Eckersberg Medal awarded to Stig Mikkelsen
Eckersberg Medal awarded to Stig Mikkelsen
On Thursday 28 April 2022, Stig Mikkelsen, architect and Founding Partner of Mikkelsen Architects was awarded the Eckersberg Medal. The Academy has awarded Stig Mikkelsen the Eckersberg Medal in 2022 with the following motivation:
"The architect Stig Mikkelsen's works are based on a Danish design tradition that stems from simplicity and at the same time responds to the great deficiency of our time: humble responsiveness to context. We see this when Mikkelsen, with the necessary courage and empathetic sensitivity, has been behind gradual transformations of National Bankincluding a new glass staircase that, with an Arne Jacobs-like grace, unites the daylight between two levels of the building."
The Academy continues its praise of Stig Mikkelsen's works:
"We see this in the expansion and transformation of The Ladies' Room of the Department of Physical Education and Nutrition at the University of Copenhagen, where a new floor is added on top of the neoclassical building from 1923, allowing past and present to be nourished by each other. We see this unfolding through The Laboratory and Logistics Building at Martin Nyrop's Bispebjerg hospital, where the building's beautifully simplified and precise geometry is unfolded in respect of the existing architecture."
"We see this in Odense, where Mikkelsen in Thorvald Ellegaard Arena reuses a landscaped buried facility. The new wooden court is covered by a membrane stretched over a minimal structure. An outer softness envelops a rare inner lightness, where structures and track are experienced as one. The space is bathed in daylight."
Once a year, the Academy Council awards the Eckersberg Medal to architects and visual artists who have "made a contribution of high artistic quality" in their field. The medals are presented by HM Queen Margrethe II at a ceremony at Charlottenborg Palace.
The Eckersberg Medal is awarded by the Academy (The Royal Academy of Fine Arts) to a person who has made a contribution of high artistic quality in the liberal arts or the fine arts.
Read more here on the Academy Council's website
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