ARoS
ARoS Art Museum is a spectacular visual experience for children and adults; a mental service station where the inquisitive human being can be both pleased and challenged. The architecture is of international class. The same art. And both offer experiences of high carat: From light to thrill, from attitude to entertainment, from light hiking to the challenge.
Cube The 8 April 2004 Denmark's new international art museum in the heart of Aarhus opened, with its 17,700 square feet spread over nine floors are one of Northern Europe's largest. The Aarhus-based architectural firm Schmidt, Hammer & Lassen won the 1997 architectural competition for the design of the new museum in competition with 109 studios from around the world. The building is shaped like a cube with a footprint of 52 x 52 meters and a height of 43 meters. Through the cube is placed on a curved incision that constitute museum street. In the middle of the street travels a spiral staircase, and through the audience can move around to different galleries and other facilities in the building.
The Art
The art ARoS offers nearly 7,000 square meters of exhibition space. Three galleries of every 1,060 square feet includes works from the permanent collection, ie. art from 1770 to today. This shows both the number of new purchases of Danish and international art and a major presentation of the museum's collection, totaling nearly 9,000 works. ARoS has among others the country's finest collection of Danish modernists from the early 1900century and the world's largest Per Kirkeby collection in addition to works by a number of prominent international contemporary artists like Bill Viola, Olafur Eliasson, Ron Mueck, Tony Oursler, James Turrell, Miwa Yanagi, Carsten Hรถller and Gilbert & George. The 9 rooms are a special exhibition section of the museum's lower floor, reserved and dedicated to international light, video and installation art. The 9 rooms are a gallery in progress, ie. that the coming year will be furnished 1-2 new rooms with newly acquired works of art each year.
Made by Maja and Pernille