Selected grants

Slime and mud are just two of the words that are currently climbing up the walls of Holstebro Kunstmuseum (Holstebro Art Museum). In an exhibition that includes several textual pieces, the American artist Lawrence Wiener examines the potential materialization of art. With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation the museum has now acquired one of the principal pieces from the exhibition for its permanent collection.

Per Kirkeby’s magnificent painting Leiser Wellenschlag Grün (Softly Lapping Waves Green) from 2005 becomes a part of one of oldest and largest museums in the United States, the Art Institute of Chicago. It is added to the collection thanks to a donation from the New Carlsberg Foundation.

In Resurrection Klara Lilja draws on the alchemist tradition and the search for eternal life. With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation, Horsens Art Museum has now purchased this graduation piece for its collection.

The New Carlsberg Foundation establishes its second Restart Fund for art venues. Art museums, art halls and non-commercial exhibition venues can apply to the fund until 9 August.

In Gerdt Dittmers’s full-length portrait of Frederik III, the King is dressed in French fashion from head to toe. The realistic depiction of tiny details offers a convincing and credible representation of the first absolutist king. With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation, the Royal Danish Collection has purchased the painting, which is now shown at Koldinghus.

With a donation from the New Carlsberg Foundation, ARoS acquires 15 works by some of Denmark’s most prominent contemporary artists.

The painting Landskab (Falster) depicts a dark, haunting, almost dreamlike scenery. It was painted by Vilhelm Hammershøi around 1890 and has been in private ownership in a family who bought the painting directly from the artist. Now the painting is shown to the public for the first time, as it is added to the art museum Fuglsang Kunstmuseum’s fine collection of landscape paintings.

Bjørn Nørgaard makes a strong statement in University Park at Aarhus University with a five-metre-tall, colourful sculpture made possible by a grant from the New Carlsberg Foundation.

Horsens Art Museum expands its already exceptional collection of Emil Westman Hertz’s art with two important pieces. The purchase was made possible by support from the New Carlsberg Foundation.

Sianne Ngai, professor at the University of Chicago, is one of the leading scholars in the field of aesthetic theory. On Thursday, 20 May, her most outstanding work, Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting is released in Danish, titled Vores Æstetiske Kategorier. The release is marked with an event at SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, which includes a live interview with the author.

New exhibition with portrayals of sick girls in Nordic art opened recently at the Art Museums of Skagen. It is based on a research project involving the Art Museums of Skagen, the Hirschsprung Collection and Aarhus University. The New Carlsberg Foundation has supported both the exhibition publication and the research project.

A lovely landscape study painted by P. C. Skovgaard during a summer sojourn in Vejby in northern Zealand has now been added to the collection of the Skovgaard Museum in Viborg. The study demonstrates that Skovgaard’s mastery of intimate, small-scale portrayals of nature was equal to his grasp of large, monumental compositions. The purchase was made possible by support from the New Carlsberg Foundation.

Olafur Eliasson recently transformed Fondation Beyeler into a microcosm, and we are invited in. Along with ducks, flowers and other organisms we become participants in a unique spatial and sensory universe as we experience the installation and its interplay with the museum’s architecture and natural surroundings. The New Carlsberg Foundation has supported the development of the digital platform of this solo exhibition.

Julie Mehretu’s works leave a sense that the meaning hangs in the air, evading clear-cut statements. Thanks to a donation from the New Carlsberg Foundation, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark now adds four prints from the series Slouching Towards Bethlehem to its collection.

Very different artworks by Mette Vangsgaard and Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat are now being included in the collection at Vejen Art Museum. The acquisition of contemporary Danish art and 120-year-old French ceramics was made possible by support from the New Carlsberg Foundation.

With the piece Suffocating Air, Amalie Jakobsen pushes the abstract tradition in new directions while also highlighting the ecological and climate challenges we face. With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation, the ARKEN Museum of Modern Art has included the sculpture in its collection.