Jewellery gets new life in Copenhagen with the gallery ‘Hello, the Roses,’ where Marie Gellert Jensen brings an international outlook to the scene. Bettina Speckner’s works are presented here – delicate and thoughtful jewellery that combines old photographic techniques with found objects. With a keen eye for time, transience and materiality, Speckner creates compositions that both tell stories and ask questions about the way we perceive the world. Read review in Formkraft

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Officinet presents a very relevant and perspective exhibition about ceramics made from scrap. Wasteland is a necessary exhibition.

Behind the exhibition are three ceramicists, Christina Schou Christensen, Signe Fensholt and Thora Finnsdottir, who individually and in a joint project show the results of attempts to reduce material consumption in the production of ceramics.

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It is said that the status of a field depends not only on the results or progress achieved, but just as much on how its achievements have been documented, interpreted and communicated. Lars Dybdahl received the Design Council’s Honorary Award in 2024 for his enormous commitment to this! Lars Dybdahl explains why Danish craft and design are an important part of our society and what role he sees craft and design playing in the future.
Read full interview in Formkraft (dk/eng)

https://formkraft.dk/en/from-william-morris-to-sustainable-goals-lars-dybdahl-on-the-role-and-potential-of-danish-design-in-society/

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Exhibition design is created in an encounter of different media, creative and professional disciplines and messages. The exhibition architect has to find new and innovative ways to combine these aspects with the goal of giving the visitors an experience of being emotionally affected and enlightened in ways they would not otherwise have been.

byJohan Carlsson

Photo: maker and designer Susanne Jøker and glass-blower Bjørn Friborg from Holmegaard. Photo by David Stjernholm

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Conversation
The borderland of raw materials

Ceramist Sissel Wathne (b. 1981) has worked at the intersection of different boundaries in art and life: between traditional craft and industrial design, between fine art and decorative art, between Denmark and Norway, between history and innovation and between local roots and global influences. In order to navigate in this boundary zone, Wathne uses her own hands as her ethical and aesthetic compass.

Associate Professor of Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus University Ingrid Halland met Wathne for a conversation about stories, waste and surfaces.

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Photos Sissel Wathne. Photography by Tom Gustavsen

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Speakers Corner
Art centre with an obligation to communicate?

Denmark lacks a scene that purely exhibits craft and design. We have several museums and galleries dedicated to the field, but we miss the big stage where craft artists and designers can frolic freely with a perspective on both the past and the future. A stage that can manifest and communicate the potential that does not have to take into account political discourses and museum obligations, but can focus solely on form and the cross-material potentials.

By Charlotte Jul

https://formkraft.dk/en/art-centre-with-an-obligation-to-communicate/

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Mapping: Where to experience crafts and design in Denmark!

Across Denmark, museums, exhibition spaces, galleries and pop-up formats showcase crafts and design. Either as permanent formats or as temporary or perspective-orientated inclusions. Charlotte Jul has mapped the crafts and design scene in Denmark.

https://formkraft.dk/en/mapping-where-to-experience-crafts-and-design-in-denmark/

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