Lisette Vind Ebbesen, director of Art Museums of Skagen, and Toke Lykkeberg, director of the exhibition space Tranen, will join the board of the New Carlsberg Foundation on 1 April
Istanbul Modern now adds the piece Hammam by the artist duo Randi & Katrine to its collection. With water as the thematic focus it shines a light on the Turkish bath houses in Istanbul
Horsens Art Museum adds three sculptures by Christine Overvad Hansen to its collection
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.
With water as their thematic focus, the artist duo Randi & Katrine have created Hammam, which shines a light on the Turkish bath houses in Istanbul, both as a central aspect of the city’s architectural history and as an unavoidable element of everyday life in the city. Istanbul Modern now adds the piece to its collection thanks to a grant from the New Carlsberg Foundation.
After the destructive fire in 2019, the House of Denmark on Champs-Élysées in Paris has now been restored. The exhibition hall, which has been re-designed by the architecture firm COBE, is ready to open. While the physical reopening has to wait due to Covid restrictions, the House of Denmark is now launching its new digital platform, ‘Le Bicolore’, with support from the New Carlsberg Foundation.
Anders Ruhwald works at the intersection of sculpture, design and craft but always with ceramic as his chosen medium. The Art Institute of Chicago now adds five pieces to its collection that represent different facets of Ruhwald’s work. The New Carlsberg Foundation has supported the purchase.
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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.
With political approval in place and donations from, among others, Købmand Herman Sallings Fond and the New Carlsberg Foundation, a large extension of ARoS is now becoming a reality. A principal component of the project, which is titled The Next Level, is The Dome, a huge work of art created by the internationally acclaimed American artist James Turrell.
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