Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

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The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is located in northern Zealand with a panoramic view across the Øresund. The museum frames the sculpture park facing the sea and the interaction between art, nature and the museum architecture is quite unique.

Louisiana is an international museum with a considerable collection of modern art. The museum's permanent collection includes more than 3000 works and is one of the largest in Scandinavia. It takes its point of departure in the period after 1945 including artists like Picasso, Giacometti, Dubuffet, Yves Klein , Andy Warhol , Rauschenberg, Henry Moore , Louise Bourgeois , Philip Guston , Morris Louis , Jorn, Baselitz, Polke, Kiefer, and Per Kirkeby .

Every year Louisiana offers 4-6 temporary exhibitions, presenting both great modernist artists and the latest international contemporary art in the series Louisiana Contemporary. Throughout the years the museum has persisted in taking the international view as a premise for its exhibitions and Louisiana's status implies that the museum is able to attract future exhibitions and artists of a standard available to only very few Scandinavian museums.

Louisiana's exhibition programme has always covered a wide range primarily focusing on the interaction between the different art forms. Louisiana therefore has a long standing tradition of culture-historical exhibitions and of presenting large, international photo, design and architecture shows. The exhibition activities and the development of the collection are closely linked, and thus the exhibitions often leave their mark on the collection thanks to acquisitions and donations.

Louisiana opening hours:
Tuesday-Friday 11-22h
Saturday, sunday and Holy Days: 11-18h
Monday closed

represented artists

Absalon      Doug Aitken      Josef Albers      Arman      John M. Armleder      Francis Bacon      Roger Ballen      Jennifer Bartlett      Georg Baselitz      Joseph Beuys      Michael Bevilacqua      Max Bill      Hartmut Böhm      Peter Bonde      Louise Bourgeois      Candice Breitz      Scott Burton      Alexander Calder      César      Enzo Cucchi      Jim Dine      Jean Dubuffet      Olafur Eliasson      Max Ernst      Eric Fischl      Sam Francis      Naum Gabo      Alberto Giacometti      Johan Grimonprez      Cai Guo-Qiang      Phillip Guston      Richard Hamilton      Mona Hatoum      Auguste Herbin      Gary Hill      Jörg Immendorff      Runa Islam      Robert Jacobsen      Neil Jenney      Jesper Just      Mike Kelley      Ellsworth Kelly      Anselm Kiefer      Per Kirkeby

Yves Klein      Peter Land      Henri Laurens      Julio Le Parc      Roy Lichtenstein      Richard Long      Morris Louis      Paul McCarthy      Mario Merz      Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset      Aernout Mik      Joan Miró      Henry Moore      Kenneth Noland      Claes Oldenburg      Dennis Oppenheim      Kirsten Ortwed      Nam June Paik      Mimmo Paladino      A.R. Penck      Pablo Picasso      Arnulf Rainer      Robert Rauschenberg      Martial Raysse      Gerhard Richter      George Rickey      Pipilotti Rist      Robert Ryman      David Salle      Richard Serra      Joel Shapiro      Jesús Rafael Soto      Frank Stella      Superflex      Sam Taylor-Wood      Jean Tinguely      Richard Tuttle      Salla Tykkä      Victor Vasarely      Bill Viola      Andy Warhol