Programme 2024

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Soheila Sokhanvari – Rebel Rebel

Mixing Islamic geometries, western pop references, and classic portrait paintings, Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari (b. 1964) pays an extravagant, hyperpolitical, and heartfelt tribute to the significant courage of female icons from pre-revolutionary 1970s Iran.

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Ron Mueck – Art and Life

Ron Mueck’s monumental hyperreal sculpture Boy (1999) joined ARoS’ collection after its debut at the Venice Biennale in 2001. Since Boy’s first ARoS display in 2004, the sculpture has played an important role in marking ARoS’ ambition to collect outstanding works of contemporary international art.

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ARoS Collection: 1960 – now

In 2024, we renew our focus on ARoS’ significant collection of Danish and international art. In a newly conceived display in our collection gallery on Level 6, we encourage visitors to explore art since 1960 with fresh eyes.

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Richard Mortensen – Between Lines

A true modernist icon, and one of the driving forces of Surrealism in Denmark, Richard Mortensen (1910–1993) is exhibited in a landmark retrospective focusing on the artist’s impressive contributions within, but especially outside of Denmark.

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ARoS Collection: World in Focus

With AI and a wealth of new ways to manipulate photographs and visual imagery, photography itself exists in a time of breakthroughs and disruption. To examine this and the broader definition of photography, ARoS presents World in Focus; an exhibition celebrating photography in ARoS’ collection.

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Sarah Sze – Metronome

Metronome is a mesmerising, site-specific installation. The work by the acclaimed American artist Sarah Sze offers an extraordinary model of our fragile, digitalised world.

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Sky Gazing

Sky Gazing explores the ways artists have considered and been inspired by the vast spaces and events of the universe and its impacts on art and nature here on Earth.

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Barbara Kruger – No Comment

As a critical observer of popular culture, feminist, and conceptual powerhouse Barbara Kruger (b. 1945) – one of the most influential artists of our time – grapples with power dynamics, late capitalism, and media overload in the most comprehensive presentation of her work in Denmark.

Continuing from 2023 are the two exhibitions A Surreal Shock – Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and The Cosmos Within.

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The Cosmos Within

The Cosmos Within presents a group of international artists working across time and place at the intersection of art, healing, and magic. They all work with art as a kind of portal leading us into alternative and sensory worlds where contemporary human relationships with nature, the body and spiritual life are rethought and revitalised.

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A Surreal Shock – Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Radical rethinking, cultural resistance, and a desire for revolution and disruption are staged when ARoS opens this year's major exhibition A Surreal Shock - Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen on 7 October 2023. Visitors are offered a comprehensive introduction to Surrealism and the opportunity to experience some of the most popular works of art of the last hundred years.