Lectures
Asger Jorn & Per Kirkeby: Two Influential Innovators of Scandinavian Art
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Asger Jorn (1914–1973) and Per Kirkeby (1938–2018) are among the most important Danish figures in recent European art history. With their expressive and experimental art, they made a significant contribution to a new understanding of Nordic aesthetics in the 20th and 21st century.
Museum Jorn in Silkeborg, Denmark, administrates an important part of the artistic legacy of both painters through its extensive archives and collections. In his online lecture, delivered in English, Lucas Haberkorn from Museum Jorn compares the two grand masters and provides exciting background information for the current exhibition, Asger Jorn & Per Kirkeby.
The lecture:
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About
Lucas Haberkorn
Lucas Haberkorn is Chief Curator, Head of Collections and Research at Museum Jorn. Museum Jorn was founded by the artist Asger Jorn during his lifetime, and today the museum holds Denmark’s second-largest art collection. The museum focuses on modern art, and a significant part of the collection consists of works by Per Kirkeby and Asger Jorn himself.
Museum Jorn
Contact
Simone Frankel, communications: simone.frankel@akvarellmuseet.org
How to participate
To ensure the online lecture works as smoothly as possible for you as a participant, we have put together a short guide with instructions and tips. Click here to download it as a PDF or read more below.
- The lecture takes place via Microsoft Teams. It starts at 7.00 pm (CEST, UTC+2), but you are welcome to join from 6.45 pm.
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Current exhibition 10 May–6 September
Asger Jorn & Per Kirkeby
This summer, The Nordic Watercolour Museum is presenting an extensive exhibition of watercolours and drawings by two of Denmark’s most significant post-war artists. Asger Jorn (1914–1973) was one of the most influential figures of the European avant-garde art – a co-founder of the influential CoBrA movement, and a champion of spontaneous, free creation as a counterforce to convention and control. Per Kirkeby (1938–2018) represents another kind of artistic vision, one in which the structures of nature and time form the basis of creation. Kirkeby was one of the major renewers of neo-expressionist painting in the 1980s.
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