Museum blown over: The designer cried over the exhibition
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Thursday, October 09, 2025 • 1:09 PM UTC - in Denmark
Museum blown over: Designer cries over exhibition
Amateur knitters from all over the country have knitted for a new exhibition at Arken.
A sample of the hung sweaters, where the instructions are open to free interpretation. (Photo: © Klara Kaye Søborg, DR) 16 minutes ago
Today, the exhibition 'Arken X Lærke Bagger' opens at the museum Arken in Ishøj.
The exhibition is a collaboration between the museum and knitwear designer Lærke Bagger. They have asked Danes to interpret Lærke Bagger's design 'Inner Child' in their own personal way. This has resulted in a total of 1,350 homemade sweaters that now hang in the museum's ceiling.
The response has been overwhelming, says museum director Marie Nipper.
- We had hoped for a few hundred sweaters, Marie Nipper tells, who received the first homemade sweater just an hour after they shared the call for submissions.
The exhibition also made an impression on Lærke Bagger when she walked into the colorful sweater sea.
- When I saw it for the first time, I actually started crying, because I was so touched by it.
"Knit is also a voice", it says on one of the sweaters hanging from the ceiling. (Photo: © Klara Kaye Søborg, DR)
The 'Inner Child' design is developed by Lærke Bagger, and the concept is that one should follow one's intuition when knitting, rather than following a fixed pattern. And one may knit in yarn scraps in various colors and structures.
Each sweater bears a label with the knitter's name and hometown, and some have submitted more than one sweater for the exhibition. For example, a productive knitter called from Skive on her way to the museum with six sweaters in the trunk, Marie Nipper tells.
- You could hear the panic in her voice
The exhibition can be experienced until January 4th.
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