Every year, the New Carlsberg Foundation marks the birthday of brewer Carl Jacobsen, the founder of the Foundation, by handing out its Danish art awards at a reception for professionals in the assembly hall of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. By recognizing and highlighting the achievements of artists and museum professionals over time, the awards benefit the Danish art world at large and are thus a natural element of the Foundation’s work.

The New Carlsberg Foundation’s Art Awards are given in recognition of special contributions to the Danish art and museum landscape. Four art awards were recently handed out. The New Carlsberg Foundation’s Artist Grant is awarded to both Nina Beier and Kathrine Ærtebjerg. Director of the Hirschsprung Collection Gertrud Oelsner receives Carl Jacobsen’s Museum Professional Grant. And the New Carlsberg Foundation’s Honorary Grant is awarded to curator Kjeld Kjeldsen at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.

The Carlsberg Foundation has appointed two new members to the Board of Directors of the New Carlsberg Foundation. Lisette Vind Ebbesen, director of Art Museums of Skagen, and Toke Lykkeberg, director of the exhibition space Tranen, will join the board of Brewer Carl Jacobsen’s old foundation on 1 April. The historic enlargement of the Board from three to five members is part of the ongoing remodelling of the New Carlsberg Foundation with an eye to embracing an increasingly diverse and dynamic Danish art scene.

The New Carlsberg Foundation invites applications for individual research fellowships within the foundation’s scope of activities. Three types of grants are available: (1) PhD fellowships (up to DKK 1.5 million per grant), (2) postdoc fellowships (up to DKK 1.8 million per grant) and (3) individual project funding. The New Carlsberg Foundation’s Research Initiative was launched in 2010 with the aim of generating new research-based knowledge about art while building a connection between university and museum research.