ARTAPESTRY7

International Triennial
It has been four years since we last presented the abundance of expression in woven tapestries that make up ARTAPESTRY. And this is the seventh time that the organization European Tapestry Forum has thus sent a juried exhibition on tour in Europe. The triennial gives the audience a good insight into the current trends among weaving artists. The jury has selected the 37 most beautiful, skillfully executed and most creative tapestries from more than 100 submissions. The first prize this time has gone to Feliksas Jakubauskas with the work "Three Spheres".

AS I SEE IT
LEIF SYLVESTER

New paintings, reliefs and sculptures
The popular artist Leif Sylvester shows works in media such as painting, painted wood reliefs, bronze, tapestries and brightly colored ceramics. Most of them were created for this exhibition, which follows up on the exhibition from Wonderful Everyday Life, which we showed in 2015. Once again, you will encounter the artist's typically festively executed, but also sharp observations of the OBS quibbles with life of ordinary people. A new large frieze is also called The Snake in Paradise (acrylic on canvas).
 

LIFE BREATH IN THE NOSTRIL

Helgi Fridjonsson (ISL)
A sea of ​​silver at the entrance to the exhibition embraces the exhibition visitor and creates a resonant space for poetic watercolors and small oil paintings by Icelandic Helgi Fridjonsson. His pictorial world contains recognizable elements from nature and myth and is at the same time pure poetry. Often with a dreamy atmosphere. A mixed mythological/real universe as two sides of reality – as in some of Asger Jorn's work, which has also inspired Helgi Fridjonsson. He exhibited at the then Silkeborg Art Museum in 1993 and at the Silkeborg Bad Art Center in 2018 together with several colleagues under the title Playful Dialogue. The current exhibition title is connected to a childhood memory of helping newborn lambs to breathe by removing mucus from their nostrils with his tongue. In the first weeks of the exhibition period, the artist will be available in an open workshop. 

IMAGINE NATURE - SENSORY EXHIBITION

Families and playful children of all ages can now again look forward to a sensory exhibition in our large halls. IMAGINE NATURE is developed especially for the Art Center Silkeborg Bad by the theater person Matěj Forman (Prague) together with his team of artists and skilled technicians. The new exhibition will contain several interactive elements, are welcome to be touched, and allow the audience to sense in several ways. Part of Imagine Nature will be a workshop in the panorama hall, where all guests can get their hands on the creative expression all summer. 
 

NATURA SPIRITUALIS

Total installation by Noelia Mora Solvez, Jeppe Worning and Johannes Smed 
This exhibition is the culmination of the artists’ 5 years of search into a bizarre yet attractive universe. Their goal is to create a universe within this art centre that seems to have been developed naturally and organically, without human intervention. They are making it as a site-specific total installation, integrating the room, the sound and our creatures. Statement and questions the artists wish to raise: 
”The human body is not just one thing, but our indispensable starting point for understanding and experiencing the world at all. It is the contemporary experience of the outside and the inside. The place from which we must experience our lives, ourselves and our surroundings, and the place from which we can ask the world questions and wonder about it. Does this mean that another body would give a different understanding of the world? Would it open to another world at all?”
 

NATURE'S EYE

Karin Lykke
Visual artist Karin Lykke shows a series of works with sizes like 1 x 3 m and 1 x 1.5 m. She has done them with a combination of liquid ink, watercolor and cyanotype on paper and textile. She juxtaposes these large paper works with a number of smaller works in terms of format: nature sketches, graphics, decorated ceramics and cyanotype prints of her finds in nature. The artist's nature motifs range from crude landscape abstractions to fine bird feathers, depictions of insects, wild plants, etc.

Nature's Eye unfolds throughout the upper floor of the Art Centre, where Karin Lykke has divided her exhibition into three or four different sections, each with their own title and theme. Her primary purpose with her art is to bring wild nature close to the audience – and vice versa. On a broader level, in her own way, she wants to contribute to the debate and convey the necessity that we take good care of nature and that we take a stand on climate change.

Nature's Eye arose from Karin Lykke's love for and anchoring in wild nature - partly in Odsherred, where she has her artistic work, partly in connection with several study stays in North Jutland, Iceland and Lofoten in the period 2016-2025. Part of the exhibition will be dedicated to nature close to the Art Center Silkeborg Bad, where she has drawn inspiration and motifs from Ørnsø, Arnakkekilden and Silkeborg Vesterskov.