Current exhibition
Unruly - The Body in Punk
Location
Level. 5, Focus-Gallery
Price
Free with annual pass or after paying admission
Nice to know
Some works in the exhibition contain explicit or sexual content. If you are visiting the museum with young children, please consider carefully whether the exhibition is appropriate for them to experience.
About the exhibition
Be confronted by the eccentric and provocative body as ARoS puts the spotlight on punk's creative revolution with the exhibition Unruly – The body in punk.
KulturInformation, Lars Svanholm
Trembling and Joyful
Weekendavisen, Sarah von Essen
A thought-provoking exhibition celebrating the monstrous body
Politiken, Mathias Kryger
An excellent exhibition on the relevance of punk aesthetics today.
Julian Weber, taz
Speaks directly to the present
Germano D'Acquisto, Il Giornale dell’Arte
Featuring around 130 works, the exhibition traces punk’s origins in 1970's London and shows how the movement spread and changed – with a special focus on Berlin's subcultures. Pain, wildness, imagination. Energy, boldness, defiance. Punks used the body as a form of resistance against discipline and societal norms imposed by a world they saw as already collapsing. In punk, bodily expression was political.
Discover works by Derek Jarman (1942–1994), Linder (b. 1954), Nina Sten-Knudsen (b. 1957), Cornelia Schleime (b. 1953), Die Tödliche Doris (active 1980–1987) and Ajamu X (b. 1963), among others – most of which have never been shown in Scandinavia.
Unruly is the result of a post-doctoral research project in collaboration between ARoS and Aarhus University and is curated by external curator and post-doc researcher Marie Arleth Skov. The three-year research project is supported by Ny Carlsbergfondet.
Punk challenged conventional ideals of beauty, sexual norms, and the commodification of the body. The exhibition’s curatorial approach carries that sensibility forward.
Wallpaper*, Sophie Axon
A vivid snapshot of a culture in which sound and the body were inseparably intertwined
Seismograf, Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
Photo: Mads Smidstrup
Thanks to
Ny Carlsbergfondet
Grosserer LF. Foghts Fond
Toyota-Fonden
Credit heroimage:
Karen Knorr & Olivier Richon, Vortex 6 from the Punks series, 1976-1977, gelatin silver print on paper, 18,7 x 28,2 cm, Tate. Courtesy of the artists.