To mark the birthday of brewer Carl Jacobsen, the founder of the New Carlsberg Foundation, on 2 March, the foundation annually hands out Danish art awards at a reception in the Assembly Hall at the Glyptotek.
'With the art awards, the foundation celebrates individuals who make a special contribution to the Danish art and museum world. An award momentarily translates many years of hard and persistent effort into an event, here and now,' says the chairman of the New Carlsberg Foundation, Karsten Ohrt.
The award recipients are:
The New Carlsberg Foundation’s Artist Grant of DKK 100,000:
Sophia Kalkau
The New Carlsberg Foundation’s Artist Grant of DKK 100,000:
Tal R
Carl Jacobsen’s Museum Professional Grant of DKK 150,000:
Lisette Vind Ebbesen, Skagens Museum
Sophia Kalkau is awarded the New Carlsberg Foundation’s artist grant for her artistic endeavour, characterized above all by distinctive stringency, precision and finish. As a general quality, both her photographs and sculptures exude a pronounced dedication to form. That lends them a certain classic and timeless aura as objects that are refreshingly detached from today’s communicative maelstrom.
Tal R is awarded the New Carlsberg Foundation’s artist grant for his original and persistent oeuvre, which unfolds freely in painting, collage, drawing, print and sculpture, and which remains in continuous development, thanks to the artist’s insatiable desire to explore new directions. His work springs from the meeting of modern painting, as represented by Edvard Munch, Picasso and Max Beckmann, the Jewish culture that he is a child of, and everyday life in the Danish welfare society that he grew up in. Always seemingly with natural ease – and always in an insistent belief in the rich language of imagery itself.
Lisette Vind Ebbesen is awarded Carl Jacobsen’s Museum Professional Grant for her outstanding work for Skagens Museum since her appointment to director in 2008. Over a period of ten years, she has successfully merged the museum with Drachmann’s House and Anne and Michael Ancher’s House, overseen the renovation and expansion of the museum and staged exhibitions that have attracted a steadily growing audience, always based on the museum’s own collection.