PRESS RELEASE 18 MAY 2021

The New Carlsberg Foundation provides DKK 50 million to Danish art venues

SMK pressefoto

The New Carlsberg Foundation establishes its second Restart Fund for art venues. Art museums, art halls and non-commercial exhibition venues can apply to the fund until 9 August.

2021 NON-EARMARKED FUND

Olafur Eliasson transforms Fondation Beyeler

Olafur Eliasson Fondation Beyeler

Olafur Eliasson recently transformed Fondation Beyeler into a microcosm, and we are invited in. Along with ducks, flowers and other organisms we become participants in a unique spatial and sensory universe as we experience the installation and its interplay with the museum’s architecture and natural surroundings. The New Carlsberg Foundation has supported the development of the digital platform of this solo exhibition.

2021 NON-EARMARKED FUND

Le Bicolore – new platform for contemporary art, design and architecture

Le Bicolore Danmarkshuset Paris

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.

2020 NON-EARMARKED FUND

Lergaard renewed

Niels Lergaard. Familien, Oplysning, Forskning, Poesien, 1955

Niels Lergaard’s large painting Familien, Oplysning, Forskning, Poesien (Family, Enlightenment, Science, Poetry), which was originally donated to the teacher’s college Haderslev Statsseminarium by the New Carlsberg Foundation in 1955, was in need of repair after years of wear and tear. With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation the painting now appears revitalized after much-needed restoration by conservators from the National Museum of Denmark.