Maker's Dimension at Bygning A

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Maker’s Dimensions shows final projects by fifteen students who graduated this summer from the Royal Academy Crafts schools for glass and ceramics on the island of Bornholm.

Studying at the academy, gives students time, facilities and support to not only develop their technical skills but also an opportunity to experiment - to take ideas in new directions or to find a balance between technical methods and the intrinsic or potential qualities of the materials they are working with - and time to discover and develop a distinct and appropriate personal style.

What can be seen here are the works of young designer-makers who are exploring colour and texture, experimenting with pure forms or using pattern and repetition and testing the qualities of and potential limits of glass and clay.

My Materials, My Tools, My Components, My Collaborative Partner
Hanna Torvik


Works in the exhibition are by:
Annamaria Margareth Hartvig-Clausen, Armel Desrues, Clara Rudbeck Toksvig, Hanna Torvik, In Kyong Lee, Jasmin Franko, Josephine Alberthe Molter, Laura Godsk Vestergaard, Maren Gammelgaard Aaserud, Maria Kildahl Mathiasen, Nathalie Cohn, Sara Vinderslev Mirkhani, Signe Boisen, Thea Dejligbjerg Djurhuus, and Tiphanie Germaneau

Maker's Dimension
26 November 2021 to 9 January 2022
Bygning A, Kløvermarksvej 70,
2300 København S

Det Kongelige Akademi på Bornholm
– Crafts in Glass and Ceramics

update:
Bygning A had to close on 19 December - because of legislation for the control of Coronavirus-19 - but they will reopen on Sunday 16 January 2022 and Maker’s Dimensions will now continue through to 30 January 2022


Ego
Laura Godsk Vestergaard

Kenophobia
Jasmin Franko

Vases Communicant
Armel Desrues

An Ode
Marta Kildahl Mathiasen

 

Welcome home Åke

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This weekend is the last opportunity to see the exhibition on the works of the Swedish designer Åke Axelsson at Bygning A - the gallery of Anders Petersen on the east side of Kløvermarken at Klovermarksvej 70.

When seen together, the furniture shown here is both the evidence of a long and exceptionally productive career but is also, and above all, an insight into a designers imagination as he explores a huge range of forms and styles to understand and exploit different materials and to develop the technical details of construction.

Friday 30 July 2021, 12-18
Saturday 31 July 2021, 10-16
Sunday 1 August 2021, 10-16

Welcome home Åke
Bygning A

news from the Anders Petersen gallery

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Today a newsletter from A Petersen Collection & Craft - the gallery in Copenhagen of Anders Petersen - dropped into my mail box.

With the lockdown of the pandemic, the whole gallery has been closed but the display and retail area on the ground floor has just been allowed to reopen.

It will be several weeks before the gallery and exhibition area on the first floor can reopen - all museums and public galleries in the city are closed - but the really good news is that Anders Petersen has managed to extend the period for the exhibition that shows the work of the Swedish designer Åke Axelsson.

This is an amazing exhibition. The designer has just celebrated his 89th birthday and is still working. Although it is fairly common for galleries to mount 'retrospectives' for living painters or sculptors and even for major potters - for people to see and appreciate the full range of work of the artist through their working life - it is still relatively rare for the works of a furniture designer to be gathered together in this way.

It is a rare privilege to be able to see how the ideas of an amazing imagination develops or evolves to bring designs to realisation and how certain themes reappear as alternative solutions to a problem are explored or as new materials are employed that dictate different forms or require different techniques.

 

once the government allows galleries to reopen,
Welcome Home Åke!  will continue at A Petersen / Bygning A until Sunday 1 August 2021

Graduation2020 - the work of students from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Bornholm

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An exhibition of their degree projects by students who graduated this year from the programme of Crafts: Glass and Ceramics at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Design School Bornholm.

Here you can see the works in glass and ceramics as young artists and makers explore materials and techniques and as they develop a distinct approach to their craft.

The range of styles is incredible but clear themes through all the pieces are the exploration of colour and the use of distinct and strong texture as they relate to both the material and to the forms explored.

An important aspect of the exhibition is how the graduates chose to display and to light their work.

the exhibition ends on 4 October 2020
A.Petersen Collection & Craft

The exhibition catalogue designed by Rasmus Kvist has a short introduction and then, for each student, a short description of their work with photographs by Kirstine Autzen.