Selected grants

Art Museums of Skagen recently acquired a principal piece by the Skagen painter Laurits Tuxen. The painting, Aftenselskab i Atelieret på Strandvejen (Evening Party in the Studio on Strandvejen) marks a new direction in Tuxen’s late figure compositions.

Thorbjørn Lausten’s work revolves around rendering the invisible visible and giving form to the fleeting. This is exemplified in his two light installations QED and Dissipator 2, which Esbjerg Art Museum has now added to its collection with support from the New Carlsberg Foundation.

The assembly hall at the folk high school Johan Borups Højskole has undergone a major makeover. The comprehensive and sensitive decorative project was carried out by the visual artist Anette Harboe Flensburg, funded by a grant from the New Carlsberg Foundation.

Olaf Rude’s landscape painting Landskab. Skejten (Landscape. Skejten) illustrates the scenic setting of the Fuglsang Estate in 1911. In the piece, Rude combines inspiration from the contemporary European art scene with familiar local themes from the Danish island of Lolland. With support from the Danish Agency of Culture and Palaces and the New Carlsberg Foundation, Fuglsang Art Museum now adds the painting to its collection.

Aage Gitz-Johansen’s works shed new light on the artistic portrayal of Greenlandic culture. With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation, Nuuk Art Museum now adds four of the artist’s works to its collection.

Lea Porsager’s work HORNY VACUUM is an artistic abstraction on the enigmatic natural phenomenon of the intangible neutrino particle. With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Art in the Danish city of Roskilde has now acquired the piece for its collection. From 24 September it is on display at the museum in Porsager’s solo exhibition [WEAK] FORCE.

A big exhibition at The Nasher Sculpture Center presents Elmgreen & Dragset’s sculptural practice on a large scale. The New Carlsberg Foundation has supported the comprehensive exhibition catalogue.

Julie Nord’s free-wheeling fantastical pictorial narratives with their abundant ornamentation are a celebration of the non-rational and quirky. They rattle our notion of the familiar world and bring a sinister feel to the places where we feel most safe and secure. With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg now adds Nord’s principal work A Winter Night to its collection.

Four ceramic works, two paintings and a sculpture in painted steel. The two Danish artists Anna Sørensen and Amalie Jakobsen have created site-specific pieces for the upper secondary school Næstved Gymnasium & HF. The decorative project was made possible by a grant from the New Carlsberg Foundation.

Per Arnoldi’s artistic climate comment will appear in outdoor advertising spaces in the City of New York in connection with the opening of the United Nations’ General Assembly in September. It is estimated that the art campaign will have more than 17 million views. The Danish artist has further created a website where anyone can download his artistic climate warning.

Johan Laurentz Jensen was the leading flower painter of the golden age of Danish art. He portrayed the contemporary perception of nature and cultural ideals in complex still lifes. With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation, Øregaard Museum can now add his 1838 painting Colourful bouquet of flowers in a Greek vase on a stone ledge with shells to its collection.

Five copper sculptures by the Danish artist Marie Lund are now mounted on a concrete frieze in the canteen of the Maersk Tower. With a donation from the New Carlsberg Foundation, works by 17 Danish contemporary artists, distributed across 15 floors, have been selected for a large decorative project in the new building.

The internationally acclaimed German artist Thilo Frank has created a large decorative project at Dansekapellet (the Dance Chapel) at Bispebjerg. The New Carlsberg Foundation donated the site-specific work of art, to be unveiled on 31 August, and which establishes an original connection between Dansekapellet and everyday life in the nearby urban space.

Anette Harboe Flensburg and Eske Kath are prominent artists in the contemporary Danish art scene. With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation the Trapholt Museum of Modern Art and Design is now adding principal works by the two Danish visual artists to its permanent collection of paintings.

New monograph on Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen recently launched by the esteemed German publishing house Kerber Verlag. The New Carlsberg Foundation supported the publication, which focuses on the Danish artist’s paintings from recent decades.

Since late March, Sophia Kalkau has occupied the entire underground floor of Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg with the grandiose special exhibition ‘The Material and the Egg’. With a donation from the New Carlsberg Foundation, the art museum in Aalborg has now been able to buy two of the principal works from the exhibition for its collection.