[…] new formats and creating a strong international foundation for their future careers. Now they are back in Denmark with visions and recklessness in their luggage. In Mexico, textile artist Vibeke Rohland not only found inspiration and work. She also learned how colours and symbols bind people together when language falls short. In Nepal and […]
The project team behind GenJord was initiated by the Aarhus Academy of Fine Arts and myself. In addition to myself, the working group included Anne Louise Bang, textile artist and researcher of sustainable textiles; Karoline Bach Larsen and Ida Fonsleth, students at the academy; and film and TV production technician Halfdan Kruse. Together, we […]
[…] for contemporary crafts and design? Join us at the Biennale symposium as we explore the potentials and challenges of these new tools. Moderator: Anne Louise Bang, ph.d. textile designer, researcher, VIA University College NB! Please note that the presentations will be in English, streamed, and recorded. 'Crafted Realities' - A Deep Dive into NFT […]
"In the beginning, there was only a single goldsmith, Kirsten Pontoppidan, who had the highest sales, just as more and more textile people joined. There was always a little drama about the spaces when one wanted to expand, because textiles preferably had to be in the sun. Many of the new ideas came with […]
Textile designer Dorte Østergaard Jakobsen reflects on the political system built around public art in Denmark and urges crafts people and designers to take action.
[…] has to be carefully planned, like a recipe,’ says Anne Kirketerp. I am speaking to Anne Kirketerp on the phone. Originally, she trained as a maker and textile craft teacher at Skals Håndarbejdsseminarium (Skals Textile Craft College) specializing in weaving and knitting. Later, she studied psychology and earned a PhD, which makes her Denmark’s […]
[…] very emotional. It did not seem like a very pleasant situation for either side,’ says Iben Ramvad Kjær, a bachelor student in her second year of the Textile Design programme at Design School Kolding. She is also chair of the school’s Study Board. Together with Josefine My Sommer, a bachelor student in her second […]
[…] per cent, as were our budgets, so we had to cancel courses. The current ceramics class will be the last in Copenhagen, and we no longer offer textile design as an independent specialty area. We have been making constant adjustments. Throughout, I think we have managed to preserve our integrity and still offer the […]
[…] Professor, University of Aberdeen (UK) Speakers: Cilla Robach, Head of design collection, National Museum, Stockholm Ingrid Halland, architecture and design historian Anne Fabricius Møller, fabric printer and textile designer Panel debate: Morten Løbner Espersen, ceramicist Vibeke Riisberg, textile designer, PhD, Design School Kolding Rebecca Uth, industriel designer Morten Riis, Deputy Mayor and Chairman of Maker’s […]
[…] variety of materials and formats, including Mette Colberg’s windows, Frederik Gustav’s Balancing Game with wood and pebbles, Marlene Klok Mikkelsen’s digital meditation parody and Liv Marie Rømer’s textile. Small, hybrid forms dominate this year’s Biennale, probably as a reflection of the simultaneously physical and mental compression during a strange year, and one misses the […]
