Daisy Daisy Daisy

Artist list

Nicolai Appel, Gitte Bjørn, Kim Buck, Annette Dam, Søren Damstedt, Karl Ejnar Nybo, Kasia Gasparski, Lars Glad, Janne K Hansen, Helen Clara Hemsley, Erland Knudssøn Madsen, Marie-Louise Kristensen, Bess Kristoffersen, Peder Musse, Gitte Nygaard, Nanna Obel, Mette Saabye, Allan Scharff, Thorkild Thøgersen, Helle Vibeke Jensen, Hongxia Wang, Josephine Winther, Lene Wolters

The Marguerite/Daisy brooch, which is known by most Danes, has almost become a national symbol over time, in line with the national flag Dannebrog. The enamel brooch saw the light of day at Queen Margrethe's baptism in 1940, a time where Denmark had just been occupied by Nazi Germany. The jewellery company Michelsen produced in thousands of brooches for this day of national celebration. The people soon embraced the motif and the brooch as a symbol of resistance to the Nazi occupation of the country at that time. Since then, the brooch has been produced in hundreds of thousands of copies and by several different companies. So many that one can reasonably say that most families in Denmark own a copy.
The exhibition shows paraphrases, new versions, rewrites, comments, etc. of the marguerite brooch and its present meaning and symbolic value.