Handicrafts – and crafts broadly understood – have once again come to the fore in our common conversation. It has gone from belonging to the past to moving into our contemporary discussion about which way we should go, and who knows, maybe it holds part of the answer to some of the big questions of the time?
This exhibition examines the basket – the wicker container that for millennia has been used to collect, transport and store things in. It is curated by architects Mathias Mentze and Alexander Vedel Ottenstein.
The two curators say about the exhibition: "Our desire is to weave together a series of stories and materials, not as a chronological review of the history of the basket or a complete presentation of those who practice the profession today, but instead an attempt to point to the poetic potential of something as simple and humble as the basket and the hands that create it”.
Experience works by Danish pioneers such as William Louis Sørensen and Annette Holdensen and contemporary artists such as Ditte Gantriis, Sara Martinsen, Ida Tinning, Steen Hedegaard Madsen and Rasmus Myrup, but also by prominent names such as Young-jun Tak (South Korea), ARKO (Japan), Joe Hogan (Ireland), Emma Bruschi (France), Deborah Needleman (USA) and finally Kazuhito Takadoi (Japan), who has created a work inspired by the lake and island at Sophienholm.
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Sophienholm
Sophienholm