Exhibitions in
Aarhus is home to some of Denmark's largest museums, led by ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, a major Scandinavian art institution showing Danish and international works under its iconic "Your Rainbow Panorama." The city's contemporary scene thrives at Kunsthal Aarhus, one of Europe's oldest arts centres presenting painting, sculpture, and photography. Other notable institutions include the Moesgård Museum, specializing in archaeology and ethnography, and the Women's Museum, dedicated to Danish cultural history.
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Step Inside
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
Sound, scent, light and movement. Step Inside features four immersive installations that examine how contemporary art engages the body, heightens sensory awareness, and creates spaces for experience and critical…
Svend Wiig Hansen - Walking, falling, standing
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
With his raw forms, bold brushstrokes and powerful sculptures, Svend Wiig Hansen (1922–1997) placed the human figure at the centre of his work – fragile, solitary and marked by the existential anxiety of the post-war…
ARoS Collection: 1960 - now
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
In this exhibition, we renew our focus on ARoS’ significant collection of Danish and international art. In a newly conceived display in our collection gallery on Level 6, we encourage visitors to explore art since 1960…
ARoS Collection: Human Nature
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
There are certain elements that people, at all times, have had to respond to in life: nature, religion, philosophy, and science. ARoS has decided to use these themes as common threads in a new presentation of works from…
Unruly - The Body in Punk
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
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. Featuring around 130 works, the exhibition traces punk’s…
THE HALL OF FAILURE
Kunsthal Aarhus
Experience failure as both liberating and challenging in the exhibitionThe Hall of Failure, which has the concept of failure as its central theme. The Hall of Failureturns the common term 'The Hall of Fame' on its head…
Freedom's Fall Art from Germany 1910 - 1945
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
The exhibition consists of masterpieces from Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Discover a series of icons from the most pivotal period of the 20th century and from one of Germany’s most important art collections in Berlin –…
Nina Beier & John Miller - The Populace
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
As you enter the exhibition, you are greeted by a large number of staged mannequins standing face to face with photographs of portrait paintings unearthed from forgotten archives. A strange space emerges - both familiar…
Favourites from the Collection
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
Some artworks and artistic experiences linger with us – like guiding lights or fleeting sparks in memory. Collection Favourites presents some of the most powerful works from ARoS’ collection – works that have touched…
ARoS Collection: Brand new collection exhibitions
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
The collection exhibitions are the heart of ARoS - where art meets you at eye level, whether you are a child, an adult, an expert or just curious about the world of art. In 2026, ARoS opens its doors to new displays of…
ARoS Collection: Installation Art
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
Level 0 is a designated exhibition space at the subterranean basement level of ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, reserved to and specially designed for international light art, video art and installations. For the most part, new…
As Seen Below - The Dome, a Skyspace by James Turrell
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
As Seen Below is a Skyspace and an artwork in the ARoS collection created by the American artist James Turrell. Owing to its scale, quality, and unique expression, Turrell himself describes it as his most ambitious…
THE SCULPTURE PARK
Kunsthal Aarhus
Currently on display is FOS’ Hypernormalization, a portal made of burnt larch wood that marks the transition between city and art institution, exploring how architecture and social structures shape our movements and…