Thank you for the generous support for my coming solo exhibition!
Author: gitte
Bend, Bubble and Shine at Hostler Burrows New York
May 2021. New York, NY – Hostler Burrows is pleased to announce Bend, Bubble and Shine: Copenhagen Ceramics at Hostler Burrows, a group exhibition in concert with Copenhagen Ceramics. The exhibition celebrates the work of nine Danish studio ceramic artists working at the forefront of their discipline, exploring technique and process with original, surprising and intriguing results. Artists to be included: Karen Bennicke, Morten Løbner Espersen, Steen Ipsen, Gitte Jungersen, Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl, Marianne Nielsen,Turi Heisselberg Pedersen, Pernille Pontoppidan Pedersen, and Bente Skjøttgaard.
The exhibition will run from April 29 through June 10, 2021 at Hostler Burrows New York, after which it will travel to Hostler Burrows Los Angeles with dates to be announced.
Bend, Bubble and Shine: Copenhagen Ceramics at Hostler Burrows
Exhibition Catalog
With essays by Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl, Garth Johnson and preface by Juliet Burrows
Hardcover / 30 pages / 16.5 x 23.4 inches / 32 color illustrations, including 1 gatefold / Published by Copenhagen Ceramics / April 2021
Guest teacher at Oslo National Academy of the Arts – via Zoom
April 2021. A very special year, teaching the students in Oslo, from home in front of my computer. It worked with great help from fellow teachers Moa Håkansson and Anne Line Sund present in the workshops together with the students, acting as my “hands”.
Danmarks Nationalbank’s Appreciation Grant
December 2020. Danmarks Nationalbank Jubilee Foundation has awarded me the appreciation grant.
The foundation motivates the grant with the following words:
“Your starting point is very classic ceramic, intuitive and sensual, but then you shift gears, and squeeze your work into precisely conceived concepts, which are fresh and innovative for the work with the ceramic materials. You have more than pretty good control over how you stage and partially controls the chaos you seek. Because it will become chaos when you work with glazes in such huge amounts as you do. And of course it is part of the point that you can only to some degree control the chaos, and thus you let the glaze define the work. Your works are radical and ground breaking, and you let the vivid, and for ceramics unusual, primary colours dominate and draw the hardcore classic pottery up off the couch. Your works are experimental and one of the strengths of your work is that it always surprises the viewer, and goes new ways. You are constantly moving forward, towards something new, something different, something yet more extreme. Or completely silent. Who knows? The foundation hopes that with this grant you will have the opportunity to maintain both freedom, quality and enthusiasm for more exciting projects.”
External examiner, HDK-Valand, Academy of Art and Design
May 2020.
Interesting and fruitful discussions around five MA projects HDK-Valand,- via Zoom…Such a strange year, but it all went well anyway, and the students did a great job finishing their education under difficult circumstances.
Little Hybrids, solo exhibition at A. Petersen, Copenhagen
October 3 – November 3, 2019.
The exhibition opens 3. October 5-7 pm.
Adress:
A. Petersen
Kløvermarksvej 70
2300 Copenhagen
see more info on opening hours and events: apetersen.dk
Crafted Matter at Cheongju Craft Biennale, Korea
October 8 – November 17, 2019.
The Danish Arts Foundation presents Crafted Matter.
Groupshow with 15 Danish designers and craftsmen, celebrating 60 years of diplomatic relations between Denmark and the Republic of Korea.
Curation and exhibition design by Ditte Hammerstrøm.
Everything Changes and Nothing Stands Still
Everything Changes and Nothing Stands Still #10 and #11 (2019)
151 x 94 x 5 cm. 151 x 89 x 5 cm.
Several glazes in layers. Photo: Jeppe Gudmundsen
Detail Everything Changes and Nothing Stands Still #10 (2019)
Exhibition: Ceramic Momentum- Staging the Object
May 11 – November 3, 2019.
Group show at CLAY in Middelfart, curated by Copenhagen Ceramics.
Featuring 23 ceramic artists from USA, Japan, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
CLAY
Kongebrovej 42
DK-5500 Middelfart
Denmark
Crowd Pleaser (People Who Pot) in MDR Gallery, London.
Exhibition: Cabinet of Exquisite Bodies at Musée Ariana, Geneva
April 12 – September 8, 2019.
Cabinet of Exquisite Bodies
Group show at Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland. The museum has one of the works from the series Place to be Lost in their collection, which is featured in this exhibition.
“Constructed along the lines of exquisite corpse compositions, this exhibition leads visitors through a series of encounters with contemporary creations. Paintings, videos, collages, textiles, drawings and sculptures make up this disparate collection of artistic mediums or practices, dating from the early 20th century to the present day “.
Musée Ariana
Avenue de la Paix 10
CH-1202 Genève
Crowd Pleaser – People Who Pot in MDR Gallery, London
February 18 – April 7, 2019.
Group show in MDR Gallery in London. Crowd Pleaser presents the work of a new generation of designers who are using ceramic as a medium for their own expression. Within the past few years there has been a rapid and dramatic shift in the perception of ceramic as a creative material and, subsequently, its place within contemporary design. Once the preserve of craftsmen and women, with value placed upon it relative to the level of skill and expertise with which it was processed, or alternatively; a useful everyday material for industrial mass-production, ceramic languished. But, today, makers are exploiting the potential of this most pliable material. At MDR Gallery we recognise that the fashion for inventive and extraordinary design-led studio ceramics has reached a crescendo. We chose to celebrate that and gather together a selection of some of the most experimental and extraordinary work in this area.
Featured work from: Victoria Andrew, Dimitri Bähler, Erika Emerén, Emily Stapleton Jefferis, Gitte Jungersen, Romain Kloeckner, Ian McIntyre, Studio Mieke Meijer, Studio Joachim-Morineau, Granby Workshop, Sara Söderberg, Floris Wubben.
MDR Gallery
111 Lower Stable Street
Coal Drops Yard
NC1 4AB
London
Guest teacher at Oslo National Academy of the Arts
February 2019. I teach a glaze workshop at KHIO, Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
Always so interesting to meet and discuss with the students.
The book is here!
November 2018. Thank you to graphic designer Nete Banke from Imperiet, and to the writers Jorunn Veiteberg, Lars Dybdahl and Stephanie Serrano Sundby. And to photographer Dorte Krogh for the fantastic pictures!
The book can be purchased from selected bookstores at designmuseums, here in Copenhagen at Louisiana Museum store, or from diverse internet book stores.
Book coming very soon
October 2018. Arnoldsche Art Publishers will publish a book with my works from the past 20 years very soon. Graphic designer Nete Banke and I went to the printer Narayana Press, to go through all the colour adjustments. So exciting to see the final result!
Guest teacher at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design
October 2018.
This autumn I teach a course at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, MA programme Ceramic Design, together with my colleague Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl. The students work with the rococo, and the history about how porcelain was introduced to european factory production. I gave a talk about Nordic Network for Contemporary Ceramics research trip to Meissen and Dresden, which resulted in the Zwinger und Ich exhibition.
We started out breaking up the porcelain clay into its basic components: Kaolin, silica, and feldspar.
External examiner at Oslo National Academy of the Arts
May 2018. Honored to be this years external examiner for six MA exams at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, the Art and Craft department.
Place to be Lost, exhibition at KODE museum in Bergen, Norway
May 23 – September 30, 2018. Some years ago KODE in Bergen purchased one of my works from the Place to be Lost series. It is now giving name to, and part of the group show Place to be Lost at the museum.
Mindcraft18 at San Simpliciano
Mindcraft18, exhibition at San Simpliciano during Milan Designweek.
All is Flux #7 and All is Flux #8 (2018)
Photo: Julie Hering
Mindcraft18 was presented by the Danish Arts Foundation,
Curated by Ditte Hammerstrøm.
‘All is Flux’ is a radical experiment based on enlarging and highlighting the tactile properties of ceramic glaze as a manifestation of the constant state of flux that characterizes the entire physical world, even if some transformation processes are so slow as to appear imperceptible. The liquid glaze is transformed in the kiln, but the apparent permanence of its new, solid form is merely an illusion, a temporary stage. Like a tactile snapshot, the works can be seen as a single point in the lifespan of the objects – just as there was a time before their current state, there is an ‘after’. Over time, the objects will break down, dissolve and re-emerge as new physical manifestations.
The objects in the series consist entirely of thick layers of different glazes that are poured into sharply defined rectangles and kiln-fired at 1280 degrees Celsius. In the kiln the glaze melts, boils and bubbles up, the process transforming the texture and appearance of the material and blurring the edges of the rectangular shape. A sudden reduction in the temperature freezes the chemical reaction. The complex and ambiguous textures can be seen both as primordial matter and as a manmade material in the process of melting and transformation.
All is Flux #7 and All is Flux #8
198 x 98 x 5 cm. 195 x 95 x 5 cm. Several layers of different glazes.
Easels: black stained wood.
Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
Detail (2018)
Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
Detail, All is Flux #8
Photo: Anders Sune Berg.