There’s an unusually rich crop of standout shows right now. We’ve picked five current exhibitions—all awarded five hearts by Politiken’s art critics.

»Wonderful«: Here are the five best-reviewed exhibitions right now

On first look, Arvida Byström’s big, taut work at Horsens Art Museum could pass for a lingerie ad. Look a heartbeat longer, and you’ll realize something is very wrong. Foto: Jacob Friis-Holm Nielsen
On first look, Arvida Byström’s big, taut work at Horsens Art Museum could pass for a lingerie ad. Look a heartbeat longer, and you’ll realize something is very wrong. Foto: Jacob Friis-Holm Nielsen
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Thanks for one hell of an exhibition!

Hanging from the ceiling at Arken in Ishøj are knitted sausages and fabric-and-plastic blobs—» like beautiful tongues speaking a repetitive, wordless language,« writes our art critic Mathias Kryger about Kenneth Rasmussen’s exhibition ’For helvede mand (’For Hell’s Sake, Man’).

The artist Kenneth Rasmussen, who refers to himself as developmentally disabled, also delivers a solid rebuke to Trump and Putin in some of the many linocuts in the exhibition, which receives five hearts and the words »thanks to Arken and Kenneth Rasmussen for this fantastic exhibition, for heaven’s sake«.

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