Among other elements, the programme includes interviews with internationally recognized scientists and leading Danish artists. The first event in the series takes place on Thursday, 16 March at 19:00–21:00 at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.
Science | Passion is organized by the Carlsberg Foundation, the New Carlsberg Foundation and the Glyptotek in cooperation with Politiken Live. In the three spring evenings events, which take place in the Assembly Hall at the Glyptotek, archaeologists, physicists and visual artists engage in live interviews with journalists from the Danish newspaper Politiken. The events also feature contributions from Carlsberg Laboratory and guided close-up studies of select masterpieces from the rich collection at the Glyptotek. Each event revolves around a current theme, and during the break, participants can enjoy a complimentary glass of the evening’s beer.
Read more about the events (in Danish)
In a hectic time, when knowledge often fails to spread outside a given professional circuit, the intention behind Science | Passion is to highlight new and ground-breaking scientific knowledge as well as insights from the world of art in a format that meets the audience at eye level and relates to the world around us.
Among other elements, the three Science | Passion events feature interviews with Professors Jeffrey S. Hangst ad Rubina Raja and artists Bjørn Nørgaard, Tal R and Erik A. Frandsen. The events also include contributions from archaeologists, art historians and scientists from the Carlsberg family.
It runs in the family
Science and art are deeply embedded in the Carlsberg family’s DNA. The founder of Carlsberg, J. C. Jacobsen, modernized beer-making by scientific means and laid the basis for Carlsberg’s still ongoing massive support for science by establishing the Carlsberg Foundation. His son Carl Jacobsen followed a similar path; with the earnings from his brewery and the founding of the New Carlsberg Foundation he became the biggest Danish patron of the arts to date, in part by donating his own vast art collection and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Today, the Carlsberg Foundation and the New Carlsberg Foundation are among the biggest funders in Denmark of science and the arts, respectively.
This diverse and vibrant legacy forms the core of Science | Passion, which aims to create a new format for conveying some of the many insights of science and the arts.
Premiere – an evening dedicated to RUIN
The opening night on Thursday, 16 March at 19:00–21:00 has RUIN as its overarching theme. Among others, you can meet Professor Rubina Raja, a classic archaeologist at Aarhus University, and Politiken journalist Gudrun Marie Schmidt who engage in a conversation about the ancient city of Palmyra, which in recent years has been ravaged by IS. Next, artist Bjørn Nørgaard is interviewed about ruin as a concept in artistic practice. In closing, archaeologist and Head of Collections Rune Frederiksen takes a close look at a masterpiece in the Glyptotek collection, The Beauty of Palmyra, which is put on display in the museum’s Assembly Hall especially for the event.