Meet the Danes
In 2023 it will be 75 years since the revolutionary Cobra movement was founded in Paris. The Cobra Museum of Modern Art in Amstelveen is celebrating this jubilee year with a smashing exhibition program with many international loans. The jubilee year of the Cobra movement starts with a triptych of Danish modern art. Three wonderful exhibitions bring together more than 200 works from Denmark.
Meet the Danes
We kiss the earth
Danish Modern Art 1934-1948
The Danish artists who started Cobra in 1948 greatly influenced the much younger Dutch and Belgian Cobra members. The focus is on developments in Danish modern art from the 1930s and 1940s, with important themes such as sexual freedom, politics, provocation, experimentation and spontaneity, which would later greatly influence Cobra. For the first time outside Denmark, this exhibition presents a significant overview of masterpieces of some 100 works by more than 25 artists.
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You are un autre
Ernest Mancoba & Sonja Ferlov Mancoba
Special attention is paid to the oeuvre of the interracial artist couple Sonja Ferlov (Denmark) and Ernest Mancoba (South Africa). Both were involved in creating the Cobra movement in Denmark, albeit on the sidelines. They each had their own international artistic practice. In 2019 Center Pompidou presented two large retrospectives of their oeuvre; a selection can be seen in Amstelveen.
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Becoming Ovartaci
Ovartaci's intriguing work forms the last part of the triptych. Born Louis Marcussen, Ovartaci spent most of her life in a psychiatric hospital and was admired by Danish Cobra members. The exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculptures is an ode to the imagination and inspiration of this Danish artist, who died in 1985 at 91. Ovartaci was the discovery of the Venice Biennale in 2022.
| Thursday 30 March | 10:00 |
| Friday 31 March | 10:00 |