A new triennial is due to open next year in Aarhus, eastern Denmark, which will encompass four kilometres of coastline surrounding the city. The inaugural ARoS triennial, organised by the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, will “explore how man has depicted and altered nature according to his view of the world”, a press statement says. The triennial is a key feature of Aaarhus’s year-long run as European Capital of Culture in 2017.
The triennial, entitled The Garden: End of Times, Beginning of Times, will be split into two parts: The Past (8 April-10 September 2017) and The Present and the Future (3 June-30 July 2017). Its scope is ambitious; the statement adds that the triennial covers the past 400 years and will be staged in three sections. "[It] will reflect on man’s perception of nature according to philosophical, religious and political changes,” the organisers say.
The Past section, presented at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, will be based on German Romanticism of the early 1800s, early 20th-century Modernism and 1960s Land art. The Present exhibition will be shown at venues dotted around the city while a series of public art pieces will be installed on the coastal route from Tangkrogen to Ballehage in The Future section. Participating artists will be announced in due course.
The ARoS Triennial is funded by the ARoS Aarhus Museum; sponsors include local and regional authorities—including Aarhus Kommune and Region Midtjylland—the Salling Fondene charity which is backed by Dansk supermarket, and European Capital of Culture.
