Art research
Support since 1979
The Novo Nordisk Foundation has supported art research since 1979.
We support fields including research on art history, practice-based art and the interdisciplinary crossroads between art and science.
We aim to give the most talented researchers the opportunity to conduct major research projects. This helps them to pursue a research career within this field and to contribute significantly to art and art history research in Denmark.
Feminist Emergency
Gender representation in the Danish and Nordic art worlds
New research underscores how gender representation in the Danish and Nordic art worlds remains surprisingly imbalanced.
Feminist Emergency considers the contribution and conditions of women artists and feminist art both in Denmark and the larger Nordic region over the last sixty years.
Henri Matisse
The Red Studio
An examination of French artist Henri Matisse’s landmark painting, The Red Studio, in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Research project
Hydrologic Sensibilities in Fragile Ecologies
This research project attempts, in a collaboration between art history, visual arts and marine geophysics, to develop new ways of sensing aquatic environments.
