ON THE TRAIL OF A SLUMBER CARPET – AND A SHORT STORY OF KJELLERUP VÆVERI:
ANNE METTE LARSEN

Sideshow in Skovvilla

Weaver Annemette Larsen says: "Seven years ago he said no - Poul, the old owner of Kjellerup Væveri, when I came up with my Midtjyske Täpper project. And maybe it was good, because it ended up in Norway and it was as local as it could get back then. That's a whole other story (and a good one).
But I was so happy when I heard one day that Kjellerup Væveri had new owners, that all the machines were not packed in a container and sent east. Claus and Christian said yes! - Yes, for a collaboration on a new carpet. With their yarns on their looms and with my design and binding, developed in a quality adapted to their equipment. A long cherished dream.
Think that Denmark's only weaving factory is only 34 minutes from my workshop! And to think that the two manufacturers let me in and let me get my hands on all their machines!
This exhibition and accompanying book describe the long road from the first failed attempts until we reached the goal of something viable. My meeting with Kjellerup and the old weaver. All the samples, all the woven yards, a mixed bunch: The sad and the quirky and the runaway. The outdated and abandoned and the sour with too much yellow. The nice ones and the delicate ones and the obscure ones that were just sitting in the cupboard at the first shot. The boring ones and the ones far out in the woods. And then there are those who just long for the sofa - they are all there.
Welcome them when they land in reality! They are from me and Kjellerup Væveri.”

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 Jakubuskas with the work "Three Spheres".

AS I SEE IT
LEIF SYLVESTER

New paintings, reliefs and sculptures
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 the exhibition from Wonderful everyday life, which we showed in 2015. This time too, you will encounter the artist's typically festively executed, but also sharp observations of ordinary people's chatter with life. A new large frieze is also called The Serpent in Paradise (acrylic on canvas), which is very descriptive.
 

LIFE BREATH IN THE NOSTRIL

Helgi Fridjonsson (ISL)
A silver sea at each entrance to the west wing embraces the exhibition visitor and creates a resonant space for poetic watercolors and drawings by Icelander Helgi Fridjonsson. His visual world has 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 – a bit like some of Asger Jorn's work, which has also inspired him. He exhibited at the then Silkeborg Art Museum in 1993 and at the Art Center Silkeborg Bad in 2018 together with several colleagues under the title Playful Dialogue. The current exhibition title is connected to a childhood memory of helping the newborn lambs to breathe by removing the mucus from their nostrils with the tongue. In the first weeks of the exhibition period, there will also be a live workshop where you can have a chat with the artist

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.