Funen Spring

12 Oct 2019 - 05 Jan 2020

The exhibition celebrates the 90th anniversary of the Funen Spring Exhibition. In most places, the artists' associations have long since dissolved, but not on Funen. Here, the cohesiveness thrives, and the current 17 members show what is moving right now. In the retrospective part of the exhibition, works by 17 now deceased members has been selected. Some have participated from the beginning and all are part of the association's 90-year history. The initiators of the exhibition are Jens Bohr and Lars Abrahamsen.

The Funen Spring Exhibition started in 1929. The first many years, the group consisted exclusively of Funen painters - and of men (!), But none of that is a requirement anymore. Historically, the exhibition was based on the special Funen naturalism with Impressionist undertones, which the somewhat older 'Funen painters' stood for. Nature inspiration is still present today, but in a broader form, ranging from the naivist-narrative to the organic abstract or expressive to the geometrically-abstract.