By RICCARDO BIANCHINI The Louisiana is a renowned museum of modern and contemporary art located near Humlebæk The museum was founded in 1958 by Danish businessman and art collector Knud W Jensen in a beautifully located site on the Zealand coastline The permanent collection of the Louisiana museum comprises about 3,500 works Another major attraction of the Louisiana Museum is its exceptional sculpture garden with pieces by Jean Arp Various views of the museum’s galleries The sculpture garden overlooking the Baltic Sea The Louisiana Museum organizes temporary exhibitions of art and educational activities specially aimed at children and young people specializing in contemporary Danish cuisine The museum shop and a view of the interior of the Children’s Wing All photos courtesy of Louisiana Museum of Modern Art If you combine the work of Olafur Eliasson and the Louisiana museum the outcome can hardly be wrong. Riverbed installation-exhibition in Humlebæk, Denmark copyright Inexhibit 2025 - ISSN: 2283-5474 The entirety of the installation is made of locally sourced unbarked willow wood. A series of cylinders formed by logs is suspended from the ceiling leaving gaps that filter light. At the base, the same logs are cut diagonally to generate the inclination of the seats. The objective is to create a gathering space for the community, inspired by the shaded spaces under trees, highlighting the powerful ability of architecture to embody cultural narratives, traditions, and aspirations. Adriana Arteaga (jefa de proyecto project architect), Dominique Mayer, Sam Perea, Diego Sologuren, Matt Mackay-Lyons, Blake Villwock, Fabian Klemp Sorry, there arent any match using your search terms, please try again using other terms. Marina Abramovic retrospective includes early paintings Fifty years of work by the Serbian-US performance artist Marina Abramovic is coming to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark (Marina Abramovic: the Cleaner, 17 June-22 October). The show includes more than 100 works, among them rarely-seen early paintings. The show's curator, Tine Colstrup, tells us more. 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a profound emotionality that set his work apart from his contemporaries One of the largest retrospectives of Hartley ever mounted – over 110 paintings made between 1906 and 1943 aged sixty-six – and the first in Europe since the early 1960s the exhibition brings together the diverse range of Hartley’s canvases (plus drawing In a sequence of rooms corresponding to the artist’s travels and stylistic periods the exhibition is divided chronologically into six ‘chapters’ that include research-style ‘pinup’ boards of related ephemera Hartley’s agitation might be accounted for by a loneliness and longing that engulfed his hardscrabble childhood and as an adult he reportedly never lived for more than ten months in any one place; this restlessness is reflected in his artistic inquisitiveness but no doubt also relates to the difficulties of living as a gay man in societies where homosexuality was illegal even if accepted in the bohemian circles he moved in It’s through the coded subtexts of homosexual longing that the show proposes we understand the vision that informs Hartley’s heartbreaking paintings The Louisiana retrospective repairs his neglect in Europe while addressing Hartley’s latent homoeroticism (often misunderstood in his lifetime) In so doing it acknowledges the presence of gay desire obscured by the hetero-male modernist canon: the first work here is a Cézanne-style still life unmistakable phallic forms nestled together The final gallery is filled with Hartley’s late-period larger-than-life ‘hunky’ male figures (1935–43) vivid corporeality; he also often incorporated shapes reminiscent of body parts such as thighs buttocks and especially phallic forms in his nonfigurative work Yet soon after a tragic bereavement that marked a peaceful interlude in Nova Scotia Hartley began to incorporate human figures These are at once primitivist and sophisticated often with a single figure against a monochrome background pressed urgently to the picture plane with strange proportions and geometric features that might be mistaken for outsider art for the virtuosic pathos Hartley achieves His work shifts quotidian subjects into the symbolic dimension yet here he approaches the mythic by evoking a ‘regressive’ sensibility in which visual liabilities are used as overtly emotional assets Many works in this later style depict beefy and were disingenuously described by Hartley as created for gymnasiums Yet considering the homoerotic nature of this work – obvious from today’s perspective – Hartley is clearly As curator Mathias Ussing Seeberg has noted: if Hartley painted the landscape like a figure for most of his career in this final phase he paints the figure like a landscape The bodies here are tenderly observed yet idealised perennially an unloved spectator and never a participant establishing an unattainable longing that could be a metaphor for all the neglected dimensions eclipsed by modernism’s emphasis on heteronormative desire Mark Rappolt Reviews Claudia Ross Reviews Martin Herbert Reviews Tom Morton Reviews Gaby Cepeda Reviews ArtReview Newsartreview.com06 May 2025 U.S. artist identified television as both a subject and material John Torres & Shireen Seno take 2025 Han Nefkens Foundation, Mori Art Museum, M+ and Singapore Art Museum – Moving Image Commission ArtReview Newsartreview.com06 May 2025 Seno and Torres will receive USD$100,000 to produce a screen-based video artwork AdvertisementIslamic Arts Biennale 2025 Review: The Weight of the Material Mark Rappolt ReviewsArtReview06 May 2025 ‘And All That Is In Between’ demonstrates that many of the aspects of global culture, or the way culture circulates globally, are not actually a new phenomenon of our ‘globalised’ times Defne Ayas appointed new director of Van Abbemuseum ArtReview Newsartreview.com06 May 2025 She succeeds Charles Esche, who will step down after two decades in the role Mark Rothko painting damaged by child in Dutch museum ArtReview Newsartreview.com02 May 2025 The painting, worth €50 million, has sustained visible scratches The 10 Exhibitions to See in May 2025 ArtReview Previewsartreview.com02 May 2025 Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from the Venice Architecture Biennale to Gallery Weekends in Berlin and Beijing How the Museum Became a Weapon William Shoki Opinionartreview.com02 May 2025 In apartheid South Africa, museums glorified white settlement and erased Black history; 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By continuing to use our site, you accept our use of cookies, revised Privacy outside park Louisiana Museum of Modern Art lake trees don’t miss a visit to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art It’s an easy 1/2 hour train ride from the city followed by about a 10 minute walk Everything about our visit was excellent but a highlight is spending time in the sculpture garden which overlooks the Sound (and you can see the coast of Sweden in the distance) The children’s wing does a fantastic job of creating interesting ways for the kids to plug into modern art and the museum On our visit there was a sculpture garden detective kit where kids had to seek out certain sculptures and examine different aspects and make some discoveries Our kids loved it and it kept them engaged -- and it allowed me to leave them with my husband while I viewed the galleries in peace There is also a great winding slide near the children’s wing that they spent a lot of time on At the end of the day we got a bite to eat and and a glass of wine (for the adults) on the terrace overlooking the Calder sculpture garden and the Sound Don’t miss the gift shop with lots of great modern design items to tempt you There’s a simple explanation why this art gallery has such an unusual name: It was once the private home of Alexander Brun who had three wives over the course of his life Even if the current exhibition isn’t to your taste which sits on a promontory overlooking the sea is one of the world’s most charming galleries and an artwork in itself It’s outside the city limits but is easily reached by a short train ride and a stroll through one of Copenhagen’s most affluent suburbs Just be sure to set an alarm to wake you in case you get too comfortable out there The museum was named by the property’s original owner Leave it to the Danes to create the perfect museum: the art (Calder Rauschenberg) is world-class and the setting worthy of it: billiard table lawns dotted with sculptures I’m tickled to finally meet Giacometti’s Walking Man and stare into his craggy face after seeing him in photos for so many years Denmark & The Danes: http://bit.ly/15aiVrj The Louisana Museum of Modern Art is located 40 minutes outside of Copenhagen in beautiful seaside Humlebæk Its setting on the shores of the Øresund Sound is stunning and the permanent collection of modern and contemporary art is among the most impressive in Europe We spent most of our time in the Children’s Wing where our son tied on a paint-splattered smock for hands-on activities like clay molding Now I am not a person who feels she needs to check out museums when I travel you would be remiss if you came to Denmark and did not visit this museum Not only is the train ride there a lovely switch to being in the city the actual building & grounds are art in themselves Information on this page, including website, location, and opening hours, is subject to have changed since this page was last published. 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AFAR participates in affiliate marketing programs which means we may earn a commission if you purchase an item featured on our site.© 2025 AFAR LLC and I must express myself before disappearing.” These are the words of Ukrainian-born French artist Sonia Delaunay (born Sarah Stern a painter who also designed fabrics costumes and books the wife of artist Robert Delaunay and friend to some of the great intellectuals of 1920s Paris from Guillaume Apollinaire to Tristan Tzara an exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art pays tribute to this remarkable artistic figure who worked on a range of experimental projects with other creative talents of her day (Blaise Cendrars for displaying her fascination with colours and colour contrasts in a Paris dance hall in 1913 when she wore a collage-dress that resembled a Cubist painting The works on show cover her output from 1910 to 1970 and document the incredible variety of designs and expressive channels she used Aspects that make Delaunay one of the artists of the 20th century artists who comes closest to the contemporary spirit and website in this browser for the next time I comment Abitare.it e Style.corriere.it rifiutando tutti i cookie di profilazione ad eccezione di quelli tecnici necessari Naviga il sito di Abitare.it con pubblicità profilata e senza abbonarti By subscribing you will reject all but technical cookies on Iodonna.it By clicking "accept" you will allow to process your personal data by us and third parties and be able to browse Abitare.it website without a subscription By FEDERICA LUSIARDI In Infinity is the title of a major retrospective dedicated to Yayoi Kusama on view until January 2016 at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art The installations conceived by the Japanese artists are singularly powerful and captivating; her “rooms” whose walls and floor are spotted by a myriad of small shapes in visual and chromatic contrast with them evoke a boundless physical and mental space Sometimes Kusama places herself into her fanciful spaces for example in the form of photographs where she dresses clothes speckled with the same patterns of the surrounding space the exhibition starts from Kusama’s early works while the subsequent galleries are dedicated to her work after moving to the United States in the Fifties and joining the New York avant-garde art scene In this period Kusama developed the keystones that still inform her work: fantastic visions of dizzy spaces where one could disappear and be swallowed up by the universe The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is a Danish museum in Humlebæk world-famous for both its collection and its sculpture park View upcoming auction estimates and receive personalized email alerts for the artists you follow The painter Chaïm Soutine (1893–1943), has masterfully captured the time around and between the two world wars. From 9 February, his work is presented in a major exhibition at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark Soutine is one of the leading and most distinctive expressionists of the School of Paris It seems clear that the exhibition in Humlebæk – the first of its kind in Northern Europe – will bring him to a newer The coming presentation of Chaïm Soutine’s work at Louisiana has an aura of discovery about it In spite of figuring as a key artist of classical modernism and being represented in the collections of many prominent art museums Soutine has not previously been the object of wide-ranging attention in Scandinavia The coming presentation of Chaïm Soutine’s work at Louisiana has an aura of discovery about it. In spite of figuring as a key artist of classical modernism and being represented in the collections of many prominent art museums, Soutine has not previously been the object of wide-ranging attention in Scandinavia. The painter Chaïm Soutine (1893–1943), has masterfully captured the time around and between the two world wars. From 9 February, his work is presented in a major exhibition at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. A retrospective at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art celebrates the painter’s distinctive style, characterized by frenetic brushstrokes, bold colors and distorted figuration that borders on abstraction. founder and director of the Louisiana Museum The museum's name came with the estate it was built on which was named after the three wives of Alexander Brun (Each of whom was named Louise.) Jensen began his career as a businessman taking over his father's cheese exporting business at age twenty-seven When he acquired a huge warehouse and a publishing company and he began buying works by modern Danish artists to fill "all those new empty spaces." He started a program called Art in the Workplace in which companies pooled their resources and bought artworks which traveled around to workers' rest and canteen areas Jensen visited the Danish Royal Museum of Fine Arts Soon afterward he stumbled on the abandoned Louisiana He hired two architects and they worked on making an inviting and tells of various shows which have visited the museum Describes Jensen's close association with artist Alberto Giacometti Jensen's three mentors in the museum world were Arnold Bode Describes some mishaps which occurred when the museum held shows of "performance art." Tells about Jensen's personality View Article