‘Stories from Cold War Hotspots’ exhibition opened today at the Norwegian Aviation Museum in Bodø. The exhibition is the museum’s highlight contribution to ‘Bodø 2024-European Capital of Culture.’

You can stroll around the exhibition and listen to and watch interviews with young and old Europeans from Eastern and Western Europe who talk about the fear of nuclear war, the hope and joy when the Iron Curtain disappeared and the anxiety about the future. In the middle stands the museum’s nuclear rocket ‘Honest John’ as a physical reminder of what we have actually avoided.

Design partner and turnkey supplier: Kvorning 

The Royal Danish Theatre’s interactive, mobile attraction for kids introducing families, kids and teachers to classical performing arts. Arranged in three large, expressive containers ready to visit Frederiksværk, Denmark, on May 7-11.

Do you want to be an actor at The Old Stage, a ballet dancer, play the harp in the orchestra pit or sing an aria in the opera?

Kvorning won the task to further develop the Royal Danish Theatre and Henning Larsen Architects’ concepts, design the exhibitions and interactives, and finally produce and implement Postyrium’s adventurous world.

Congratulations to the Jekt Trade Museum, Bodø, Norway – winner of the ‘Museum of the Year’ 2024.

‘The aim of the prize is to recognise good museum work and to inspire museums to innovative activities of high quality.’

Congrats to the Hurtigruten Museum, Vesterålen, that was nominated, too.

Kvorning developed exhibition concept and design for the Jekt Trade Museum in Bodø and the Hurtigruten Museum in Stokmarknes. Thanks a lot, to the super dedicated museum teams for inspiring collaboration, to architects Rintala Eggertsson and Link Architecture, the Norwegian Museum Association and everyone involved.

The prize is administered by the Norwegian Museum Association.

Kvorning is partnering with European art museums and exhibition organizers for preparing a touring exhibition in the Nordic countries to present modernist Ukrainian artworks from first half of the 20th century, and at the same time to protect the unique art from the risks of the current Russian invasion that started on February 24, 2022.

Two years later … on February 22, 2024, ‘In the Eye of the Storm – Modernism in Ukraine’ organized by Belvedere, Vienna, with the Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in partnership with the National Art Museum of Ukraine, opened at the Belvedere, Vienna. Marking the fourth European venue following Madrid at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Autumn 2022), Cologne and Brussels. Kvorning participated in the event in Vienna Thursday evening.

As the first presentation outside Ukraine to explore the development of modern art in Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, and other cultural hubs 1900-1930. The comprehensive exhibition covers a period of incredibly rapid, turbulent, and traumatic development in Ukrainian art amidst significant historical transformations, including the collapse of the Russian Empire, several revolutions, the establishment and brief period of Ukrainian independence, and the establishment of Soviet authority in Ukraine. The significant rise of various movements among visual artists in the early 20th century is closely linked to the rise of Ukrainian national consciousness and processes of cultural nationalization dating back to the second half of the 19th century. The exhibition showcases a wide range of works from national romanticism to constructivist avant-garde. Many works in the exhibition represent collections from Ukrainian national museums. This became possible through the immense efforts of organizers collaborating with museums in Ukraine amidst ongoing warfare.

Works by Mykhailo Boichuk, Vasyl Yermilov, Oleksandr Bohomazov, and Kazymyr Malevych.

Curated by Konstantin Akinsha and Katia Denysova together with Maryna Drobotiuk and Olena Kashuba-Volvach (both from the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv). Assistant Curator: Miroslav Hal’ák (Belvedere).

The exhibition will be on display at the Lower Belvedere until 2 June 2024.

Kick-off at Snæfellsjökull, Iceland, together with our good partners from YOKE and Verkstæðið ehf.

Looking forward to developing and realizing this exciting experience together with all at Snæfellsjökull National Park Center, Ríkiskaup and Umhverfisstofnun.

The Danish/Icelandic team Kvorning Design, Yoke, and Verkstæðið has won the competition for a new, permanent exhibition at the Snæfellsjökull National Park Center in Iceland. The two-phase design competition saw three pre-qualifying teams submitting final bids for the design, production, and installation of the permanent exhibition.

A guided tour, narrated by the legendary figure Bárður Snæfellsás—half human, half troll—delves into the worlds of humanity, nature, and mystery surrounding Snæfellsjökull glacier. The concept has been carefully designed to engage local, national, and international visitors alike.

Iceland Design and Architecture provided consulting services for the competition, while Ríkiskaup was responsible for implementation.

The exhibition is set to open in the summer of 2024.

Finally! – We brought home the German Design Award Gold 2024 for Excellent Architecture!

Salmon Eye is an aquaculture experience center floating in Norway’s Hardangerfjord, focused on sustainable sea farming. A warm thank you to Eide Fjordbruk, Salmon Eye, Restaurant Iris and German Design Council.

The German Design Award Show 2024, Kap Europa, Frankfurt, Germany, January 26, 2024.

Architectural concept and design: Kvorning 

Kvorning Design is the creative force behind the captivating exhibition at Classic Car House in Kongens Lyngby, set to open on August 19, 2023. This remarkable museum boasts a unique range of interactive and immersive features—blending innovative analog, mechanical, and digital displays with captivating films, lights, and sounds—and of course a stunning collection of fantastic cars! Classic Car House welcomes enthusiasts of beautiful classic cars, historical and contemporary architecture, and picturesque park settings to explore its expansive 25,000 sqm space.

Kvorning Design’s role as exhibition designer for the K.W. Bruun Group encompasses concept development, master planning of the exhibition zones, all design phases, as well as full production and installation—a seamless journey from idea to fully realized turnkey exhibitions.

Revitalizing the former Agricultural Museum and Virumgård, Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects, alongside landscape architect Julie Kierkegaard, have thoughtfully renovated and integrated fresh architecture that pays homage to the site’s heritage, offering a range of experiences from exhibitions and showrooms to a car hotel, restaurant, and event venue.

We are thrilled to announce that Kvorning Design together with LPO architects as consortium lead have won the competition to develop the feasibility study and pre-concept for the transformation and total refurbishment of the former Mesterfjellet school in Larvik, Norway. Marini Consulting, Seim & Hultgreen, Sweco, Multiconsult, Norconsult, Ingenia and Ljossatt round out the rest of the team.

MESTERVERKET will feature new facilities for Larvik Museum, Frivilligheten, Friskliv og Mestring, as well as spaces for meetings, seminars, and various other activities. The project will be established in the former Mesterfjellet school building.

This endeavor is closely connected to the AKANTUS initiative, which aims to highlight Larvik’s historical significance as a national attraction, as a catalyst for urban development, and as an arena for collaboration. Kvorning Design is a key member of the winning team tasked with simultaneously developing both projects.

Øyvind Beyer, Project Developer for Larvik Municipality’s Property and Technical Operations, commented,

“The team was chosen as the competition winner due to their ability to assemble the strongest members with the greatest expertise. Their reference projects were the most relevant, and their approach to the task was the best. We are delighted that the work is already well underway, and we look forward to further collaboration.”

Our World Heritage, a new, interactive exhibition showcasing World Heritage, developed for World Heritage Norway, was inaugurated at the Vega World Heritage Center in Nordland, Norway, on April 24th, 2023.

Norway’s Minister of Climate and the Environment, Espen Barth Eide (Ap), presided over the inauguration. Among the speakers were Director of Norway’s Directorate for Cultural Heritage Hanna Geiran, Director of World Heritage Norway Liv Astrid Sverdrup, and Manager and World Heritage Coordinator for the Vega World Heritage Center Rita Johansen.

Off the Helgeland coast, the tradition of collecting down from eider ducks, which nest here every spring, is maintained.

Our World Heritage introduces visitors to Norway’s eight World Heritage sites and is also an introduction to the world’s most important natural and cultural areas.

Kvorning Design is responsible for the exhibition’s concept and design, developed in collaboration with Creative Technology (Norway) and Gagarin (Iceland).

Our World Heritage will also open at the World Heritage Rock Art Centre – Alta Museum, and the Norwegian Fjord Centre in Geiranger in 2023.

UNESCO’s 1972 World Heritage Convention protects natural and cultural heritage sites indispensable to the global community.

Eighty years to the day after Norwegian soldiers from Linge Company sabotaged heavy water production at Vemork, Rjukan, Norway, the Norwegian Industrial Workers’ Museum (NIA) opens an extensive exhibition designed and realized by a creative team led by Kvorning Design on the site where the dangerous Operation Gunnerside was executed in February 1943.

“The exhibition and its mode of presentation have been established it the original historic setting. It is unique. All combined with a fetching architectonic solution, a new building that houses remains of the cellar as well as a total solution offering the public a broad spectrum of informative possibilities. The Heavy Water Cellar has been transformed into a dramatic staging of events for the visiting public, on the site where it happened. The operation and its main characters are brought to life with light, sound, animation, film and physical scenography. It also offers an opportunity for contemplation as well as educating generations to come. What’s more, we have created new attractive facilities for conferences, meetings and social events in the future. It has been an exciting, devoted and creative collaboration with NIA, Gagarin and our other partners,”  says Arne Kvorning of Kvorning Design.

Memorial Ceremony and Exhibition Opening took place at Vemork, Rjukan, Norway on 28 February 2023.

What is an electricity network company? What challenges do its employees solve?

2This is what N1, Jutland’s largest electricity network firm and a part of Norlys, has set out to tell in unique, surprising, and involving ways.

Together with Kvorning Design, N1 has transformed its high-ceilinged foyer in Esbjerg, Denmark, into a discourse and experience zone for guests and employees. In this interstitial area, you can learn more about N1’s history, field of business, values, career opportunities, and more.

Norlys Workplace Design Specialist Pernille Søndergaard, says,

“We are particularly happy with a result that emphasizes the architecture; for example, banners that accent the ceiling height in a light and elegant way, and the organic shapes of the sofas that speak to the round design of the building.”

Kvorning Design has completed the assignment as a turnkey contractor.

The year 2022 marks 30 years of Kvorning Design on the international exhibitions stage.

Save the date: Friday, 19 August 2022 from 3pm to 8pm. Join us for a party that promises to kick off with a BANG in the courtyard next to our studio at Njalsgade 21E, Copenhagen S, Denmark.

All afternoon, no less than 3 live acts will thrill you with a wide range of exciting and exotic rhythms — from samba to rock’n’roll. And YOU are invited to join our mini festival. We’re looking forward to celebrating with you!

Participation requires registration, so mark your interest ASAP and RSVP no later than 15 August here.

Kvorning Design and partners, Icelandic Gagarin, and Creative Technology, Norway, have won two commissions from the Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum, NIA, to develop and realise the conceptual narrative for Tungtvannskjelleren, the heavy water room and research site where the world-changing Norwegian sabotage mission “Operation Gunnerside” took place.

Tungtvannskjelleren, located at the Vemork hydroelectric plant near Rjukan, Norway, is a historic national heritage site of Norwegian and international significance. When the “heavy water room” reopens, visitors will experience the story of the famous sabotage action that took place there in February 1943.

As the scene of perhaps the most important event in Norway’s war history, Tungtvannskjelleren is a key destination for history education and a monument to the Second World War. It is a place for learning and reflection, where innovative design must engage and captivate the audience to deliver a compelling history.

Opening: 18 June 2022 and 28 February 2023

Kvorning Design is contracting with Classic Car House to create turnkey exhibitions for the upcoming Classic Car House – a classic new universe for the senses, for which work is now underway in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. Taking the former Agricultural Museum and Virumgård as a focal point, and while still maintaining respect for the spirit of the site, Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects and landscape architect Julie Kierkegaard are currently in full swing renovating, expanding and building new square meters of exhibition space.

Classic Car House will have a total area of ​​around 25,000 square meters for experiences, exhibitions, a showroom, a car hotel, restaurant/bistro as well as concert and conference facilities. Based on the master plan for all exhibitions – both temporary and more permanent installations – our task now is to bring together the buildings and exhibition concepts to create immersive, spectacular experiences at a world-class level.

Classic Car House will be the destination of choice for anyone passionate about beautiful vintage cars, historic buildings and parks. Something to look forward to it!

Opening: May 2023 / Photo: Classic Car House

Kvorning Design and partners, SLA and Substrata, win two commissions from the Nidaros Cathedral’s Restoration Workshop, Norway. Both related to Trondheim’s world famous and almost a thousand years old Nidaros Cathedral and the Archbishop’s Palace.

Kvorning and partners will be developing a feasibility study and general space planning for the surrounding exteriors, courtyards and workshops – and furthermore creating a concept for the many permanent and temporary exhibitions in the Archbishop’s Palace including the Norwegian Royal Regalia. The aim is an updated storyline and new solutions for future use of both interiors and exteriors to ensure a much more active dialogue than today.

Meet Kvorning in London and Istanbul in May! Arne Kvorning and Gitte Olsson attend the M+H Show 2022 – Drop by Olympia London, stand G1, on the 12-13 May! Ivan Asseev, Kvorning Design, is keynote at Heritage Istanbul 2022 in Turkey on  the 13 May speaking about ‘Touching the Untouchables. World Heritage Sites Revitalisation: exhibition design, memorialization, inclusion and identities.’

Kvorning Design team wins commission for Tungtvannskjelleren museum at Vemork in Norway. The site of heavy water experiments during the Second World War.

NIA director Anna Hereid says:

‘In light of present day Europe, it is vital that we place great demands on the telling of Norwegian history. The concept tendered by Kvorning Design, Gagarin and Creative Technology was chosen for its comprehensive and innovative experience concept, which not only provides a range of spectacular, engaging and diverse modes of narration, but also makes the space an attractive arena for conferences or other gatherings.’

Kvorning Design and partners, Gagarin and Creative Technology, won the commission from the Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum, NIA, to develop and realise the conceptual narrative for Tungtvannskjelleren, the heavy water research site where the world-changing Norwegian sabotage action ‘Operation Gunnerside’ occurred.

Kvorning Design CEO Arne Kvorning says:

‘Tungtvannskjelleren has been a dream project for a number of years. I know the history very well and immediately invited myself for a visit once the cellar was accessible’.

Pre-realisation of H.C. Andersen Art Center project at Lerchenborg south of Kalundborg, Denmark, on the storyteller’s birthday, April 2.

The Krøderbanen line, Norway’s longest railway museum and one of Scandinavias largest museum railways, celebrates 150 years in 2022.

Kvorning Design creates concept for Loc 207, at the Krøderen Station on behalf of the Buskerud Museum in Hallingdal, Norway.

Bergen residents are to receive their very own Maritime Museum of the future. The place to meet, hang out and learn about themselves, each other and their own city together with family members spanning across different generations, while being present for and actively participating in a living debate put together by researchers, bloggers and Bergen locals.

The consortium of Kvorning Design (as lead partner), Gagarin and Creative Technology is responsible for the master plan for Bergen Maritime Museum 2.0, created for the Museum West Foundation in Bergen, Norway. The contract includes the development of an overall concept with visualisations, ideas and potential solutions for exhibitions (2500 m2) plus administration and forecourt, a new entrance and a new building in the museum’s inner courtyard. The project was won via competition

In November 1992, ‘Les Glaces Racontent – Frozen Archives’ put the story of Danish ice core research on the international agenda with a large-scale, European travel exhibition, which HRH Prince Joachim officially inaugurated at The House of Denmark; Denmark’s showcase situated on the Champs Elysées, Paris, France. A thrilling and interactive travelling story about the Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP), which was funded by the Danish Ministry of Education, and administered by the Danish Polar Center. We were responsible for exhibition design.

Ice cores from the Greenland ice sheet capture extensive information about past climate conditions. They tell us how the Earth’s temperature has changed over more than 100,000 years. Layers of rain and snow effectively store a thermometer. This reveals the temperature of the cloud from which the precipitation fell. A discovery we can thank geophysicist Willi Dansgaard (1922-2011) and his research team for. In July 1992, they made climate research history by hitting the bedrock at a depth of 3029 metres with the ice core drill, ISTUK.

KØNG is the conceptual title for the master plan and the frame narrative about Køng Factory, 1774-1924. The story of how society’s poorest wove the finest tablecloths for the Danish king’s table. KØNG contains the complete story, from flax flower to Køng Factory. Of how the Køng city developed and flourished.

Kvorning Design is responsible for the master plan and frame story about the New Køng Museum in Denmark with an interactive concept, which is based on the city, the flower, the textile production and the finished royal tablecloth. And not least the people behind it. Staged and brought to life as a total experience. The design has been created for Køng Museum’s Support Association, Denmark.

2022 marks 30 years of Kvorning Design on the international exhibitions stage.

Since 1992, architect and exhibition designer Arne Kvorning MAA MDD and his team have created magical settings and moments in over 50 countries worldwide. Covering every phase, from idea inception to delivery of turnkey installations. Concepts and exhibitions that combine storytelling, scenography, design and architecture. From a one-man band to one of the world’s top 10 most influential exhibition design companies.

Thank you, our wonderful clients, partners, and supporters for being an important part of our design journey so far, and we look forward to more exciting projects in the future.

Happy New Year!

See 30th anniversary animation here: 30 Years of International Exhibitions

Kvorning Design is launching a new, creative ­concept development forum, called MOMENT. Creative sparring from idea inception through to magical spaces and experiences. A platform for dialogue with museums, visitor ­centers, parks, and more in Denmark and abroad.

The Royal Danish Theatre’s new, interactive, mobile attraction for kids introducing families, kids and teachers to classical performing arts. Arranged in three large, expressive containers ready to tour all over Denmark the next years.

Do you want to be an actor at The Old Stage, a ballet dancer, play the harp in the orchestra pit or sing an aria in the opera? – Now you can try it all here…. and it’s free!

Kvorning Design won the task to further develop the Royal Danish Theatre and Henning Larsen Architects’ concepts, design the exhibitions and interactives, and finally produce and implement Postyrium’s adventurous world.

Photo: Camilla Winther

MuseumDesign on LinkedIn.com, a non-commercial networking group for museums, designers and companies specializing in museum design worldwide, is growing in popularity. Initiated in 2008 by Arne Kvorning, who is also its editor, the network surpassed 13,000 members on 21 September with the addition of new member Emma Dwan O’Reilly. She says –

“As an experiences and audiences professional experienced in working in the heritage and museum sector, working on interpretation and visitor experience development projects, and working across multi disciplinary teams to develop and deliver authentic and relevant audience experiences, I am delighted to have joined this community to network, be inspired and continue to learn. Hello all!”

Kvorning Design wins competition about brand and taglines for the new Hurtigruten Museum at Stokmarknes in Vesterålen, Norway.

Kvorning Design and Bright Norway revitalize Norway’s rich and proud coastal history with exhibition concept for the New Hurtigruten Museum at Stokmarknes in Vesterålen, Norway.

MS Finnmarken from 1956 – one of the world’s largest museum objects behind glass – stands as a monument to the lifeblood of transport along the Norwegian coast. Link arkitektur’s iconic building is a giant showcase on the harbour front, the birthplace of the Hurtigruten more than 100 years ago.

Norway’s Minister of Culture, Abid Raja, inaugurates the museum on August 28, 2021.

The exhibition is realised as turnkey and won in international competition.

A new H.C. Andersen Art Centre will be established in the former stables of the Lerchenborg Estate, Denmark, and be the framework for an internationally recognized art and culture experience centre in this historical setting.

The vision is to invite Danish and international artists to create art based on H.C. Andersen’s fairy tales and universe. Kvorning Design in collaboration with Elgaard Architecture recently presented the first sketches and thoughts on the physical framework and the architectural vision as well as the exhibition and experience concept at an inspiring gathering with contributions from a wide range of stakeholders.

Arne Kvorning, Director of Kvorning Design, says –
‘Like a modern stage setting with artists, works and audience as co-creators, the building and spaces will be equipped with technical and scenographic possibilities and solutions that transform the building into a world class art center. Solutions that create breathless beauty, surprising effects and especially a unique setting of H.C. Andersen’s famous fairytales interpreted by international top artists. Experiences for the heart and brain – the body, too – art and experiences in absolute world class.’

The H.C. Andersen Art Centre is an independent organisation run by Susanne Weihe who has worked on the art center project since 2015.

Photo: Malthe Zimakoff

Kvorning Design in co-operation with Light Bureau Norway win the competition to create experiences about Norwegian Red Cross’ humanitarian work in and around one of the white buses that brought Scandinavian prisoners home from the concentration camps by the end of WW2. The bus will be focal point for a new experience center for school classes and young people as well as visitors at the Norwegian Red Cross Head Offices in Oslo.

John Harald Bondevik, Senior Adviser at the Norwegian Red Cross, says –

“Our vision for the white bus is to help prevent history from repeating itself. We will make young people aware by sharing the story and what it led to. We will inspire to community involvement by showing what voluntary actors and individuals can achieve. The experience center will first and foremost provide an experience that opens the heart and brain to knowledge and competence. ”

Arne Kvorning, Director of Kvorning Design, says –

“We are proud to win this competition and create exciting and different experiences on behalf of the Norwegian Red Cross. It is unique to have the opportunity to work with one of the original white buses. It is also a great pleasure to work together with Light Bureau again. We expect a lot from that, too. ”

Kvorning Design wins permanent exhibition, Resources and Identity, in co-operation with Bright Norway and Gagarin, Iceland, for the World Heritage Center for Rock Art – Alta Museum, Norway. The exhibition will complement Alta Museum’s dissemination of Alta from the Stone Age to the present day.

The contract covers design, production and implementation of Resources and Identity. Kvorning Design also masterminded the exhibition, Traces in Stone, about Alta’s rock art inscribed into UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

The exhibition will share Alta’s unique history and present with a wide range of themes covering the period from the Stone Age to the present day. The exhibition will examine how Alta’s resources form the basis of human activity and identity. The overall theme being “Who are we who created and create Alta?”

Managing Director Jan S. Dølør, World Heritage Rock Art Centre – Alta Museum, says –
“We look forward to embarking on the process of completing this part of the basis exhibition together with the team from Kvorning Design, Bright Norway and Gagarin. An incredibly important work for us in 2021 and 2022. We are looking forward to presenting the new exhibition to both locals and visitors”.

Arne Kvorning, CEO, Kvorning Design, states –
“It is a great pleasure for Kvorning Design and our Nordic team to get the opportunity to continue the good collaboration with Alta Museum which we started when Kvorning Design won the exhibition Traces in Stone. Now we have teamed up with Bright Norway and Gagarin and will further develop the overall concept in close and creative co-operation with the museum team and management and produce the whole exhibition, too”.

Kvorning Design creates complete exhibition concept, Clues – postholes, DNA and other traces of prehistoric times, for Malmö Museer, Sweden. A permanent exhibition about the Malmö Region throughout 14,000 years. From the Old Stone Age to the early Middle Ages. Malmö Museer are responsible for production and implementation. The concept was won in invited competition.

Arne Kvorning graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts / School of Architecture / Institute of Visual Communication in Copenhagen on February 28, 1986. The big question then – rock’n’roll guitarist or exhibition designer? After following both tracks for years, he ended up as a guitar playing exhibition designer.

Kvorning Design will act as a turnkey contractor regarding the LIFE Campus Outdoor Learning Lab in Lyngby, Denmark, on behalf of the LIFE Foundation.

The project is based on an approved concept design and outdoor workshop session. Phase 1 includes arrival, learning shelters, arboretum, pometum, hill and inspiration folder about outdoor and indoor signage and wayfinding.

Consortium of Kvorning Design, Bright Norway, and Gagarin wins competition about Norwegian World Heritage basic exhibitions on behalf of The Directorate for Cultural Heritage, Norway. The contract includes exhibition content, design, production and installation at three world heritage sites so far. The Vega Archipelago, West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord and Alta Museum – World Heritage Center for Rock carvings.

Denmark rightly prides itself of being a design nation. Still, when talking about Danish designers media and fellows alike seem to concentrate on those few who also seem to cope with marketing and press releases. Contrary to these, Arne Kvorning who turns 60 on November 22, 2020, is certainly one thriving under the radar. It could be explained by his mild and modest personality but it’s also very much due to the fact that he excels in areas which most people neglect as design or perhaps don’t even notice. And yet for nearly 30 years, millions of people around the world have been able to appreciate Kvorning’s ability to create exhibitions in which design, story telling and the sense of space are effortlessly brought together into a whole that never shadows the topic they are vehicle for.

Born in Viborg, one of Denmark’s three ancient capitals, Kvorning graduated cum laude in 1986 from the School of Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, and soon established himself later with a number of touring exhibition concepts for the Danish Cultural Institute, which among many honours also brought him the first prize at the International Academy of Architecture in Sao Paulo in 2000. Since then he has developed Kvorning Design to become the most significant architectural practice of the Nordic region specialising in exhibition design, with more than 5000 projects on his curriculum. Commissions stem from more than 50 countries covering an impressive range of typologies from museums like London’s Imperial War Museum or educational institutions like The Blue Planet in Copenhagen’s suburbia, to complex intercultural communication on Unesco World Heritage at 14 different locations and blockbuster-themed presentations at world exhibitions in Shanghai and in Taipei. Many of these tasks originate from close collaboration with leading architects such as Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Dominique Perrault, Normann Foster, Snøhetta, BIG, 3XN and Henning Larsen which is another way to say that they regard Kvorning as a peer – knowing that his keen eye for their concepts and his details will always add that little extra which makes their building accessible and pleasant to visit.

Despite all achievements, Kvorning really hasn’t had the chance to show his prowess in music although he is in fact quite competent at shredding one of the six strings guitars in collection. Now that he’s reaching maturity, it’s perhaps time that someone gives him the opportunity to bridge his two passions so he can show spin a story of being part of The Wrecking Crew.

Eric Messerschmidt, Director, Danish Cultural Center, Beijing, China

Consortium Kvorning Design (lead partner), Icelandic Gagarin and Bright Norway win masterplan for the Bergen Maritime Museum 2.0, Norway.

The contract includes development of an overall concept with renders that visualize and describe ideas and possible solutions in a smart way.

Welcome to architect Derya Arpac; Exhibition Designer at Kvorning Design as per September 2020. Derya graduated from the School of Architecture /KADK and has worked with exhibitions in Denmark and abroad at Hay.

Kvorning Design and Bright Norway win international planning and design competition about the Norwegian Wild Salmon Centre in Lærdal, Sogn and Fjordane, Norway. An upgrade of the building and all exhibitions, new entrance, improved visitor flow and attractive resting areas both indoor and outdoor.

General Manager Alf Olsen Jr., Norwegian Wild Salmon Centre, says –

‘The winner project demonstrates a fine balance between renewal without too much change or alterations to the unique expression.

Chief Exhibition Designer and Architect Arne Kvorning, Kvorning Design, continues –

‘Our Danish-Norwegian team is excited to get the chance now to be part of and ensure the frameworks for a new and significantly improved visitor experience at the Norwegian Wild Salmon Centre in Lærdal. Included in the winner project is also a proposal for possible leisure facilities along the river as well as exciting, new cabins at the bottom of the UNESCO-protected Sognefjord. We name them ‘Salmon Cabins’ – a combination of an attractive, small hotel room, a shed and a hideaway in balance with Lærdal’s beautiful nature, inspired by Norwegian traditions and meeting the salmon fishermen’s needs and identity.

The Norwegian Wild Salmon Center is located deep in the Sognefjord, on the riverbank of one of the most famous salmon rivers in Norway, Lærdalselvi. The centre provides insight in the lifecycle of the Atlantic salmon, the management of the wild salmon tribes and the traditions around the fishing for salmon.

Arne Kvorning, CEO, Kvorning Design & Communication, on the impact of Corona virus on exhibition design. Interview with The Association of Danish Museum, Summer 2020 –

‘We already create more audience driven exhibitions. Exhibitions that create experiences for you. Museums will thus be branding themselves on individual exhibition experiences.’

Kvorning Design creates a new exhibition at the upgraded and re-opened Whaling Museum located in Sandefjord in Southern Norway. ‘We Were Out to Get Whales’ shares the story about Norway’s first oil adventure – whale oil.

The history of whaling is long and comprehensive. The exhibition focuses on untold themes lending the participants a voice. ‘We Were Out to Get Whales’ is a quotation from Norwegian shipowner Lars Christensen’s book ‘Such is the Antarctic’ from 1935, about the background for his long involvement in catching and research in the Antarctic. The exhibition is largely based on the museum’s photographic and film collections, objects and archives, as well as loaned material.

The new, permanent exhibition won in international competition is developed in close collaboration with the museum.

Due to the current Coronavirus situation, Kvorning would like to inform you that we will be running our design studio until further notice.

We have been following the press conference from the Prime Minister (11 March 2020) and we are up to date on the precautions we need to take. Working from home, file sharing, running e-meetings where possible to replace international flights and meetings, cancelling conferences and major events.

[email protected] or +45 33 93 93 53 for more.

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Kvorning Design creates concept for Langebro Experience in co-operation with David Fox.

Welcome to architect Pernille Løgstrup Iversen; Junior Exhibition Designer at Kvorning Design as per March 2020.

Welcome to Anne Rørbæk Olesen, Project Manager at Kvorning Design as per 1 March 2020. Anne holds a Ph.D. degree in Communication and is a Master of Modern Cultural Communication and Digital Design.

Cover design for Berlev’s Rock’n’Roll Hotel Album, ‘Close to the Line’.

Proud of travel feature in Norwegian Aftenposten on 4 December 2019 – ‘Eight new NORWEGIAN ATTRACTIONS opening next year’. Kvorning is responsible for concepts for two of the attractions in question.  The concept for the new Hurtigruten Museum in Nordland, Norway, in co-creation with Bright Norway and the concept for Deichman Bjørvika in Oslo which we made ourselves.

Arne Kvorning discusses exhibition design trends and issues at 8th St Petersburg International Cultural Forum at Manege Central Exhibition Hall on 16th Nov 2019.

Welcome to architect Arne Vejbæk – known as Vejbæk; Head of Projects at Kvorning Design as per November 2019.

Welcome to Louise Augusta Krogh, History Student, University of Copenhagen, Junior Interpreter at Kvorning Design as per October 2019.

Congratulations, Næstved Storcenter, Denmark, on the 30th anniversary! Kvorning Design & Communication creates the jubilee exhibit,  JOURNEY IN TIME. Politics and the world, film, music, sports, culture, design and fashion from 1989 to today! Four zones present icons from the four decades in question in the shopping mall.

Photo credit: Lise Staubo, CBRE Denmark

Kvorning Design & Communication have created LEGO Brand Heritage exhibitions for the renowned Danish toy brand since 2006.

At LEGO Idea House, Lego’s first production site in the heart of Billund, Denmark, visitors learn about the family behind the business, the business itself and its industrial heritage through 85 years.

Welcome to architect Petteri Salokannel; Senior Exhibition Designer at Kvorning Design as per September 2019.

Welcome to Patricia Forbert; Senior Graphic Designer at Kvorning Design as per September, 2019.

Kvorning Design & Communication has created a LEGO® Star Wars™ exhibition in the LEGO Idea House in Billund, Denmark, in co-operation with the LEGO Group’s historical team and the LEGO Star Wars design team.

The exhibition is a turnkey solution.

Kvorning Design and Bright Norway create the winner concept for the new Hurtigruten Museum at Stokmarknes in Vesterålen in Norway.

Since 1983, Hurtigruten has been an integral part of life in northern Norway, tying cities and communities together, carrying goods and people over the nation’s number one highway: The ocean.

Brynjar Pettersen, Department Director, Vesterålen, Museum Nord, representing project owner Museum Nord and Lina Vibe, Head of Unit, Hurtigruten Museum in Museum Nord and Project Manager, Museum Nord, comment the winner concept –

‘After a thorough and good process we feel convinced that Kvorning/Bright delivered the best exhibition concept for the new Hurtigruten Museum that is planned to open in 2020. We look forward to the co-operation, fully aware that the coming year will be extremely exciting!’

Lind arkitektur and Multiconsult created the winner concept for the new building that will house the new museum.

The turn key exhibition was won in international competition.

The consortium Bright Norway and Kvorning Design & Communication win turnkey exhibition for Museum Hurtigruten, Norway, in international competition.

For more than 100 years, Hurtigruten has been an integral part of life in northern Norway, tying cities and communities together, carrying goods and people over the ocean.

The Museum Hurtigruten is located in Stokmarknes. The city of founder of Hurtigruten, Richard With. The museum is part of Museum Nord.

Kvorning’s summer trip to Skovtårnet and Paradehuset Orangery, Gisselfeld Abbey!

Kvorning Design & Communication creates exhibition for the new Norwegian experience and science centre, The Norwegian Jekt Trade Museum. The centre conveys the heritage of jekt shipping and is located in Bodø in north-western Norway.

Arne Kvorning says –

‘Rintala Eggertsson Architects’ beautiful and balanced architecture and Kvorning Design’s interactive exhibition melt fine together. In many ways, the final exhibition looks like the sketch project we developed many years ago. A Gesamtkunstwerk, I am tempted to say – architecture, exhibition, contents and story’.

The Norwegian Jekt Trade Museum opened on 22 June 2019.

Kvorning won the turn key solution in international competition.

Eider duck islands / UNESCO World Heritage. National romanticism. Norwegian coastal history. The climate challenge. Several interesting exhibitions by Kvorning Design & Communication opening in Norway this week – one opened in May!

13 June: Vega UNESCO World Heritage Center, Vega – main exhibition

15 June: Sorenskrivergården, Nes in Hallingdal – exhibition concept about romanticist painter Hans Gude

22 June: Norwegian Jekt-Trade Museum, Bodø – sketch and main project for national experience and knowledge center (photo)

Last month – 7 May – Norwegian Petroleum Museum, Stavanger, opened ‘Climate for change’ – permanent exhibition

All exhibitions were won in international competition.

‘Ready steady go! – an exhibition for body and mind’, opens at Malmö Museums in Sweden. The temporary exhibition offers loads of exciting activities focusing on physical challenges and interactivity.

Kvorning Design & Communication created the concept and the museum did the production. ‘Ready steady go!’ will be open until 29 September 2019.

Kvorning Design & Communication and Norwegian Bright Group have created THE SALMON EYE. A concept for a world-class off shore salmon farm visitor center for Eide Fjordbruk, Norway. 650 sqm of interactive exhibition area that envisions global attention to aquaculture.

The Norwegian Petroleum Museum in Stavanger opens ‘Climate for Change’. A new exhibition about the global energy and climate challenge.

Kvorning has developed and elaborated the 120 sqm permanent exhibition in dialogue with the norwegian museum. The exhibition offers both analogue and digital media and was won in an invited ideas competition.

Meet the world famed Dam Trolls in creator Thomas Dam’s workshop from the 1950’ies at its original location in Gjøl, Denmark.

Kvorning Design & Communication transforms Thomas Dam’s 35 square meters workshop in Gjøl, Northern Jutland, Denmark, into The Dam Trolls Museum in co-operation with the museum board. The new museum opens on May 3, 2019.

Enjoy!

The cherry blossom at Bispebjerg Cemetery in Copenhagen is famous. Every Spring about 150,000 locals and tourists enjoy the stunning avenue of cherry trees.

Copenhagen Municipality welcomes everybody on OUTPOST – Kvorning’s stylish outdoor displaysystem with a matching banner.

Photo: Kirsten Mousten

A warm welcome to Berit Reutershan, new intern at Kvorning Design & Communication per April 1, 2019. Berit is currently completing her first master semester in Spatial Strategies at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts in Kiel, Germany.

Kvorning Design & Communication wins historical exhibition at Malmö Museer; Southern Sweden’s largest museum. Redesign of 250 sqm permanent exhibition about Malmö region’s history; the Stone Age, The Bronze Age and the Iron Age; 14,000 years in total.

Project Manager Inger V. Melin, Malmö Museer, says –

‘We are looking forward to an exciting, instructive and creative co-operation across Øresund. Not least because Denmark and Sweden share many thousand years of history. Furthermore, we hope our Danish visitors will appreciate the exhibition.’

Opening on 16 November 2019.

Photo: Malmö Museer

Meet Kvorning at ODM’s fair in Fredericia on 5 March 2019.

Kvorning relaunches BUGSYSTEMS.COM; selected design solutions conceptualized by Kvorning Design & Communication for exhibitions over the past years. Visit bugsystem.com for displaysystems, interior, lighting and special design for home, work and urban spaces – product information in both English and Danish available.

Arne Kvorning, Kvorning Design & Communication, comments on the relaunch –

”BUGSYSTEMS.COM BY KVORNING have existed for some years but been overshadowed by Kvorning’s exhibition solutions lately. We have, however, created, developed and produced many vivid, super flexible and sustainable products – selected products for home, work and urban spaces, too. By relaunching BUGSYSTEMS.COM, we make the selected products available to more people; including leading Nordic and UK signage and print companies interested in becoming part of Kvorning’s BUGSYSTEMS-dealer network.”

A warm welcome to Ivan Asseev, Historian and Project developer at Kvorning Design & Communication per February 1, 2019. Ivan operates from our branch in St Petersburg, Russia.

Kvorning Design & Communication is appointed to design a temporary exhibition at Malmoe Museer in Southern Sweden while the structure of the experience centre, Planet of Ideas, is under renovation. The theme is health benefits of movement.

In 2013, Kvorning designed and produced Planet of Ideas, Malmoe Museer’s experience centre – a permanent exhibition about our planet.

Photo: Nicolai Perjesi Photography

Kvorning creates graphic identity for MuseumINSIDER – logo, print and electronic media; ‘Looking Ahead 2018-2024: Handbook of Future US and Canadian Museum and Heritage Projects’, The Blue Book and MuseumINSIDER’s website.

10 % discount on BUG, BIG BUG, WALL BUG, BIG WALL BUG from BUGSYSTEMS – Kvorning’s display system – if ordered before February 1, 2019.

Striking floor or wall-hung display system. Simple frame made of glass bead blasted stainless steel. Two sizes. Easy to handle.

Graphic design and print production offered.

More info / order here: [email protected]

A warm welcome to Lene Ryssel, Traffic Manager at Kvorning Design & Communication per January 1, 2019.

Are you an architecture or design master’s student? And would you like to explore whether installation art, exhibition design and spaces is your thing? Then check this out! Kvorning is looking for interns!

Kvorning Design & Communication in Copenhagen is looking for creative master’s students with a passion for doing competition work and design tasks in Denmark and internationally, in places such as Norway and Russia.

As an intern with Kvorning at Njalsgade 21E on Islands Brygge in Copenhagen you will build lots of valuable experience while carrying out fun and exciting projects! Together, we create magical spaces and moments.

Send us a short description of yourself, examples of visualisations and a few lines on your preferred software and platforms. We work with the Adobe suite, particularly PS. Rhino is a common platform for all our 3D’s. V-Ray is also part of the software package. These skills are essential – and especially Rhino.

Send your application and portfolio to Arne Kvorning: [email protected] by 11 January 2019, and we’ll be in touch!

Based on over 26 years of international experience with museum design and exhibition design Arne Kvorning talks at the IMCC 2018 Conference at Westin Grand Berlin, Germany, focusing on bridging possible gaps between building architects, museum curators and exhibition designers.

Through a selection of cases Arne Kvorning will share his experiences and challenges working with museums and ‘starchitects’.

Kvorning Design & Communication wins turnkey exhibition for the world famed Dam Trolls or Good Luck Trolls.

The museum setting is creator Thomas Dam’s workshop from the 1950s at its original location in Gjøl, close to Aalborg, Denmark.

Since October 2016 the animated movie about the Nordic trolls has been playing in theatres thus peaking the popularity of the charming, now 60-year-old Dam trolls.

Welcome to Netta Peltola, Senior Visual Designer at Kvorning Design per November 1, 2018.

Kvorning Design & Communication wins international competition about turnkey exhibition for The Whaling Museum in Sandefjord; Europe’s only museum of whales and whaling.

Museum Director Dag I. Børresen, The Whaling Museum, says –

Kvorning was chosen as exhibition designer due to the company’s broad experience within turnkey exhibitions. Experience, competences and understanding of the museum needs combined with an attractive concept were important criteria that were met during the tender competition. The Whaling Museum looks forward to co-operating with Kvorning Design & Communication on this new and exciting exhibition.

The Whaling Museum is part of the organisation Vestfoldmuseene IKS.

A warm welcome to Marie Engelhardt Sjögreen, who is the new intern at Kvorning Design & Communication in the period October – January 2019. The internship spans Marie’s seventh semester at the Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark.

Kvorning Design & Communication wins in invited competition exhibition concept about one of Norway’s foremost landscape painters, the romanticist painter Hans Gude (1825-1903), for Sorenskrivergården in Nes in Hallingdal.