of art production as this human skull adorned with 8,601 diamonds cost £15 million to manufacture and was labelled with a stiff price of £50 million Selected collection highlights Exhibitions Arken highlights temporary annual exhibitions, wielding as thematic or artist-specific in nature to "safeguard Denmark's cultural heritage." There are on-going displays from 1996 to present, with a few notable and renowned works presented from the museum's portfolio. UTOPIA Project A research-based series of exhibition that was held in 2008–2011 at Arken Museum of Modern Art, encompasses works of "A Chinese railroad, a floor and wall painting and a corridor full of fog". Throughout the years, each exhibition presented notable international artists, exploring the notions of "the good life" in large-scale installations. The exhibition consisted of two parts: Utopia Revisted and Utopian Positions, incorporating solo shows by Qiu Anxiong, Katharina Grosse, and Olafur Eliasson to showcase "the reformulations of utopia in contemporary art." Grosse stages the museum space as an intermediate state between physical, phenomenological reality and an imaginary, as yet unformulated ‘elsewhere’ that opens up in the painting installation’s brilliantly coloured clouds. India: Art Now Held from the period 18 August 2012 to 13 January 2013, this exhibition was the biggest in Arken's history. It showcased Indian installation art by 13 artists and artist groups with the themes of the exhibition being "The Urban Space", "Identity and Everyday Life" and "Self-articulation." The museum displayed large-scale installation of saris, artistic replications of street vendors and high-tech shadow plays. Van Gogh An exhibition held on 1 September 2018, holding 39 works curated by infamous artist Vincent van Gogh. It was the first exhibition in over fifty years dedicated to van Gogh's paintings and drawing in Denmark. The exhibition was in collaboration with Kröller-Müller Museum, exclusively focusing on humanity, religion and nature as thematic retrospect on Van Gogh's art. Young Danish Art: Forecasting the Future An exhibition from 17 August 2019- 15 March 2020 applying an array of sculptures, installations, animated films and structures, featuring political and cultural changes in contemporary art. The exhibition presents overarching themes of "work culture, belonging and climate crisis." See also Køge Bugt Strandpark References External links Official ARKEN Museum of Modern Art website — including ARKEN information in English Literature "Arken - Museum of Modern Art at Ishøj, Denmark" / Henrik Sten Møller. - in Living architecture, 1997, no. 15, pp. 116–133. "The Arken Art Museum extension".