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The Three Firing Sculptures

Place: Lejre, DK
Date: July 21, 2024
Type: Performative Ceramic Firing
Collaboration: Kosmik kulturselskab

Description: An immersive ceramic art project featuring three unique sculptures created through public collaboration and performative rituals under the full moon. Exploring cosmic connections between humanity and the universe.

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My Apiary

Place: Vibevadgård, Lejre, DK
Date: September 8, 2024
Type: Group Show & Artist Talk about the Project and Alternative Beekeeping
Collaboration: Vibevadgård, Lejre Klimapulje

Description: An artistic exploration of human-bee collaboration, where bees craft wax structures through alternative beekeeping practices, merging natural spontaneity with creative guidance.

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Neolith Tech

Place: GravelArt, Sorø, DK
Date: 2021–2024
Type: artist organized group Show

Description: A series of sculptures created in a disused mineral quarry, exploring timeless forms within a speculative logic – positioned between the primitive and the conceptual.

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Gravel Bead Drills

Place: Lejre, Skælskør, Sorø, DK
Type: Nomadic Sculpture
Date: 2021–Ongoing

Description:A massive ceramic bead chain created by an experimental process, Powerdrill Pottery combining workmanship and raw mechanical forces, who have been evolving since 2022.

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Powerdrill Pottery

Place: Various Locations, DK
Type: Ongoing Artistic Project
Date: 2020 – Present

Description: Powerdrill Pottery is an experimental ceramics project that use high-speed drills to produce raw, sculptural forms with distinctive textures. The works use improvisation, centrifugal force, and unorthodox equipment to challenge traditional pottery through spontaneity and technical creative thinking.

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Daydream Rituals

Place: Bricks Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
Type: Solo Show
Date: April 29 – May 2023

Description: A solo exhibition exploring ritual and daydream through innovative materials, mythological references, and interactive elements, bridging structure and spontaneity.

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Knotweed Structure

Place: Various Locations
Type: Performative Ceramic Firing
Date: 2021–Ongoing
Collaboration: Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde

Description: A series of huge clay sculptures created on-site, using fire to transfer heat through clay tubes inspired by Japanese knotweed. The approach mixes careful preparation with nature's unpredictable elements, revealing the works through fiery transformations.

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Prototyper

Place: Gallery Knowhere, Rønne, Bornholm, Dk
Type: experimental Solo Show
Date: September 2023

Description:A solo show of works painted entirely with coloured smoke, which explores transitory forms and atmospheric expressions.

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Lasershow on Paper

Place: Studio Presentation (Available as Limited Works)
Type: Cyanotype Series
Date: November 2022

Description: A series of works created with laser animations on cyanotype paper, where programmed movements create abstract symmetries, exposed through hours of exposure to infrared light waves (a component of the blue laser light spectrum)

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Atoll

Place: Bricks Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
Type: Solo Show
Date: April 29 – May 27, 2022

Description: A visual exploration of the island's materiality, delving into waves, sand, shells, and remnants of potential civilizations through a poetic and tactile lens.

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