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Arken (The Ark) (Danish: Arken Museum for Modern Art) is the name of a museum of modern art that opened on March 15, 1996 in Ishøj , a suburb in the southwest of the Danish capital Copenhagen .
The building on the coast of the Køgebucht is the work of the Danish architect Søren Robert Lund , who won the architecture competition for the museum in 1988 as a 25-year-old student. It was then established in connection with Copenhagen's status as European Capital of Culture in 1996 and opened by the Danish Queen Margrethe II .
The building impresses with its free design in the form of a stranded ship in the sense of deconstructivism with purposeless sail-like decorative elements . The museum name ARKEN = ark arose from the shape . In addition to a large entrance forum, there are exhibition rooms, the museum shop, a café, a cinema and rooms for museum educational work with children and families.
The house shows works from its collection of around 400 works, mainly by Nordic, but also international artists, with a focus on the period after 1990. Works by Ólafur Elíasson , Damien Hirst , Andres Serrano , Anselm Reyle and Ai Weiwei can be seen among others . There are also changing special exhibitions.
There were disagreements about the founding director Anna Castberg - she was fired in the year it opened because she had proven to be an impostor . She was replaced by Christian Gether.
In 2008 and 2009 the museum was expanded and now has a total area of 13,500 m².
literature
- Robert Schediwy , City Images - Reflections on Change in Architecture and Urbanism, LIT Vienna 2005 ISBN 3-8258-7755-8
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Subtitle: "Danish impostor cheated on the post of museum director" on welt.de; accessed: April 7, 2017
Coordinates: 55 ° 36 ′ 21.9 ″ N , 12 ° 23 ′ 12.9 ″ E