HB381 is thrilled to share that Bente Skjøttgaard’s retrospective exhibition Nature and Glaze at the CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark received an award from the Danish Arts Foundation. As the CLAY Museum notes, “Today, Bente Skjøttgaard is recognized as one of our leading ceramic artists, moving effortlessly between the delicate and fragile and the powerful and fierce. With wild glaze effects and sculptural forms that seem to defy gravity, Bente Skjøttgaard invites us into a very poetic universe of nature’s essence and being that sparks fascination and wonder.”
The Danish Arts Foundation writes, "It is in her ability to control the unpredictable that the works gain their actual strength, it is her ability to lift what might otherwise just end up as a fascinating experiment, into something truly sublime. You feel the universal powers at stake and a master who manages to make them her language."
Skjøttgaard exhibited at HB381 in late 2024 alongside Kirsi Kivivirta.