PETER KRUSE LARSEN – 29.August – 18. October 2026

Peter Kruse Larsen - Landscapes and other works

Exhibition in the Station Building

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

In this exhibition, Peter Kruse Larsen takes his starting point in the station building’s unique atmosphere of intensity and local history. From here, he reaches out towards the spirit of a more recent era. The works are created on and from unconventional materials – often old hardboard panels found at recycling centres. The paintings are complemented by objects and artefacts of symbolic significance, which also relate to the building and its history.

Opening reception with free admission on Saturday 29 August, 2–4 pm
The exhibition is open Thursday–Sunday, 11 am–4 pm, through 18 October 2026.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Peter Kruse Larsen, born in 1962, graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied from 1985 to 1992. Since 2019, he has been based on Bornholm.

Peter Kruse Larsen describes his approach to art:
“My work with visual art takes its starting point in the surrounding reality, with landscapes and still lifes, which I also worked with when I received instruction at the Glyptotek during my youth. In addition, I work with objects, sculptural projects and installations, which are often site-specific in nature.

At the Academy of Fine Arts, the entire concept of art underwent a radical change. Painting and art as they had traditionally been understood were in crisis. Minimalism, which I encountered at the Academy, opened up a more concrete and less intellectual path for me, leading me to experiments with and studies of alchemy. This so-called occult science contains a key to a relationship with reality that connects inner and outer reality – the personal with creation itself. My work therefore incorporates psychological and philosophical considerations as well as scientific and religious reflections.”

“In 2019, I bought part of the village school in Poulsker with the idea of moving to Bornholm and taking up landscape painting again, while developing it further. This was part of a search for the core of the relationship between our experience of the world and the world itself.

In recent years, journeys to the Faroe Islands have expanded my range of subjects.

The magnificent nature of the Faroe Islands has an irresistible appeal as a subject for my work. Here there is a unique opportunity to approach the source of experience through a confrontation with the nature of the elements and the experience of them, allowing the themes to meet around the subjective and immediate and the objective – something I have immersed myself in during recent years.

It is the immediacy of the experience that I want to portray. Those moments when the distance between the outer and inner disappears, and the nature of our surroundings finds a connection with human experience and our understanding of it. The paintings are therefore painted on site, directly in front of the subject.”
Link to the artist’s website

RESONANCE – 29. August – 18. October 2026

RESONANCE

From Past to Present


ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

What happens when objects from the past meet contemporary craft?

The exhibition takes its starting point in the collection of Gudhjem Museum. Each object contains traces of its time – of its function, materials, craftsmanship and the people who used or made it. Although they belong to the past, they remain active as carriers of knowledge and experience.

A selection of members of the Arts & Crafts Association Bornholm have worked with these objects as starting points for new works. They have explored forms, techniques and stories, allowing themselves to be inspired to create something new. The result is not copies, but interpretations in which expressions from the past re-emerge in a contemporary context.

The concept of resonance can be used to describe this connection. Just as one tone can set another into vibration, an object from the past can create movement in the present. A dialogue arises in which the old and the new influence one another.

Resonance emerges through encounters – between times, materials and people.

The exhibition has received support from Bornholms Brand.

 

PARTICIPATING CRAFT ARTISTS


24 craft artists are taking part in the exhibition. Ceramicists and artists working with glass, textiles and jewellery have gone on a “treasure hunt” and each selected an object from the museum collection to inspire and reinterpret.

Ann Charlott Skogøy, textile
Ann Charlotte Ohlsson, ceramics
Anne Frandsen, ceramics
Bettina Drejer Preisler Hansen, jewellery
Christina Schou Christensen, ceramics
Evelyn Noval, other
Gitte Helle, other
Heidi Hentze, ceramics
Jannie Bramsen, textile
John Gibson, ceramics
Linea Drescher, ceramics
Maja Frendrup, ceramics
Maria Munk Klarup, ceramics
May Bjørn Riis, glass
Nynne Rosenkrantz, ceramics
Pernille Vestergaard, textile
Rikke Lehrskov, jewellery
Rikke Wulff, ceramics
Sara Jeffries, ceramics
Simon Lund Koefoed, ceramics
Stine Godt, textile
Timmi Kromann, textile
Tobias Sode/Lene Dahl Jacobsen, glass

Opening reception with free admission on Saturday 29 August, 2–4 pm.

The exhibition is open Thursday–Sunday, 11 am–4 pm, through 18 October 2026.

The exhibition has been organised in collaboration with ACAB and is part of Bornholm’s Craft and Culture Weeks 2026.

As part of Craft Weeks, a special event with a guided tour and conversation will take place on 6 September at 4 pm.
This event is reserved for guests with a Culture Weeks wristband.

Price: Regular museum admission.

THE STATION AND THE GUDHJEM RAILWAY – permanent exhibition

THE STATION AND THE GUDHJEM RAILWAY

Gudhjem Museum’s permanent local history exhibition

When you arrive at the museum, you are greeted by the sight of the old locomotive entering the station. A very small section of the original railway track has been reconstructed where the tracks originally ran.

The entire old station building has been preserved, including the luggage room, vestibule and waiting room.

The former luggage room houses a permanent exhibition telling the story of the old railway through text and photographs, together with a selection of objects from the time when the station was still in operation.

In the waiting room, a fascinating new film, “På Sporet af Sporet”, shows the route along which the railway once ran. In the film, Bent Boesen shares many amusing and interesting anecdotes about the creation of the railway, its buildings – both stations and halts – and events connected with its operation.

Make yourself comfortable in the waiting room’s original furniture and enjoy the film.

Opening periods 2026
28 March – 3 May
9 May – 5 July
11 July – 23 August
29 August – 18 October

EXHIBITION DETAILS

In the centre of the room stands a precisely crafted model of locomotive no. 21. The model has kindly been loaned by Pauli Larsen and has been meticulously made down to the smallest detail.

The fine old ticket window, where tickets for the train were once purchased, is still preserved.

This is where passengers handed in their luggage and goods to be transported by train.

This is where passengers handed in their luggage and goods to be transported by train.

The old telephone of the stationmaster still hangs on the wall.

The ash-wood swing door between the small vestibule and the waiting room helps to retain the warmth in the waiting room. The leaded-glass windows are protected at the bottom by an iron grille. The architects Fisker and Rafn, who designed the station building, also designed the interior fittings – here are some of the original chairs.

This is where the film about the station and the railway is shown, in the waiting room.

The bench shown in the picture was known as the “Siddelsen”.

It is described as follows: “The Siddelsen in the waiting room is a cosy corner where the fate of many Gudhjem residents seems to have been sealed, although it was not a public meeting place for young people. Nevertheless, many spent many hours here waiting in comfort and good company.”

Also note that the ceiling above the Siddelsen is lowered.

“Old cast-iron plates from kitchen ranges have been used as the doors in front of the tiled stove.
(A great many of these are currently being lost due to the high price of iron in the melting furnaces, resulting in the loss of works of considerable artistic value.)” the architects wrote.
The tiled stove was later replaced by a fireplace insert.

OLUF HØST SKETCH COLLECTION – PERMANENT EXHIBITION

OLUF HØST SKETCH COLLECTION – PERMANENT EXHIBITION

The museum’s extensive collection of sketches by Oluf Høst has all been digitised and is now presented on a screen.

A separate room has been created where you can sit in peace and quiet and watch the sketches pass across the screen. A selection of the original sketches is displayed on the walls. The room is furnished with the old tables, chairs and bench that were originally designed and made for Gudhjem Station.

The room also serves as a book café, where you can browse the museum’s collection of books as well as the publications available for purchase at the museum, before deciding whether to buy.

Opening periods 2026

28 March – 3 May
9 May – 5 July
11 July – 23 August
29 August – 18 October