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, directly on the shore of the Öresund. The museum buildings were designed by different architects and are located on a hillside site by the sea. All the buildings are directly connected to each other. The park facing 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 each other.
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Break Room © Louisiana Museum of Modern Art / Kim Hansen
The Louisiana collection comprises more than 3,000 works of art from the period after 1945, many of which are of international significance and are major works by the artists.
The collection focuses primarily on certain artistic groups:
- European Nouveau Réalisme: Yves Klein, Lucio Fontana.
- American Pop Art: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg.
- German art of the 1980s: Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz.
- 20th century sculptures: Max Bill, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Henry Moore; these are mainly located in the sculpture park.
-Video art from 1990 to the present day: Bill Viola, Gary Hill, Candice Breitz.
and the creative periods of individual artists:
- Alberto Giacometti
- Asger Jorn
- David Hockney
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.
The museum regularly puts together exhibitions on special themes,[3] which are then shown in the museum and later presented elsewhere.
