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Firing Sculpture 2025
Location: Various sites in Denmark
Dates: 2025–2026
Type: Sculptural Works, Performative Firings, Material InvestigationsCollaborators: Musicians, local communities
— Sculptural works created and transformed through fire, sound, and collective ritual. Each performance blends ceramic processes with live music and atmospheric interventions — forging temporary monuments in dialogue with place and audience
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Three Firing Sculptures
Fullmoon performance
Place:
Lejre, DKDate: July 21, 2024
Type: Performative Ceramic Firing
Collaboration: Kosmik kulturselskab
-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
-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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Daydream Rituals
Place: Bricks Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
Type: Solo Show
Date: April 29 – May 2022
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 at 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, 2000
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.
Place: Bricks Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
Type: Solo Show
Date: April 29 – May 27, 2000
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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