Louise Hindsgavl is internationally recognized for her sculptural works in porcelain and stoneware that challenge the boundaries between historical ceramic traditions and contemporary narrative art. She graduated from the Design School Kolding in 1999 with a major in Ceramics and Glass and has since developed a unique voice that calls on the unsettling realm of beauty and brutality as both polar and allied.

Hindsgavl’s practice spans from small, intricate porcelain figurines to lavishly glazed, visceral stoneware to large multidisciplinary, site-specific installation works. Working primarily with hybrid human-animal figures in what she calls “Conversation Pieces” — anthropomorphic forms that serve as both mythological creatures and urgent social commentaries intended to provoke difficult but necessary discussions.

Her work explores themes of identity and belonging, moral accountability in the face of atrocity, technological advancements such as gene mani-
pulation and mutation, Sigmund Freud’s concept “Das Unheimliche” — the uncanny experience of the familiar becoming unfamiliar — and humanity’s fraught relationship with the natural world, among others.

Louise Hindsgavl has exhibited widely in Denmark and abroad, and her works have entered into leading museum collections as well as been acquired by important art institutions, among them New Carlsberg Foundation, The Danish Arts Foundation, Trapholt Art museum, DK, Museum of Art and Design (MAD), New York, USA, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, V&A in London, and The National Museum of Sweden in Stockholm

Among several prizes she received The Prince Eugen Medal of “Artistic Excellence” awarded to her by the Swedish Royal Court in 2015

Louise Hindsgavl is widely regarded as one of the most significant contemporary artists working with ceramic sculpture in Denmark today. Through technical mastery, conceptual rigor, and unwavering engagement with the uncomfortable, she relentlessly pushes our idea of what ceramics can be and the conversations they can spark.

The book is published with support from the New Carlsberg Foundation (DK), the Danish Arts Foundation (DK), the Grosserer L. F. Foghts Foundation (DK), and the Beckett Foundation (DK).

Language: Danish
Original language: English
EAN: 9788797588239
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9788797588239
Number of pages: 320
Size in mm (W×H×D): 322×236×30 mm