This year’s exhibition takes its cue from contemporary crises and shows how 38 artists work in and around this context with an insistent and different seriousness. All walls in the Free Exhibition Building are painted black, while Grønningen FOCUS, the curated addition to the permanent exhibition, lights up the building’s exterior. Two approaches that create a framework for art in a time when it must find its way in and out of the darkness.

The artists’ association Grønningen was founded in 1915 and, with its more than 40 members, is among the largest in the country. Grønningen exhibits at Den Frie every other year, and on December 6 we open the doors for Grønningen 2025, which — in addition to occupying all the exhibition halls — also presents FOCUS, consisting this year of seven curated light works on Den Frie’s forecourt and façade.

Poul Agger, Merete Barker, Kaspar Bonnén, Morten Buch, Peter Linde Busk, Ruth Campau, Adam Christensen (guest), Eva Steen Christensen, Viera Collaro, Anette Harboe Flensburg, Leonard Forslund, Erik A. Frandsen, Mads Gamdrup, Gun Gordillo (guest), Hjördis Haack, Nicolai Howalt, Kristofer Hultenberg,
Poul Janus Ipsen, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen (guest), Astrid Kruse Jensen, Kirsten Justesen, Anita Jørgensen, Eske Kath, Melanie Kitti (guest), Esben Weile Kjær (guest), Eva Koch, Malene Landgreen, Karin Lorentzen, Lise Malinovsky, Søren Martinsen, Ragnhild May (guest), Ib Monrad, Michael Mørk, Mie Mørkeberg, Tina Maria Nielsen, Hans Pauli Olsen, Allan Otte, Bjørn Poulsen, Tora Schultz (guest), Trine Søndergaard, Arne Haugen Sørensen, Elisabeth Toubro, Kathrine Ærtebjerg