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 WARHOL - EARLY DRAWINGS
January 8 - March 3 2013
Louisiana proudly presents this first ever museum show of this exceptional collection of fine drawings by a very young Andy Warhol from the 1950s. At full these early, often commercial works demonstrate what an outstanding draughtsman Warhol was. Many of the drawings are of a sketch-like character with subjects which the artist, with his acute eye, selected and traced from newspapers and magazines and transformed with his simple line into images. Read more »
 LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY - ANRI SALA
November 2, 2012 - February 3, 2013
Anri Sala was born in Albania in 1974, studied in France and now lives in Berlin. Sala has exhibited internationally since he participated in the European contemporary art biennale Manifesta 3, in 2000.
In 2013 he will be representing France at the Venice Biennale. Anri Sala creates films in which music and sound are central narrative elements. By creating precise overlaps and pauses dialogue form between the different works of art and use of music and sound structures the viewers' experience.
Sala's themes are the political sphere and personal relationships. Read more »
SELF-PORTRAIT
September 14, 2012 - January 13, 2013
The self-portrait is a classic, well-tried but also intense and sometimes raw genre taking many different expressions all through art history. Louisiana’s big exhibition shows major works from the twentieth century till the present and in all media. Comprising important works by a.o Picasso, Bonnard, Dalí, Kahlo, Mapplethorpe, Warhol and Basquiat. Read more »
 NEW NORDIC – Architecture & Identity
June 29 - November 4, 2012
Louisiana is famous for its architecture exhibits. One, because these exhibits always reflects a contemporary view of the material - they are about our world now! Secondly because they go against professional narrow-mindedness and mix artistic statements with architectural realities. Thirdly, they make complete use of the location and space of the museum. Nordic is very popular at present, from cuisine and design to politics and welfare, and New Nordic takes on what the Nordic actually is.
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 ED KIENHOLZ - FIVE CAR STUD
June 6 - October 21, 2012
This is indeed a special opportunity to experience the installation Five Car Stud by American artist Ed Kienholz. Created 1969-1972, it has only recently resurfaced after having been stored away for almost forty years. Five Car Stud is a disturbing, provocative and physically insistent artwork, and its relevance today is beyond doubt.
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 PINK CAVIAR
May 24 - August 19, 2012
Louisiana unveils the impressive amount of art acquired by the museum over the past three years. Pink Caviar is a bold and vivid display, presenting more than 50 artists and more than 150 artworks in all genres; video, photography, installation, sculpture, and painting. Ranging from major works by established and renowned artists as a.o. Roni Horn, Erwin Wurm, Thomas Demand and Wolfgang Tillmans to young and emerging talents from many parts of the world.
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 WOMEN OF THE AVANT-GARDE 1920-1940
14 February - 28 May 2012
The exhibition presented an exciting but hitherto under-illuminated chapter in the history of art to the public. Works by eight of the most prominent women avant-garde artists of the inter-war years, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Claude Cahun, Sonia Delaunay, Germaine Dulac, Florence Henri, Hannah Höch, Katarzyna Kobro.
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 LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY: YAEL BARTANA
28 February - 20 May 2012
Pioneers of the future meet ghosts of the past in Yael Bartana's enticing, epic and visually stunning trilogy AND EUROPE WILL BE STUNNED. Fiction, documentary and propaganda blend together in these three films that recount the rise and fate of The Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland.
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 ANDREAS GURSKY
With their visual mastery, the works of the German photographer Andreas Gursky insist on the vast, fascinating power of the image and stand as a modern proposal for what beauty may be. Andreas Gursky’s photographs are the answer of art to ‘extreme sports’. His works grow out of hours of effort interweaving hundreds of pictures taken with the most sophisticated equipment, often from extreme positions, into one image.
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 LOUISIANA ON PAPER: ELLSWORTH KELLY
26 January - 29 April 2012
The American artist Ellsworth Kelly’s drawings are art of supreme excellence. The translation of the gaze into the motion of the hand is a central theme in Kelly’s plant drawings, executed with a simplicity and care and a love of form. Read more»
PAST EXHIBITIONS 2011
 LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY: AI WEIWEI
18 November 2011 - 12 February 2012
Showing three large, striking works by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei: Forever, 2003, Fountain of Light, 2007 and Trees, 2009-2010, as well as a number of films. Ai Weiwei was recently ranked as the most influential artist in the world by the magazine ArtReview. Read more »
 KLEE & COBRA
30 September 2011 - 8 January 2012
Two focal points of 20th century art, Paul Klee and the Cobra group, were fundamentally inspired by the creative power of children. Now, for the first time, the exhibition at Louisiana presented this surprising and important relationship. Read more »
 LOUISIANA ON PAPER: VIJA CELMINS
8 September 2011 - 8 January 2012
Vija Celmins, the third artist in the exhibition series Louisiana on paper, is an example of how work on paper can be a core area for an artist. In an extremely realistic technique the artist reorganizes and imitates black-and-white photographs, usually executed in grisaille, grey shades, which form patterns of light and shade. Read more »
 LIVING: FRONTIERS OF ARCHITECTURE III-IV
1 June - 23 October 2011
Inspiring, surprising and thought-provoking. Louisiana's large-scale summer exhibition 2011 was full of impressions and insights into the multiple ways we live in the world today. In an extensive look through an anthropological lens, Living presented a crossover between architectural projects and art installations. Read more »
 DAVID HOCKNEY: ME DRAW ON iPAD
8 April - 4 September 2011
David Hockney’s discovery of the inexpensive drawing application called Brushes for iPhones and iPads opened up a different world for the English artist. Hockney has created more than 400 drawings, first on his iPhone, and later on his iPad. The Louisiana’s installation included several hundred of the works displayed on 20 iTouches; 20 iPads; a triptych slide show and several projections. Read more »
 JOSEF ALBERS: LOUISIANA ON PAPER
1 July - 28 August 2011
This summer presentation of works on paper by Josef Albers featured material, that to a great extent has not been on public view before. Offering a rare and unique glimpse into the extensive and passionate studies of one of the great modern masters of colour. Read more »
 LOUISIANA ON PAPER: AL TAYLOR
2 March - 15 June 2011
Louisiana – on paper is a new series of minor exhibitions at Louisiana, to be shown in the course of 2011. The exhibitions focus on prints and drawings, and the first artist in the series is the American Al Taylor (1948-1999). The museum already owns a number of his photogravure prints. Read more »
 PICASSO PEACE & FREEDOM
11. February - 29 May 2011
Louisiana’s spring exhibition 2011 added new aspects to our insight into the perhaps greatest 20th-century artist and to what drove him personally. A selection of works dating from 1944 to his death in 1973 drew a rich and varied picture of the socially conscious, politically committed and peace-loving Picasso.
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PAST EXHIBITIONS 2010
 WALTON FORD - Louisiana Contemporary
12 November 2010 – 6 March 2011
This was the first presentation in Scandinavia of american artist Walton Ford, whose large-scale watercolours are (melo)dramatic, powerful, and wonderous depictions of the way human civlisation and our imagination has perceived and treated the animal world. Read more »
 ANSELM KIEFER
10 September 2010 – 9 January 2011
A powerful and gripping presentation of one of the world's most prominent living classic artists. A journey in time and space, an encounter with huge forces, the sweep of history, myths and narratives. Anselm Keifer at Louisiana was the major art experience of the season. Read more »
 SOPHIE CALLE – Louisiana Contemporary
23 June – 24 October 2010
Louisiana presented a number of central works by one of France's most famed contemporary artists, including the monumental Take Care of Yourself, which was one of the highlights of the Venice Biennale in 2007.
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 WARHOL AFTER MUNCH
4 June – 12 September 2010
Louisiana welcomed guests to a rare presentation of Warhol’s “Munch pictures” shown together with several of Munch's original prints – constituting a unique museum experience and encounter between two great artists.
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 COLOUR in ART
5 January – 13 June 2010
With a cornucopia of works – from Matisse, Van Gogh and Derain to Richter, Sam Francis, Yves Klein and Kusama – this exhibition presented the story of the role and significance of colour to artists and to the development of modern art. Colour as means, end and miracle made COLOUR IN ART a delightful journey of discovery, from the Impressionism of the 1880s up to the present. Read more »
 Pipilotti Rist – Homo sapiens sapiens
7 January – 25 April 2010
Sensual, vivid and technicoloured visions of Paradise soared above museum guests lying on the floor of Louisiana's Hall Gallery. Swiss artist Pipilotti Rists Homo sapiens sapiens captured reviewers as well as scores of viewers with her poetic video installation. Read more »
PAST EXHIBITIONS 2009
Faith, Hope and Love – Jacob Holdt's America
2 October 2009 – 7 February 2010
Through 40 years as a photographer and storyteller, Jacob Holdt has captured pictures of extraordinary sensitivity, placing him along with the greatest international photographers in this tradition. Faith, Hope and Love – Jacob Holdt's America marked the first major museum presentation in the world of his work.
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THE WORLDS IS YOURS
5 September 2009 - 10 January 2010
Presenting works of 24 international artists THE WORLD IS YOURS formed the biggest contemporary exhibition at Louisiana in years.
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Green Architecture for the Future
29 May – 18 December 2009
Higly acclaimed exhibition focusing on new departures in architecture that meet the need for sustainable development. New inventions, materials, processes and complex architectural methods in the built-up environment presented in three exhibition themes The City, Climate & Comfort and Metabolism.
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New Acquisitions 2007-2008
5 March - 13 September 2009
A presentation of recent acquisitions to the Louisiana Collection. A total of more than 100 new works all acquired in 2007 and 2008 and each constituting an important addition to the collection.
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Max Ernst. Dream and Revolution
6 February - 1 June 2009
The first major presentation in Denmark of Max Ernst
- one of the most influential 20th century artists.
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2008
LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY – Eve Sussman & The Rufus Corporation
8 November 2008 - 15 February 2009
Manga! Japanese Images
8 October 2008 - 8 February 2009
The Architect's Universe - Jørn Utzon - Processes and Visions
Lousiana c/o Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy
14 September - 2 November 2008
Per Kirkeby
Louisiana 2008
2 September 2008 - 11 January 2009
8 Works 4 Weeks
From the permanent collection: works by Louise Bourgeois, Thomas Demand, Helmut Federle, Sam Francis, Sol Lewitt, Juan Munoz, Sigmar Polke, Frank Stella
11 July - 17 August 2008
Museums in the 21st Century:
Concepts Projects Buildings
18 June - 14 September 2008
LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY - Jon Kessler
The Palace at 4 A.M., 2005-06
9 April - 25 May 2008
Cézanne & Giacometti
Paths of Doubt
20 February - 29 June 2008
LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY - Candice Breitz
9 January - 30 March 2008
2007
FOR THE PRIVILEDGED FEW
Islamic Miniature Painting from the David Collection
9 October 2007 - 1 January 2008
Lucian Freud
28 September 2007 - 27 January 2008
LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY - Tal R: The Sum
7 September 2007 - 6 January 2008
Richard Avedon - Photographs 1946-2004
24 August 2007 - 13 January 2008
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