Since the Museum of Contemporary Art opened in 1991, the employees have been working intensely towards finding the answer to the question: “What is happening in art?” well aware that art has become a borderless area, within which new forms of expression always appear, which occasionally develop in the slipstream of new scientific advances.
Similar to the black box on planes, the museum in the yellow mansion in Roskilde, was given a black box filled with various things when it opened. In the heart-shaped box is a description of the museum’s aims, which have a very human ring to them, among the advanced technology. The museum’s vision is to be a bearer of culture. It wants to nourish concepts like recollection and identification by mean of Danish as well as foreign works of art and to contribute in increasing sensitiveness and acknowledgement. Thus the museum does not only wish to be an eye-opener. It addresses the visitor’s ears and what is between them, and being interested in movement, it also addresses the visitor’s body. The rapid development within electronic data processing and the audio-visual media is reflected in recent art, and the museum sees itself as a trial scene for installation art, sound art, video art, performance, net art, film art and literary fusions including sounds and pictures.
Read more about the museum, here.