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The New Carlsberg Foundation hereby invites applications for research fellowships within the scope of the foundation’s activities. The foundation’s activities pertain to the visual arts, including applied art and building and landscape architecture.

Danish art was celebrated at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen at the New Carlsberg Foundation’s annual award ceremony, when five prominent artists received artist grants.

The New Carlsberg Foundation’s Exhibition Fund was established with the purpose of supporting the ability of museums, art centres and exhibition venues to develop and hold exhibitions. The application deadline is 7 February 2024.

The New Carlsberg Foundation hereby invites applications for research fellowships within the scope of the foundation’s activities. The foundation’s activities pertain to the visual arts, including applied art and building and landscape architecture.

Miriam Kongstad's performance, Take My Breath Away, premiered on march 1st 2023 during the New Carlsberg Foundation's annual Art Awards at the Glyptotek.

Professor, Dr. Phil., in Art History Jacob Wamberg joined the board of the New Carlsberg Foundation on 1 January 2023, replacing Professor Morten Kyndrup, who stepped down after more than 16 years’ service due to the New Carlsberg Foundation’s age limit for board members.

Every year, the New Carlsberg Foundation marks the birthday of brewer Carl Jacobsen, the founder of the Foundation, by handing out its Danish art awards at a reception for professionals in the assembly hall of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. By recognizing and highlighting the achievements of artists and museum professionals over time, the awards benefit the Danish art world at large and are thus a natural element of the Foundation’s work.

The New Carlsberg Foundation’s Art Awards are given in recognition of special contributions to the Danish art and museum landscape. Four art awards were recently handed out. The New Carlsberg Foundation’s Artist Grant is awarded to both Nina Beier and Kathrine Ærtebjerg. Director of the Hirschsprung Collection Gertrud Oelsner receives Carl Jacobsen’s Museum Professional Grant. And the New Carlsberg Foundation’s Honorary Grant is awarded to curator Kjeld Kjeldsen at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.

The Carlsberg Foundation has appointed two new members to the Board of Directors of the New Carlsberg Foundation. Lisette Vind Ebbesen, director of Art Museums of Skagen, and Toke Lykkeberg, director of the exhibition space Tranen, will join the board of Brewer Carl Jacobsen’s old foundation on 1 April. The historic enlargement of the Board from three to five members is part of the ongoing remodelling of the New Carlsberg Foundation with an eye to embracing an increasingly diverse and dynamic Danish art scene.

The New Carlsberg Foundation invites applications for individual research fellowships within the foundation’s scope of activities. Three types of grants are available: (1) PhD fellowships (up to DKK 1.5 million per grant), (2) postdoc fellowships (up to DKK 1.8 million per grant) and (3) individual project funding. The New Carlsberg Foundation’s Research Initiative was launched in 2010 with the aim of generating new research-based knowledge about art while building a connection between university and museum research.

With political approval in place and donations from, among others, Købmand Herman Sallings Fond and the New Carlsberg Foundation, a large extension of ARoS is now becoming a reality. A principal component of the project, which is titled The Next Level, is The Dome, a huge work of art created by the internationally acclaimed American artist James Turrell. 


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When Denmark’s School of Media and Journalism opens in new premises in Aarhus N in September, a significant feature of the new building will be an installation by the internationally acclaimed artist Pipilotti Rist.

On Wednesday, 26 February, the New Carlsberg Foundation’s Art Awards were handed out at the annual award ceremony at the New Carlsberg Glyptotek. The New Carlsberg Foundation’s Artist Grants this year were awarded to the artists’ duo Hanne & Birgit and the visual artist Peter Linde Busk. The director of Designmuseum Danmark, Anne-Louise Sommer, was recognized with Carl Jacobsen’s Museum Professional Grant.

A new digital archive consisting of 759 letters and documents penned by J. C. Jacobsen, the founder of Carlsberg, is now opening to public access. Among other content, the archive includes letters home from travels and 132 letters to his son, Carl, written between 1866 and 1870.

When the world’s economic leaders meet in Davos later this months, they will encounter an eye-catching and thought-provoking contribution from the Danish visual artist Per Arnoldi. The New Carlsberg Foundation has supported the artistic development of Arnoldi’s animation film GLOBAL WARNING / GLOBAL WARMING, which will be part of the official programme at this year’s meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos.