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).
 

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".

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. 

IMAGINATURE - SENSORY EXHIBITION

Families and playful children of all ages can now again look forward to a sensory exhibition in our large halls. IMAGINATURE 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 Imaginature will be a workshop in the panorama hall, where all guests can get their hands on the creative expression all summer. Read more here

NATURA SPIRITUALIS

Total installation in the entire ground floor of the Art Center, created by:
video and performance artist Noelia Mora Solvez
designer and visual artist Jeppe Worning
sound artist Johannes Smed

In Natura Spiritualis, the forest and spaces of Silkeborg Bad are the great source of inspiration. So here it is about magnificent spaces, mysterious nooks, large fallen trees with roots sticking up and pointing to the sky.
How are the strange creatures doing here in Silkeborg in the fall of 2025? How are we humans doing? How is nature doing?
The artists' goal is, within the Art Center, to create a simultaneously bizarre and alluring universe that seems to have grown naturally and organically without human intervention. The universe is created as a site-specific total installation that embraces the spaces, the soundscape and us as beings. Upon closer inspection, this universe is deeply connected to and perhaps completely controlled by man-made technology. We will experience this particularly clearly when we encounter the small video-projected insect-like figures composed of human body parts.
Read more here

NATURE'S EYE

Karin Lykke

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. Read more here