Anna Boghiguian's First Nordic Solo Exhibition at ARoS

Anna Boghiguian will present her first solo exhibition in the Nordic region, 'The Sunken Boat', opening at ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum on 22 November 2025. The exhibition explores global maritime history, rising sea levels, and the climate crisis through four immersive installations created between 2015 and 2025: 'The Salt Traders' (2015), 'Conversation with Clarice Lispector around ‘The Passion According to G.H.’' (2019), 'The Chess Game' (2022), and 'The Sunken Boat: A Glimpse into Past Histories' (2025), the latter created for Turner Contemporary. Also featured is 'To the Lighthouse' (2019), a series of 23 acrylic paintings on metal inspired by Virginia Woolf's 1927 novel. Central work 'The Chess Game' is an 8 x 8 metre installation with 24 life-sized hand-painted figures of historical figures including Marie Antoinette, Franz Ferdinand, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Sigmund Freud, and Rudolf Steiner. 'The Sunken Boat: A Glimpse into Past Histories' includes a papier-mâché diver sculpture above a sand mound, glass shells, underwater swimmer sculptures, painted fish cut-outs, and a soundscape of sea recordings from Alexandria, Egypt; Margate, England; and Aarhus, Denmark. Boghiguian has also painted a mural directly on the gallery wall. Museum Director Rebecca Matthews describes the exhibition as a poetic stream of images addressing migration, power, and human change.