Please do not forget to visit Louisiana's Concert Hall, a beautiful and harmonious space where two important and monumental key works from Louisiana's collection are on permanent display.
One of the large paintings currently hanging in the Concert Hall is the more than ten-metre-long work by British artist Cecily Brown (b. 1969). The work – entitled Where, When, How Often and with Whom – was part of the large exhibition presenting her work back in 2018 and has been part of the museum’s collection ever since. The artist herself decided that the work could remain hanging in the museum in Humlebæk after the exhibition closed.
“From the start the painting has had a connection with my experience of the Louisiana, of the place, the sky around it and the sea; and in spite of everything else it’s a work with a shipwreck in it. And then at the same time,” she says, “I simply want to express my gratitude for the great cooperation I’ve had with the museum around the exhibition.”
Where, When, How Often and with Whom was painted in 2017, and like her work in general it is full of references to the great masters of art history. But it is also directly inspired by the so-called Burkini affair in the summer of 2016 when French police accosted a veiled woman on the beach in Nice.
Join the museum’s director, Poul Erik Tøjner, in the Concert Hall to hear more about the work – one of Kirkeby’s major late works. In 2002, Tøjner curated Louisiana’s exhibition of Kirkeby’s Pop Art, 122 x 122 Painting on Masonite, featuring works from the 1960s and 1970s. In 2008, he curated the major retrospective marking Kirkeby’s 70th birthday. Most recently, in 2020, he curated an exhibition focusing on Kirkeby’s bronze sculptures.
Today, the hall is the setting for many of the museum’s events — classical concerts, LIVE evenings, literature festival talks, and exhibition lectures.
The Concert Hall
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