Ojih Odutola, Toyin

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Holstebro Kunstmuseum is the only museum in Denmark to illuminate through its collection the links between Danish and international art, and art by non-European peoples and civilizations. As an update to this global aesthetic collection track – here with specific reference to Poul Holm-Olsen’s extensive African collection at the museum – Holstebro Kunstmuseum has in 2023 acquired this central work by the significant Nigerian-born visual artist Toyin Ojih Odutola, which deals with the division between African traditions and the modern conditions of life.

The acquisition is thus related to works by other cross-cultural artists in the collection, including Martin Erik Andersen and Emil Westman Hertz. As a whole, the museum’s collection thereby comprises a meeting place for different eras, continents and forms of expression, where we can experience a universal, common human will to interpret and artistically process our surroundings and the human body in accordance with our own cultural traditions and visions for new departures.