Create your own art exhibition at ARoS

ARoS invites children and the young at heart to design their own art exhibition during the winter holidays from 10 to 18 February. This will take place alongside ARoS’s own work on new exhibitions featuring works from the museum’s collection in 2024.

With generous support from the Spar Nord Foundation, ARoS’s gallery on Level 5 will be transformed during the winter holidays into a large workshop where families can try their hand at being curators and put together their very own art exhibitions.

The gallery will be set up with 16 stations, where families can put on white gloves at each station to explore, develop and bring their exhibition concepts to life. For the occasion, ARoS has commissioned reproductions of 50 different works from its collection, so that visitors can also get a feel for hanging the works, and so that the rest of the museum’s visitors can admire the new collection exhibitions.

“At ARoS, we place a high priority on our responsibility towards children, young people and families, and we want to offer our guests engaging and inspiring encounters with art. The museum’s collection holds over 250 years of historical knowledge, and the works give our visitors the opportunity to tell their own stories and express their views of the world through art,” says Rebecca Matthews, Director of ARoS.

Among the reproductions, there will also be works that cannot otherwise be seen at the museum, as they are normally housed in ARoS’s art storage facility. ARoS’s outreach assistants will be on hand to provide further information about the works, as well as to offer guidance and feedback.

In the gallery, visitors will also have the opportunity to colour in drawings of selected works from the collection or put together giant jigsaw puzzles, also featuring motifs from the works in ARoS’s collection.

“ARoS’s programme for families with children during the winter holidays gives children and young people the chance to explore their creativity and try their hand at putting together art exhibitions together. The programme is inclusive and does not require any prior knowledge of art or art history. We at the Spar Nord Foundation are keen to support this,” says Bo Uggerhøj, Director of the Spar Nord Foundation.

The activities will take place from 10 to 18 February 2024, from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm every day.

During the winter holidays, ARoS will also be opening its doors to a new display of the ARoS collection on Level 6. The exhibition is titled ‘ARoS Collection: 1960 – present’, where visitors can experience works by artists including Andy Warhol, Lene Adler, Bjørn Nørgaard, Per Kirkeby and Olafur Eliasson

On Level 6, visitors can also enjoy a truly extraordinary experience of ARoS’s iconic sculpture *Boy*, accompanied by two other works by the Australian sculptor Ron Mueck: *A Girl*; a five-metre-long and highly detailed sculpture of a newborn baby; and *Woman with Shopping*; a smaller figure exploring the themes of motherhood and the cycle of life.

ARoS’s special winter holiday activities are open to everyone and free of charge once you’ve paid the museum entrance fee. Admission to the museum is always free for everyone under the age of 18.

You can enjoy your own food on Level 3 in ‘Madkassen’, and child-friendly food is available to buy in the Café on Level 4.

For further information, please contact:
ARoS Press and Communications
presse@aros.dk
+45 61904942