Exhibition // Nan Goldin – Memory Lost
In the exhibition with selected works from Louisiana’s collection, you’ll find the new acquisition: 'Memory Lost' by Nan Goldin. The work is an approx 24 minute long digital slide show, which has already been heralded as a masterpiece in Goldin's career. The work - which is both intimate, poetic, captivating and heartbreaking - revolves around abuse, friendship, love, deprivation and loss. It is jointly owned by the Louisiana and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
‘Memory Lost’ (2019-21) is composed of images and footage from Goldin’s extensive archive. The artist has battled with addicition and came close to dying a few years ago as a result of her addiction to the painkiller OxyContin. Since then, she has been at the forefront of the fight against the Sackler family, the producers of this drug, which in large part has caused the current, devastating opioid epidemic in the United States. Goldin and her activist group P.A.I.N. have been portrayed in the award-winning documentary ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’, which recently was nominated to an Oscar.
Opening hours
Tuesday - Friday 11:00 - 22:00
Saturday - Sunday 11:00 - 18:00
Monday closed
Exhibition // Nan Goldin – Memory Lost
In the exhibition with selected works from Louisiana’s collection, you’ll find the new acquisition: 'Memory Lost' by Nan Goldin. The work is an approx 24 minute long digital slide show, which has already been heralded as a masterpiece in Goldin's career. The work - which is both intimate, poetic, captivating and heartbreaking - revolves around abuse, friendship, love, deprivation and loss. It is jointly owned by the Louisiana and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
‘Memory Lost’ (2019-21) is composed of images and footage from Goldin’s extensive archive. The artist has battled with addicition and came close to dying a few years ago as a result of her addiction to the painkiller OxyContin. Since then, she has been at the forefront of the fight against the Sackler family, the producers of this drug, which in large part has caused the current, devastating opioid epidemic in the United States. Goldin and her activist group P.A.I.N. have been portrayed in the award-winning documentary ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’, which recently was nominated to an Oscar.
Opening hours
Tuesday - Friday 11:00 - 22:00
Saturday - Sunday 11:00 - 18:00
Monday closed
Exhibition // Richard Prince – Same Man
One of the most influential US artists from the 1980s onwards and a central figure of American ‘The Pictures Generation’, Richard Prince (b. 1949) often uses banal images from our entertainment and consumption culture, which he twists and transforms in a way where the ordinary is "uplifted" into something both strange and seductive.
The exhibition entitled SAME MAN is the first presentation of Richard Prince in Scandinavia presenting 89 works, many of which are from the artist’s own extensive archive. The exhibition includes, among other things, his now famous ‘rephotographs’, which he creates by taking pictures of existing images typically sourced from glossy magazines. Using the cropping of the camera and a multitude of nuances in the form of colour, lighting, focus or even tape, Prince opens the way for a fresh interpretation of the images.
Opening hours
Tuesday - Friday 11:00 - 22:00
Saturday - Sunday 11:00 - 18:00
Monday closed
Exhibition // Ragnar Kjartansson - Epic Waste of Love and Understanding
One of the must-see exhibitions of 2023, according to The Art Newspaper, this presentation of Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson features works in a variety of media, ranging from drawing and painting to performance and large-scale spatial works. The exhibition is developed in close collaboration with the artist who is widely recognized as one of the most exciting and significant voices of contemporary art. Kjartansson (b. 1976) takes a both loving and critical look at Western culture. Love, identity, melancholy, masculinity, power and powerlessness are among the artist’s central themes. He often uses repetition as a method – repeating a motif, a scene or a single strophe over a prolonged period of time. The balance between existential or political seriousness and superficial cliché invests the works with a precise, quivering ambiguity.
Opening hours
Tuesday - Friday 11:00 - 22:00
Saturday - Sunday 11:00 - 18:00
Monday closed
August Sander
English below
Louisiana viser nu et udvalg på mere end 250 fotografier af August Sanders livsværk ”Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts” (Mennesket i det 20. århundrede). Sanders værk er et enestående gruppeportræt af det tyske samfund under Weimarrepublikken. og det står som en klassiker i såvel europæisk foto- som kunsthistorie. På Louisiana vises det som en selvstændig del af en ny, stor udstilling 'Det Kolde Øje -Tyskland i 1920'erne' om tysk kunst og kulturliv for 100 år siden.
August Sander (1876-1964) påbegyndte for alvor sit banebrydende, dokumentariske projekt ‘Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts’ (Mennesker i det 20. århundrede) midt i 1920’erne ud fra ønsket om at dokumentere og klassificere “alt det, der kendetegner det universelt menneskelige”. Her satte han sig for at portrættere såvel fremtrædende som anonyme tyskere fra alle samfundslag i en enkel og nøgtern stil og inddele dem i kategorier.
Sander inddelte selv sin typologi af det tyske samfund i syv grupper, som det også fremgår af udstillingen. Her er bonden, håndværkeren, kvinden, stænderne, kunstnerne, storbyen og de sidste mennesker (de ekskluderede). Samlet præsenterer fotografierne et tværsnit af samfundet fra bønderne og deres håndværk til de revolutionære i byerne, autoriteterne og de marginaliserede.
Kendetegnende for August Sanders projekt var, at han portrætterede alle med den samme distance og værdighed. Han giver sine landsmænd mulighed for at posere, med front lige mod kameraet, så de fremstår velovervejet og i deres naturlige omgivelser.
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August Sander
A selection of more than 250 photographs of August Sander's life’s work “Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts” (People of the 20th Century) forms an independent part of the exhibition about Germany in the 1920s. This unique group portrait of German society during the Weimar Republic stands as a classic in both European photographic and art history.
August Sander is shown as part of The Cold Gaze – Germany in the 1920’s , a collaboration with Centre Pompidou, Paris.
August Sander (1876-1964) truly embarked on his ground-breaking documentary project ‘Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts’ (People of the 20th Century) in the mid-1920s out of the desire to document and classify “all the characteristics of the universally human”. Here he set out to portray both prominent and anonymous Germans from all parts of society in a simple and matter-of-fact pictorial style, while dividing them into seven categories.
Sander’s monumental image atlas, which exemplifies distinctive ‘types’ in order to let the individual step into character at the same time, constitutes a unique group portrait of German society during the Weimar Republic. Though he would lose the larger part of his negatives in a fire in 1946, his project is so all encompassing, courageuos and ambitious, that it stands unrivalled in European art and photography history.
Photo Credit:
Polizeibeamter. Der Herr Wachtmeister (Politibetjent), 1925
Sølvgelatine-print, 22,5 x 15,7 cm.
Die Photographische Sammlung SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne
© 2021 Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur - August Sander
Louisiana Museum and Copenhagen Photo Festival collaborate
Photo credit: Diane Arbus poses for a rare portrait in the Automat at Sixth Avenue between 41st & 42nd Street in New York, New York circa 1968. (Photo by Roz Kelly/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
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Copenhagen Photo Festival and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art are collaborating in connection with this year's photo festival in June. This means that anyone with a festival ticket can get a discount at the entrance to Louisiana during the festival period. The museum has also arranged a special tour of the current exhibition Diane Arbus, Photographs 1956-1971 only for Copenhagen Photo Festival guests free of charge. Festival guests are also invited to participate in the Louisiana Lecture on Diane Arbus with the British author Geoff Dyer.
Copenhagen Photo festival guests can now look forward to a special benefit when they buy a ticket to this year's festival. This year, the ticket not only gives access to the many exhibitions, talks and events in the Festival Center on Refshaleøen. If you are a Festival Pass holder, you also get half price at the entrance to the beautiful art museum in Humlebæk north of Copenhagen during the festival period 2.-12. June.
Take a special tour with Arbus
If you are interested in photography, the current exhibition is an absolute must. Until August, Louisiana Diane Arbus, Photographs 1956-1971 about the American photographer with the special eye for crooked existences and lop-sided perspectives. She was one of the crucial figures in the development of contemporary art photography, and on June 7, the museum invites you to an exclusive tour of the exhibition for 30 of the photo festival's guests. The museum is free upon presentation of a special festival ticket, which can be purchased via the link below.
Book your festival Pass tour ticket
Louisiana also invited Copenhagen Photo Festival’s photo enthusiastic guests to join the Louisiana Lecture on Diane Arbus on June 8 at 19.30 with author and critic Geoff Dyer. Dyer has written several books on photography and will talk about Arbus' special ability to capture what you do not otherwise see in your photographs. The lecture is held in English, and you can register by sending an email to info@copenhagenphotofestival.com. There are only a few VIP tickets available, so do not hesitate to book your seat.
Read more about Geoff Dyer's Louisiana Lecture
Read more about Diane Arbus and the exhibition
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Louisiana og Copenhagen Photo Festival samarbejder
Copenhagen photo Festival og Louisiana har indgået et samarbejde i forbindelse med årets fotofestival i juni. Det betyder, at alle med en festivalbillet kan få rabat på indgangen til Louisiana. Museet har desuden arrangeret en særomvisning i udstillingen Diane Arbus, Photographs 1956-1971 kun for Copenhagen Photo Festivals gæster samt inviteret interesserede til at deltage i en Louisiana Lecture om Arbus med den britiske forfatter Geoff Dyer.
Copenhagen Photo festivals gæster kan nu se frem til en særlig fordel, når de køber billet til årets festival. I år giver billetten ikke blot adgang til de mange udstillinger, talks og events i Festival Centrum på Refshaleøen. Man får også halv pris på indgangen til det smukke kunstmuseum i Humlebæk nord for København i festivalperioden 2.-12. juni, hvis man kan fremvise en festivalbillet.
Tag på særomvisning med Arbus
Interesserer man sig for fotografi er den aktuelle udstilling et must. Frem til august viser Louisiana Diane Arbus, Photographs 1956-1971 om den amerikanske fotograf med det særlige blik for de skæve eksistenser. Hun var en af de helt afgørende skikkelse for udviklingen af moderne kunstfotografi, og den 7. juni inviterer museet til en særomvisning i udstillingen for 30 af fotofestivalens gæster. Omvisningen og entreen til museet er gratis mod forevisning af en særlig festivalbillet, som kan købes via linket herunder
Book din festival billet med omvisning
VIP-billetter til Louisiana Lecture om Arbus med Geoff Dyer
Louisiana har desuden stillet et antal VIP-billetter til rådighed til den britiske forfatter Geoff Dyers Louisiana Lecture om Diane Arbus den 8. juni kl. 19.30. Dyer har skrevet flere bøger om fotografi og vil tale om Arbus’ særlig evne til at indfange det, man ellers ikke ser i sine fotografier. Foredraget afholdes på engelsk, og man kan tilmelde sig ved at sende en mail til info@copenhagenphotofestival.com. Der er kun få VIP-billetter til rådighed, så skynd dig at booke din billet.
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