LOUISE HINDSGAVL
GALLERI CHRISTOFFER EGELUND
LOUISE HINDSGAVL
Louise Hindsgavl’s (b. 1973) fascination with mutants, who are part human and part animal, does not spring from a love of science fiction or an interest in new experiments in cross-species transplantation. What she is doing is highlighting people’s second nature: that side of human nature, which is governed by pure instinct, lurking behind a polished surface and uncensored by the conscious self. Hindsgavl uses exaggeration as an effective way of making us laugh. Thus her figurines not only hold a place in ceramic circles of popular culture, they also relate to popular storytelling and cartoons. The author Marina Warner tells us in her book, “Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds” that stories about animals that become human and humans that become animals are transitional stories that express conflict and insecurity. The characters in these stories reveal poisonous truths about themselves as do Hindsgavl’s figurines. The essence of the story that she is telling with porcelain can perhaps be summarized with the word burlesque. This word is French and means extravagant, comical, untamed, fantastic and rude. The artist works mainly in porcelain, and her works have a distinctly narrative expression, both when she works with one-off pieces and when she creates items of a more utilitarian character. She feels that we often let our predetermined images of others dictate our taste. She wants to change that tradition. This is why her works often possess surrealist undertones, where she produces a form of alternative reality for the viewer to enter. Hindsgavl uses several ceramic techniques in her work – such as throwing, modelling and moulding. Louise Hindsgavl graduated from Designskolen, Kolding, DK, in 1999 and has exhibited widely in Denmark, Europe, the US and Asia since her graduation. She is represented in major collections worldwide including: National Museum Stockholm, Sweden; Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MIA, USA; Carlsberg Art Fondation, DK; The The Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, SE; Designmuseum, Copenhagen, DK; Trapholt, Kolding, DK; ASU Art Museum, Arizona, USA etc. Furthermore, among others, she has received: The Danish Art Foundation work grant of 3 years, Silkeborg artist grant, The Danish Art Foundation grant and The Biennale Award, The Biennale of Arts and Craft and Design.
LOUISE HINDSGAVL Quiet Please, 2014 Porcelain, 42 x 33 x 26 cm. (16,5 x 13 x 11 inch)
LOUISE HINDSGAVL All Sorts of Reasons, 2014 Porcelain, 32 x 28 x 23 cm. (12,6 x 11 x 9 inch)
LOUISE HINDSGAVL Entertainment, 2013 Porcelain, Taxidermied Bird, 42 x 41 x 34 cm. (16,5 x 16 x 13,5 inch)
LOUISE HINDSGAVL All Your Qualities, 2014 Porcelain, Wire, 48 x 36 x 22 cm. (19 x 14 x 8,7 inch)
LOUISE HINDSGAVL All Your Qualities, 2014 (Detail) Porcelain, Wire, 48 x 36 x 22 cm. (19 x 14 x 8,7 inch)
LOUISE HINDSGAVL Perfect Cocktail, 2014 Porcelain, 32 x 46 x 26 cm. (12,6 x 18 x 10 inch)
LOUISE HINDSGAVL Inner Life of an Ideal Citizen, 2014 Porcelain, 33 x 40 x 19 cm. (13 x 15,8 x 7,5 inch)
LOUISE HINDSGAVL Inner Life of an Ideal Citizen, 2014 (From another angle) Porcelain, 33 x 40 x 19 cm. (13 x 15,8 x 7,5 inch)
LOUISE HINDSGAVL BORN 1973 / DENMARK EDUCATION: 1994-1999: Designskolen Kolding, Department of ceramics and glass 1997: Stay with study and competition purposes, School of Ceramics, Cencal,
Caldas da Reina, Portugal.
REPRESENTATIONS: 2012
ASU Art Museum, Arizona, USA
2010
Musée Historique et des Porcelaines, Nyon, Switzerland
2010
Musée Ariana (The Swiss Museum of Ceramics and Glass). Geneva,
Switzerland. 2010
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
2010
Sale to the collection of Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2009+12 Represented in the collection of Ny Carlsbergfondet 2009
Represented at World Ceramic Exposition Foundation, South Korea
2009
Keramiek Museum de Prinsessehof , Leeuwarden, Holland
2008
Represented at The Röhsska Museum, Göteborg, Sweden
2007 Represented at Trondheim Kunstindustrimuseum, Norway 2006
Sale to The Danish Art Foundation
2006
Represented in the collection of Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2005
Represented in the collection of the Danish Museum of Art & Design, DK
2005
Represented in the collection of “Trapholt” Museum of Modern Art, DK
2004
Sale to The Danish Art Foundation
2002
Sale to The Danish Art Foundation
2001
Represented in the collection of “Museum of International Ceramic Art”,
Grimmerhus, Denmark.
GRANTS AND AWARDS: 2012
Solar Foundation, Traveling Grant
2011
Foundation of The National Bank of Denmark 1968
2011 Grosser L.F. Foghts Fond
2010
The Danish Art Foundation, the 3 years workinggrant
2010
Silkeborg Art association, Travelgrant
2009
Silversmith Kay Bojesen and wife Erna Bojesens Memorial Grant
2007
The Danish Art Foundation
2006
The Danish Art Foundation
2006
Annie og Otto Detlefs’ Award for Young Ceramicists 2006
2005
Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfond af 1968
2004
The Danish Art Foundation
2004
The Biennale Award., The Biennale of Arts and Craft and Design 2004
2004
Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfond af 1968
2000-2001
The Danish Art Foundation, The Grant for Young Artists
1999
Foundation of Gudrund og Erik Kauffeldt
1999
Foundation of L. F. Foght
1998
”Young Designers Award ’97”, SNBA, Nacional des Belas Artes, Lisbon,
Portugal. BIBLIOGRAPHY: 2011
“Cuts & Bruises”, Louise Hindsgavl, texts by Justin Novak & Martin Bigum
2011
Living with Ceramics, TL magazine, issue 11.
2009
“Contemporary Ceramics”, Emmanuel Cooper, Thames & Hudson
2009
“101 Kunstnere”, JA
2009
”Once Upon a Chair”, Gestalten Verlag.
2008
”Fragiles, Porcelain, Glass & Ceramics”, Gestalten Verlag.
2008
”Mod I Ler”, interview i Living Design
2007
“Kulturo”, Spring ’07, “I Porcelæn til Anklerne”, by Andreas Nielsen
2007
”Clay in Art, International, “Burlesque Tableaus” by Jorunn Veiteberg
2007
“All Great Things Starts with Blasphemy,Ceramics, Art and Perception, Is
sue 68, 2007,
2006
KeramikMagazinEuropa, vol.28, ”Hollow Laughter” af Trine Ross
2005
Dansk Kunst 2005
af Tom Jørgensen
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2012
“Last Minute Pleasures”, Galerie NeC, Paris, F
2011
Cuts, Bruises and Doubts, Gallery Christoffer Egelund,DK
2011
Gallery Puls, Brussels, B
2010
BICC, Biennale of Contemporary Ceramics, Vallauris, France
2008
“The Edge of Innocence”, Drud&Køppe, Copenhagen, DK
2007
Grimmerhus, Museum of international Ceramic Art, DK
2007
Nancy Margolis Gallery, NYC, USA
2006
Randers museum of Art, Randers, DK
2006
The Biennale Award 2004 Exhibition, Museum of Art and Design,
Copenhagen, DK
2005
Puls Contemporary Ceramics, Bruxelles, Belgium
2005
Galleri Nørby, Copenhagen, DK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2012
I Love My Figure, Puls, Brussels, BE
2012 Figurative ’12, Galerie Terra Delft, Delft, NL 2012
Pop-Up Contemporary, PEEP, Cph, DK
2011
Mit Feuer und Flamme, Villa Rot, Ulm, D
2011
”Masterpieces”, Brenpunt Terra, Delft, NL
2011
Volta, Basel, SCH, with Gallery Christoffer Egelund
2011
“DyreDamer”, Artcenter SilkeborgBad, Silkeborg, DK
2010
Attention, Fragiles 2, Musée Historique et Porcelaine, Nyon, Switzerland.
2010
Fables Contemporaire, Galerie Dutko, Paris, France
2010
“Mindcraft”, Danish Crafts”, Salone de Mobile, Milan, Italy
2009
”Sculpture, Drawing, Painting”, Nancy Margolis Gallery, NYC, USA
2009
”Big Bang, akt 1” Galleri KANT, Esbjerg
2009
”Showtime”, Crafts4eu, Hamborg, Tyskland
2009 Unika Keramik, Kunstetagerne, Hobro, DK 2009 CEBIKO 2009 5th World Ceramic Biennale 2009 Korea International Competition 2009
“Schhh…. Crafts is Golden”, The Furniture Fair in Milan, Milan, Italy.
2009
“Unika Keramik –shape and idea”, Hobro, DK
2009
“The Human Figure”, Gallerie Terra-Delft, Delft, Holland
2009
“Down to Earth”, Brussels, Belgium
2008 “Mind Crafts”, London Design Festival, UK 2008
“Forget Me Not”, Mint, London, UK
2008
“Love your Figure”, Puls, Contemporary Ceramics, Bruxelles, Belgium.
2008
“Mindcrafts”, The Furniture Fair in Milan, Milan, Italy.
2008
“40th years anniversary exhibition, Gallerie Handwerk, München,
GeRmany 2008
“Masterwork”, WCC in Viaduc des Arts, Paris, France
2007
“Beginnings –Sculptors as Draftsmen”, Gallery Nancy Margolis, NYC, USA
2007
”Mind and Matter”, Best of European Contemporary Ceramics, WCC,
Luxemboug. 2007
”Domestic Deities”, Garth Clark, NY, USA
2007
”Ceramics in Kolding”, Koldinghus, Kolding, DK
2007
The Biennale of Arts and Crafts and Design, Trapholt Museum of Modern
Art, DK
2007
“Present”, Bomullsfabrikken, Arndal, Norway
2007
“United Colours of “Drud&Køppe”, Drud&Køppe, Copenhagen Denmark
2006
“Ceramics Underground” Gallery “Blaas och Knaada”, Stockholm,
Sweden 2005
“Poetry and Storytelling”, Grimmerhus, Museum of international
Ceramic art. Middelfart, DK
2005
“Conversation Pieces”, Galleri Nørby, Copenhagen, DK
2005
“Danish”, Danish Design Center, Copenhagen,DK
2004
The Biennale of Arts and Crafts and Design, Trapholt Museum of Modern
Art, DK
2004
”Landscapes”, Galleri Veggerby, Copenhagen, DK
2001
”Christmas Platters”, The Danish Museum of Art & Design, Copenhagen,
DK 2001
“Sculptural Form”, Museum of International Ceramic Art, Grimmerhus, DK
2000
”Talente”, Munich, Germany
2000
“Ceramics Without Precedence”, Udstillingsstedet for ny Keramik,
Copenhagen, DK.
1999
”Fast Forward” Bergen, Norway
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