Artist-in-Residence Anders Ruhwald
Anders Ruhwald was appointed Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Ceramics Department in July of 2008. Ruhwald was born in Denmark, and educated at the Glass and Ceramics School in Bornholm, Denmark and the Royal College of Art in London. He was awarded the Sotheby Prize from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2007. In 2005, he received the Annie and Otto Johannes Detlef's Award for young, experimental ceramic artists from the Museum of Art & Design in Denmark. In 2002, he was awarded Biennial Award in the Danish Biennial for Craft and Design.
For the last eight years, Ruhwald has enjoyed an active international exhibition career that has spanned Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. He has won critical acclaim for his conceptual work that explores the boundaries of the ceramic medium as an idea and a material. Ruhwald brings an international perspective on ceramics to Cranbrook. An artist first, Ruhwald’s practice informs and defines his work with students. Working alongside one another, the teacher-student dialog makes apparent what it takes to be an actively engaged critical thinker and practitioner.
Anders Ruhwald
Mirrors, 2008
earthenware and mirror
16 x 16 x 3.5 each
Photo: Cheng-Yung Kuo
Select Solo Exhibitions
- 2008 "You in between," Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
- 2008 "One is never so close to change when life seems unbearable in even the smallest and most everyday things," Rowland Contemporary, Chicago, IL
- 2007 "Form & Function," Sixpm Project Space, London, United Kingdom
- 2007 "We float in space and cannot perceive the new order," M.Y. ArtProspects, New York, NY
- 2007 "If all mans products were well designed, joy and harmony would emerge eternally triumphan," Køppe Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2006 "Frictions," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
- 2004 "The state of things," Galleri Inger Molin, Stockholm, Sweden and The Museum of Art & Design, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2003 Galleri Puls, Brussels, Belgium
Select Collections
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
The National Museum of Decorative Art, Trondheim, Norway
The Swedish National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
The Swedish Council for the Arts, Stockhom, Sweden
The Museum of Art & Design, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Danish Arts Council, Copenhagen, Denmark
Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Anders Ruhwald
From left to right: Social piece of furniture #5, 2006 Shelve/lamp , 2006 Beginning / Ending , 2006
glazed earthenware glazed earthenware, cord, bulb, plug glazed earthenware
39 x 11 x 8 3 x 13 x 12 34 x 14 x 16
(collection of the Danish Arts Council)
Photo: Søren Nielsen
Anders Ruhwald
Form & Function #2, 2008
earthenware, steel piping, sheet vinyl, rubber-caps and paint
29 x 48 x 30
Photo: Søren Nielsen