Theme: Contemporary Jewellery Art Can Danish jewellery art reinvent itself when the artistic education has been shut down, and the field doesn’t have a dedicated professional museum in Denmark? What traditions and stories does Danish jewellery art build upon? How does the industry relate to contemporary demands for sustainability and new consumption patterns? Does […]
[…] Contemporary Jewellery Art Can Danish jewellery art renew itself when the artistic education has been shut down and the field does not have a dedicated professional museum in Denmark? What traditions and stories does Danish jewellery art build on? How does the industry relate to contemporary demands for sustainability and new consumer patterns? […]
[…] visual markers and function as the city’s landmarks. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Knud V. Engelhardt’s design for Gentofte Municipality. PhD student Matthias Horneman-Thielcke 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 […]
[…] visual markers and function as the city's landmarks. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Knud V. Engelhardt's design for Gentofte Municipality. PhD student Matthias Horneman-Thielcke 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 […]
[…] there is also a certain aesthetic ambition involved. This is not to say that artistic craft is doomed to collect dust as an art object in a museum display case for the rest of its life. On the contrary. Artistic craft shape the future. It's our hallmark. Craft artists contain the good blend of […]
And while we are in the literary corner, we cannot ignore the little gem of a hybrid novel Thread Ripper (2020) – a multi-track story about weaving, text and computer technology. Here, artist and writer Astrid Smith draws together associations on the relationship between text and weaving, loom and computer, the fabric of text, the […]
Textiles continues to have a unique power to bring people together, as when Trapholt museum of modern art, craft and design invites its audience to contribute with elements to large artist-led collective works of art. Across borders, cultures and continents, craft can be a unifying factor, an shared field where it is easy and […]
Keyspeaker: Tim Ingold, Emeritus 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 […]
[…] have found new audiences and new inspiration through social media and the internet. That was also refleted in the theme of the exhibition Ceramic Momentum at CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark in 2019, which examined how ceramic art engages with digital phenomena and how the presentation and communication of ceramic art on digital […]
[…] results, this has enabled several of the participating designers to establish important collaborations with companies and international galleries, and some of the pieces have been purchased for museum collections. Several contemporary designers who are regarded as international top names today have participated in the Mindcraft project, and for many, it acted as a catalyst […]