LIFE ANGST

In the fall of 2025, Museum Jorn presents a comprehensive thematic exhibition bringing new perspectives on art and well-being, anxiety, healing, and care.

In 1951, Asger Jorn collapsed from malnutrition. He was diagnosed with tuberculosis and admitted to Silkeborg Sanatorium. In the following years, Jorn was challenged in terms of health and finances, yet it became a creatively productive period for him. Based on Jorn’s production from Silkeborg Sanatorium, the exhibition delves into a thematic treatment of art as therapy. 

In the exhibition, a number of historical and contemporary artists go into dialogue and form the framework for a selection of works that evoke inner and outer images of anxiety, illness, stigmatization, well-being, transcendence, care, healing, and hope.

The exhibited artists are Edvard Munch (1863-1944), Jens Ferdinand Willumsen (1863-1958), Emil Nolde (1867-1956), Edvard Weie (1879-1943), Max Beckmann (1884-1950), Otto Dix (1891-1969), Emma Kunz (1892-1963), Ovartaci (1894-1985), Arne Ekeland (1908-1998), Else Alfelt (1910-1974), Sonja Ferlov Mancoba (1911-1984), Asger Jorn (1914-1973), Marina Abramović (f. 1946), Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989), Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), Cindy Sherman (f. 1954), Jeppe Hein (f. 1974), Michelle og Uri Kranot (f. 1977 og 1975), Gudrun Hasle (f. 1979), Christine Sun Kim (f. 1980), Thomas Mader (f. 1984), Kinga Bartis (f. 1984), and Kristian Touborg (f. 1987). 

LIFE ANGST is the first exhibition in a comprehensive two-year joint grant from The Obel Family Foundation and The Augustinus Foundation. The exhibition is also generously supported by the A.P. Møller Foundation, Beckett-Foundation, Ege Fonden – Vibeke og Mads Eg Damgaards Fond, New Carlsberg Foundation.