ARoS

Step Inside invites you into a world where art is not just viewed, but felt with the whole body. Through scent, sound, light and movement, spaces are created that challenge your senses and change your sense of time and place. The four artists work at the intersection of nature, technology and human experience, creating installations that both seduce and disturb. It is an exhibition where you don't just walk through the spaces, but become part of them.

Discover the Egyptian-Canadian artist Anna Boghiguian, who has created a total experience at ARoS with the exhibition The Sunken Boat. Through five distinctive rooms you move from Virginia Woolf's blue universe to a red desert filled with paper figures and a giant cockroach. The exhibition culminates in a work created specifically for Aarhus, where the city's own bay merges with stories of power, salt and human migration.

Experience Sir Isaac Julien's cinematic masterpiece Once Again… (Statues Never Die), which can be seen for the first time in Scandinavia at ARoS. Through two enormous screens and a mirror cabinet, you will be sucked into a dialogue about African art, the role of museums and colonial history. It is a poetic and painful meditation on the Harlem Renaissance, making the museum a space for necessary contemplation and critical reflection.

ARoS has opened the doors to the new underground Salling Gallery, which with its raw concrete look marks a new era for the museum's major expansion. British artist Jenkin van Zyl inaugurates the space with the work Lost Property, which draws the audience into a surreal story of identity and performance under pressure. It is an immersive experience that proves that the museum dares to challenge the traditional exhibition format to create a new cultural beacon in Aarhus.

For the first time in Denmark, you can experience some of the 20th century's greatest masters, including Picasso, Miró and Léger, gathered together at ARoS. The exhibition presents a radical idiom that changed art history, but at the same time manages to make the abstract works relevant through personal stories of grief and love. It is a rare opportunity to get up close to French collector Roger Dutilleul's lifelong love affair with art, where emotions outweigh geometric lines.

South African artist Igshaan Adams creates a poetic space with the exhibition Weerhoud, where beads, textiles and found objects become complex stories about human relationships. Through his woven works, he processes personal themes such as identity and reconciliation, including the powerful work Ameen, which with its conscious scars symbolizes the journey towards forgiveness. It is an exhibition that speaks directly to the heart and reminds us that the fractures and wounds that we carry with us can contain a very special beauty.

The museum's most famous figure, the 4,5-meter-tall Boy, has been joined by his little sister, A Girl, on the occasion of ARoS' 20th anniversary. The exhibition unites three of Ron Mueck's hyperrealistic masterpieces in the same space for the first time, creating an intense dialogue between the five-meter-tall newborn baby and the everyday fatigue of the work Women with Shopping. It is a rare opportunity to experience art that touches on the most fundamental moments of life, and that requires you to stop completely to see the smallest details in the enormous sculptures.

Experience how ARoS functions as an oasis of peace of mind and an important counterpoint to everyday stress. This personal account follows the journey from the hustle and bustle of the city to the pleasant tranquility of the museum, where everything from the warm atmosphere of the Orangery to the iconic views through the Rainbow help the shoulders to drop. It is a story about finding presence in art and using the museum's architecture as a breathing space, where decisions and bustle must for a while give way to contemplation.