Selected grants

With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation, the British artist Grayson Perry's monumental tapestry Expulsion from Number 8 Eden Close is now a new highlight in ARoS' permanent collection.

South African Candice Breitz is one of the most powerful voices in contemporary art. Her highly topical and thought-provoking video installation Love Story was one of the most talked-about contributions to the 2017 Venice Biennale. Thanks to a grant from the New Carlsberg Foundation the installation has now been included as one of the highlights in ARKEN’s collection.

A donation from the New Carlsberg Foundation helped ensure the sale of the Danish artist Jesper Just's ambitious project, Servitudes, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. During the summer of 2019, the installation will be presented at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen.

Artist Eske Kath has created a series of four large paintings for the High Court in the city of Kolding. The decoration, revealed on Thursday, 22 February at 15.30, was made possible by a generous donation from the New Carlsberg Foundation.

The art film Skarpretteren (The Executioner) by Ursula Reuter Christiansen is considered one of the principal works in Danish feminist art. With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation the film is now placed into a broader context in a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Denmark.

Artist Gun Gordillo creates monumental decorative project for VIA University College in Aarhus.

The Danish-Vietnamese artist Danh Vo presents at the Guggenheim in New York in a large solo exhibition. The New Carlsberg Foundation has funded the comprehensive catalogue for the exhibition.

After long occupying a fairly minor place in Danish art history, artist Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann has begun to attract growing interest in recent years. A new book offers a closer look at this woman, as a nonconformist, an outsider to the Danish art world and, not least, a true trailblazer.

The SMK, the National Gallery of Denmark, expands its collection with four iconic sculptures.

The artist HuskMitNavn (RememberMyName) has exhibited around the world, and his art is represented in several important Danish art museums. One of his biggest decorative projects is now found at the upper secondary school Høng Gymnasium og HF, where he has created a series of original murals for the school.

Thousands of personal letters to and from the Funen Painters are now being made available to the public.

Cast in bronze, with firm footing on a granite plinth, Christian Lemmerz’s sculpture Lazarus now stands in front of Bispebjerg Hospital. The work was donated by the New Carlsberg Foundation to mark the hospital’s centenary.

The Reflection Room at Hospice Djursland has been redesigned and decorated by the artist duo Hanne Nielsen & Birgit Johnsen. The decorative project was realized with funding from the New Carlsberg Foundation.

One of the most eye-catching works of art in The Danish Industry Foundation's House is a large curtain encircling the main auditorium. The work is donated by the New Carlsberg Foundation.

The Danish artists group SUPERFLEX exhibits in the iconic Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London. The huge, interactive installation One Two Three Swing! is on display until 2 April 2018. The project has received support from the New Carlsberg Foundation.

As the first Danish artist, Jørgen Haugen Sørensen now has a permanent artistic presence in Pietrasanta. Based on a donation from the New Carlsberg Foundation, his monumental bronze sculpture The Crowd was recently installed in the centre of the town.