Alexander Tovborg - Divine Comedy

ARoS presents Danish contemporary artist Alexander Tovborg's largest museum exhibition to date. In the exhibition Divine Comedy, Tovborg explores questions of morality and faith and opens up new interpretations of our shared narratives and mythological heritage.

Born in 1983, Tovborg is one of the most distinctive artists of his generation and is best known for his paintings, whose subjects are at once romantic and ultra-modern. His figurative imagery, repetitive forms and rich colour combinations explore Christianity and the church as an institution through an artistic reworking of religious narratives, myths and symbols.

Divine Comedy includes his largest and most ambitious paintings to date, including a monumental altarpiece altars of humanity (2017) and the extraordinary work The Knight of Faith (2016); Noah's Ark as an inflatable installation in bright colours, complete as a ship with roof and animals in pairs.

For the exhibition, Tovborg will create two site-specific works: A fresco-inspired mural with the apple as its symbolic focal point, painted directly on the museum's walls in the open atrium on Level 1, and a monumental mosaic on ARoS' windows, inspired by the colourful glass mosaics that often adorn churches.

Look forward to a thought-provoking and personal exhibition that brings together more than 200 works - paintings, sculptures and works on paper - from the artist's entire career.

Alexander Tovborg – Divine Comedy is curated by Victoria Christiansen.

Alexander Tovborg – Divine Comedy, ARoS 2025. Installation view: Anders Sune Berg © ARoS 2025

C.A.C. Funds

15. The June Fund

Spar Nord Foundation

New Carlsberg Foundation

Lemvigh-Müller Foundation

Consul George Jorck and Wife Emma Jorck's Foundation

Wholesaler L.F. Foghts Foundation

Arne V. Schleschs Foundation