Tomorrow is the Question

The questions we ask today help shape tomorrow. Tomorrow is the Question focuses on our common future. A group exhibition of international contemporary art that invites us to reflect on and discuss the challenges of today and tomorrow.

Play a game of table tennis, see a red-hot globe, be cleansed by an all-encompassing interactive waterfall. ARoS' first special exhibition of 2019 shows how art can be used as a facilitator and catalyst to focus on the biggest and most complex challenges of our time. The exhibition is based on the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals and invites the audience to reflect on tomorrow.

Tomorrow is the Question is a curatorial collaboration between ARoS and Luise Faurschou and has been in development for three years. Luise Faurschou is behind the organisation ART 2030, which aims to connect art with the SDGs. ART 2030 has been called the most ambitious art project ever by the international art platform artnet.

The exhibition features works from 15 international contemporary artists. What they all have in common is their ability to tell the story of our changing times in a particularly powerful, visual and sensual way. The participating artists share a common focus on today's great challenges in a form that creates reflection on the state of the world, encourages dialogue and new thinking and collective action. Together, the artists form a series of individual voices that consistently manage to challenge our understanding of reality and habitual thinking.

In connection with the exhibition, ARoS is publishing a catalogue with contributions from authors who in different ways touch on both dark and bright scenarios for our present and future. Museum director Erlend G. Høyersten has written an essay on the need for a mental revolution, external curator Luise Faurschou introduces the exhibition and artworks, and science writer Tor Nørretranders has written a philosophical and hopeful essay on the potential of tomorrow. The catalogue also contains two peer-reviewed research texts on the dark side of technological development by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup and Ulrik Ekman and on the environment and the Anthropocene landscape by Anette Vandsø.

Tomorrow is the Question is initiated and curated by Luise Faurschou, founder and director of ART 2030 and Faurschou Art Resources, in collaboration with ARoS director Erlend G. Høyersten.