Be confronted by the eccentric and provocative body as ARoS puts the spotlight on punk's creative revolution with the exhibition Unruly – The body in punk.

(KulturInformation, Lars Svanholm)

An excellent exhibition on the relevance of punk aesthetics today.

(Julian Weber, taz)

Featuring around 130 works, the exhibition traces punk’s origins in 1970's London and shows how the movement spread and changed – with a special focus on Berlin's subcultures. Pain, wildness, imagination. Energy, boldness, defiance. Punks used the body as a form of resistance against discipline and societal norms imposed by a world they saw as already collapsing. In punk, bodily expression was political.

Discover works by Derek Jarman (1942–1994), Linder (b. 1954), Nina Sten-Knudsen (b. 1957), Cornelia Schleime (b. 1953), Die Tödliche Doris (active 1980–1987) and Ajamu X (b. 1963), among others – most of which have never been shown in Scandinavia.

Unruly is the result of a post-doctoral research project in collaboration between ARoS and Aarhus University and is curated by external curator and post-doc researcher Marie Arleth Skov. The three-year research project is supported by Ny Carlsbergfondet.