Exhibition period Saturday 5 October 2024 – Sunday 9 March 2025

The exhibition space is occupied by a large yellow staircase, heavy iron gratings, curtains hanging down from the hall’s seven meter high ceiling. The mood is theatrical, heavy and light at the same time when we move onto Adam Christensen’s stage. Horsens Art Museum has followed the artist’s work in recent years and, in connection with the museum’s 40th anniversary, has invited Adam Christensen to create a major solo exhibition. Such an artistic presentation is fully in line with the museum’s now long tradition of inviting experimental contemporary art within its doors. An art like this that is based on intuition, moods and emotions, rather than easy-to-read expressions that don’t dare touch where it hurts.

Adam Christensen’s artistic work is avant-garde, magical and flighty but at the same time thoughtful, rooted, sensitive and deep. In his artistic practice, we are introduced to some of life’s major themes such as heartbreak, melancholy and loneliness, while the trivialities of everyday life are also touched upon. In Adam Christensen’s universe, reality and fiction merge in immediate encounters that at the same time hide a deep vulnerability.

With the exhibition project, Adam Christensen has worked with double meanings. Including large textile works, intimate videos, an intimidating staircase and small booths each with their own artistic experience. It all forms the framework for a total installation that forces the viewer to move further around through the exhibition’s large scenography.

Read more about the exhibition here.

The exhibition is generously supported by Ny Carlsbergfondet and Statens Kunstfond. For more information contact curator Julie Horne Møller at jhmo@horsens.dk