ANNE BRANDHØJ
GALLERI CHRISTOFFER EGELUND
ANNE BRANDHØJ
ANNE BRANDHØJ ‘TOUCH & RELATE’ NOVEMBER 8 – DECEMBER 1 Touch & Relate: Anne Brandhøj at Galleri Christoffer Egelund Project ROOM Curated by Henriette Noermark The young emerging artist and furniture designer Anne Brandhøj’s first solo show, Touch & Relate at Galleri Christoffer Egelund is a display of vibrant, organic wooden objects that the visitors are welcome to touch and feel. Anne Brandhøj’s works can be classified as collectibles, and the exhibition challenges the notion that an object is either a sculpture or an item of furniture. Can a sculpture be just as functional as a design can be abstract? Titles such as Be Gentle To My Curves, You Are Not Perfect Either and For Once, Untangle Me make an affectionate, humorous comment on the relationship between objects and people. At the heart of Brandhøj’s work is the question of how we relate to all the things with which we surround ourselves on a daily basis. Applying the concept of aesthetic sustainability as a benchmark, she explores how we can form an emotional relationship with objects and keep them longer, thereby counteracting the unnecessary escalation of consumer culture and the consequences it entails. Touch & Relate features 11 wooden sculptures, which pay homage to the life of the organism, highlighting the traces of time as opposed to hiding them, as one generally tends to do in the design industry. Because the tree trunks are not cut into planks, in Anne Brandhøj’s works their unique signs of life – fungal attack, knots, growth rings, and cracks – are intact. Each work consists of an element shaped from a fresh tree trunk. After fashioning and drying, it is joined to a dimensionally stable element of either oven-dried wooden planks or moulded veneer. In collaboration with the design curator Henriette Noermark, the gallery space has been transformed into a sensory space, encouraging visitors to touch and enter into dialogue with the works as if they were items of furniture. The result is a holistic experience. While the reverence for the sculpture fizzles out, the furniture is also freed from its status as a functional utility item. For a furniture designer, function usually forms the basis of the design, but in Touch & Relate Anne Brandhøj challenges both her training and utility by consciously working with non-functional objects. Welcome. Get up close.
Anne Brandhøj (1984) is a Danish artist living and working in Hellerup, Denmark. She graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design, and Conservation in 2017 and during her studies, she did an exchange at The Rhode Island School of Design. Brandhøj has been participating in several exhibitions in both Denmark and internationally such as Italy, Indonesia, and France. She has been represented at Snedkernes Efterårsudstilling, Chart Art Fair and 3 Days of Design. Currently, she also teaches at KADK, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. And during the fall of 2019, she was the recipient of Wilhelm Hansen Fonden’s prize for emerging designers.
ANNE BRANDHØJ Be gentle to my curves 2019 Ash 46 x 96 x 32 cm
ANNE BRANDHØJ Bend to caress me 2019 Ash, Cherry 85 x 78 x 45 cm
ANNE BRANDHØJ Wrap your arms around me 2019 Hornbeam, Oak 51 x 49,5 x 49,5 cm
ANNE BRANDHØJ Stronger than you think 2019 Ash, Birch 52 x 53 x 35 cm
ANNE BRANDHØJ I know how to love 2019 Ash 45,5 x 61 x 39 cm
ANNE BRANDHØJ Stand up for yourself 2019 Fir, Birch 54 x 32 x 28,5 cm
ANNE BRANDHØJ Standing on my own 2019 Birch, Fir 45 x 30 x 30 cm
ANNE BRANDHØJ I never learned to fly 2019 Douglas, Fir 116 x 30 x 22 cm
ANNE BRANDHØJ For once, untangle me 2019 Douglas, Birch 46,5 x 32 x 32 cm
ANNE BRANDHØJ You are not perfect either 2019 Ash, Cotton 22,5 x 22,5 x 22,5 cm
ANNE BRANDHØJ Pick me up 2019 Douglas, Ash 36 x 89 x 29 cm
Anne Brandhøj E-MAIL WEBPAGE NATIONALITY B O R N
mail@annebrandhoej.dk https://annebrandhoej.dk/ Danish 1984
Exhibitions 2018 2018 2018 2018 2017 2017 2017 2017 2016 2016 2016 2016 2015 2015 2015 2015 2014 2014 2013 2012 2010
MONO, cabinet, Snedkernes Efterårsudstilling, Denmark SVINDREVNER, sculptures, A. Petersen Collection & Craft, Denmark PLATEAU 1, wood sculptures, Gallery R”, Bornholm, DK Girls Ex Machina, stools, 3 Days of Design with Rund kant, DK GRAN, land art installation, HOLDBAR, Naturstyrelsen, DK PEEP, tables, HAL 4, DK Velkommen i skoven, chair, Shapes On Stage, DK Wallpaper* Handmade at Salone del Mobile, Italy ‘The Curio’, rattan chair, Chart Art Fair, Charlottenborg, DK ‘Don’t run out’, sustainable design with HOLDBAR at Dome of Visions, DK ‘Kitchen Street’, mobile bonfire oven with KADK, Salone del Mo bile, Milan, Italy ‘Forårsudstillingen’, chair cover, Charlottenborg, DK ”Danish Emerging Designers”, ICAD, Contemporary Art & Design, Indonesia ‘Don’t run out’, sustainable design with HOLDBAR at Galerie Joseph, France ’NØW’, rattan furniture with KADK, Milan, Italy ‘I takt til nye toner’, wearable furniture with Rundkant at Trapholt, DK ‘Feminine Flat Furniture’, 2D furnitures with Rundkant, DK ‘Ikke tale, bare snakke’, an exhibition with Rundkant at Rundetårn, DK Young designer at Gdynia Design Days, Poland UPcoming designer at Formland UP/Graded, DK Among top ten at FSC Design Award, DK
Curriculum Vitae KADK Teacher 2017 - present Chris Linjenberg Halstrøm Assistant 2018 KADK Master in furniture design September 2010 - 2017 HOLDBAR design group A design group working with sustainability, member 2015 - present I’m a KOMBO Designer 2014 - 2018 FINDERSKEEPERS Project Manager, furniture exhibition 2014 RUNDKANT A female design collective, member 2013 - present Rhode Island School of Design Exchange Student Furniture design and Industrial design 2012
IMPRESSUM TEXT Anne Brandhøj Christoffer Egelund Sanna Sahlen
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