Nordic News

For the first time since the pandemic, visitors in all regions of Finland have the opportunity to find routes along fascinating sites with a new website.

Danish ceramicist Lotte Westphael creates delicate vessels reminiscent of weavings, constructed from tiny slabs of coloured clay. TLMag speaks with the artist about her technique, inspiration, and approach. 

At TABLEAU, Copenhagen, Anne Brandhøj’s solo exhibition ‘On Balance’ explores the interplay between structure and sculpture, presenting more than 70 unique compositions of wooden elements.

The Icelandic Design Awards 2020 and the seminar, originally planned to take place last November, will take place this 28th of January 2021.

Norwegian Crafts’ latest five-part book series edited by André Gali explores the core phenomena that make up the field of contemporary craft.

In his material-based and experimental practice, Carl Emil Jacobsen paints his organically shaped pieces with self-made pigments from locally sourced bricks and natural stones in light to burnt hues, his work speaks to all of our bodily senses.

Åsa Jungnelius is not one to shy away from a challenge. Expressive and visually engaging as ever, her latest exhibition at Stene Projects effortlessly brought together distinctly different materials and formats to tell an ephemeral story.

In her latest exhibition at Form Design / Center in Malmö, Swedish designer Kajsa Willner imagines a more nuanced and holistic attitude towards the major sustainability challenges we face concerning plastics.

In her first showing in Scandinavia, Korean-German artist Jongsuk Yoon takes over the largest exhibition hall at the Nordic Watercolour Museum with her immense murals.

Before Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian, there was Hilma af Klint. After a breakout exhibition of her work in their Stockholm museum back in 2013, Malmö’s Moderna Musseet revisits the Swedish artist’s oeuvre to present new insights into af Klimt’s systematic research.

One of Finland’s most internationally renowned ceramic artists, Kristina Riska’s first solo show with Galerie Forsblom showcases two series that each reflect on the artist’s methodology of bringing unknown or looked over ideas into the spotlight.

TLmag talks to Norwegian ceramic artist Ann Beate Tempelhaug, whose large-scale ceramic objects aim to offer a meditation on time.