A successful exhibition is always more than an exhibition, and the Biennale for Craft & Design has always been more than an exhibition. However, if the Biennale is to function as an exhibition – and more – in the future, it needs to take its own medicine, carrying certain things forward and scrapping others.
Materials have always been a key condition of human creativity, but in recent decades, they have taken on renewed prominence in artistic practices. This article examines how today’s focus on materials relates to ideas from 16th-century understandings of nature and materials and how these connections can shed new light on the ongoing departure from […]
While the rain briefly visited ‘the Sunshine Island’, as Bornholm is affectionately known, experts and an interested audience came together for a debate about the potential of crafts and design in the green transition under the heading ‘Too Good to Throw: Better consumption with crafts and design’.
Exciting things happen when craftspeople and artists mobilize citizens in artistic co-creation processes. This process can help shed new light on the traditional value hierarchy in art and also open our eyes to the significant craft skills that lead a crucial yet quiet existence within the population. This is explored by Professor Birgit Eriksson […]
The Danish Arts Foundation annually allocates DKK 21 million to projects that provide children and young people with an understanding of what art is. There aren't many craftspeople and designers who apply for these funds. Designer and head of the Artists-in-Residence committee, Mette Mikkelsen, talks about the program and provides insight into the committee's wishes.
Crafts rely on the traditional knowledge of making where the human hand is preferred over the industrial process. Is there room for craftsmanship and material-based interpretation in the built environment? Can industrial processes learn something essential from crafts and from artists’ way of thinking?
This year’s ECA conference explores how crafts are playing an increasingly significant role in health, care and rehabilitation. Drawing on recent European research and practical case studies, the conference will focus on the role of crafts in well-being and social inclusion. The event is free and open to all – both in person and online.
Designmuseum Danmark can rightfully call itself Denmark’s design memory. Embedded in the museum’s very DNA is a national responsibility to document, preserve, and communicate Danish craft, applied arts, and industrial design throughout history – for the benefit of both the present and the future. This places significant demands on how works are collected, explains […]
[…] the exhibition, all subtle updates of the traditional brooch form. Wood is also a recurring feature in a series of wall objects by Anne Brandhøj, who has crafted pieces of maple, ash and other types of wood into silky smooth, perfectly rounded shapes whose perfection does not, however, prevent the inherent tension of the […]
[…] feel and evaluate them - and create a relationship with them? Fortunately, there are already small movements in this direction. In particular, handmade ceramics, which ooze time, craftsmanship and are created in an easily decodable material, have found their way into many homes in recent years. Kitchen gardens and hand knitting are also more […]