Plaster Shoots: Jenkin van Zyl at ARoS
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Jenkin van Zyl’s riotous new film-installation opened the new Salling Gallery at ARoS with a night of baroque piano and theatrical chaos. Jenkin captured the scene himself for us for the latest Plaster Shoots…
Jenkin Van Zyl at the opening of his solo exhibition ‘Lost Property’ at ARoS, Denmark
Much of the cast and crew of ‘Lost Property‘ descended upon Aarhus for the opening of Jenkin van Zyl’s major new film and installation at ARoS Museum ) marking the inaugural exhibition in the Salling Gallery, the museum’s new subterranean space for annual contemporary commissions. The night began with Barbs tickling the ivories above the crowd, followed by an abomination of Aperol Spritzes, a one-hour queue snaking through the museum to enter the installation, and DJ sets and performances that gave way to the last survivors sweating their greasepaint off in the aggressive fog machines of G-bar until morning.
Theodore Pantelopoulos
Theodore Pantelopoulos, Robert Cooper, Liv Preston and Sam Keelan
Agnieszka Szczotka
Sam Keelan, Barbs and Liv Preston
Jenkin van Zyl and Isabella Maidment
Barbs’ shoes
Robert Cooper, Kevin Brennan, Alex Margo Arden, Theodore Pantelopoulos and Samuel Keelan
Barbs (pic by Mads Smidstrup)
Barbs and Alex Margo Arden
Isabella Maidment and Jaya Twill
Barbs
The crowd at the opening of Jenkin van Zyl's exhibition 'Lost Property'
Alex Margo Arden
Left: Barbs and Amelia Webb. Right: Theodore Pantelopoulos and Amelia Webb
Ellen Drude Skeel Langvold, Signe Ullerup, Jenkin van Zyl, Alex Margo Arden, Liv Preston, Katrine Amtoft Bak, Barbs, Isabella Maidment, Agnieszka Szczotka, Sam Keelan, Robert Cooper, Kevin Brennan, Eugenia Shishkina, Amelia Webb
'Lost Property', Jenkin van Zyl, is on view at ARoS until 6th April 2026.
