Ron Mueck's monumental, hyper-real sculpture Boy (1999) entered the ARoS collection after its debut at the Venice Biennale in 2001. Since Boy's first exhibition at ARoS in 2004, the sculpture has played a pioneering role in underlining ARoS' ambition to collect outstanding works of international contemporary art. Boy is synonymous [...]

A true icon of modernism and one of the driving forces behind Danish surrealism, Richard Mortensen (1910-1993) is being honored with a retrospective of his impressive work within Denmark, but especially outside of it. Form, surface, space, color, point and line: every detail is given full attention in Mortensen's austere yet playful visual language - or else it is [...]

"Nature no longer exists. Wild, untamed nature, untouched by man, is a thing of the past". So writes the writer Josefine Klougart in her essay After Nature. In After Nature - A New Reading of the Glyptotek's Paintings by Writer Josefine Klougart, Josefine Klougart uses the prism of art to examine the relationship of man [...]

From newly carved portraits of emperors and castrated statues to mutilated female bodies and erased inscriptions. At the end of 2024, the Glyptotek will open the special exhibition Iconoclasm - Art as a Battlefield. For thousands of years, people have destroyed art to challenge the established order of things and to highlight religious changes and differences. Based on the impressive collection [...]

This spring you can experience an exhibition about the famous Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti. Using masterpieces in sculpture and drawing, the exhibition shows Giacometti's fascination with what you really see when you look. Famous long limbs Tall, slender figures with rough, organic surfaces. Giacometti (1901-1966) is internationally renowned for his iconic depictions of long limbed [...]