A PROCESS OF EMBRACING, SHAPING AND CHALLENGING (2/3)

Situated right between monumental cliffs and the roaring Baltic Sea, between long-standing traditions and experimental approaches, you’ll find The Royal Danish Academy’s school for glass and ceramics in Nexø, Bornholm. In this series of videos you can meet this year’s bachelor students and get an insight into their processes and hear them reflect on their artistic methods, thoughts and ideas.

Working with glass and ceramics is a process of embracing, shaping and challenging natural resources. Gathering earth, clay, minerals and irons, exposing them to extreme temperatures and transforming them into vessels, cups or sculptures. In similar ways this year’s bachelor students embrace traditions, histories and already existing materials, while also gazing into the contemporary world and beyond. With honor and care they look back on their own cultures and traditions, childhood memories, ancient firing processes, waste materials, well-known movements, the physical and mental body, classic furniture making and worn out tableware. Getting excited in what was maybe adready there – and giving it a new life.

Below you can watch videos with Signe Hvid Thisgaard, Lunyi Zhou Raahauge, Ricardo Lima and Christina Louise Schultz. For more videos about this year’s bachelor projects click here (1/3) and here (3/3).

Signe Hvid Thisgaard, Ambiguous Traces. Photo: Kirstine Autzen.

Lunyi Zhou Raahauge, The rustic and the exuberant. Photo: Kirstine Autzen.

Christina Louise Schultz, Inner Glow. Photo: Kirstine Autzen.

You can also experience the bachelor projects in real life at Bornholm Art Museum (24th of June - 3rd of September, 2023), Glas – Museum of Glass Art (8th of September - 5th of November, 2023) and CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark (15th of September - 12th of November, 2023).

Bachelor students: Victoria Grigat, Ricardo Vaz, Mathilde Lund Hutters, Ricardo Lima, Daito Takefusa, Peter Brøchner, Manon Hillereau, Birgit Marie Østerby, Lunyi Zhou Raahauge, Trine Hoppe, Christina Louise Schultz, Signe Hvid Thisgaard and Chiara Della Cava.