SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst

We have invited artist and creative coder Andreas Refsgaard to develop a tool to make it fun and personal to explore the SMK collection. Here, Andreas tells the story of how he’s making it possible for you to jump into your favourite artwork.

Vilhelm Hammershøi’s painting Interior in Strandgade. Sunlight on the Floor, 1901 https://open.smk.dk/artwork/image/KMS3696 and SMK’s director Mikkel Bogh exposed to Deep Painterly Harmonization.

The SMK Online collection, codename (and real name) SMK OPEN, has been live for the entirety of this bizarre year. And because nothing calms the soul like a simplistic list here’s… the most viewed artworks of 2020!

More artworks to enjoy from home

Nina Beier, Female Nude, 2015, KMS9102, SMK — Statens Museum for Kunst © Nina Beier/VISDA

We just launched an Instagram filter bringing one of our highlights to digital life. Here’s why…

Check out an innovative AR filter #ZEROWASTECULTURE based on art from public domain now available on Instagram

Open Culture to the Rescue!

The Artist’s Wife (Périe) Reading, Albert Bartholomé, 1883, Metropolitan Museum of Art (the US)

Five artists represented in the collection of SMK — Statens Museum for Kunst have entered the Public Domain as of 1 January 2020. That calls for a celebration — but it also opens our eyes to some noticeable gaps in our digitised collection.

Intérieur by Emile Othon Friesz, 1914, now available for free download in the SMK collection open.smk.dk/artwork/image/KMSr49

On 29 November 2019 we’re finally, proudly, and with some trepidation launching SMK’s brand new online collection. Call it SMK Open.

Or Why They Put Art in Artificial Intelligence…

Nam June Paik’s Niels Bohr Robot (1996) in the SMK sculpture street

In June, we had the great pleasure and fortune of a two week visit by Jon Beck and his handscanner! Jon is a volunteer and activist at Scan The World, a community-driven endeavour to scan and share the world’s three-dimensional cultural heritage. SMK Open warmly welcomed his expertise and help to start setting our sculpture collection free in 3D online.

Jon Beck from Scan The World, ready to get to work with the Dying Gaul (c. 241–197 BC), one of the 3,000 plaster casts in the SMK collection.