter’s Collection
Kurt Schwitters, Jean Arp, Josef Albers, Max Ernst, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee og Picasso ao.
25 April – 14 June 1998
CLAUS JENSEN: “Painting”
1 April – 5 July 1998
SPLIT SECOND
Exhibition for children by Christian Skeel og Morten Skriver
30 January – 1 June 1998
COBRA 50 YEARS
Pierre Alechinsky, Asger Jorn, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Karel Appel, Corneille ao.
27 January – 22 March 1998
LISTEN TO THE RAINBOW DANCING
Exhibition for children
Christian Boltanski, Les lits, 1997-98. ARKEN Museum of Modern Art
1997
30 November 1997 – 8 February 1998
MAGASIN 3. Selections from the Collection
Sam Taylor Wood, Georg Baselitz, Richard Long, Walter De Maria, Bruce Nauman ao.
15 November 1997 – 18 January 1998
CLAUS CARSTENSEN: Crossover
20 September – 16 November 1997
THE HIDDEN PICTURES –
Painting, sculpture and photography from public and private collections.
Robert Jacobsen, Per Kirkeby, Stig Brøgger, Mogens Andersen, Peter Carlsen, Joakim Koester ao.
13 September – 2 November 1997
DESIRE AND VOID: Contemporary Japanese Photography
Mariko Mori, Nobuyoshi Araki, Hiroshi Sugimoto ao.
20 June – 31 August 1997
MUSEUM DENMARK
J. F. Willumsen, Vilhelm Lundstrøm, Bjørn Nørgaard, Asger Jorn, Claus Carstensen ao.
27 January – 27 March 1997
THORBJØRN LAUSTEN – LIGHT – PICTURE
31 January – 31 March 1997
GUILLAUME BIJL
18 January – 23 March 1997
BRINGING OUT – New Photographs by Per Bak Jensen
Thorbjørn Lausten, Greenhouse, 1995. ARKEN Museum of Modern Art
1996
16 November 1996 – 2 January 1997
THE SCREAM. BOREALIS 8
Vanessa Beecroft, Olafur Eliasson, Christina Hill, Pipilotti Rist, Elmgren & Dragset, Peter Land ao.
17 November 1996 – 12 January 1997
WILHELM FREDDIE – Works 1957-1995
20 September – 10 November 1996
PER KIRKEBY
6 September – 20 October 1996
OUT OF SHAPE
Gitte Villesen, Martin Erik Andersen, Tine Borg, Henrik Plenge Jacobsen ao.
19 September – 10 November 1996
FROM THE HAND OF THE POET
21 January 1996 – 1 September 1996
THE INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE
14 architects. Richard Rogers, Josef Paul Kleihues, Leon Krier, Aldo Rossi, Richard Meier, Henning Larsen, Søren Robert Lund ao.
20 July 1996 – 1 September 1996
CHAMBRE
Ingvar Cronhammar and Poul Ingemann
November 1996 – January 1997
FilmFilm
13 July – 8 September 1996
EGILL JACOBSEN – Face to Face
25 may 1996 – 7 July 1996
KLF
Michael Kvium, Christian Lemmerz and Erik A. Frandsen
16 March – 12 May 1996
NOLDE
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