In 2020, the residential and respite care institution Fenrishus, in close collaboration with a steering group of parents and family members, started work with Artboost and curator Signe Sylvester. The aim was to create a more inspiring and homely framework by integrating new artworks and site-specific works in the auspices of the institution. In […]
Textile printing is alive and thriving. As are all the other forms of textile expression that are currently picking up the threads and revitalizing historical waves – from 1960s fibre art to the wild textile printing of the 1980s. The contemporary Danish textile scene is as vibrant as ever.
[…] opened on 14 March 2025 at Thoravej 29 in Copenhagen NV, in collaboration with the Bikuben Foundation and more than 20 partners, they have created a living laboratory where the future is explored in practice through interactive installations and interdisciplinary collaborations. Here, art is not just for viewing, but a tool for shaping tomorrow's solutions.
The ever-changing phenomena of nature sharpen Astrid Krogh’s senses and experience of presence in the world. That is why she seeks to make ‘the wind blow’ in her art and decorative projects that add an atmospheric layer to the architecture, in more than one sense of the word.
[…] as a multi-sensory total installation, where the organic language of seaweed resonates with the raw, industrial architecture of the space. Through textile, scent, video, and biomaterials, four artists investigate seaweed’s transformative potential in close dialogue with the site’s distinct character. Curated by Lawrence Ebelle, the exhibition emerges from a deeply collaborative process in which […]
[…] and museum inspector from Designmuseum Denmark Pernille Stockmarr focus on the significance of Engelhardt’s design. Contemporary crafts and strategy Contemporary crafts are part of Syddjurs Municipality’s new art strategy for 2022-25. Formkraft brings an interview with the art advisors behind the strategy to gain insight into how crafts are included and what increased attention […]
[…] and museum inspector from Designmuseum Denmark Pernille Stockmarr focus on the significance of Engelhardt's design. Contemporary crafts and strategy Contemporary crafts are part of Syddjurs Municipality's new art strategy for 2022-25. Formkraft brings an interview with the art advisors behind the strategy to gain insight into how crafts are included and what increased attention […]
[…] display cases. Today, exhibitions are moving in an ever more digital direction, where the key exhibition device is to stage the story in the form of immersive installations and interactive experiences. This shift in communication mode, from physical to digital, has changed the pace at which exhibitions can be produced but also the rate […]
[…] of an article or engages in fruitful conversations with the designer about his views and positions and about both the big and the more tangible questions about art, design and form: industrial designer David Geckeler (Germany), art historian Mirjam Gelfer-Jørgensen, museum curator and art and design historian Christian Holmsted Olesen, architecture and design specialist […]
Art can be a way to create spaces that embrace citizens in vulnerable situations. In Middelfart, designers and craft artists are developing a waiting area for the new local hospital, where everyone should feel comfortable and want to be. The project was initiated by Middelfart Municipality and the Danish Arts Foundation's project support […]