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

Installation view, Almost nothing, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, 2009

 

Upcoming Exhibitions 2010

• "Temperance!", M.Y. Art Prospects, New York, USA, February (solo)
  
• Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale (Detroit), USA, spring (solo)
  
• 2010 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Taipei Yingge Ceramics Museum, July
  
• "Tendenser", The National Museum of Decorative Arts, Trondhiem, Norway, August
  
      

Select Solo Exhibitions

• "Nästan Alting", Galleri Inger Molin, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009
  
• "Almost nothing", Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2009
  
• "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, 2008
  
• "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, 2007
  
• "Frictions", John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, 2007
  
• "The state of things", Galleri Inger Molin, Stockholm, Sweden and The Museum of Art & Design, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2004
  
• "New Work", Galleri Puls, Brussels, Belgium, 2003

 

Select Exhibitions 2008-2009
 

• "That was then- this is now", Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway, 2009
  
• "The illusion of reality", Bomuldfabrikkens Kunsthall, Arndal, Norway, 2009
  
• "Home Wreckage", Devening editions and projects, Chicago, IL, 2009
  
• "Summer Action 1", Favardin & de Verneuil, Paris, 2009
  
• "Our Objects", Wedgwood Institute, Burslem, UK, 2009
  
• "Dissolving views", The Cheongju Biennale, Korea, 2009
  
• "Michigan Masters", Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI, 2009
  
• "Anders Ruhwald", Espace Grandjean, Vallauris, France, 2008
  
• "The 65th Scripps Ceramics Annual", Scripps College, Claremont, CA, 2009
  
• "Young Nordic Art Craft", Yerba Buena Art Center, San Francisco, CA,January-March 2009
  
• "The Margins", The Icehouse, Phoenix, Az, March 2009
  
• "Pairs", Macintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, 2009

 

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

Installation view, You in between, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK, 2009

Anders Ruhwald

Installation view, You in between, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK, 2009

 

 

Anders Ruhwald
Candle/Light, earthenware, candle, cord and lightbulb, 2008

 

 

Anders Ruhwald
Installation view, You in between, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK, 2009