With this summer’s special exhibition ‘CONNECTED: Art.Nature.Sorø.’, we complete the exhibition trilogy ‘Nature Talks’ with a special focus on contemporary artists’ view of nature in and around Sorø.

Several artists from the two previous exhibitions ‘Nature Talks’ (2021) and ‘Back to the roots’ (2022) return to the museum together with three local artists, who are all invited into a dialogue with nature in Sorø. They focus on nature’s underlying communications systems, the longing for cohesion and the role of climate change in their studies of nature.

Through works by eleven Danish artists, we explore the relationship between nature, communication and art. Can art expand our understanding and experience of nature? What meanings and ideas are attached to the local nature? And what happens in the meeting between contemporary art and nature in Sorø?

Look forward to discovering works inside and outside the museum’s walls. Some of the artists produce completely new works for the exhibition, while others contribute existing works. Works will be shown all around Sorø – both in the city and in the forest.

The participating artists: Amitai Romm, Andreas Rasmussen, Anna Bak, Dan Stockholm, Laurits Malthe Gulløv, Lisbeth Bank, Pernille Bøggild, Regitze Engelsborg Karlsen, René Schmidt, Sonja Strange and Silas Inoue.

Opening event: Thursday 15 June at 5-6:30 pm.

Note that the water tower at Sorø Station with Sonja Strange’s work ‘Wake-up (song)’ is open on the following days:

Thursday 15 June at 15:30-16:30
Saturday 17 June at 16:30-17:30
Thursday 22 June at 16:30-17:30
Thursday 29 June at 16:30-17:30

Thursday 6 July at 16:30-17:30
Wednesday 26 July at 16:30-17:30

Thursday 17 August at 16:30-17:30
Thursday 14 September at 16:30-17:30

We continuously update the program for events and lectures connected to the exhibition. Read more in our public program

The exhibition trilogy ‘Nature Talks’ is supported by the Obel Family Foundation. This current exhibition is supported by the 15. Juni Foundation, Statens Kunstfond, Knud Højgaard Foundation and the Trelleborg Foundation – in collaboration with Sydbank. Thanks to Stiftelsen Sorø Akademi, DSB, Sorø Museum and Havehistorisk Forening in Sorø for making it possible for the exhibition to unfold in Sorø’s local nature and surroundings.

Photo above: Regitze Engelsborg Karlsen ‘Draws the time out, blows the dust out’ (2023).

Photos below: A map of all the artworks outside the museum as well as a small selection of works by Laurits Malthe Gulløv, Amitai Romm, Regitze Engelsborg Karlsen, Pernille Bøggild and Sonja Strange.