At Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, we put questions to modern art. We feel the pulse of what is going on in the art world here and now, and make aesthetic experience the subject of debate. The museum''s collection of approx. 800 works includes Danish art produced from c. 1920 up to the present day, by names such as the Cobra painters, Richard Mortensen, Robert Jacobsen, Svend Wiig Hansen and Per Kirkeby, and by representatives of the latest trends in art, including Christian Lemmerz, Michael Kvium and Peter Bonde.
Following a thorough renovation project, the museum was reopened in 1997, and now features two novelties in the museum world: open storehouses and an aesthetics laboratory.
In the open storehouses, we have made the collection accessible to the public. Those paintings that are not on display in the permanent exhibition can be seen on forty pull-out walls. This allows visitors to create their own version of Esbjerg Kunstmuseum. Visitors can also experience the aroma installation Wittgenstein''s Garden by Skeel & Skriver, a work that challenges traditional notions of what art is all about.
In the aesthetics laboratory, groups can experiment with various aesthetic phenomena. By prior arrangement only.