Selected grants

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.

When Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand reopens after the Covid shutdown, it will be in a somewhat different form. With the exhibition ‘Community of Fragments’ Thomas Hirschhorn has created a large site-specific installation that extends over two floors. The New Carlsberg Foundation supports the exhibition publication.

Thirteen new research projects are now being realized within the framework of the New Carlsberg Foundation’s Research Initiative, which aims to promote art research in Denmark and enhance research cooperation among Danish museums and universities.

The exhibition in the Danish Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale in Venice is going to focus on the notion of connectedness. In collaboration with Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects, the art historian and curator Marianne Krogh is creating the exhibition ‘con-nect-ed-ness’ based on the overarching theme of the biennale: How will we live together? Already now, a thought-provoking anthology with a stellar line-up of contributors from Denmark and abroad and edited by Krogh is published with support from the New Carlsberg Foundation.

ARKEN and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts receive a large grant for a joint research project about the future art museum.

The exhibition Trine Søndergaard 148 Works at Gothenburg Museum of Art is the Danish art photographer’s first solo exhibition at a Swedish museum. The exhibition presents photographs from 2005–2020 and is accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue published with support from the New Carlsberg Foundation.

The sculptor Niels Hansen Jacobsen’s strange and unsettling artworks are shown at the Parisian Musée Bourdelle in the first exhibition in the city dedicated exclusively to the artist. The founder of the New Carlsberg Foundation, Carl Jacobsen, was one of the few to appreciate Hansen Jacobsen’s unusual sculptures from an early time. The New Carlsberg Foundation has supported the catalogue for the Paris exhibition.

The tenth anniversary of the New Carlsberg Foundation’s Research Initiative is celebrated with another grant of DKK 12 million for art research.

Danish contemporary art comes to Paris with the exhibition Meanwhile in Denmark. The exhibition is presented by Maison du Danemark and accompanied by a catalogue funded by the New Carlsberg Foundation.

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.

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.

On 11 July, a large solo exhibition with the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson opens at Tate Modern in London. The exhibition is the most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s works in England to date. The New Carlsberg Foundation has funded the exhibition catalogue.

Based on a grant of DKK 18 million from the New Carlsberg Foundation, the University of Copenhagen now establishes a research centre to study the social communities that emerge around art. The new centre, which opens in January 2020 under the leadership of Professor Frederik Tygstrup, is named Forum: Art and Communality. It is the biggest and most focused Danish research initiative to date dedicated to the value of art for society.

In a large exhibition at the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg, Austria, Asger Jorn’s graphic works are presented to the public outside Denmark for the first time. The New Carlsberg Foundation has funded the catalogue for the comprehensive exhibition.

The special exhibition ‘Perfect Poses?’ is a sculptural tour of ‘the long 19th century’. The exhibition, which opens on 1 March, presents French sculptures from a new angle, focusing on their poses. The New Carlsberg Foundation has funded the exhibition catalogue.