> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # What Does the Sea Remember That We Have Chosen to Forget? - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/anna-boghiguian-aros-kunstmuseum-aarhus-denmark/ - Published: 2026-03-25T07:00:07.000Z - Updated: 2026-03-25T13:59:00.000Z - Description: ARoS international art museum, Aarhus presents Anna Boghiguian - The Sunken Boat till 19. April 2026 - Author: Catapult Submissions Team - Tags: Exhibition **Anna Boghiguian – The Sunken Boat - ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum** **Artist:** Anna Boghiguian **Venue:** ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum Aros Allé 2 8000 Aarhus C Denmark **Dates:** 22 November 2025 – 19 April 2026 **Curators:** Louise Bjeldbak Henriksen (ARoS), Sarah Martin (Turner Contemporary) --- Installation views: Anna Boghiguian – The Sunken Boat, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus. Photography: Mads Smidstrup. Courtesy ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum [ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum](https://www.aros.dk/en/?ref=catapult-platform.art) • [The Sunken Boat](https://www.aros.dk/en/art/current-exhibitions/anna-boghiguian-the-sunken-boat/?ref=catapult-platform.art) • [Submit](https://www.catapult-platform.art/submit/) ## Anna Boghiguian: The Sunken Boat at ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum The sea, in **A**[**nna Boghiguian**](https://www.aros.dk/en/art/current-exhibitions/anna-boghiguian-the-sunken-boat/?ref=catapult-platform.art)**’s** hands, is not a backdrop but an archive, one that absorbs trade routes, colonial circuits, migrations, and debris. At [***ARoS*, Denmark’s, Aarhus** ](https://www.aros.dk/en/?ref=catapult-platform.art)most expansive museum, the artist stages her first Nordic solo exhibition as a reckoning with the residues that history fails to wash away. Born in Cairo in 1946 to Armenian parents, Boghiguian is known for her itinerant, research-driven practice that blends drawing, sculpture, text, and sound into layered historical narratives. Her work does not retell events so much as expose their sediment, the salt, silt, and shadow left by commerce and displacement. ![Anna Boghiguian The Chess Game, installation view at Aros Museum for contemporary art: chess pieces, paint, shadow composition](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/aros-art-museum.webp) ****Anna Boghiguian** – The Sunken Boat, ****ARoS** 2025\. Installation view: Mads Smidstrup © ARoS 2025 ![Anna Boghiguian The Sunken Boat: A Glimpse into Past Histories, 2025 Papier-mâché, glass, sand, cut paper, encaustic painting on Khadi paper, sound (recordings from Alexandria, Margate, Aarhus Bay), wall mural (destroyed at close of exhibition) Co-commissioned by ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum and Turner Contemporary](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/aros-art-musuem--aarhus.webp) ****Anna Boghiguian** – The Sunken Boat, ****ARoS** 2025\. Installation view: Mads Smidstrup © ARoS 2025 ![Anna Boghiguian current exhibition, the sunken boat at Aros museum contemporary art aarhus, Denmark](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Anna-Boghiguian--artist.webp) ****Anna Boghiguian** – The Sunken Boat, ****ARoS** 2025\. Installation view: Mads Smidstrup © ARoS 2025 The exhibition gathers four works made between 2015 and 2025, each approaching that sediment from a different direction - trade routes, philosophical dialogue, geopolitical contest. At their center is the work that gives the show its name. The exhibition’s title work, *The Sunken Boat: A Glimpse into Past Histories* (2025), created partly on-site in Aarhus, feels both monumental and ephemeral. A papier-mâché diver lies in sand among glass mussel shells and paper fish; the sound of surf recorded in Alexandria, Margate, and Aarhus binds the installation to three coasts three thresholds of departure and return. A mural painted directly on the museum wall will vanish when the show closes in April 2026, its destruction folded into the work’s meaning. Across these installations, the past is not retrieved but stirred, the sea as witness rather than metaphor. *The Sunken Boat* extends Boghiguian’s ongoing question: how can art articulate the histories submerged beneath economic and ecological collapse? In a time when Mediterranean crossings and rising waters redefine what coastlines mean, her work proposes no conclusion, only a fragile act of remembrance. Whether the mural’s erasure will register as loss or completion is, fittingly, left unresolved. --- [**Instagram Aros Museum**](https://www.instagram.com/arosartmuseum/?ref=catapult-platform.art) --- ## Notable Works and Installation Views ![Anna Boghiguian at aros, exhibition view, aarhus, Denmark ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/anna-boghiguian-at-aros-art-museum--aarhus.webp) ****Anna Boghiguian** – The Sunken Boat, ****ARoS** 2025\. Installation view: Mads Smidstrup © ARoS 2025 ![Anna Boghiguian, artwork , installation view, Aros museum contemporary art, aarhus ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/aros-art-museum--aarhus.webp) ****Anna Boghiguian** – The Sunken Boat, ****ARoS** 2025\. Installation view: Mads Smidstrup © ARoS 2025 ![aros kunst museum aarhus showcases Anna Boghiguian, drawing, installations and monumental artworks ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/best-shows-in-denmark--aros-art-museum.webp) ****Anna Boghiguian** – The Sunken Boat, ****ARoS** 2025\. Installation view: Mads Smidstrup © ARoS 2025 ![Anna Boghiguian – The Sunken Boat - Virginia Woolf - aros art museum current show](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/aros-museum.webp) ****Anna Boghiguian** – The Sunken Boat, ****ARoS** 2025\. Installation view: Mads Smidstrup © ARoS 2025 ![Anna Boghiguian – The Sunken Boat at aarhus -aros art museum contemporary art](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Anna-Boghiguian--The-Sunken-Boat--exhibition.webp) ****Anna Boghiguian** – The Sunken Boat, ****ARoS** 2025\. Installation view: Mads Smidstrup © ARoS 2025 ![Anna Boghiguian – The Sunken Boat](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Anna-Boghiguian--The-Sunken-Boat--ARoS-2025--Mads-Smidstrup-9.webp) ****Anna Boghiguian** – The Sunken Boat, ****ARoS** 2025\. Installation view: Mads Smidstrup © ARoS 2025 ![Anna Boghiguian The Chess Game, 2022 Mixed media installation: chess pieces, paint, shadow composition](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/aros-art-museum-current.webp) ****Anna Boghiguian** – The Sunken Boat, ****ARoS** 2025\. Installation view: Mads Smidstrup © ARoS 2025 ![Anna Boghiguian – The Sunken Boat installation view, aros art museum ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Anna-Boghiguian--The-Sunken-Boat--ARoS-.webp) ****Anna Boghiguian** – The Sunken Boat, ****ARoS** 2025\. Installation view: Mads Smidstrup © ARoS 2025 ![Anna Boghiguian – The Sunken Boat](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Anna-Boghiguian.webp) ****Anna Boghiguian** – The Sunken Boat, ****ARoS** 2025\. Installation view: Mads Smidstrup © ARoS 2025 **About Catapult** This is an exhibition review published by Catapult — an independent editorial platform for contemporary art, based in Vienna. We publish exhibition reviews, artist features, interviews, and critical context, with a focus on emerging and mid-career practices from Europe and beyond. [catapult.art](https://www.catapult-platform.art/) Want to be featured? 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