Opening Graduation Exhibition 2011 for The Danish Design School, Bornholm opens at the Bornholm Art Museum 25 June. This summer’s graduation exhibition for The Danish Design School, Bornholm presents graduation projects in glass and ceramics by seventeen recently graduated craftspersons. These seventeen new beacons in Danish design and craft are presented at the Bornholm Art Museum and then goes on to tour Denmark, Sweden and Germany over the summer months.
The exhibition presents the graduation projects by this year’s graduates with exhibits ranging from utilitarian objects for the home, sculptural surprises and experiments that stretch the potential of the materials with new amusing and thought-provoking shapes. Visitors to the exhibition will see cosmetic surgery in glass, storage boxes with embedded sweet wrappers, critical comments on social trends, and overflowing glaze. The seventeen brand-new graduates present seventeen playful examples of the current state of Scandinavian design and craft.
| www.flickr.com |
One graduation project illustrates how far glaze can be stretched, overflow and even support the weight of bowls and dishes. Another shows breast implants and cosmetic surgery in glass, a third mixes everyday objects with carefully processed glass, while a fourth, titled “Lille Else har lort i numsen” (Little Elsie has poop in her bottom) is a distinctly humorous take on craft. Intimacy is a common theme in this year’s graduation projects. From the fascinating childhood universe over utilitarian objects designed for social events, for example the traditional Danish coffee ritual, to new interpretations of the Scandinavian design tradition with a surprising twist. One of the graduation projects even features historic building materials from the island of Bornholm, incorporating mediaeval bricks, like those seen in the Hammershus ruins, in a series of beautiful compositions.
It is a diverse and wide-ranging exhibition that awaits the audience when seventeen graduates present the crowning achievements of their three years of training on the island of Bornholm. Crash & Burn – splintering glass and sizzling ceramics.
Graduation 2011 – Crash & Burn
25 July – 2 August 2011
Bornholm Art Museum
Helligdommen, Rønne
DK-3760 Gudhjem
After the opening at the Bornholm Art Museum, Graduation 2011 will go on tour to Copenhagen, Malmö and Germany. Exhibition dates:
25 Jun 11 - 02 Aug 11 Bornholm Art Museum, Rønne, DK
05 Aug 11 – 21 Aug 11 The Danish Design School, Copenhagen, DK
01 Sep 11 – 18 Sep 11 Designer Zoo, Copenhagen, DK
24 Sep 11 – 16 Oct 11 Form/Design Center, Malmö, SE
01 Dec 11 – 05 Feb 12 European Museum of Modern Glass, Coburg, DE
This year’s graduates
Anna Mlasowsky, Benjamin Brogaard Winther, Christina Schou Christensen, Jennie Olofsson, Lene Charlotte Tangen, Lisa Alm, Louise Kragh Hansen, Marcin Kucab, Maria Holm, Marianne Gerlach, Marte Kartfjord, Matilda Kästel, Max Hillfon, Mette Møjbæk Duedahl, Mette Thyrsted Kristensen, Monica Alvestad Amundsen, Nina Kirkebæk Nielsen, Olga Milczynska and Siri Gran Stokkeland.
Additional information
Head of Centre Christian Heide Petersen, chp@dkds.dk, 5644 0345/ 2338 5439
