Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg
Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg is a living art museum offering space for immersion, wonder and fascination. The striking building, completed in 1972, was designed by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto and is his only museum building outside Finland. The museum houses over 4,000 works of modern and contemporary art by Danish and international artists.
Now on view
5 exhibitions
Berit Heggenhougen-Jensen – From 80's Punk to Schlager Music
Berit Heggenhougen-Jensen had her breakthrough in 1982 with the legendary exhibition Kniven på hovedet (Knife to the Head), where the group De Unge Vilde (The Wild Youth) made their entrance. Here, painting was…
Late Picasso
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), born in Málaga, Spain, had a huge impact on 20th-century art – an impact that extends to the present day. In the early 20th century, he was based in Paris, France. Here, together with Georges…
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Sisters Hope & Kunsten
The internationally renowned performance group, Sisters Hope has established a new wave of performance art, which hovers between art, activism, research and learning. Their mission is to democratise via practices that…
Inuuteq Storch — Heart Beats Hope
The photographer and artist Inuuteq Storch (b. 1989) lives and works in Sisimiut, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), and in Copenhagen. He graduated from the International Center of Photography in New York (2016) and from…
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Kunsten Classic
The exhibition is built on Kunsten’s rich collection of artworks and is complemented by examples of period design, furniture, and crafts. In this way, the artworks are placed within their historical context, allowing…
Resistance
Lukošaitis’ works are characterized by powerful, hand-drawn narratives that move between the mythical and the deeply human. Through detailed, serial drawings, he depicts conflict, power structures, and vulnerability,…
Ovartaci
Ovartaci was a colorful and complex person – self‑taught artist, poet, and engineer. An adventurer and a dreamer. Intellectual, psychiatric patient, and trained house painter. She was a winter bather, a yogi, and a…
Frida Orupabo
Frida Orupabo’s works are grounded in found photographs and material sourced from both digital and physical archives, encompassing popular culture as well as references dating back to the colonial era. In Orupabo’s…