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LOUISIANA’S NEW WORKS

2.12.25 – 6.4.26

Look forward to a spectacular encounter with a large selection of the many new works Louisiana has acquired over the past years.

From 2022 and onwards, Louisiana has once again been able to add a broad and important variety of works to the museum collection. Great surprises therefore await when the South Wing is reopened and “unpacked” at the beginning of the Christmas month to showcase these many new acquired and donated works.

On show here will be works ranging from painting, photography and sculpture to video and installations. And here you will come across both classics and artists who have been exhibited at the museum in recent years – names such as Diane Arbus, Pipilotti Rist, Dana Schutz, Alex Da Corte and Richard Prince.

Presented as well will be a large number of contemporary artists that the museum’s guests here will meet for the first time. Contemporary art remains a natural and vital focal point when it comes to collecting, “as it constantly gives the museum the opportunity to renew the contact (and the contract) with our present and near future,” explains Louisiana director Poul Erik Tøjner.

American photographer and activist Nan Goldin’s latest masterpiece ‘Memory Lost’ became part of the museum collection in 2023. ‘Memory Lost’ (2019-21) which is both intimate, poetic, captivating and heartbreaking – and which revolves around abuse, friendship, love, deprivation and loss.

Nan Goldin 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.

‘Memory Lost’ is jointly owned by the Louisiana and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

intimate & harrowing

Louisiana does not collect for the sake of collecting, but because the collection, according to Poul Erik Tøjner, is the DNA strand of the museum:

“The possibility of adding new works is crucial because it provides material for new and different stories and for surprising encounters, supports the dynamic development of the collection and contributes to future-proofing Louisiana as an up-to-date museum of international class.”

COLLECTING PRINCIPLES

Louisiana collects according to several principles. This may involve the acquisition of additional works by artists who are already represented and important to the museum. There may be obvious shortcomings in the historical period that the collection covers – that is, from 1945 onwards. And finally, there is contemporary art, a field in constant motion, both in terms of interesting artists and forms of expression. Ultimately, however, Louisiana collects for the benefit of both new and loyal guests.

About the collection

GENEROUS SUPPORT

This presentation of new works rests largely on the extremely generous support from not least the Augustinus Foundation and the New Carlsberg Foundation as well as the Museumfonden and the Louisiana Foundation. This continued support is in fact crucial when it comes to nurturing and advancing the collection and enabling the Louisiana to safeguard its position as a contemporary museum of international renown.