Danish Originals

On the eve of the release of Gladiator II, Elling-born Danish actress CONNIE NIELSEN recalls leaving home at 18 for Paris and Milan, moving later in New York at the recommendation of an American director, and the casting experience with Gladiator from 2000 that made her an international star. She shares her views about the role of women in Hollywood, her tv series about Danish author and painter Karen Blixen, and her interest in exploring female historical characters.

Connie talks about what she looks for in art.

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From his home in Charlottenlund in Copenhagen, Danish founder of his namesake art gallery NICOLAI WALLNER describes his passion, activated when a high schooler, for artists and for representing artists, and his efforts in the 1990s to open his gallery on Store Kongensgade, which pushed forward the paradigm shift in the development of Copenhagen's contemporary art scene. Nicolai recalls his first art fair in New York, and explains why Kermit the Frog is his hero.

Nicolai selects a work by Andrea Mantegna from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMSsp69

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From her home office, Des Moines, Iowa's Grandview University's American president and former prosecutor RACHELLE KECK talks about discovering her Danish ancestry as she leads the Danish Lutheran university founded by Danish immigrants and based on the ideologies of Golden Age Danish minister and author N.F.S. Grundtvig. Rachelle also discusses the unique skillsets of attorneys in running colleges and universities.

Rachelle selects a work by Egill Jacobsen from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS4972

(Photographer: Todd Bailey)

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From his studio on Nansensgade in Copenhagen, Nordjylland-born Danish musician and cultural entrepreneur KRISTIAN RIIS talks about his half decade living in Los Angeles building NordicLA, a community for Scandinavian creatives and entrepreneurs. Kristian shares his work with his company Volcano, highlighting the ambitious mindful city initiative of Gelephu in Bhutan. Last but not least, he revisits the iconic work of his band Nephew and his thoughts on the universal language of music.

Kristian selects a work by Pia Arke from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KKS2019-85

(Photograph: NordicLA/Volcano)

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Gug-born Los Angeles-based Danish DJ and music producer CARSTEN "SOULSHOCK" SCHACK talks about his journey in hip hop, R&B, and Pop from Aalborg to New York to Los Angeles. He shares stories of working with his producing partner Kenneth Karlin, and with Queen Latifah, Tupac, Whitney Houston, and Clive Davis. And he talks about raising his son after the untimely passing of his wife Maxee Maxwell.

Soulshock selects a work by Asger Jorn from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KKS1977-170

(Photographer: Bary J Holmes)

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From his studio in Copenhagen, Tel Aviv-born Danish-Israeli artist TAL R covers a wide range of topics, from the importance of developing a language for his art, how photography raises the bar for painting, the integrity of color, what he looks for in the work of other artists, and maybe most significantly, to the role of failure as an artist's teacher. Tal additionally talks about American art and the evolving purpose of museums and galleries.

Tal selects a work by Frede Christoffersen from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS6191

(Photographer: Casper Sejersen)

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From his home in Copenhagen, Herning-born Danish writer, producer, radio and tv host JESPER BÆHRENZ recalls his 12-year stay in Los Angeles in the hills, pitching concepts in the expansive entertainment industry open to ideas, and returning to Denmark in 2021. Jesper reflects on his entry into radio back home at 17 and his early success, and with sustained success 40 years later today, shares his perspective on the changing media landscape both in Denmark and the US.

Jesper selects a pair of related works by Danh Vō from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS8720

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS8719

(Photographer: Michael Falgren)

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From her hometown in Randers, Chicago-based Danish artist ANNI HOLM talks about her two-year residency with the departments of garbage and recycling, education, and the Randers Art Museum. With a focus on community and sustainability, Anni's work is collaborative and experiential and participants-based. And she talks about her path finding her confidence as an artist and the difference between being a working artist in the US and in Denmark.

Anni selects a work by Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS8440

(Photographer: Klaus Brendstrup Kohberg)

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From his and his wife and partner Rebecca Work's vineyard Ampelos Cellars in Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, California, Copenhagen-born and Aalborg- and Aarhus-raised Danish winemaker PETER WORK talks about what it means to work closely with Mother Nature, how living life to the fullest is realized from making wine, what passion and skills are required to start a second career, and what it takes to be the first certified organic, sustainable, and biodynamic vineyard in the US.

Peter selects a work by Jacob Matham from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KKSgb21518

(Photographer: Esben Melby)

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In Los Angeles as part of her US tour for her new book, A New Beginning: Life on the Frontlines, Nakskov-born Danish author ANNA ECKHOFF talks about life working in NGOs in Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine, and the simultaneously eye-opening and isolated environment of a western expatriate. And she contrasts the two phases of her life, first raising six children in Denmark and working in IT, and when widowed, going out into the world's conflict zones at 56.

Anna selects a work by Vilhelm Hammershøi from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS3696

(Photographer: Per Morten Abrahamsen)

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On a visit to Los Angeles, which he called home for one year, Copenhagen-based Danish actor CASPAR PHILLIPSON recalls visiting LA for the first time for the Oscars for Jackie (2016), in which he portrayed John F. Kennedy. He talks about two other instances playing JFK, in Blonde (2022), and in his newest film, Hammarskjöld (2023). And he teases about his Danish tv series The Orchestra, and his very funny late night show on the piano singing Tom Lehrer songs.

Caspar selects a work by P.S. Krøyer from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS1658

(Photographer: Yannick Wolff)

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From her home in New York, Danish soprano JULIE REUMERT prepares for the world premiere of the photographic oratorio Number Our Days at the Perelman Performing Arts Center. Julie shares her journey from The Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen to the the Big Apple's Manhattan School of Music that established the foundation for her performance and teaching career in opera in New York. She talks about training, opportunities, and auditions.

Julie selects a work by P.C. Skovgaard from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS7213

(Photographer: Alexandra Nataf)

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Gladsaxe-born-and-raised Danish-Pakistani film and television producer ASGER HUSSAIN shares his path from Copenhagen to New York to Los Angeles, where early on in New York, he began his producing career working for director Lee Daniels and on the Oscar-winning film Precious in 2010. Asger recalls his single most rewarding experience producing Five Fingers of Marseilles (2017), and articulates the difference between film and television production.

Asger selects a work by Jesper Rasmussen from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KKS2005-15

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Los Angeles-based Danish photographer GREGERS HEERING arrived in Los Angeles in the 2000s for the American Film Institute, and found his artistic calling in the poetry of still photography. Gregers retraces his journey, and describes seminal projects along the way, photographing homicide detectives in the South (2008), children in Western Greenland (2009), The Royal Danish Ballet (2009–2014), and life onboard a Maersk cargo ship (2014–15).

Gregers selects a work by Niels Skovgaard from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KKS13965

(Photographer: Anders Elmshøj)

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Århus-born, Los-Angeles-based Danish Group Design Director AGNETE OERNSHOLT retraces her Graphic Design journey from her namesake Design studio and LEGO in Copenhagen to her bi-coastal team at Walt Disney Company's in-house creative agency Yellow Shoes Creative Group. Agnete, a self-described design-system geek and typography nerd, talks about LA as a creative mecca, and how she draws inspiration from art, music, and old Hollywood.

Agnete selects a work by Paul Gernes from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS8160

(Photographer: Cliff Watts)

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In Los Angeles to meet up with her management team, Wyoming-based Danish-Congolese actor, writer, producer, dancer and 2008 Miss Denmark, MARIA STEN plays Frances Neagley in the tv series Reacher and is a writer on the tv series Big Sky. In a wide-ranging interview, Maria talks about growing up in Denmark and her professional path in the US as a highly motivated and disciplined artist and a mixed-race one.

Maria selects a work by Nina Sten-Knudsen from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS8285

(Photographer: Alejandro Douek)

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From his Copenhagen studio, Møn-born Danish artist BJØRNSTJERNE CHRISTIANSEN recalls growing up with two experimental artists as his parents. Bjørnstjerne shares how he co-founded SUPERFLEX in 1993 with Jakob Fenger and Rasmus Rosengren Nielsen, and talks about some of the art collective's Copenhagen and international collaborative projects that bring to light a wide range of societal issues with play and humor.

Bjørnstjerne selects a work by Ursula Reuter Christiansen from the SMK collection.

https://www.smk.dk/en/exhibition/ursula-reuter-the-executioner/

(Photographer: SUPERFLEX)

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From Glendale, Los Angeles, in his home where he has lived since 2005, Danish musician and animator JØRGEN KLUBIEN talks about his parallel artistic paths, as a singer who rose to fame in Denmark with his band Danseorkestret in the 1980s, and as an animator with Disney Studios, where he made a mark on all the iconic films, fromThe Little Mermaid,The Lion King,Pocahontas,Mulan,A Bug's Life,Toy Story 2,Cars,Shrek Forever After, toDumbo.

Jørgen selects a work by Henri Matisse from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMSr83

(Photographer: Paul Stula)

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From his home in the Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, Danish-American mountaineer and writer FINN-OLAF JONES describes growing up in Stevns, Denmark and Wayzata, Minnesota, surrounded by his American father's library and Danish art collection by Skagen Painters. Finn-Olaf talks about his latest project of completing the Seven Summits, as he reached the peaks of the highest mountains on each of the seven traditional continents.

Finn-Olaf selects a work by C.W. Eckersberg from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS3123

(Photographer: Cody Jones)

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From her home in Copenhagen, Robert-nominated Danish actor, writer, stand-up comedian, television host, and author METTE LISBY recalls her 12-year residence in Los Angeles, which followed a five-year stay in London, as a period of positivity and possibility. From her time as a pioneer female stand-up comic in the early 1990s to her current book projects, Mette shares how it's all been a journey of learning and of gathering experiences.

Mette selects a work by P.C. Skovgaard from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS4580

(Photographer: Anja Ekstrøm)

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From his Los Angeles home, Danish artist and Oscar-winning film producer BENNI KORZEN, who left Copenhagen for New York in 1964, talks first about his 200 or so abstract color paintings and collages that surround him. Benni recalls his Oscar win for Best Foreign Film for the Danish production Babette's Feast (1987), a 1960 documentary with CBS about the historic 1943 rescue of 95% of Danish Jews (of which he was one) to Sweden, and describes current projects.

Benni selects a work by Paul Gernes from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS8160

(Photographer: Christian D. Bruun)

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From her home studio in the middle of Nørrebro in Copenhagen, Manila-born Danish-Filipino artist LILIBETH CUENCA RASMUSSEN recalls falling in love with art at her first exhibition as an exchange student in the US. Lilibeth talks about identity and performativity in art, the unique space of video and performance, as well as the challenges as a brown, female artist in the Danish and international art scene. And she shares her thoughts on what makes a good museum.

Lilibeth selects a work by Niels Hansen Jacobsen from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS5806

(Photographer: Bjarke Johansen)

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From his new restaurant Ilis in Greenpoint, Brooklyn in New York City, Michelin-starred Danish chef MADS REFSLUND talks about the central role of the root cellar and the rethinking of the front of house and back of house model where the chefs are also the ones talking with diners about the food. Mads, a co-founder of Copenhagen's world renowned Noma, additionally shares memories about his start in New York and the influence of his parents and his grandparents in paving his path with food.

Mads selects a work by Poul Anker Bech from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS8283

(Photographer: Evan Sung)

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Danish actress JOSEFINE LINDEGAARD talks about her latest role as Greta on Zack Synder's Rebel Moon — Part 2, The Scargiver (2024), filmed in Santa Clarita just north of Los Angeles. Having grown up in Hellerup, Denmark and Warsaw, Poland, and arriving in New York and in Los Angeles in her late teens, Josefine recalls the small film roles in big projects, such as A Man Named Otto (2022) — and describes her path and her commitment to hone her craft.

Josefine selects a work by C.W. Eckersberg from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS7284

(Photographer: Anine Lindvig)

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From his summer house and studio outside of Copenhagen, Odense-born Danish actor CLAES BANG recalls his experience making the satirical black comedy The Square that won the Palme d'Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, and the myriad of interesting projects that have found him since, including the newly launched tv series The New Look about World War II and modern fashion. And Claes talks about making music as an antidote to his day job.

Claes talks about the Alberto Giacometti exhibition at SMK.

https://www.smk.dk/en/exhibition/alberto-giacometti-what-meets-the-eye/

(Photographer: Lis Kasper Bang)

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Coming off of The Color Purple (2023), Helsingør-born Oscar-nominated Danish cinematographer DAN LAUSTSEN talks about shooting the musical in Savannah, Georgia. Dan describes his work as both technical and creative with the sole goal to help the director tell the story, and retraces his steps from the National Film School of Denmark in the '70s, to working in the U.S with directors Ole Bornedal, Guillermo del Toro, Chad Stahelski, and Blitz Bazawule, respectively.

Dan selects a work by Henri Matisse from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMSr171

(Photographer: Lisa Ohlin)

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From her studio in Glendale, Los Angeles, where she made her home about 10 years ago, Danish florist TRINE DAHL KLUBIEN talks about her path from a flower shop on Pistolstræde in Copenhagen to one in Los Angeles, where she is sought after for her characteristic Scandinavian-California aesthetic, and where she works with a wide range of clients including Hollywood household names. Trine talks about the personal nature of the flower business and the physical demands of the work.

Trine selects a work by Anna Ancher from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS1433

(Private photograph)

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Los Angeles-based, Emmy-winning Danish musician and music producer JOACHIM SVARE has seen the changes in the music industry, and especially the recording industry, over the decades. Joachim shares his thoughts on the community of Danish musicians he helped build in Studio City when he first arrived in the early '90s to his current work scoring for film and tv, in particular preschool animation, a highlight being an Emmy win for "Color Song Red" (2019).

Joachim selects a work by Emil Nolde from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS6206

(Private photograph)

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Allerød-born Danish car designer and entrepreneur HENRIK FISKER left Denmark at age 20 to pursue his dream of becoming a car designer. He trained in Switzerland, left his legacy at Aston Martin and BMW, and has called LA home since 2000. Now focused exclusively on electric vehicles, at Fisker Inc. headquarters in Manhattan Beach just outside of Los Angeles, Henriks shares his vision to make the world's most sustainable vehicle.

Henrik selects a work by Richard Mortensen from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS7946c

(Private photograph)

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At the Honorary Danish Consulate in Los Angeles, Funen-born Danish pastor ANNE-GRETHE KROGH NIELSEN, who first arrived in 2004, talks about being inclusive and visionary as she serves an international as well as locally diverse congregation in a cultural environment of multiple religions. It's a role that Anne-Grethe treasures, as it allows her to make connections with people from all over. And her image of God is definitely not a white man sitting in the sky with a long beard.

Anne-Grethe selects a work by J.F. Willumsen from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS3413

(Private photograph)

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In Los Angeles for the premiere of True Detective: Night Country, season four of the popular series, Upernavik-born Greenlandic activist and actress AKA NIVI NA discusses her first tv role as the troubled character Julia Navarro. Having experienced prejudice while living in Denmark, Aka supports opening sustained dialogue about indigenous individuality and seeing increased Greenlandic representation in storytelling and in being part of the world community.

Aka selects a work by Nicolai Abildgaard from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMSsp861

(Private photograph)

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On a trip to Los Angeles for the Oscars luncheon to honor the nomination of Knight of Fortune (2022), Danish producer and Oscar winner KIM MAGNUSSON discusses his 12th Oscar nomination, what he looks for in a short film, why short films are important, and what are themes that speak to him. He shares insights on the Danish and American film industries, the importance of Danish filmmaking in the global space, and his own professional path.

Kim selects a work by Olafur Eliasson from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KKS1998-43

(Photographer: Kristine Havemann)

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On a trip to Los Angeles to screen Apolonia, Apolonia (2022), Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning Danish-Icelandic documentary film producer SIGRID DYEKJÆR shares her thoughts on a few of her other notable international co-productions, including The Cave (2019) and The Territory (2023). Sigrid talks about team building in support of the director's vision, her interest in ethical filmmaking, and the changing landscape of the documentary film market.

Sigrid selects a work by Kirsten Justesen from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KKS1993-71

(Photographer: Les Kaner)

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On a visit to Los Angeles, Copenhagen-based Oscar- and Golden Globes-nominated Danish-Greek director NIKOLAJ ARCEL talks about his new film The Promised Land (2023). He retraces his time living in LA, from when he received an Oscar nod for A Royal Affair (2012) through The Dark Tower (2017). He talks about key differences in his experience with Hollywood and Danish film productions, and his seminal training from the National Film School of Denmark.

Nikolaj selects a work by Caspar David Friedrich from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS8817

(Photographer: Ola Kjelbye)

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We invite you to subscribe to Danish Originals for weekly episodes. You can also find us at:

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Award-winning Danish founder and creative director of his eponymous skincare brand, OLE HENRIKSEN, kicks off the series from his home in Los Angeles, a city he's made his life for close to 50 years. Ole talks about art, wellness, and Danishness, and shares tried and true lessons from his path from the town of Nibe on Jutland Peninsula in northern Denmark and his long-held disciplined role as strong proponent and global ambassador of positive thinking.

Ole selects a work by P.S. Krøyer from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS1658

(Photographer: Gregers Heering)

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Welcome to Danish Originals! It is a podcast series, in English, that features Danish creatives who have made a mark in the US. We hope you will join us and subscribe to Danish Originals. The podcast series is co-represented by American Friends of Statens Museum for Kunst and Statens Museum for Kunst.

We invite you to subscribe to Danish Originals for weekly episodes. You can also find us at:

website: https://danishoriginals.com/

email: info@danishoriginals.com

And we invite you to donate to the American Friends of Statens Museum for Kunst and become a patron.

https://donorbox.org/american-friends-of-statens-museum-for-kunst

and to follow SMK's podcast Det store billede.