Current exhibitions

The exhibition conveys the sparkling encounter between two of the world art's giants: the introverted, dreamy skeptic Joan Miró and the outgoing and social Asger Jorn. Where Miró cultivated a form of cosmic order, Jorn thrived around chaos.

Museum Jorn has in its possession a major collection of symbolist and expressionist Danish art from the late nineteenth century until the 1930s. Asger Jorn was very interested in the art of this period, which provided both the historical background and inspiration for his own art.

The Danish painter, graphic artist, ceramicist and author Asger Jorn (1914-1973) is one of Scandinavia's most influential and internationally renowned artists. The exhibition shows the highlights from the museum's collection of Jorn.

The international Cobra movement (1948-51) was based on openness, equality, collaboration and community with the goal of employing art to unite the world after the divisive conflicts of the Second World War. Yet Cobra comes across as an all-male club whose gender composition has been taken for granted over the years.

From 12 February, the museum will be showing the first retrospective exhibition in Scandinavia featuring the German artist A.R. Penck.

Museum Jorn houses the largest collection of Asger Jorn’s art. At present, the collection comprises more than hundred and fifty paintings, more than fifty sculptures, several hundred drawings and prints, as well as a handful of tapestries. The exhibition presents the latest, som very prominent, new acquisitions and relates their interesting stories.

Markus Lüpertz (b.1941) is one of Germany’s most influential artists after World War II. His paintings and sculptures were presented at a large retrospective exhibition at Museum Jorn in 2020. In recognition of the museum’s engaged presentation of his art, Lüpertz donated more than fifty major works to the museum collection.

With this exhibition, Museum Jorn tells the story of bank clerk, art collector and gallerist John Hunov's Daner Galleriet, which in the years 1972-77 presented a total of 40 exhibitions with a number of Danish and international artists, who later turned out to be some of the most influential of the period.

From 2000 until 2001, the German conceptual artist Florian Slotawa roduced a total of nine videos, in which he – while running – attempts to finish his visits to art museums in record time.