Home is where your heart

Home is where your heart is is a festival created by nine artist-run exhibition venues, which collectively call themselves Artist Run Aarhus, as well as Aarhus Billedkunstcenter.

From August to September 2026, the festival will explore what ‘home’ can mean and become when examined through social, site-specific and participatory visual art formats. Each venue participates based on its own practice and profile, showcasing the breadth of Aarhus’ artist-run scene: from exhibitions and events to performances, workshops, talks, walks and communal gatherings across the city.

Over the weekend of 28–30 August, the festival culminates during the first weekend of Aarhus Festuge, when all venues open their doors with events that can be experienced individually or as a unified journey through the city’s artist-run landscape. On Friday 28 August, from 4 pm to 8 pm, Artist Run Aarhus invites you to ARTist RUN WALK, which begins at rum46 and continues on to HVERK, HUS8000, Kunstrum ÆSKEN, CANTINA and Spanien 19C at Aarhus Billedkunstcenter, before returning to HVERK. The evening will conclude there with a festive get-together from 8 pm to midnight. On Sunday 30 August from 1 pm to 4 pm, the route will be repeated in a daytime version, where you can once again experience exhibitions, events and encounters across the city as we walk together.

Home is where your heart is thus explores both ‘home’ as a theme and the hearts that create visual art in Aarhus. At the same time, it marks the launch of Artist Run Aarhus as a shared platform for the city’s self-organised art communities. We invite you to explore the connections between these communities and discover the artistic practices that help shape the city’s cultural undercurrent.