Selected grants

Together with the two architects Jens Stampe Brøndbjerg and Allan Lyth, Tal R has created a 300-square-metre garden for Kulturskolerne (the Culture Schools) in Gentofte, north of Copenhagen. The garden contains five sculptures set in a green, sensuous, terraced environment.

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.

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

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.

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.

Spatial qualities played and play an active role in the creation and experience of Astrid Marie Christiansen’s and Joachim Koester’s decorative projects at Krogerup Folk High School. While Christiansen conjures up a playful sweets garden in dialogue with the school’s modernist interior architecture, Koester’s photographs, solar system and paths on the linoleum floor of the lecture hall draw a cosmic mind map.

Den nye hjørnestue (The New Corner Salon) by Morten Søndergaard is a chamber of curiosities to be explored. A room for meetings of minds and conversations about art, science and politics, just like the historical corner salon from the time when Kamma and Knud Lyne Rahbek lived in the house. The large total installation was created with support from the New Carlsberg Foundation.

Olafur Eliasson’s installation Det lyttende spejl (The listening mirror) welcomes patients, relatives and staff to the newly opened Regional Hospital Gødstrup. The mirror pavilion offers a space for contemplation and highlights the viewer’s movements.

With Nu, hvor ingenting er, hvad det var – om forvandling og eksistens (Now that nothing is what it was: About transformation and existence) the Danish sculptor Veo Friis Jespersen has created a series of poetic reliefs for the courtyard garden of the Danish Institute at Athens. The decorative project was realized with support from the New Carlsberg Foundation.

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.

Kofoeds Skole (Kofoed’s School), an independent school on Amager in Copenhagen for people who are socially marginalized, has a new smoking space that is also a work of art. Or is it the other way round? The artist duo Randi & Katrine have created Copenhagen’s most beautiful outdoor smoking space, which has been realized thanks to a donation from the New Carlsberg Foundation.

A giant glass eye in a multicoloured mosaic now watches over the new district Kanalbyen (Canal City) in the Danish city of Fredericia. The eye and the accompanying elements of plants and trickling water make up Kirstine Roepstorff’s art installation HYDRA, which is an integrated part of the multistorey car park of the same name.

Playful works of art by Nanna Abell and Jeppe Hein have taken up occupancy in the modern architectural setting of University College Copenhagen, Campus Carlsberg. With bright signal colours, B-LOONY and Mirror Balloons add both visual and sensuous statements to the open concrete spaces.