At Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum, we welcome you to a art experience and a comprehensive museum programme.
The museum building is an aesthetic marvel with architecture and ceramic decorations by Carl-Henning Pedersen designed to embrace and display the world of art. Where architecture ends and art begins.
The heart of Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum is the unique collection of works by Carl-Henning Pedersen and his wife Else Alfelt, which Carl-Henning Pedersen donated to Herning City prior to the opening of the museum in 1976.
Visitors will always find something new to explore in the ever-changing exhibitions from both the museum’s own rich collection and works on loan by other artists that shed light on new aspects of Carl-Henning Pedersen’s and/or Else Alfelt’s oeuvres.
Else Alfelt
CoBrA‘s breakthrough came with the Internationale Expositie van Experimentele Kunst exhibition in Amsterdam in 1949.
Else Alfelt was an enthusiastic participant in the international cooperation of artists, which was driven by a desire for collective experimentation and spontaneous expression.
The artist Else Alfelt, depicted in the untamed nature surrounding the studio she shared with Carl-Henning Pedersen on the windswept North Sea coast of Jutland.
She is captured amidst the majestic landscape that serves as the very focal point of her art.
Standing there — on the dune, with the sky above her and an endless horizon stretching as far as the eye can see — we perceive the individual human as a tiny and almost unnoticeable piece in the vastness of the universe.
This exact concept preoccupies Alfelt and is ever-present in her work, which never places humanity at its center but instead focusses on the different tenors of nature, celestial bodies, and the universe.
As a child and young artist, Else Alfelt lives through both World War I and World War II. In a time of upheaval and uncertainty, nature and the universe become, to her, synonymous with something stable in a perpetually changing world.
The Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelt Museum opens a year after the couple’s initial meeting. The museum holds a special place in their hearts, and until 2003 they faithfully return every year to change the exhibitions.
When Carl-Henning Pedersen passes away in 2007 after 31 years of marriage to Sidsel Ramson, he is laid to rest in the Inner Angli Courtyard at the museum.
Sidsel Ramson passes away in 2024 and joins her husband after 17 years of separation when she is also laid to rest under the lawn surrounded by Carl-Henning Pedersen’s vast The Play of Imagination around the Wheel of Life.
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