The Glyptotek’s researchers gather new knowledge about Glyptoteket’s collection. Find photos of each researcher here.
You can read about their individual research areas and projects on this page.
The Glyptotek's researchers gather new knowledge about the Glyptotek’s collection.
Matthias is an art historian (ph.d.) and Head of Research at the museum. He is a specialist in Italian renaissance art, particularly that of the sixteenth century, and has published widely and organized major exhibitions in the field. He also works on comics, cartooning, caricature and other forms of narrative drawing .
At the Glyptotek he works to strengthen and develop research into the museum's collections and areas of focus, to develop national and international networks and collaborations, and to organize and rationalize the archives.
Among his interests are the technical analysis of artworks and other objects, the use of 3D recording, modelling and reproductive technologies, and education between universities and museums.
Tine is an Egyptian/Near Eastern archaeologist (MA, PHD) in charge of the Glyptotek’s Egyptian, Nubian and Middel Eastern collection.
Tine’s research is focused mainly on the history of the collection and the archaeology of Egypt, specialising in the Middle Kingdom and the Armana Period.
She is currently working on a biography of Maria Mogensen (1882-1932), former curator at the Glyptotek.
Cecilie holds a Mag.Art and PhD in Classical Archaeology and is head of the museum’s interdisciplinary research project into ancient polychromy. Cecilie’s principal research areas include the original paintingpolychromy of Greek and Roman sculpture and architecture, and the sensory experience of ancient art, with a special focus on scent and sound. She also conducts research into ancient textiles, garments,dress, and fashion. Further research topics include forgeries of ancient art and provenance research. She is also a curator of the museum’s collection of Ancient Greek and Roman Art and keeper of the museum’s collections of Roman, Etruscan and Cypriot Art.
Read more about the museum’s research project on polychromy.
Julie holds a Master's degree (MA) in Classical Archaeology. Julie’s work and research revolves around museology, public engagement/interpretation, museum didactics and relationships between the museum and its users, concentrating particularly on the reception of antiquity and museum public engagement/interpretation practice within the field of classicism.
Anna holds an MA in Art History and is a curator in the Glyptotek’s collection of French art from the 19th and 20th centuries with a special focus on painting from c.1870-1950.
Anna has conducted research into the artist Paul Gauguin through a decolonial and feminist lens and has curated the critically debated exhibition 'Paul Gauguin – Why Are You Angry?' (2020-2021).
Her curatorial practice often engages with institutional self-critique as well as transhistorical, transnational object dialogues between contemporary art and historical artworks and cultural artifacts.
Currently, Anna is curating 'Hosting Histories' (2023-2025) in collaboration with Copenhagen Contemporary – a three-year exhibition program that revisits the Glyptotek’s Middle Eastern collection through a range of international contemporary art practices.
Anna holds a MPhil in Art History and is in charge of the Glyptotek’s collection of Danish sculpture, painting and graphic art from the 19th and 20th centuries. She is also the editor of the Glyptotek’s catalogues and books across its collections.
Anna has in-depth knowledge of Danish sculpture, with a special focus on Kai Nielsen, as well as on artistic representations of landscape and nature.
Anna holds an MA in Classical Archaeology and is affiliated with the museum’s Collection of Ancient Greek and Roman Art, working on the new display of the permanent collection and on various collection-related tasks, including operation, research and the curation of special exhibitions.
Her chief area of responsibility is Greek and Roman sculpture. Anna’s research interests include iconoclasm, urbanity, and natural resources, and ancient sculpture and portraiture.
Jens holds a Dr. rer. nat. in physics and is affiliated with the museum’s research project on polychromy, in charge of the scientific investigations into the original painting of the museum’s artefacts from ancient Greece and Rome.
His research interests also include colour and light, technical art history and modern materials.
Read more about the museum’s research project on polychromy.
Christine is an art historian (PhD) and curator at the Glyptotek, responsible for the museum’s collection of French and Danish art from the 19th and 20th centuries, with a primary focus on French painting and sculpture from the period 1800–1890. Her research includes artists such as Carpeaux, Degas, and Rodin, and she is particularly interested in feminist perspectives, artistic self-representation, and materiality. She is currently working on a new curation of the museum’s collection of animal sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye, as well as sculptures in the Glyptotek’s garden.
Dr Vibe Nielsen (PhD in Anthropology, MA in Modern Culture, MA in Museum Studies, BA in European Ethnology) is associated with the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen as a postdoctoral researcher.
She is the PI of the research project Passion or Politics? The art collecting practices of Carl Jacobsen in a socio-economic and cultural political context 1878-1914. She is associated with Linacre College, University of Oxford, as a Research Fellow and the Pitt Rivers Museum as an Associate Researcher. Her research focuses on the continuing influence of colonialism, a topic that she has investigated thoroughly through anthropological fieldwork in art galleries in Cape Town and Johannesburg, ethnographic museums in Oxford, Paris and Rome, as well as botanical gardens in London and Los Angeles.
CV, publications, as well as current and previous research projects.
As a research institution, the Glyptotek has a responsibility to generate new knowledge about – and based on – the museum’s collection.
Research is an integral part of the museum’s daily work and often forms the foundation for new exhibitions and publications
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