Anders Ruhwald

Born in Randers, Denmark
Lives and works in Detroit and London

EDUCATION

2005 MA, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom

2000 BA, The Glass and Ceramics School on Bornholm, Denmark

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 Almost Nothing, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco

  Nästan Allting, Galleri IngerMolin, Stockholm, Sweden

2008 You in Between, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK

  Anders Ruhwald 2004-07, Espace Grandjean Vallauris, France

  One is never so close to change when life seems unbearable in even the smallest and most everyday things, Rowland Contemporary, Chicago

  Form & Function, Sixpm Project Space, London, United Kingdom

2007 We float in space and cannot perceive the new order, M.Y. Artprospects, New York

  Form & Function, Galleri IngerMolin, Stockholm, Sweden

  If all man's products were well designed, harmony and joy would emerge eternally triumphant, Drud & Køppe Gallery, Denmark

2006 Frictions, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin

2005 Frictions, Rowland Contemporary, Chicago

2004 The State of Things, Galleri IngerMolin, Stockholm, Sweden

  The State of Things, The Museum of Art & Design, Copenhagen, Denmark

2003 Galleri Puls, Bruxelles, Belgium Galleri Nørby, Copenhagen, Denmark

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 Prospection and perspectives, Favadin & de Verneuil, Paris

  The Margins, The Icehouse, Phoenix, Arizona

  Maxmultiple, Devening Projects & Editions, Chicago

  Our Objects, Machintosh Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

  Irreverent, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

2008 Mindcraft, FuoriSalone, Zona Tortona, Milan, Italy

2007 Everyday, National Museum of Decorative Art, Trondheim, Norway

  Func Art, Drud & Køppe Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

  Facts and Figures, Westerpark, Amsterdam, Holland

  Present 2007, Bomuldfabrikens Kunsthall, Arndal, Norway

2006 Places, Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria

  Danish- Framing the future of design, The Nordic Embassies, Berlin

  Keramik under jorden - över Jord, Blås og Knåda, Stockholm, Sweden

2005 54th Premio Faenza, Faenza, Italy

  New Danish Ceramics, Museum De Tiendschuu, Tegelen, Holland

  The Autumn Exhibition, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

  My Room, Sophienholm, Copenhagen, Denmark

  Strata, Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden

  Contain Memory, The Crypt, St. Pancras Church, London, UK

  Like Nowhere Else, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2004 Generations, Rosenthal, Pinakotek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

  Made in Scandinavia, Rikutstillingerne, Norway (2004-06)

  Stuff. Ingenuity and Critique. Harbour Front Center, Toronto, Canada

  Pays invité Le Danemark. La Borne, France

  Keramiske veje, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark

2003 Scandinavian Design Beyond The Myth, Museums in Berlin, Budapest, Milan, Prague, Genz and more, (2003-2005)

  The 1st International Taiwan Ceramics Biennial, Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan

  The 6th International Ceramics Biennial, Museo De Manises, Spain

  The 2nd World Ceramics Biennial, Icheon, Korea

  Bare Boundaries, Museum of Decorative Arts, Tallinn, Estonia

  Talente, Handwerkskammer Munich, Germany

2002 DK/SA Project, Claymuseum, Capetown, Gallery Thompson, Johannesburg, SA

  Made in Scandinavia, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway

  The 2002 Biennial, The Museum of Art and Design, Copenhagen, Denmark

  The XIV Panevezys Ceramics Symposium, Civic Art Gallery, Panevezys, Lithuania

2000 Possession, The Applied Art Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia

  The Altec Ceramics Biennale, Johannesburg, SA

1998 K.E., Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark

1995 Poly-arte, Rungstedgaard, Rungsted, Denmark

EXHIBTION CATALOGUES (MONOGRAPHS)

You In Between, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK, 2009

We Float in Space and Cannot Perceive the New Order, M.Y. Artprospects, New York, 2007

Form & Function, Galleri Inger Molin, Stockholm, Sweden, 2007

Kohler, Rowlandcontemporary, Chicago, USA, 2006

The State of Things, The Danish Museum of Art and Design, Copenhagen, 2004

PUBLICATIONS

Gaspar, Mònica and Love Jönsson (ed.). Place(s), think tank edition 03, Gmunden, Austria, 2007

Hanaor, Cigalle (ed.) Breaking the Mould, Black Dog Publishing, 2007, p. 29, 56-59

Jönsson, Love (ed): Craft in Dialogue: Six Views on a Practice in Change, Stockholm, Sweden, 2005

Ljungstrom, Hanna and Ulf Beckman (eds). Re: Form-Contemporary Swedish Art Crafts, Stockholm, Sweden, 2005

Mazanti, Louise. Superobjekter, Danmarks Designskole & The Royal Academy of Fine Arts- School of Architecture, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006, p. 135-140

CATALOGUES

Céramique contemporaine Biennale Internationale Vallauris 2008, Musée Magnelli- musée de la Céramique, Vallauris Golfe-Juan, France, 2008 p. 170-73

Facts & Figures, Westerpark, Amsterdam, Holland, 2007

How to Love Juicy Jam and Jacks, Drud & Køppe Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006

Keramik under Jorden- över jord, Blås og Knåda, Stockholm, Sweden, 2006

54 Premio Faenza, Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Italy, 2005

My Room & my friends room, Sophienholm, Denmark, 2005

Strata, Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden 2005

Keramik under Jorden, Exhibition Catalogue, Copenhagen, 2004

Tingenes Tilstand/The State of Things, The Danish Museum of Decorative Arts, 2004

VI Biennal Internacional de Ceràmica Manises, Ayuntamiento de Manises- Museu de Ceràmica

The 1st Taiwan International Ceramics Biennale, Taipei County Yingge Ceramics museum, 2004

Lagedad Piirid/Bare Boundaries, Tallinn Applied Art Triennial Society/Tarbekunstimuuseum, 2003

Scandinavian Design Beyond the Myth, Halèn & Wickman (ed), Arvenius Förlag Stockholm, 2003

The 2nd World Ceramics Biennale 2003 Korea international Competition, World Ceramics Exposition Foundation, Korea

Derfor, Danish Crafts

Talente 2003, Edition Handwerk, Tyskland, 2003

Young Nordic Ceramics, 2003

Kunsthåndværk og Design Biennalen 2002, Kunstindustrimuseet

XIV International Ceramics Symposium, Panevezys Poland, 2002

Nordic Network, Internationalt Keramiks Center Guldagergård, 2002

Possession, Tallinn Applied Art Triennial, 2000 Tallinn Applied Art Triennial Society, Tarbekunstimuuseum, 2003

Altech Ceramics Biennale 2000, The Association of Potters of South Africa

The 36th international ceramics and Sculpture Workshop, Boleslawiec, Poland 2000

Afgang 2000, Glas og Keramikskolen

BIBLIOGRAPHY (selected)

"Between the furnace and the figure," MAP, issue 18, 2009, UK

"Positive Connections to the past," Crafts Magazine, March, 2009, UK

"Against the grain," American Craft Magazine, April/May, 2009, USA

"Tingtwisteren," Living Design, Spring edition, 2009, Denmark

"Exhibition preview: Anders Ruhwald," The Guardian, December, 27, 2008, UK

"Chicago: Anders Ruhwald," Ceramics Monthly, June/July/August, 2008, USA

"New York: Anders Ruhwald," Sculpture Magazine, March 2008, USA

"Weekendavisen," Kultur, May 4-10, Denmark, 2008

"Not to be Glazed over," How to spend it, Financial Times UK edition, April 2007

"En krydda av osäkerhet," Svenske Dagbladet, April 20, 2007, Sweden

Ceramics Monthly, May 2007, USA

Ceramics Magazine Europe, February/March No. 1, 2007, p. 42-46, Germany Politiken, January 12, 2006, Denmark

Sculpture Magazine, Vol. 25, No. 6, October 2006, USA

Crafts Magazine, No. 194 May/June 2005, United Kingdom

"Weekend Avisen," Kultur, September 3-9, 2004, p. 9, Denmark

Kunststuff, No. 2, 2004, p. 23-25, Denmark

Ceramics: Art and Perception, No. 54, 2003 p. 58-60, Australia

Dansk Kunsthåndværk/Danish Crafts, No. 3, 2003. p. 14-17

"Jyllandsposten," kultur, 29-4-2003, p. 9, Denmark

Dansk Kunsthåndværk/Danish Crafts, No. 2, 2003, Denmark

Dansk Kunsthåndværk/Danish Crafts, No. 4, 2002, p. 28, 34-35, Denmark

rI_Id, Nr 4, 2002, p. 20-21, Slovenia

Pottery in Australia: The Journal of Australian Ceramics, p. 53-55 Vol. 41, No. 3, 2002, Australia

PRIZES, AWARDS AND GRANTS

2009 The Danish Art Foundation

2007 The Sotheby's Prize, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

2005 The Annie & Otto Detlefs Prize, Denmark

2002 1st prize, The Biennial, Museum of Art and Design, Copenhagen, Denmark

ACADEMIC AFFILIATION

2008- Cranbrook Academy of Art, USA, Artist in Residence & Head of Ceramics

2008-7 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Associate professor

2007 University of Colorado at Boulder, Instructor

2006 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada, Assistant professor

COLLECTIONS (selected)

The Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The National Museum of Decorative Art, Trondheim, Norway

The Swedish National Museum, Stockholm

The Swedish Council for the Arts

The John Michael Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin, USA

The Museum of Art and Design, Copenhagen, Denmark

The Danish Arts Council

Christian Lacroix's Private Collection

Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

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