2008

Dutch Landscape Drawings
6 October 2007 - 24 February 2008

This exhibition provided a rare glimpse of a rich collection of 17th-century Dutch master drawings from the Department of Prints and Drawings.

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The Mirror of Nature. Nordic Landscape Painting 1840-1910"
6 October 2007 - 24 February 2008

This exhibition showed over 100 landscape paintings painted by the most important Nordic painters in the time - such as Edvard Munch, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Carl Larsson, and Akseli Gallen-Kallela.

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Søren Martinsen in x-rummet: "Country Song"
6 October 2007 - 24 February 2008

The exhibition presented a shadowy, psychologically charged universe. Søren Martinsen was born in 1966 and lives and works in Glumsø in Denmark. He was educated at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art 1989-1995 and has an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths' College, University of London 1993-94. In 2003-06 he was Artistic Director of Overgaden – Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen.

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Jørgen Haugen Sørensen "While We Wait"
28 March 2007 - 3 March 2008

In the Sculpture Street, Jørgen Haugen Sørensen exhibited a broad selection of recent works, dealing with such themes as violence, freedom of speech and power. Most of these works had been created especially for the exhibition.

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Mermaid's Hair and Neptun's Headache
28 April 2007 - 6 April 2008

The exhibition was specially created for the youngest guests at the Museum and their parents.

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2 + 2 = 7
28 April 2007 - 6 April 2008

In the exhibition we were shown artworks which revolutionise our fixed ideas of the order of things by combining and sampling apparently incompatible objects.

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Cronhammar. At Danish Art Museums
15 December 2007 - 27 April 2008

10 Danish art museums joined hands in a country-wide celebration of sculptor Ingvar Cronhammar's 60th birthday.

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Tagging Art "Virtual Moves"
18 January - 11 March 2008

"VIRTUAL MOVES" was the title chosen for Tagging Art's experimental art project, which invited nine artists from Denmark and abroad to enter the virtual world known as Second Life.

"VIRTUAL MOVES" was experienced through a so-called avatar in Second Life, allowing visitors to access the exhibition from their own home – or, of course, from the u.l.k.

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Troels Wörsel
15 March - 12 May 2008

The Danish, internationally acclaimed artist Troels Wörsel (b 1950) is one of those who has left a striking mark on recent Danish painting. Wörsel's works look closely at the artistic devices of the painting. He is particularly interested in the process of creating a painting, just as he is extremely conscious of the tradition inherent in paintings.


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Gerard Byrne. Related Works
5 April – 28 September 2008

With his exhibition "Related Works", Irish Gerard Byrne located x-rummet right in the heart of the permanent collection, and extended it through three rooms (206, 207, 208), so that his art was seen in relation to the other works of the Museum.

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A View of a Foreign Culture
18 April – 3 August 2008

Presenting around 120 woodcuts, drawings, and prints, the exhibition provided a comprehensive insight into Lorck's unique idiom. Today, many of Lorck's pictures give rise to wonder: what was Lorck trying to tell? What was the impression of Turkey he wanted to give Europeans?


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Øivind Nygård
26 April – 17 August 2008

The exhibition showed a retrospective cross-section of Øivind Nygård's artistic production, and in this way drawed a picture of an artist who is continually and insistently sharpening his expression and the elements that have absorbed him since the start of his career.

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