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Anders Ruhwald
Born1974 (age 49–50)[1]
Randers, Denmark[1]
CitizenshipUnited States[1]
OccupationSculptor[1]
Years active1995-present[1]
Websitewww.andersruhwald.com

Anders Herwald Ruhwald is a Danish-American sculptor. He works primarily in clay, a medium he has been drawn to since he was 15.[2] Ruhwald's work blends references from functional objects to classical sculpture and can take the form of singular objects[3] as well as immersive installations[4]

Early life and education

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Ruhwald completed his BFA at the Royal Danish Academy in Bornholm, Denmark in 2000.[5] While there, he apprenticed for artist Jun Kaneko, whose work had a lasting influence on his practice.[6] Ruhwald finished his MA at Royal College of Art in London in 2005,[5] studying under Martin Smith, Allison Britton and Emmanuel Cooper.

Career

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Central to Ruhwald's work is the idea that "the messy practicality of objects is something to be embraced and not occluded"[7] and his work can be understood as an amalgamation of both art and design without giving regard to the hierarchies normally assigned to these.[8][9][10] Instead, Ruhwald's work implies that "subjectivity arises in the perception of differences, one that is both durational and spatially determined".[7] Ruhwald's work is rooted "the 20th century Scandinavian tradition of the Formgiver in which the artisan compensates for modernity and our enigmatic dissatisfaction with it".[8] His work is often highly crafted and a large part of his practice is dedicated to material experimentation and surface development,[11] and as a result Glenn Adamson has noted that "for all their compressed particularity, [his] sculptures are also enlivened by inexhaustible nuance. Ruhwald takes seriously the idea that surface is where form interfaces with spatial context, so his surfaces have an intensity in all registers".[12]

Solo presentations of Ruhwald's work have been mounted at Indianapolis Museum of Art;[13] Casa Museo Jorn,[14] Italy; MOCA Cleveland;[15] Kunstner Forbundet,[16] Norway; The Saarinen House, Cranbrook Art Museum,[17] Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK.[18] In 2019, he completed the permanent installation Unit 1: 3583 Dubois St[19] in Detroit supported by the Knight Foundation,[20] The Graham Foundation,[21] The [Gilbert Family Foundation and the Danish Art Foundation.

In 2011, Ruhwald won the Gold Prize at the Gyeonggi International Ceramics Biennial in South Korea,[22] and he was awarded the Sotheby's Prize at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2007.[23]

His works is the included collections of Victoria & Albert Museum, London;[24] The Art Institute of Chicago, US;[25] Philadelphia Museum of Art, US;[26] Detroit Institute of Art, US;[27] Indianapolis Museum of Art, US; The Denver Art Museum, US; The British Crafts Council;[28] Nasjonal Museet, Oslo, Norway;[29] Musee de Arts Decoratifs, Paris;[6] Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden;[30] Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway; Icheon World Ceramic Center, South Korea;[5] Röhsska Museum, Sweden;[5] Musée Magnelli, Vallauris, France;[5] Design Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark;[31] Clay Museum, Denmark;[5] and Design Museum, Helsinki, Finland.

Ruhwald is also a teacher and has taught sculpture and ceramics in North America and Europe. He was an assistant professor at NSCAD in Halifax, Canada in 2005/06, CU Boulder in Colorado in 2007, An Associate Professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007/08 and the Artist in Residence and Head of Ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art from 2008 until he resigned in 2017.[32] From 2018 to 2022, he was a visiting professor at The National Academy of Art in Norway.

Notable exhibitions

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Published works

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Monographs
  • Ruhwald vs. Stålhane (Jönsson, Love, ed.), Essays by Love Jönsson, Shelley Selim, Martina Margetts and Anders Ruhwald, Rian Design Museum, 2022, ISBN 9789197112796[34]
  • The Body, The Mind, This Constructed World (Bochicchio, Luca Ed.), Essays by Luca Bochichio, Glenn Adamson, Ruth Baumeister, Casa Museo Jorn, 2018, ISBN 9781532391736[35]
  • The Anatomy of a Home (Wittkopp, G, ed.), Essays by Claudine Ise, Love Jönsson, Asdis Olafsdottir and Anders Ruhwald, Cranbrook Art Museum, USA, 2013, ISBN 9780989186407[36]
  • Anders Ruhwald, 2009–10, Lemberg Gallery, Detroit, 2010 ISBN 9788799434008[37]
  • You in Between (Beighton, James, ed.), Essays by Louise Mazanti, Ezra Shales and Glenn Adamson, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK, 2008 ISBN 0860830780[38]
  • Form and Function, Essay by Edmund de Waal, Exhibition Catalogue for IngerMolin Gallery, Sweden, 2007
Essays
  • At Søge, Finde og Huske (To Search, Find and Retain), in Ruhwald vs. Stålhane (Jönsson, Love, ed.) Rian Design Museum, 2022, ISBN 9789197112796[34]
  • The Anatomy of a Home in Contemporary Clay and Museum Culture (Brown, Christie; Julian Stair; Clare Twomey, eds.) Routledge, 2016 pp. 73–85 ISBN 978-1472470379
Publications
  • Ceramic Art And Civilization, Greenhalgh, Paul, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Great Britain, 2021, ISBN 9781474239707, pp. 9, 468, 469
  • Ler er Livet!, (Wirnfeldt, Pia, ed.), Clay Museum of Ceramic Art, ISBN 9788791135545, pp 54, 139
  • With Eyes Wide Open: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932, (Blauvelt, Andrew, ed.), Cranbrook Art Museum, 2020 ISBN 9781733382410 pp. 504–05
  • Rejsen som Redskab (Elna Svenle, ed.), Vandalorum, Sweden, 2020 ISBN 9789198272345 pp. 34–42 and 116-17
  • Objects USA (Adamson, Glenn, ed.), Monacelli Press, New York, 2020 ISBN 9781580935739 pp. 188–89
  • Landlord Colors (Blauvelt, Andrew, Judi Duki, Laura Mott and Ian Gabriel Wilson, eds.), Cranbrook Art Museum, p. 250 ISBN 9780989186490
  • Vitamin C: Clay and Ceramics in Contemporary Art (Morrill, Rebecca, ed.), Phaidon Press Limited, 2017 ISBN 9780714874609 pp. 258–61
  • Contemporary Clay, Ericson, Heather Mae (ed.), WCU Fine Arts Museum, Western Carolina University, pp 14, 54–55, ISBN 9781532326394
  • Contemporary Clay and Museum Culture (Brown, Chiristie; Julian Stair; Clare Twomey, eds.) Routledge, 2016 pp. 73–85 ISBN 978-1472470379
  • The Making Process, (Cho, Hyeyoung, Ed.) 2015 Cheongju Craft Biennial, pp. 282–289, ISBN 9791195614103
  • 2011 Gyeonggi International Ceramics Biennial, (Choi, Hong-Chul, ed.), Korea Ceramics Foundation, 2011 pp. 34–35, 204, 210 ISBN 9788989748885
  • XXe Biennale Internationale de Céramique Contemporaine de Vallauris (Peltier, Yves, ed.) Somogy Editions, Paris, pp. 170–173 2008 ISBN 9782757201824

References

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  2. ^ "Anders Ruhwald - Why I Create | art | Agenda". Phaidon.com.
  3. ^ "You and It #4 | Ruhwald, Anders | V&A Explore The Collections". Collections.vam.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  4. ^ McKnight, Jenna (3 July 2019). "Anders Ruhwald converts abandoned Detroit building into all-black installation". Dezeen.com. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  5. ^ a b c d e f "ANDERS RUHWALD CV" (PDF). Moranmorangallery.com. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  6. ^ a b Essner, Elizabeth (1 November 2015). "The State of ANDERS RUHWALD". Modern Magazine. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  7. ^ a b Morrill, Rebecca (2017). Vitamin C: Clay and Ceramics in Contemporary Art. London: Phaidon. p. 258. ISBN 978-0714-8746-09.
  8. ^ a b Shales, Ezra (2008). Beighton, James (ed.). Anders Ruhwald- You in Between. United Kingdom: Middelsbrough Institute of Modern Art. p. 68. ISBN 978-0860830788.
  9. ^ "Anders Ruhwald - Why I Create | art | Agenda | Phaidon". Phaidon.com. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  10. ^ Greenhalgh, Paul (2021). Ceramic Art and Civilization. London and New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts. p. 468. ISBN 9781474239707.
  11. ^ Ruhwald, Anders (2022). Jönsson, Love (ed.). Ruhwald vs Stålhane. Sweden: Rian designmuseum. p. 17. ISBN 9789197112796.
  12. ^ Adamson, Glenn (2008). Beighton, James (ed.). Anders Ruhwald- You in Between. United Kingdom: Middelsbrough Museum of Modern Art. p. 61. ISBN 978-0860830788.
  13. ^ a b "Anders Ruhwald: Century Garden". Discovernewfields.org. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  14. ^ "Come for the Ceramics Exhibition, Stay for the Hallucinatory Interior Design at This Italian House-Museum". Sightunseen.com. 30 January 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  15. ^ "Ruhwald Exhibition Opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland". Cranbrookart.edu. 22 September 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  16. ^ "Kunstnerforbundet". Kunstnerforbundet.no. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  17. ^ "Anders Ruhwald at Saarinen House: The Anatomy of a Home". Cranbrookartmuseum.org. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  18. ^ Clark, Robert (26 December 2008). "Exhibition preview: Anders Ruhwald, Middlesbrough". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  19. ^ Gural, Natasha (21 July 2019). "Wander Into A Mysterious, Daring Art Installation That Evokes Detroit's Troubled Past And Rattles Your Own Memories". Forbes.com. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  20. ^ "Knight Arts Challenge Detroit 2015 Winners". Knightfoundation.org.
  21. ^ "Graham Foundation > Grantees > Anders Herwald Ruhwald". Grahamfoundation.org. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  22. ^ "Korean International Ceramic Biennale 2019". 2019.kicb.co.kr.
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  26. ^ "Philadelphia Museum of Art Annual Report 2015" (PDF). Philamuseum.org. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  27. ^ "You Will See". Dia.org. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  28. ^ "BBC - A History of the World - Object : Social piece of furniture #6, A. Ruhwald". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  29. ^ "Anders Ruhwald, You in between – Nasjonalmuseet – Collection". Nasjonalmuseet.no. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  30. ^ "Nationalmuseum - Untitled object #4". Collection.nationalmuseum.se. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  31. ^ "Glaze experiments and abandoned Detroit | Ny Carlsbergfondet". Ny-carlsbergfondet.dk. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  32. ^ "Anders Ruhwald Announces Departure from Cranbrook Academy of Art". Cranbrookart.edu. 29 July 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  33. ^ "ANDERS HERWALD RUHWALD. Denmark, 1974" (PDF). Artshell-production-assets.s3.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  34. ^ a b Jönsson, Love, ed. (2022). Ruhwald Vs Stålhane. Sweden: Rian Designmuseum. ISBN 9789197112796.
  35. ^ Bochicchio, Luca, ed. (2018). The Body, The Mind, This Constructed World. Italy: Casa Museo Jorn. ISBN 9781532391736.
  36. ^ Wittkopp, Gregory (2013). The Anatomy of a Home. USA: Cranbrook Art Museum. ISBN 9780989186407.
  37. ^ Ruhwald, Anders (2010). Anders Ruhwald 2009-10. Detroit: Lemberg Gallery. ISBN 9788799434008.
  38. ^ Beighton, James (2008). You in Between. UK: Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. ISBN 978-0860830788.
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