PRESSRELEASE
Contemporary
Swedish Ceramics
Meyerhoff Gallery MICA, Baltimore, USA
3 february – 20 march 2005
Helena Andersson •
Anna Bärnskog • Ulrika Henström
• Karolina Eriksson
Jennifer Forsberg •
Renata Francescon • Eva Hild •
Josefine Holmqvist
Backa Carin Ivarsdotter •
Ingela Jonasson • Hanna Järlehed
Charlotta Klingström •
Gustav Nordenskiöld • Thomas Nordström
Pernilla Norrman • Annika Svensson
• Tina Reuterberg •
Adrienne Riseley
Kjell Rylander •
Anna Ulin • Eva Zethraeus
(for Swedish version click here)
The Swedish Show is a presentation of Swedish Contemporary Ceramics to be held in Baltimore USA, February 3 - March 20, 2005. No less than 21 young contemporary artists participate in this, the most extensive exhibition in the field ever to have been exported abroad. The Swedish exhibition proposal received a unanimous vote from the jury who selected from 300 proposals from around the world.
The aim of the project is to highlight the unique vitality, variety and
breadth of the work coming from the new generation of ceramic artists.
Each of the contributing artists work in the widening field of craft in
such that they all have an idea-based approach to both material and content.
Ideas for work can take their departure from contemporary art-thought
and modern design theory as much as from knowledge of craft techniques
and traditions.
Many of the artists work across genre boundaries in projects which may
for example involve architects and designers while others work as studio-ceramicists.
The exciting atmosphere evident in Swedish ceramics today can be explained
in a number of ways. Certainly the increase in opportunities for exchanges
and meetings between artists has contributed along with a broadening of
ideas and rearrangement of structures within the schools of art in the
county.
Today ceramic artists possess an international consciousness as never
before which strengthens and defines their own identities. Comparison
increases awareness of what it means to live and work today in a Scandinavian
country such as Sweden with its specific traditions, natural environment
and culture.
The project is made possible through individual funding as well as grants
from a number of funding bodies. In connection with the exhibition a seminar
is to be held on contemporary Swedish ceramics. The yearly NCECA conference
( National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts ), which takes place
during a part of the exhibition period, is expected to attract up to 10,000
visitors.
For further information please contact: info@theswedishshow.com
Presspictures can be downloaded from www.theswedishshow.com
This project is made possible through Estrid Ericsons Foundation, IASPIS
and Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation.
Presspictures
(click on the picture to download a larger version)
Charlotta
Klingström - "swing"
Karolina
Eriksson - "Orange Form"
Josefine
Holmqvist - "Gloria"
Renata
Francescon - "And suddenly it is evening"
Anna
Bärnskog - "Memories of nature"