» Issue 01/2010: Nordic identities
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Text: André Gali
Published: 4 May 2010
Ceramic artist Ingrid Askeland receives Scheibler’s Grant
Friday, 16 May 2010, Scheibler Foundation’s board of directors happily announced that ceramic artist Ingrid Askeland has received this year’s Scheibler Award for her impressive talent. The prize was handed over in a ceremony at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Oslo. A member of the board gave a short presentation of Askeland’s artistic practice before handing her a check worth approximately 19,000 Euros. The jury considers Askeland’s ceramic sculptures to be ‘fresh and provocative in contrast to more traditional ceramics’ and rewarded her for ‘exploring a wide range of pop-cultural phenomena’. Askeland’s works often take the shape of oversized beer bottles decorated with cartoon-like stories based on her personal life.
Norwegian-Japanese textile art on tour in the UK
The Norwegian-Japanese collaborative exhibition, CULTEX – Textile as a Cross-Cultural Language, has been on display in HUB National Centre for Craft & Design in Lincolnshire, but moves on to Rygby Art Gallery and Museum in June.
The exhibition features six textile artists working in transnational partnerships: Machiko Agano and Anniken Amundsen, Yuka Kawai and Eva Schjølberg and Kiyonori Shimada and Gabriella Göransson. According to the project description, ‘CULTEX aims to bring the cultures and craft traditions of the two countries together to create a new and common “language”, where textile techniques and media are cross-cultural communication tools.’
About the HUB exhibition, Culture24 has commented: ‘As all three pairs demonstrate, there are as many connections as differences between the far North and the Far East. Knowledge of technique, materials and the history of textile art transcended all boundaries.’
The curator of the show is Lesley Millar and the exhibition will be on display in Rygby from 22 June to 22 August 2010.
Norwegian design in Tokyo
Glass artist Tanja Sæter and textile artist Hanna Friis, both Norwegian, are participating in a major group show in Tokyo this summer. The exhibition POST FOSSIL: Excavating 21st Century Creation at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT (museum) explores design after the global financial crisis.
According to the museum’s website: ‘These designers are retracing the steps of human history and going back to the primitive roots of the very act of making things. They are redesigning not only the shelter and tools but also lifestyle, incorporating elements of nature into materials and creation processes.’
Curator and trend forecaster Li Edelkoort has chosen 130 works by 71 designers that show a new perspective on the future, one that is ‘post fossil’. The show is on display from 24 April to 27 June 2010.
‘Beyond Light’ in Risør
‘Light’ is this year’s theme for BeyondRisør, the design biennale that takes place in the small town of Risør on Norway’s south coast.
Founded in 2005 as 100% Risør, the event was arranged annually until 2008. In 2006 the organizers changed the name because, as art director Johan Verde explains, ‘sometimes you’ve got to give more than one hundred percent.’
BeyondRisør is considered to be an important meeting place for designers working in all areas, and aims to show how quality design can make a difference in business competition.
Held from 11 to 12 June 2010, the biennale will feature a broad program of design seminars, exhibitions and ‘speed-dating’ with production companies.
Hanne Friis: Boa, 2001, stockings, handseam
Kiyonori Shimada’s installation Division – 2009 – W. In the background Gabriella Göransson’s installation Out of Darkness can be seen.
Ingrid Askeland receives Scheibler’s Grant for impressive talent. Askeland to the left, board member Kaci Kullmann Five at right.
Ingrid Askeland receives Scheibler’s Grant for impressive talent. Askeland to the left, board member Kaci Kullmann Five at right.