The fair returns to the sands of Miami Beach for its most international show to date, focusing on collaboration across the local and global art community. HB381's solo booth will feature Danish artist Pernille Pontoppidan Pedersen (b. 1987).
Pontoppidan Pedersen lives and works on a farm in the remote countryside of Denmark. Hers is an intensely personal and physical creative process, driven by intuition and the ability to embrace discomfort—to rest in the fear of not knowing what may result as she builds—transferring her body’s energy through her fingertips directly into the clay.
HAVING ESTABLISHED ITSELF as New York’s leading purveyor of historical and contemporary Scandinavian design, Hostler Burrows has been a mainstay of the city’s ever-evolving gallery scene since 1998. Extolling the virtues of craftsmanship, experimentation and material integrity, the gallery – founded and run by Kim Hostler and Juliet Burrows – has fostered a strong roster of international designers.
"Lately I've been thinking about how to sculpt in a feminist way," says the Danish artist Pernille Pontoppidan Pedersen, who has been mining the work of scholar Donna J. Haraway for inspiration. "I'm drawn to her way of playing around with new words, of looking at things and fabulating."
PERNILLE PONTOPPIDAN PEDERSEN
Danish, b. 1987
EDUCATION
2012
The Royal Danish Academy - Department for Design, Bornholm, Denmark
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Tentacular Thinking, HB381, New York, USA
2021
Objektet, jeg er, Køppe Contemporary Objects, Rønne, Denmark
Female Studier, Driftskontoret, Viborg, Denmark
Public Commission, Rejste sten, Garland, Ikast-Brande Kommune, Denmark
2020
rv á l’air libre, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris, France
Terro in Ferro, Public Commission, Clay Museum, Middelfart, Denmark
2016
Nine Suspensions, Køppe Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ni Bøjler, SAK, Svendborg, Denmark
2015
Working Process, KBH Kunsthal, Skive, Denmark
2014
Noget med Kaffe, Galleri NB, Viborg, Denmark
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Matter at Hand, Hostler Burrows, New York & Los Angeles, USA
Glasurprobe, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany
Bend, Bubble and Shine, Hostler Burrows, New York & Los Angeles, USA
2019
Ceramic Momentum - Staging the Object, CLAY Museum, Middelfart, Denmark
Group Exhibition, Randers Kunstforening, Denmark
Group Exhibition, Vordingborg Kunstforening, Denmark
2018
Tresor Preview, Wilds’sches Haus, Basel, Germany
2017
Beyond Icons, Koldinghus Museum, Kolding, Denmark
Everyday Life – Signs of Awareness, 21st C. Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Store Formater – Kloge Hænder, CLAY Museum, Middelfart, Denmark
Gro, Huset I Asnæs, Odsherred, Denmark
MINDCRAFT 17, Cloister of San Simpliciano, Milan, Italy
Glasur – Kemi, Masse og Myte, Sophienholm, Kongens Lyngby, Sweden
2016
Same Same - But Different, Køppe Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
GLASUR - Kemi, Masse og Myte, Hempel Glasmuseum, Nykøbing Sj, Denmark
2015
KE15, Copenhagen, Denmark
AT FIRST GLANCE THIS DIVISION WOULD APPEAR TO BE MORE RATIONAL, Galleri Format, Oslo, Norway
2014
KE14, Copenhagen, Denmark
New Talent, European Ceramic Context, Bornholm, Denmark
Forgotten Idyll, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris, France
In Spe, Kunsthall Grenland, Porsgrunn, Norway
Chaotiquement Vótre, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris, France
Light and Shadow - Construction Theme 1: Young Talents, Ann Linnemann Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013
Software & Glorified Ingratitude, Copenhagen Ceramics, Denmark
Terres - Copenhagen Ceramics Invites, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris, France
Good Bones - Juried Exhibition for Young Artists, Copenhagen City Hall, Denmark
2012
Edge/Kant, Exhibition Hall, KADK, Bornholm, Denmark
Upcoming Designers at New Note, Formland, Herning Exhibition Hall, Denmark.
SiO2, KADK Traveling Exhibition, Bornholm and Copenhagen, Denmark
Group Exhibition, Bornholm’s Juried Spring Exhibition, Svanekegaarden, Denmark
Process, Grønbechs Gaard, Bornholm’s Center for Craft, Bornholm, Denmark
AWARDS
Danish Arts Foundation Career Program
Martha and Paul René Gauguin Foundation
Ole Haslund Artist Grant
Silkeborg Artist Grant
Anni & Otto Detlevs Travel Grant
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
Design Museum Denmark
CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark
Danish Art Foundation
Skive Gymnasium, Denmark
Erik Veistrup Collection, Denmark
Science Center Uppsala Region, Sweden
