Asger Jorn

In recent decades, Asger Jorns art and thinking has generated renewed and growing interest in Denmark and abroad, and his central role within European post-war art is becoming firmly established. The centenary of Jorn’s birth on 3 March 2014 is the occasion prompting the SMK and Museum Jorn in Silkeborg to commemorate the artist by presenting two major exhibitions and two books. For both museums, the intentions reach much further than simply to celebrate Jorn as a major figure in Danish art and culture. The objective is to appraise his art in a nuanced manner, based on the most recent art historical research, and to create a solid basis for reassessing his importance as a major figure within 20th century art history. 
This exhibition and book project presents the diversity of Jorn’s work as a distinctive feature of the overall whole. The objective is to provide an image of Jorn’s art in all its complexity by specifically focusing on his multi-faceted approach, which combines humorous and expressive paintings with philosophical and political texts, material experiments with avant-garde strategies, and artistic insight with a social outlook.   
Asger Jorn – Restless Rebel focuses on the life and work by Asger Jorn and offers new perspectives on the artist by leading Danish and international Jorn experts.