Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

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Main entrance
Gamle Villa (Old Villa) built in 1855
Pauserum (break room)
Coffee shop
Louisiana in winter

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is probably the most important museum for modern and contemporary art in Denmark .

It is located 35 kilometers north of Copenhagen in Humlebæk, right on the banks of the Øresund . The museum buildings were planned by different architects and are located on a plot of land on a hillside by the sea. All buildings are directly connected to each other. The park to the Öresund and a garden with a lake on the west side are part of the museum. Sculptures, landscape art and designed nature are coordinated with one another.

In 2015 the museum had 724,580 visitors.

The managing director has been Poul Erik Tøjner since 2000 .

history

The name of the museum goes back to the previous owner of the main house built in 1855, Alexander Brun (1814-1893), who named the property after his three wives, all of whom had the first name Louise .

In 1958 the private, state-approved museum was opened by the founder Knud W. Jensen . It was designed by the architects Vilhelm Wohlert and Jørgen Bo and was initially intended to be used primarily for the exhibition of modern Danish art. A few years later, works by contemporary international artists were increasingly being presented. Louisiana is now a foundation .

In addition to the extensive permanent exhibition, there are four to six changing exhibitions every year. Works by contemporary artists will be shown, including international art in the "Louisiana Contemporary" series.

In addition to the main house - an old patrician villa - the building stock includes the modern extensions of the north wing with glass corridors and cafeteria (opened in 1958), the west wing and the concert hall (1966–1976), the south wing sunk into the ground (1982) and the underground east wing ( 1992), which gave the facility an almost circular structure. The last extensions took place in the years 1994–1998: The children's house on the lake was built and the museum shop was moved to the basement. Extensive modernization measures were carried out from 2003 to 2006, which were made possible by private donations and funds from the Danish Ministry of Culture.

collection

The Louisiana collection includes more than 3,000 works of art from the period after 1945. Many of the pieces are of international significance and are major works by the artists.

The collection mainly focuses on certain artistic groups:

as well as the creative periods of individual artists:

The museum also acquired works by important young artists such as Wolfgang Tillmans , Elmgreen and Dragset , Julie Mehretu , Isa Genzken , Doug Aitken and Jonathan Meese .

Special exhibitions

The museum regularly puts together exhibitions on special topics, which are then shown in the museum and later presented elsewhere. The museum publishes literature for these exhibitions. An example of such an exhibition was “Arne Jacobsen. Absolutely modern ”on the 100th birthday of the Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen , in which, in addition to his furniture designs Egg , Swan and Series 7 - these are also part of the museum's regular collection - replicas of complete rooms from his total work of art, SAS Royal Hotel , were shown.

An exhibition about the work of Paul Klee with the title Klee en Cobra. Het Begint als Kind was on view at the Cobra Museum from January 2012 to April 2012 . The exhibition was organized in collaboration with the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.

Literature festival

In 2014, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art hosted an international literature festival for the fifth time. The participants are presented according to the sauna principle invented by Knud W. Jensen. This means that renowned, multiple award-winning authors and promising newcomers always appear alternately. Well-known authors in 2014 included Herta Müller , Daniel Kehlmann , Joyce Carol Oates , Margaret Atwood , Michael Ondaatje , Lydia Davis , Péter Esterházy , Sjón and the Egyptian Ala al-Aswani

Partners and sponsors

The Republic of Fritz Hansen and Nørgaard på Strøget are Louisiana's main corporate partners.

The UBS supports programs and exhibitions in Louisiana. Realdania has supported Louisiana's architectural exhibitions since 2006. The new Carlsberg Foundation has generously supported the Louisiana purchasing program for most of the museum's history.

literature

  • Knud W. Jensen: My Louisiana life / career of a museum. Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt 1991, ISBN 3-85415-081-4 .
  • Louisiana Samling and bygninger / The Collection and Building. 3rd edition. Self-published, Humlebæk 1988.

Web links

Commons : Louisiana Museum of Modern Art  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kunstmuseet Louisiana i Vanvittig audience record ( Danish ) sn.dk. January 5, 2016. Accessed April 14, 2020.
  2. ↑ https://www.louisiana.dk/en/louisiana-history
  3. ↑ List of exhibitions ( Memento of October 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Danish)
  4. ↑ Michaela Wailzer: Design icon Arne Jacobsen: Suffocating on aesthetics . In: Spiegel Online . May 23, 2003.
  5. ↑ Klee en Cobra. Het begins as a child ( Memento from May 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Exhibition about Paul Klee at the Cobra Museum, from January 28, 2012 to April 22, 2012. Dutch, accessed February 24, 2013.
  6. ↑ Utopias for everyone: Ólafur Elíasson in Louisiana in FAZ from July 25, 2014, p. 14.
  7. ↑ Marina Abramovic on the museum website, accessed on September 21, 2017.
  8. ↑ Barbara Fellgiebel: Insider tip Louisiana - literature in Europe's most beautiful art museum. Literaturcafe.de, September 1, 2014, accessed on September 21, 2014 .
  9. ↑ LOUISIANA LITERATURE 2014. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, accessed September 21, 2014 .
  10. ^ Louisiana partners and sponsors. Retrieved November 13, 2019 .

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