LENE BØDKER
b. 1958, Denmark

EDUCATION

1992
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
Stories to Be Told, Glasmuseum Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark

2021
My Inner Garden, Bredgade Kunsthandel, Copenhagen, Denmark


2018
Nedslag, Galleri NB, Viborg, Denmark
Who Are You?, Galleri Glass, Stockholm, Sweden


2017
What Follows, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris, France

2016
Exhibition of Glass Works, Maison Louis Carré, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France

2010
Arte Moda, Gallery Leon Salet, Maastricht, The Netherlands

2009
Galerie Maria Lund, Paris, France

2008
Galleri NB, Viborg, Denmark

2007
Glasmuseum Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark

2005
Galerie Maria Lund, La Galerie Danoise, Paris, France
Politiken Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2000
Galleri Gronlund, Copenhagen, Denmark

1995
C. E. Fritzsche, Copenhagen, Denmark

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Craft Prize, Loewe Foundation, The Noguchi Museum, Queens, NY, USA

2017
Handmade – Scandinavian Glass Starting All Over, The Glass Factory, Boda, Sweden


2016
Great Danes, GlazenHuis, Lommel, Belgium

2015
DG15: 40 Years of Contemporary Glass in Denmark, Glasmuseum Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark

2013
Glass, Holstebro Artmuseum, Holsterbo, Denmark

2012
Architectural Hallway, Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark

2009
Connections, Prague, Czech Republic
Biënnale Kijkduin, The Hague, The Netherlands

2007
Glass, Museum of Art & Design, Copenhagen, Denmark

2006
The Danes: Contemporary Glass at Heller Gallery, Heller Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2004
Glass, Holstebro Artmuseum, Holstebro, Denmark

2002
Global Glass, Marx-Saunders Gallery LTD, Chicago, IL, USA

2001
Religious Glass Art, Glasmuseum Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark

2000
Zugriff – Spirited Approach, Women Glass Artists Today, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf,
Düsseldorf, Germany

1999
The Nordic Spirit, Glasmuseum Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark

1998
New Danish Glass, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK

1997
A World of Glass, Hadeland Glasverk, Jevnaker, Norway
Design Nordic Way, St. Petersburg, Russia; Kalmar, Sweden; Bergen, Norway
Women in Scandinavia, Kalmar, Sweden

1996
Unika – Danish Crafts 1996, The Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Musée du Verre, Charleroi, Belgium

1995
Glass in Dialogue, Villa Eksternest, Rumbeke, Belgium

1994
Galleri L, Hamburg, Germany

1992
The Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Anne Marie Telmanyi Born Carl-Nielsens Foundation 
Inga & Ejvind Kold Christensens Foundation
The Danish Crafts Council’s Annual Prize
The Danish National Art Foundation
The Danish National Art Foundation, three-year work scholarship
The Danish Arts Foundation, lifelong grant from 2012
The Hempel Glass Prize, honorary award
The Ole Haslund Art Fondation, honorary award
Yutta Cuny-Franz Foundation, honorary award
Yutta Cuny-Franz Fondation, supporting prize

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Designcenter Ishigawa, Kanazawa, Japan
Glasmuseum Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark
Glasmuseum Hentrich, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Glasmuseum Lette, Alter Hof Herding, Coesfeld, Germany
Holstebro Art Museum, Denmark, Holstebro, Denmark
Musée-Atelier du Verre, Sars-Poteries, France
Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
The Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden
The Danish Art Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Danish Museum of Art and Design, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Swedish Handelsbanken’s Art Association, Stockholm, Sweden
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK