Educated at The Arts and Crafts College in Kolding, Denmark. Left in 1985.
Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, 1985–89.
Cooperation with Bing & Grøndahl (now Royal Copenhagen) 1985.
Co-founder, ’Showroom of Art’, Copenhagen, 1989–94.
Project leader at Denmark’s School of Design, Copenhagen, (Institute of
Product Design), 1992–99.
Member of the executive commitee of the Council of Arts, Crafts and Design,
The Academy Council for Public Art and Design, and the board of
representatives of Designskolen Kolding, 1998–2002.
Appointed Chairman of the Craft and Design Committee of the Danish
Arts Foundation, 2002–04.
Curator (together with Lars Dybdahl) for Biennale 2007, at Kunstmuseet
Trapholt, Kolding.
Member of the Artists’ Association.
Member of Danish Crafts & Design Association
The Danish Arts Foundation Lifelong Artist Grant, 2009
Visiting Professor at Alfred University, New York State, Fall 2013
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Exhibitions
1985 Fem i Form, Skive Art Museum.
1987 Bing & Grøndahl/Royal Copenhagen, Copenhagen. (solo)
1988 Wonders, Baghuset Gallery, Copenhagen.
1990 Design – Craftsmanship or Industry?, The Free Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen.
1990 Danish Types, The Demonstration Room for Art, Copenhagen.
1990 Luxury Culture, Sophienholm.
1991 Never Compromise on Quality, Spøttrup Borgmuseum.
1991 Good Saturday, The Free Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen.
1993 Practical Avant-garde, Herning Museum of Arts.
1994 The Rooms and Rituals of Everyday Life, The Free Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen.
1994 The Ceramic Jug, Marienlyst Castle, Elsinore.
1994 Danish Triennale of Ceramic, Arts Museum Trapholt, Kolding.
1995 Building for Billions, North Jutland’s Museum of Arts, Aalborg.
1995 Living Design in Denmark, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain.
1995 Royal Copenhagen Aujourd’hui, Maison du Danemark, Paris.
1996 Art – Industry, Royal Copenhagen, Sophienholm.
1996 Makes ceramic scent jars with Inger Louise Bach, Tora Urup and Ursula Munch-Petersen for Morten Skriver
and Christian Skeel’s scent-installation at the Esbjerg Museum of Art.
1996 Duplika, The Exhibition Fund for Danish Crafts and Industrial Design, Gl. Dok, Copenhagen.
1998 Køkkenting (kitchen items), exhibition with Inger Louise Bach, Tora Urup and Ursula Munch-Petersen,
Royal Copenhagen, Denmark.
1998 Various, Galleri Annemarie, Copenhagen.
1999 Living Design – Dialogue, Tallin, Riga and Kleipeda.
2000 Danish Design, Gent, Belgium. Arlon, Luxembourg. Warzawa and Poznan, Poland.
2000 Danish Porcelain 1775–2000 – 225 Years of Design, The Danish Museum of Art & Design, Copenhagen.
2000 Challenges, Royal Copenhagen, Copenhagen.
2000 Earthenware, Exhibitionroom for New Ceramics, Copenhagen. (solo)
2001 Challenges, Arts Museum Trapholt, Kolding.
2001 Dansk-Form, Design vom Nachbarn, Museum für Kunst und Geverbe, und Stilverk, Hamburg.
2002 In Between Spaces, Galleri Nørby, Copenhagen.
2003 Crafts, Galleri Nørby, Copenhagen. (solo)
2004 Use it, – design for everyday life, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
2004 Danish Design Project, MoMA, New York.
2005 Conversation Pieces, Galleri Nørby, Copenhagen.
2005 Framing the Future, Danish Design Center, Copenhagen.
2006 European Ceramic Context 2006, Bornholm, Denmark.
2006 Fitzsu Grand Prix, Los Angeles.
2006 Retrospective exhibition, on the occasion of the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg’s Prize, Röhsska Museum,
Gothenburg, Sweden. (solo)
2007 SE 2007, The Cabinetmakers Autumn Exhibition, Copenhagen
2007 Func Art, Drud & Køppe Gallery, Copenhagen
2008 Mindcraft, I Saloni, Milan
2009 European Design Since 1985 – Shaping the New Century, Indianapolis Museum of Art
2009 Mindcraft, I Saloni, Milan
2009 It’s a Small World, Danish Design Center, Copenhagen
2010 Across, Ny Tap, Copenhagen
2010 The Hærvej Project, by the Danish Art Foundation
2011 TableSpace, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, New York
2012 Form & Imagination, (with Louise Birch), Ann Linnemann Studio Gallery, Copenhagen
2012 Exhibition on the occasion of the Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfonds Honorary Grant
2012 Nordic Design Today, Vandalorum, Värnamo, Sweden
2013 The Opening, in cooperation with Claydies, Copenhagen Ceramics Gallery
2015 MINDCRAFT 15, - in between mind and craft, Milan
2016 Danish Design Now, Designmuseum Denmark, Copenhagen
2016 MINDCRAFT 16, - In My Mind Craft, Milan
2016 Gallery FUMI, Sardinia
2017 Everyday Life – Signs of Awareness, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2017 World Cup, Ann Linnemann Gallery, Copenhagen
2018 SUNSHINE - Unique Utilitarian Objects, Køppe Contemporary Objects, Frederiksberg, Copenhagen
2018 Legendarisk - Niels Lauesen, Ann Linnemann Gallery, Copenhagen
2019 The Biennale for Craft & and Design 2019, - Nordatlantens Brygge, Copenhagen
2019 CERAMIC MOMENTUM - Staging the Object, CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art, Middelfart, Denmark
2019 Ole Jensen + Rasmus Røhling, Stereo Exchange, Frederiksberg, Copenhagen
2020 Manual Design with Design Manual, Ann Linnemann Gallery, Copenhagen
2021 Opens the Ceramic Forum Peach Corner in Copenhagen with six colleagues
2022 Curator, NewsValue, Peach Corner, Frederiksberg, Copenhagen
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Grants Awards
1988 Court Jeweller Michelsen Jubilee Grant
1995 1st Prize in competition of the Danish Arts Foundation: ’Ceramics for everyday use’.
Together with Inger Louise Bach and Henrik Lund Larsen.
1996 Design Prize of The Design Foundation
1997 Memorial Grant of silversmith Kay Bojesen
1997 Formlandpris (Royal Copenhagen A/S)
1998 3-year work bursary granted by the Danish Arts Foundation
1998 Design Plus Prize, Frankfurt (’Ole’ porcelainservice, Royal Copenhagen)
2002 Design Plus Prize, Frankfurt (Rubber washing-up bowl, Danish Crafts)
2002 Formlandpris (Broom and dustpan, Normann Copenhagen)
2002 Formlandpris (’Blue dot bowls’, Royal Copenhagen)
2004 Thorvald Bindesbøll Medal of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts
2005 Design Plus Prize, Frankfurt (’Kitchen bowls’, Normann Copenhagen)
2006 The Torsten and Wanja Söderberg’s Prize, Sweden
2007 Red Dot Award (’Familia’, Normann Copenhagen)
2008 IF Product Award (’Familia’, Normann Copenhagen)
2008 GOOD Design Award, Chicago (‘Familia’, Normann Copenhagen)
2009 Habitare Collection 2009, Design Museum, Helsinki (Washing-up bowl)
2009 The Danish Arts Foundation Lifelong Artist Grant
2012 Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfonds Honorary Grant
2021 Knud V. Engelhardts Mindelegat
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Collections
The Danish Arts Foundation
The Danish Museum of Art & Design, Copenhagen
New Carlsberg Fund, Copenhagen
Arts Museum Trapholt, Kolding
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne
Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden
Grimmerhus, Middelfart
The Erik Vejstrup Collection
Leif Djurhus Collection
Grassi Museum, Leipzig
Jan Abrahamsen Collection
Habitare Collection, Design Museum, Helsinki |
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