LIGHT & SHADOW Construction - January 2014

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LIGHT & SHADOW - Construction Theme I - young talents
Theis Lorentzen, Pernille Pontoppidan Pedersen, Alikka Garder Petersen DK

Exhibition 9 January – 1 February 2014

Construction and other constellations – in light & shadow meet order & chaos.
For this first themed exhibition of the year the exhibitors have related to construction, yet they stay fundamentally different in their ideas, sensuality, expression, form.. - function and aesthetics.
Alikka Garder Petersen works with light and shadow in geometric space, Theis Lorentzen creates a dynamic universe of objects in colour harmony and balance, while Pernille Pedersen Pontoppidan challenges chaos and randomness in expressive installations.

THEIS LORENTZEN - Animated Abstractions

THEIS LORENTZEN creates "an animated world of objects and wall installations, where colours and forms are part of a dynamic interaction. Objects and juxtapositions provide a fun, simple and harmonious universe where play mixes with beauty and perfection, and where delight, serenity and the beautyfull are in focus. Colour and texture are put together in a simple graphic form which gives an animated, dreamy and almost unreal expression.."

Educated in 2009-12 at the Danish Design School/ Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design & Conservation, Bornholm. Product design for Kähler Ceramics 2013..

PERNILLE PONTOPPIDAN PEDERSEN - Plinth

She cultivates contrasts and seeks out areas of tension. "The ceramics are grateful in its tradition and history to deepen and perpetuate the culture to new dimensions. The tradition gives much substance to work with to build contrasting works that grow on ceramics tradition, but move it toward new directions. - Challenging the work practices and cultivating the final object with its errors, or non-error.."
Born in May 1987. Educated in 2012 at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design & Conservation, Bornholm. EXHIBITION 2013: 'Software & Glorified Ingratitude' Copenhagen Ceramics.

ALIKKA GARDER PETERSEN - Movements & Moments

"My overall concept is to work with space, light and material. All places effects these three elements much in the bodily experience of a place and space. It is in the shape that angles, definition of space, color, light/shadow surfaces, material clash at once define a space and give it tactility. This I have translated into my primary material, porcelain. "
Born in 1971 - Educated in 2003 at the Danish Design School, glass and ceramics (1 ½ years - interdisciplinary). INSPIRATION from travel and residency: Japan - lectures and tutorial at Osaka University learned lacquer work, Nepal - inspiration, material, peace, ethics, London - work in paper, Oxford - light objects by Margerite O'Rocke UK...

Each exhibitor has described their personal concept and basic philosophy and answered the questions: - What is different from your previous works?.. Unique, new and surprising?.. Interesting for the viewer?.. Inspiration, origin and originality?.. Material and technique? - 10 significant professional events..?

THEIS LORENTZEN - Animated Abstractions
The project is based on a module system of shapes and colours that can be stacked and linked together like building blocks. They are simple parts, when put together turn into a complex unit.
The objects are characterized by movement and flow, stiffened, fluid motion, chopped up into pieces, a 'flow' in stop-motion. A dissection of nuance and modulation shape and colour - perfect, nice and flawless, without a trace of real life trivial difficulties. The beauty of a synthetic 'Disney fixation'.
The colours are kept within a limited palette and runs in a fine graduated scale, with only a small leap of valour and tone, they are delicate and gentle, harmonious and balanced. Likewise with the forms that are variations of the same simple geometric element, a cone, varying in size, angle and cutting.
The new pieces are an extension of my previous works, but differ in that I bring more colours into play, creating more dynamic objects and remove references to the function. The works consist of many more smaller elements in many more colours. Single elements are more inclined and in varied sizes, allowing more dynamism. The new works hang or lie down with very small contact points, giving a light and airy look. They are in stained unglazed porcelain and do not have a back side or bottom, and thereby allowed to be placed in different ways.
I have explored numerous possibilities for combinations and variations how the object is constantly changing, shifts slightly compared to the previous one and gets its own personality. I have strived to achieve harmony and balance between the parts, yet also cause it to be dynamic and moving.
- My project is also interesting by virtue of the choice of materials. The texture in the matte and monochrome materials, combined with the fragmented design language, offers a special atmospheric, dreamy and almost unreal expression. Coloured porcelain is seen most commonly for functional objects, It is new to use these qualities for non-functional exhibition objects.
- The pieces are form studies, a play with and study of form, colour, mood and intuition. They create a universe, an amusement park or a dreamscape, and is mainly just to be experienced, seen and enjoyed - the subtle colours and shapes, gradients and tones.
- My inspiration comes clearly from playing - a play with beauty and perfection, harmony and balance - a play with construction and structure, complexity and simplicity. I create a fun, informal and animated world with inspiration in the digital and the mechanical, axles and crankshafts, graphs and charts, but in a simplified, distorted and surreal way.
- Casting in stained porcelain slip fired to 1260°C and then water polished and epoxy glued.
Graduated from The Danish Design School, Bornholm (ceramics) 2009-12 (The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation). Kerteminde Art School (ceramics) 1998-99, Nic. O. Schmidt bronze foundry in 1999, Precious Foundry Francois Deletaille 2000-2007 .. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS school projects Grønbechsgaard 2010/12 and Formland 2011 Graduation Exhibition Bornholm Art Museum and School of Library 2012; Upcoming Designers (Formland) 2012 .. ASSISTANT A.Tophøj 2012 (Elitist Folklore - Copenhagen Ceramics), Ole Jensen 2012 (Form & Fantasy), Anne Tophøj & Steen Ipsen 2011 (Extrudox A/S - Ann Linnemann Gallery) .. TEACHER Danish Design School, Bornholm 2012-2013, Kofoed School and AOF 2013; - EMPLOYEE Ditte Fischer 2013 Product design for Kähler Ceramics 2013 ..

PERNILLE PONTOPPIDAN PEDERSEN - Plinth
The podium is dominant in the work. What supports and elevates the work, makes the work what it is. Art is elevated objects. Raised on the podium in the given white space occupied by the viewer in almost ceremonial matters. Pure white podiums revealed in the spotlight elevates an unthoughtful immediate ceramic lump that does not deserve exaltation. I want to search for dialogue and contrast between the podium and 'the piece'. The viewer must unconsciously decide which of the objects deserves exaltation. The institution's control is supported in the podium's purity, order and structure - whereas the art's devilish, overstated, emotional and uncontrolled is symbolized in a lump of clay made ​​in rapid chaotic movements with the intention to provide randomness and an uncontrolled object.
In my previous works, I worked a lot with a synergy of the anti-aesthetic through a wild mix of form, color and materials. In my exhibition at Copenhagen Ceramics, there were different expressions brought together in an attempt to achieve harmony in diversity. The works for this exhibition arose from a new idea and thought of letting ceramic plinths be the mainstay in the works. I have previously used ceramic plinths in my works, this time I let podiums be the dominant element in the works.
- I have in my work always used many different materials and colours. This time I made ​​the conscious decision to keep it colour neutral in glaze and type of clay. I have instead allowed the different types of clay within a colour tone create the surface of the pieces. It is new for me to work in a prettier and cleaner appearance. I wondered if I could obtain my expression, in the new pieces.
- It is entirely up to the viewer whether my projects are of interest to the outside world. I carry out my projects for the simple reason that it is a great joy for me, and I also have views of the heart I would like to share with those, who are curious about my art. I would say that my art will be interesting to the world in that I work with this material with an immediacy and honesty. I want to place ceramics as art. Want to create this without some innate prejudices and fixed patterns. I dream of having the ceramic art world taking itself seriously as an art form. The fact that it moves away from its present stance; an inferiority wasteland between arts and crafts.
- Distance to the world and the city mentally and not necessarily physical. Escapism. Contrasts between rich and poor, between ugly and beautiful. A visit to Lidl to inspect the poor quality and cultivating aesthetic, or lack thereof. Knowledge of hazardous materials and their properties in ceramics. I get excited when I discover some new values of ceramics materials. I want to find new characteristics of materials used in the traditional manner. Using Danish blue earthenware to create an idiom in the same way as that managed the glaze, with the use of its plasticity in the modeling process. Creating a roaring whirlpool of foam using crushed glass jars. All materials undergoing a transformation in the kiln and turn out surprising after cooling down gives me an impetus to continue to create.
- The pieces are based on materials in various types of clay, this time the white clays. Porcelain, white stoneware, earthenware, white charmotte, dog hair, icing, crushed glass.
Born in May 1987. Graduated in 2012 at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Bornholm. EXHIBITIONS 2013: 'Software & Glorified Ingratitude', Copenhagen Ceramics DK; 'Terres - Copenhagen Ceramics Invites', Galerie Maria Lund, Paris; 'Good Bones' - juried exhibition for young artists, Copenhagen City Hall, - 2012: 'Edge/Kant', Exhibition Building KADK, 'SiO2' Graduate exhibition KADK on Bornholm Art Museum and Designer Zoo, Copenhagen; 'Bornholm Juried Spring Exhibition' Svanekegaarden, 'Process' Grønbechsgaard, Bornholm ..

ALIKKA GARDER PETERSEN - Movements & Moments
Alikka Garder Petersen sees his work for the exhibition as a study of material and space. She shows two different groups of works: one is small panels to hang on the wall. The objects are mainly soft, but tension curves are formed by a play with the illusion and a flexible element within a stated frame. Just as the previous 'peek boxes' is here created a snapshot of a story/process. Something has happened prior to the freeze, and you can form ideas about what is happening next. Words a colleague said on them: graphical, aesthetic, calm but dynamic, humorous.
The other group is an enlargement of the flexible element partially freed of the frame. Still a play and investigation of space and curves working with boundaries and the respect for the material, porcelain. All objects are simple in coloured castable. To add excitement, a humorous commentary on an otherwise aesthetic form, is added either a hard yellow glaze or elements of wood, playing against the porcelain.
This process has been very experimental. Distinct from earlier, starting point has been physical 3D sketches on paper. I have transferred some of the paper's potential and quality for design. Transferred to porcelain, I have technically a very short time for the design itself. Therefore, the final forms are much more spontaneous and immediate.
- The surprise is to evoke the illusion of making a hard material soft and flexible.
- The interesting is presenting the viewer to my choice of freeze in the process/movement. Give the viewer a version of how I experience space and material.
- My inspiration is a study of space and utilization of this in paper. A sketch of light and shadow, space, inside and outside the frame. Originality is the transfer from one material to another in one, amusing consistency between the two materials and a respect and understanding for the materials paper and porcelain. The finished works are the originality the easy and humorous tale this frozen image of a process tells. Last but not least an understated combination of materials.
- Materials are coloured clay castable, glaze and wood. Since leaving school, I have been deeply in love with moulding technique with all that is involved. Plaster's precision with very thin edges, - porcelain together with light. I have developed my own techniques with plaster and castable that makes my designs freer.
- My goal is always shaping on the terms of the material, so that the material qualities show. Simplicity, honesty and contrasts are the means of expression. The moulding materials give some limitations that create the framework for the design which I love and can continue to explore and push to the limits.
Born in 1971 - Graduated in 2003 at the Danish Design, glass and ceramics (1 ½ years - interdisciplinary)
INSPIRATION from travel and residency: Japan - lectures and guidance Osaka University taught laquered, Nepal - inspiration, material, peace, ethics, London - work in paper , Oxford - light objects Margerite O'Rocke UK ... SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 'Biennale for Crafts and Design' 2011, the Danish Arts Foundation buy three lamps in 2010; 'Dina Vejling' Odense 2009; 'Hovdala Slott' Hässleholm, Sweden 2008; 'Solo Exhibition' Officinet, Copenhagen 2007; Biennale for Crafts and Design 2007; 'Light' Damhuset, Lyngby 2007; Represented in Gallery Nørby 2005-06; 'Biennale for Crafts and Design' Trapholt Art Museum and North Jutland Art Museum 2004.

EXHIBITION CALENDAR 2014

See GALLERY SHOP - COLLECTABLES - LINK
(The program is subject to change )

9 JANUARY – 1 FEBRUARY LIGHT & SHADOW - Construction
Theme I - young talents
Construction and other constellations – in light and shadow meet order and chaos.
Alikka Garder Petersen works with light and shadow in geometric space, Theis Lorentzen creates a dynamic universe of objects in colour harmony and balance, while Pernille Pedersen Pontoppidan challenge chaos and randomness in expressive installations. The three exhibitors have worked with construction, yet they stay fundamentally different to the idea, sensuality, expression, form.. - function and aesthetics.

6 FEBRUARY – 1 MARCH TURNING A-ROUND Theme II - young talents
Marie Hermann, Ninna Gøtzsche and Kirsten Høholt relate to the hand-thrown form and traditional craftsmanship, but in very different ways. Their conceptual standpoints with a focus on manual labour is in a dialogue on contemporaries many ways of relating to the everyday utilitarian object, function, ceramic materials and pottery tradition. This exhibition shows the hand-thrown piece as a concept - and the crafts in contemporary art.

6 MARCH – 29 MARCH MOVEMENT
Asger Kristensen and Lone Borgen/Stephen Parry UK
Asger Kristensen's characters and objects are narratives in clay and glaze, also describing the contradiction in the meeting between concrete form and abstract structure. Danish Lone Borgen and English Stephen Parry present collaborative works that are moving from the traditional jar into an abstract dreamy tale-teller world, layer by layer revealed in the ceramic glaze and print collage. The exhibitors experiment with form, material and narrative in an ever reflective development.

3 APRIL – 3 MAY TIME AND SPACE - Bodil Manz DK
Bodil Manz's ceramic pieces express cultural reference, link to places and time periods, which give a timeless feeling and clarification. She uses different materials and firings - and each work may be seen in the light of opposite philosophies. Yet combined, the work reveals an indefinable sense of time and space. For this exhibition she links and composes various types of her familiar forms, patterns and ideas in an assemblage with completely new pieces.

8 MAY – 7 JUNE CLAY PLANES - Gerd Hiort Petersen DK & Samuel Chung USA
Spacious ceramic pieces touched by geometric forms and planes . Gerd Hjort Petersen will show her ceramic vessels transgressed in various ways by rock planes and sketch models made for commission projects. Samuel Chung relates his work to the Korean jar-culture, but breaks out of the tradition by using a Scandinavian inspiration and the symbolic geometric form elements appearing in his 'cloud vessels'.

12 JUNE – 16 AUGUST FORM LANGUAGE - MIND PLAY
- international thematic exhibition invited/juried
Danish and international artists working with clay, are challenged to create each a work in conjunction with a text.
The pieces are intended to illustrate a story, poem, fairytale, proverbs. The All-things history.. will be a multifaceted story in clay. Things and phrases are linked literally to both visualize and to describe the notion of the written word in contemporary ceramic art..
(One piece from each exhibitor at a maximum of 25 cm + the text)

21 AUGUST – 13 SEPTEMBER AROUND THE EARTH
Vibeke Rytter & Ann Linnemann DK
The common theme is the travel description, experiences of other cultures and personal memories of visited places.
Both are eager to see the world, travel and describe impressions from travelling. Vibeke Rytter works with photographic prints in ceramic tableaux or wall pieces, and Ann Linnemann paints with glazes and ceramic colours on hand-thrown forms 'a World in round shapes'.

18 SEPTEMBER – 25 OCTOBER NATURE FEATURES - Danish and International exhibitors
Jane Reumert, Heidi Hentze, Lis Biggas, Inge-lise Kofoed DK, Jonathan Keep UK...
Nature inspiration is a great topical theme of all times containing an infinite number of expressions, facets and angles.
For this exhibition, Jane Reumert refines the delicate botanical in fragile porcelain pieces, Lis Biggas takes imprint of natural phenomena and Heidi Hentze combines paper-like geometry with organic growth and decay, while Inge-lise Kofoed mixes ceramic materials with oilpaint in her sculptural objects, and Jonathan Keep decodes nature in 3D printed form. All the exhibitors show a deep interest and fascination in the unique features of nature.

30 OCTOBER – 29 NOVEMBER MEETING BEAUTY - Marianne Nielsen invites..
Poetic philosophic exhibition that deals with ceramic phenomena. A culturally inherent meaning of ceramics, where traditional designing may underlie the understanding of the object's identity and highlight the most trivial object's iconic strength. A focus on the depictions of beauty, either concretely - but also indirectly, as a representation of beauty in the form of an agreed symbol usage. (The guest exhibitor will be invited by Marianne Nielsen)

1 – 23 DECEMBER A COLLECTOR's PARADIZE - Gallery collection..
The exhibition will show a collector's home.. - How to use and live with an original contemporary ceramic collection. For the dinner table - shelves and wall objects :-)
A unique table will be set for dinner, lunch, coffee/tea party - in play with untraditional objects by all the gallery artists..


PERMANENT EXHIBITION - ARTISTS - See GALLERY SHOP - COLLECTABLES
Anne Fløcke - Ann Linnemann - Barbro Åberg - Beate Andersen - Bente Hansen - Bente Skjøttgaard - Bodil Manz - Charlotte Thorup - Christina Schou Christensen - Esben Klemann - Extrudox A/S Steen Ipsen/Anne Tophøj - Gerd Hjort Petersen - Gunhild Aaberg - Hans Munck Andersen - Hans Vangsø - Heidi Henze - Helle Hove - Iben Kielberg - Jakob Stig Isaksen - Karen Bennicke - Karen Harsbo – Kim Holm - Kirsten Christensen - Lis Ehrenreich - Lisbeth Holst-Jensen - Lone Skov Madsen - Louise Birch - Malene Müllertz - Marianne Krumbach - Marianne Nielsen - Martin Bodilsen Kahldahl - Mette Marie Ørsted - Mikael Jackson - Morten Løbner Espersen - Ole Jensen - Sandra Davolio - Sten Lykke Madsen - Søren Thygesen - Turi Heisselberg Pedersen ... USA - Akio Takamori - Kurt Weiser - Richard Shaw - Lesley Baker - ENGLAND - Margaret O'Rorke - Neil Brownsword - NORGE - Elisa Helland-Hansen – AUSTRALIEN - Kirsten Coelho - Prue Venables - Stephen Bowers...

A COLLECTOR'S DINNER - December 2013

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A COLLECTOR FOR DINNER
Christmas Exhibition 1 – 23 DECEMBER 2013
New table setting every week

Exhibition full of ceramic pieces - ceramics lovers & collectors dream
The exhibition is about the use of things – finding room for original ceramics on the dinner table - and all the shelves and walls :-)
Each week in December a new unique table will be set for sushi, dinner, coffee/tea - in play with untraditional objects by the gallery artists..

The first table setting is THINGS FOR SUSHI by Sten Lykke Madsen.

An other table setting is DREAM LANDSCAPES by Ann Linnemann.

The exhibition offers inspiration for Christmas gifts, renewal of the home, additional pieces for the private collection and the joy of seeing a fine international selection of contemporary original ceramic art.

There are no limitations, but always room for a lifestyle with it all – full of delight, mind and beauty.
Special pieces that can be bought for a few or more money by the passionate collector and by those, who simply are in love with beautiful unusual objects.

The Gallery shows a 'dining room' filled with special original pieces and focuses on the collectables describing people, presence, art and love of material, craftsmanship, aesthetics, social and political concepts in ceramic art of our time.

How do we live in a home full of a passionate ceramic collection?

- Lifestyle TV-programs/magazines center on collectors, collections, beautiful homes, interior, living design, collectors market and purchases...

Ceramics are traditionally evaluated for functional values and valued as art objects.. - Functional design, craftsmanship or artistic value?

- All together this also just shows a desire for life and multiple ways of telling the stories, we do need to see and remember every day.

SELECTED PIECES AND ARTISTS - A COLLECTOR FOR DINNER..
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Anne Fløcke - Ann Linnemann - Bente Hansen - Bente Skjøttgaard - Bodil Manz - Charlotte Thorup - Christina Schou Christensen - Esben Klemann - Extrudox A/S Steen Ipsen/Anne Tophøj - Gerd Hjort Petersen - Hans Munck Andersen - Hans Vangsø - Heidi Henze - Helle Hove - Iben Kielberg - Jakob Stig Isaksen - Karen Bennicke - Karen Harsbo – Kim Holm - Kirsten Christensen - Kirsten Høholt - Lis Ehrenreich - Lisbeth Holst-Jensen - Lone Skov Madsen - Louise Birch - Malene Müllertz - Marianne Krumbach - Marianne Nielsen - Martin Bodilsen Kahldahl - Mette Marie Ørsted - Mikael Jackson - Morten Løbner Espersen - Ole Jensen - Sandra Davolio - Sten Lykke Madsen - Søren Thygesen - Turi Heisselberg Pedersen... USA - Akio Takamori - Kurt Weiser - Lesley Baker - ENGLAND - Margaret O'Rorke - Neil Brownsword - Charlotte Hodes - NORGE - Elisa Helland-Hansen – AUSTRALIA - Kirsten Coelho - Prue Venables - Stephen Bowers...

SELECTED EXHIBITORS:

Sten Lykke Madsen Sten Lykke Madsen is recognized for his fabulous humorous figures, that in funny ways bring the viewer into a different world of hybrids between animal and human. The themes of eroticism and love are always present in Sten Lykke's motives.
Sten Lykke Madsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he trained at the Art, Craft and Design School. He has been a professional ceramic artist since 1958. His work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Denmark and overseas, and is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Museo Internazinale delle Ceramice, Faenza and many other museums.

Ann Linnemann (DK) shows hand-thrown porcelain for sushi dinner, lunch and coffee in white and a hand-painted seasonal landscape series. The nature theme gives each piece a personal story.

Paul Scott og Ann Linnemann (UK/DK)- Landscape Blue series holds cups and paltes with cobolt blue silkscreen print and gold/silver rims on hand-thrown transparent poecelain. The motives are trees and ornaments from old tableware.

Bodil Manz is internationally acknowledged for her thin transparent porcelain cylinders with graphic transfers. The pieces were especially selected for the exhibition FRAGILE in June 2012 – One piece has an unusual organic form in contrast to the strict graphic lines at the cylinder form, that Bodil is mostly known for.

Bente Hansen is one of Denmark's best known ceramic artists.
She has in her long career been especially active and engaged in Danish ceramics and design. The pieces in the gallery are from 2012 with experimental use of layers of transfers on oval vessels and geometric forms. They are colourful and kaleidoscopic with memories of Bauhaus, Avant-garde from Russia and much more.

Esben Klemann is educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen. He is known for his remarkable sculptural and architectonic pieces, commission projects in Denmark and abroad. He works freely with architectural pieces for public space and exhibition. Always challenged by the characteristic qualities of the material and a desire to test limits of ability.
Pieces for the wall and horizontal.

Akio Takamori (USA/Japan) is famous for his figurative works and masterly drawing on ceramic form. These pieces lustfully take a starting point in race, gender and togetherness. He often uses the vase, the container as a basic form on which the figure drawing freely moves outside and inside the form in a sensitive brush stroke. is famous for his figurative works and masterly drawing on ceramic form. Akio tells about eroticism and love in ways that carry the mind into secret places and hidden corners, revealed around and inside the forms.

Lesley Baker (USA) www.lesleybaker.com is Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Herron School of Art and Design IUPUI, Indianapolis. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design. Her work is about creating pieces with a level of subtle social statement and much like how we are presented information through mass media, the true message is not always obvious. Wall plate with printed motives.

Prue Venables (Australien)makes the shift to porcelain the natural step for anyone looking for hardness and ringing clarity. Her objects are confidently utilitarian, with deliberate but understated echoes of the purposeful crispness and functionality. She is internationally recognized, lives and works in Australia.
Hand-thrown bowl with handles, black, mat glaze.

Stephen Bowers is an acknowledged Australian artist. His ceramic pieces may reflect ideas about recollection and persistence in the form of remnants and shards; and be about how sections of memory survive; and utilise borders, patterns, overlaps, edges and shadows. He regularly retrieves and re-positions images, representing ‘the familiar’, often sourcing ‘clichéd’ images (i.e. blue and white, willow pattern, wallpapers, natural history illustrations, etc.) within a personal contemporary context, often with a surreal, whimsical, humorous, sceptical or satirical subtext.

Marianne Nielsen (DK) www.mariannenielsen.com occupies an important position in Danish contemporary ceramic art. She is interested in the roles of nature in our time. It may be called a poetic or nerdy way, when she definite render natural subjects: mountains, feathers, leaves, flowers and plants..
Her pieces, refined with a delicate humoristic and aesthetic tone, describe essential beauty ideals and may hold secrets, private memories and undefined questions on reality, truth and our self. In 2012 she was awarded the prestigious 3-years award by the Danish National Arts Foundation.

Christina Schou Christensen is a Danish newly graduated ceramic artist, who won an art price and became known at her storming debute at the Danish Spring Art Exhibition, Charlottenborg Foundation 2012. She is one of the artists Danish collectors are showing an interest in. She exhibits remake of Royal Copenhagen plates and cups, where a glaze-mass is dripping and floating through holes in one form to the other – makes the viewer wonder.