ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum

ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum

ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum is an art museum in Aarhus. ARoS is one of the largest art museums in northern Europe, 10 storeys tall with a total of 17,000 m². The museum opened on 8 April 2004 after a construction process that started with Danish architects schmidt hammer lassen winning the design competition in 1997.ARoS features a shop, café and restaurant.

Exhibitions

The museum is divided into three different permanent collections: The Danish "golden age" 1770–1900, Danish modernism 1900–1960 and contemporary art.

But it also includes The 9 Spaces, a so-called "gallery in progress" of installation art, where 1 or 2 rooms are done each year. The number 9 refers to Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy and the 9 circles of hell. The rooms are painted black to contrast with the bright white exterior. The roof terrace substitutes for the divine light your enter from hell. This way the whole museum is part of the travel from hell to heaven. This movement emphasised by the grand spiral staircase in the main 'museum streetscape'.

ARoS have featured some prominent changing exhibitions inspired, currated or made by the likes of Ólafur Elíasson, Bjørn Nørgaard, Ingvar Cronhammar, architect Frank Gehry, Paul McCarthy, Robert Rauschenberg, Michael Kvium, H.C. Andersen, Bill Viola and Wim Wenders. The first of these exhibitions presented a series of main works by pop artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. As many other modern art galleries and museums ARoS also plays great tribute to architects and their works having hosted several architecture themed exhibitions.

Future

Besides finishing The 9 Spaces, and many future exhibits ARoS also plans to extend the museum with "Your rainbow panorama" by Ólafur Elíasson. Situated on the roof, it is a circular skywalk in the colors of the rainbow, the gives a quit unique panorama over Aarhus.

Name

The name ARoS is the Latin word for the city Aarhus, while the capitalized letters of the name hint at the Latin word for art, namely "ars".

References

External links

* [http://www.aros.dk/?setlanguage=2 Official website]


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