Collection Favourites

Experience or rediscover works by artists including Olafur Eliasson, Ron Mueck, Rose Eken, Shirin Neshat, Bill Viola and Tony Oursler.

Collection Favourites brings together a selection of works that hold a special place in the ARoS Collection. These are works that have helped shape the museum’s history over the years and which you may recognise from previous visits.

In addition to works from ARoS’s own collection, you can experience the lifelike sculpture Couple Under an Umbrella (2013) created by the Australian artist Ron Mueck, who is also the creator of Boy (1999). Couple Under an Umbrella depicts an elderly couple under a sunshade, created in exactly twice life-size and with hyper-realistic precision. The sculpture is on loan to ARoS from September to March from Museum Voorlinden in the Netherlands, which in return is borrowing Boy during the same time period.

You can also experience works by Tony Matelli (b. 1971), Asger Jorn (1914–1973), Hanne Nielsen (b. 1958) and Birgit Johnsen (b. 1959), Michael Kvium (b. 1955), Wes Lang (b. 1972), Banaan Al-Nasser (b. 1982), Rory Macbeth (b. 1968) and Erik A. Frandsen (b. 1957) – artists whose works are rarely shown together, as they require specific spaces and conditions.

The exhibition features works across media such as sculpture, printmaking, video, ceramics and photography.

The exhibition is curated by Anne Mette Thomsen, Head of Collection and Exhibition Administration.