EXHIBITION CALENDAR 2014

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(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..
SEE Gallery collectables - LINK!
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.

CERAMIC CONCRETION - November 2013

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CERAMIC CONCRETION
Mette Marie Ørsted DK
Exhibition October 31 - November 30, 2013

Abstract visions concreted in a tangible material..
Mette-Marie Ørsted works with geometry, card houses, cultural cities in her Ceramic Concretions, which are as cut out with scissors, out and assembled, clearly grown out from the 2D flat to 3D form.

She explores the architectural space interacting with the ceramic spacious, the raw clay versus the glazed surface, the poetic narrative towards pure geometric form. She refers to cultural experience, urban communities and ways of living - abstracts concreted in a tangible material.

METTE MARIE ØRSTED
by William Gelius

Mette Marie Ørsted's exceptional sensitivity to clay is known in her sensuous ceramic bowls, pitchers, vases and much more.
Holding her rustic dishes in the hands almost feels like a warm handshake, but it does not imply the absence of formal consideration. And on rare occasions, she engages in pure form experiments, as is the case for this exhibition.
The project has been a long time coming. In 2004, she created three small, brittle vase - assemblies that now are exhibited for the first time: One in 6 parts of Bedouin tent fabric - thin bone china with fibre material, and one in 7 parts of high-fired red clay on the outer surface appearing as dusty walls, while the inside has tin-glazed walls.

Placed with space between the parts, as it is intended, a labyrinth of mazes of narrow alleys and empty streets occurs, that gives the whole piece a character like a desert-city.
In 2010, for the exhibition 'The world on a plate' at Gammelgaard Culture Centre in Herlev, she created dishes with tin-glazed card houses resting on a plate.
It is of these fantasy cities and imaginary houses that this exhibition of new artworks originates from.
As a novelty, it is a modernist, neo-plasticism or constructivism aesthetic that now exists.
With their right angles they remind us of utopian architectural models, but when it comes to it, they are not models, nor houses. They are spatial structures that only occasionally meet a tight modernist requirement for vertical and horizontal.
Equally often they challenge the logic, structure, balance and harmony by standing upside-down, hanging or sitting at an angle.
The pieces for the exhibition are an exciting formation study, the results of which may well prove to be included in the foundation of Mette Marie's future work - amongst other things, the vases, jugs and dishes.
Photos by Ole Akhøj DK:

Mette Marie Ørsted:
"In the works I have examined the contrast between seemingly random and highly controlled structures. This happened both on an artistic level and in the practical work with the material.
The work is to be shown as if it had partially constructed itself in a dynamic field between self-organized organic and geometric design.
They are inspired by my own sketch drawings that in their line is similar to the city and landscape maps. The lines rise from the flat to the space and become three-dimensional models. Thereby they also reference to mud-architecture in the Arab countries.

In recent years, I have concentrated on the forming and construction techniques in high-fired red clay and earthenware, shown at the exhibition 'The World on a plate'. This project builds on these techniques.
I examine the clay structural tensions: - Can it in the work-flow be compressed or deployed depending on particular techniques and the use of in-blending materials that I have found? "

Grateful thanks to the Danish National Bank Anniversary Foundation of 1968 for the generous support of Ann Linnemann Gallery exhibition program of 2013.

Photos of her earlier works:

Mette Marie Ørsted was educated at the School of Arts&Crafts (now: Danish Academy Design School) 1973-1977.
She has had several solo exhibitions and participated in group and juried exhibitions, including the Biennial for Crafts and Design on Traphøj Art Museum and Kolding Castle in 2007 and The Design Museum Denmark 2002, and received Grants from the Danish Arts Foundation, including a Work Grant in 2011.
She has had her own studio since 1990, and she is a member of the Danish Arts and Crafts Association

BIOGRAPHY – METTE MARIE ØRSTED
Born in 1952
Member of the Danish Arts And Crafts Association

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL CARRIER
2010- Keramikunderviser på Institut for Blinde- og Svagtseende, Hellerup
1990- Eget værksted, Gammel Kongevej 39 C
1988-1996 Gæstelærer, Danmarks Designskole
1984-1986 Billedskolen, Jagtvej
1973-1977 Skolen for Brugskunst (Danmarks Designskole), Keramik- og Glaslinjen

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Mobil Tepotte, Butik for Borddækning, København
2008 Porcelænskander klippet med en saks, Butik for Borddækning, København
2007 Kanden – kan den, Galleri Pagter, Kolding
2005 Kander klippet med en saks, Galleri Nørby, København

JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2007 Biennalen for Kunsthåndværk og Design 2007, Trapholt og Koldinghus
2002 Biennalen for Kunsthåndværk og Design 2002, Kunstindustrimuseet

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 Mesterværker, Ann Linnemann Galleri, København
2012 Behold, Ann Linnemann Galleri, København
2011 Verden på et Fad, Gammelgaard, Herlev
2010 Tepotter af tiden, Danmarks Keramikmuseum Grimmerhus, Middelfart
2009 Kunstforeningen af 14. august
Sommerudstilling, Ann Linnemann Galleri, København
Clausens Kunsthandel, København
2008 Porcelænskander klippet med en saks, Butik for Borddækning, København
Et tosset teselskab, Butik for Borddækning, København
2007 5 kunstnere, Bispegården, Kalundborg
Func Art, Drud og Køppe Galleri, København
2006 Galleri Kant, Sønderho, Fanø
North meets South, Nordiska Museet, Stockholm
2004 Ceramiques Danoises, Centre de Creation Ceramique de La Borne
2000 Keramik uden fortilfælde, Udstillingssted for Ny Keramik, København
1999 Brugsting i lertøj, Galleri Nørby
1998 Suppeskåle, Galleri Nørby, København
Udstillingssted for Ny Keramik, København
1997 The Contemporary Teapot, Danmarks Keramikmuseum Grimmerhus, Middelfart
1996 Vase, Galleri Nørby, København
Dansk Kunsthåndværk og design, Skt. Petersborg
Duplika, Dansk Arkitektur Center – Gammel Dok, København

GRANTS AND AWARDS
2011 Statens Kunstfonds arbejdslegat
2009 Legat fra boet efter Gertrud Vasegård
Bergiafonden og Statens Kunstfonds legat til udstillingen 'Verden på et fad'
2007-2009 Statens Kunstfonds arbejdslegat
2007 Nordea Danmark Fonden
1999-2001 Statens Kunstfonds arbejdslegat
1997 Statens Kunstfonds arbejdslegat
1995 Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfond
1994 Den Danske Keramiktriennalepris

PUBLICATIONS
Dansk design ved årtusindeskiftet. Christian Ejlers forlag
Ny keramik. Udstillingssted for ny keramik. Rhodos forlag

COLLECTIONS
Kunstmuseet Trapholt, Kolding
Kunstindustrimuseet, København
Statens Kunstfond
Kulturforvaltningen, Kolding
Kunstforeningen af 14. august