JORN / KIRKEBY

In autumn 2020, ARoS presents the exhibition JORN / KIRKEBY with two of Denmark's most significant artists in post-war European art history, Asger Jorn (1914-1973) and Per Kirkeby (1938-2018).

The exhibition JORN / KIRKEBY is based on the artists' painterly production. It will be shaped by a number of themes that emphasise the two artists' relationship to frivolous painting, classicism, eroticism, landscape and self-representation.

Jorn and Kirkeby were from different generations and they never met. Nevertheless, there are a number of common interests in their art, which ARoS wants to show by exhibiting them together. The exhibition will highlight a spiritual and theoretical kinship between the two artists, where the similarity is not necessarily found in the immediate and recognisable. At the same time, it will highlight the difference in the spectrum from Jorn's violent, untamed abstractions to Kirkeby's thoughtful, intellectual and controlled abstractions.

Dronning Margrethes og Prins Henriks Fond

AKO-Foundation

Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond

Spar Nord Fonden

Knud Højgaards Fond

C.A.C. Fonden

STIBOFONDEN

Axel Muusfeldts fond

Hoffmann og Husmans Fond

Aarhuus Stiftstidendes Fond