Selected grants

Artist Sophia Kalkau created the 10-metre-tall bronze ‘Zygote’ as a site-specific sculpture for the square Christmas Møllers Plads in Copenhagen. The sculpture was created at the initiative of the local municipal committees for Amager West and East, which are seeking to bring public art projects into the area under the heading ‘Art on Amagerbrogade’.

Alexander Tovborg’s huge painting madonna of embrace from 2022 is now part of the collection at Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

ARKEN in Ishøj receives works of contemporary art by rising stars Martin Brandt Hansen, Tora Schultz and Marie Kølbæk donated by the New Carlsberg Foundation.

Marie Lund’s sculptures address their surroundings as a meeting place, and her works in the Swiss art museum Kunstmuseum St. Gallen are no exception.

With a conceptual approach to drawing, Andreas Albrectsen explores digital culture and its historical references as well as their mutual connections.

With fourteen site-specific murals, HuskMitNavn has created a series of colourful figurative decorations at the upper secondary school Espergærde Gymnasium og HF that offers new waypoints for the students to navigate by.

With a donation from the New Carlsberg Foundation, Designmuseum Danmark has acquired three principal works of contemporary Danish art and design

Architecture and the creative mental space of art come together in Kaspar Bonnén’s site-specific works at Aarhus School of Architecture.

In a frontal view, a young woman meets the beholder’s gaze straight on, her arms folded behind her head. The Golden Age artist Wilhelm Marstrand’s Maria is clearly posing as instructed by the great painter, but the artwork is also interesting from a modern-day gender-conscious perspective.

John Kørner’s painting Dronning Louises Bro (Queen Louise’s Bridge) was recently installed at the Danish Student House in Paris. The piece touches on something that is immediately recognizable to many of the Danish students staying at the residence. At the same time, it points far beyond its central Copenhagen location and all the way to Paris.

Harald Giersing’s Balletscene (Ballet Scene), a principal example of Danish modernist art, will now be on public display at SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, where it joins the museum’s existing collection of 26 works by Giersing. Thus, the painting, which was formerly in a private collection, can now finally be seen and admired by everyone.

Ahmad Siyar Qasimi’s monumental painting "Lygtefører" (Torch Guide) draws on both concrete and emotional experience. From January 2023, the sensuous image will be on display at the Trapholt museum of modern art, craft and design in Kolding.

In the intersection of the busy streets Amagerbrogade and Amager Boulevard in Copenhagen stands the bronze sculpture GODOT by Christian Lemmerz.

The New Carlsberg Foundation’s extensive donation of works to Krogerup Folk High School in Humlebæk north of Copenhagen brings the world close and invites reflection and engagement – all in the spirit of the school.

Lea Porsager’s grand work of landscape art KLIT (Dune) creates a living beach environment in the centre of Denmark’s third-largest city, Odense. It forms the basis of a coastal biotope and contains references to one of the most talked-about and admired experiments in the science of physics.

In the summer of 2019, the Carlsberg Foundation initiated the extensive restoration of the Carlsberg Academy located on the outskirts of the Copenhagen district of Valby. In collaboration with landscape architect Kristine Jensen artist Cathrine Raben Davidsen has created 16 bronze vessels for the newly restored Conservatory, centrally placed in the building.