Anders Ruhwald Explained

Birth Date:[1]
Birth Place:Randers, Denmark
Citizenship:United States
Occupation:Sculptor
Years Active:1995-present

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

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. Ruhwald finished his MA at Royal College of Art in London in 2005, studying under Martin Smith, Allison Britton and Emmanuel Cooper.

Career

Central to Ruhwald's work is the idea that "the messy practicality of objects is something to be embraced and not occluded"[6] and his work can be understood as an amalgamation of both art and design without giving regard to the hierarchies normally assigned to these.[7] [8] [9] Instead, Ruhwald's work implies that "subjectivity arises in the perception of differences, one that is both durational and spatially determined". 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". His work is often highly crafted and a large part of his practice is dedicated to material experimentation and surface development,[10] 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".[11]

Solo presentations of Ruhwald's work have been mounted at Indianapolis Museum of Art;[12] Casa Museo Jorn,[13] Italy; MOCA Cleveland;[14] Kunstner Forbundet,[15] Norway; The Saarinen House, Cranbrook Art Museum,[16] Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK.[17] In 2019, he completed the permanent installation Unit 1: 3583 Dubois St[18] in Detroit supported by the Knight Foundation,[19] The Graham Foundation,[20] The [Gilbert Family Foundation and the [[Danish Arts Foundation|Danish Art Foundation]].

In 2011, Ruhwald won the Gold Prize at the Gyeonggi International Ceramics Biennial in South Korea,[21] and he was awarded the Sotheby's Prize at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2007.[22]

His works is the included collections of Victoria & Albert Museum, London;[23] The Art Institute of Chicago, US;[24] Philadelphia Museum of Art, US;[25] Detroit Institute of Art, US;[26] Indianapolis Museum of Art, US; The Denver Art Museum, US; The British Crafts Council;[27] Nasjonal Museet, Oslo, Norway;[28] Musee de Arts Decoratifs, Paris;[29] 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

Published works

Monographs
Essays
Publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: CV . Anders Herwald Ruhwald . 28 March 2024.
  2. Web site: Anders Ruhwald - Why I Create | art | Agenda . Phaidon.com.
  3. Web site: You and It #4 | Ruhwald, Anders | V&A Explore The Collections. Collections.vam.ac.uk. 21 July 2022.
  4. Web site: McKnight . Jenna . 3 July 2019 . Anders Ruhwald converts abandoned Detroit building into all-black installation . 22 April 2022 . Dezeen.com.
  5. Web site: ANDERS RUHWALD CV. Moranmorangallery.com. 21 July 2022.
  6. Book: Morrill, Rebecca . Vitamin C: Clay and Ceramics in Contemporary Art . Phaidon . 2017 . 978-0714-8746-09 . London . 258.
  7. Book: Shales, Ezra . Anders Ruhwald- You in Between . Middelsbrough Institute of Modern Art . 2008 . 978-0860830788 . Beighton . James . United Kingdom . 68.
  8. Web site: Anders Ruhwald - Why I Create | art | Agenda | Phaidon. Phaidon.com. 21 July 2022.
  9. Book: Greenhalgh, Paul . Ceramic Art and Civilization . Bloomsbury Visual Arts . 2021 . 9781474239707 . London and New York . 468.
  10. Book: Ruhwald, Anders . Ruhwald vs Stålhane . Rian designmuseum . 2022 . 9789197112796 . Jönsson . Love . Sweden . 17.
  11. Book: Adamson, Glenn . Anders Ruhwald- You in Between . Middelsbrough Museum of Modern Art . 2008 . 978-0860830788 . Beighton . James . United Kingdom . 61.
  12. Web site: Anders Ruhwald: Century Garden. Discovernewfields.org. 21 July 2022.
  13. Web site: Come for the Ceramics Exhibition, Stay for the Hallucinatory Interior Design at This Italian House-Museum. 30 January 2019. Sightunseen.com. 21 July 2022.
  14. Web site: Ruhwald Exhibition Opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. 22 September 2016. Cranbrookart.edu. 21 July 2022.
  15. Web site: Kunstnerforbundet. Kunstnerforbundet.no. 21 July 2022.
  16. Web site: Anders Ruhwald at Saarinen House: The Anatomy of a Home. 7 July 2015. Cranbrookartmuseum.org. 21 July 2022.
  17. Web site: Clark . Robert . 26 December 2008 . Exhibition preview: Anders Ruhwald, Middlesbrough . 20 April 2022 . The Guardian.
  18. Web site: Gural . Natasha . 21 July 2019 . Wander Into A Mysterious, Daring Art Installation That Evokes Detroit's Troubled Past And Rattles Your Own Memories . 20 April 2022 . Forbes.com.
  19. Web site: Knight Arts Challenge Detroit 2015 Winners. Knightfoundation.org.
  20. Web site: Graham Foundation > Grantees > Anders Herwald Ruhwald. Grahamfoundation.org. 21 July 2022.
  21. Web site: Korean International Ceramic Biennale 2019. 2019.kicb.co.kr.
  22. Web site: You and It #4 | Ruhwald, Anders | V&A Explore The Collections. Collections.vam.ac.uk. 2005 .
  23. Web site: Search Results | V&A Explore the Collections. Collections.vam.ac.uk. 21 July 2022.
  24. Web site: Anders Ruhwald. Artic.edu. 1974 . 21 July 2022.
  25. Web site: Philadelphia Museum of Art Annual Report 2015. Philamuseum.org. 21 July 2022.
  26. Web site: You Will See. Dia.org. 21 July 2022.
  27. Web site: BBC - A History of the World - Object : Social piece of furniture #6, A. Ruhwald. Bbc.co.uk. 21 July 2022.
  28. Web site: Anders Ruhwald, You in between – Nasjonalmuseet – Collection. Nasjonalmuseet.no. 21 July 2022.
  29. Web site: Essner . Elizabeth . 1 November 2015 . The State of ANDERS RUHWALD . 22 April 2022 . Modern Magazine.
  30. Web site: Nationalmuseum - Untitled object #4. Collection.nationalmuseum.se. 21 July 2022.
  31. Web site: Glaze experiments and abandoned Detroit | Ny Carlsbergfondet. Ny-carlsbergfondet.dk. 21 July 2022.
  32. Web site: Anders Ruhwald Announces Departure from Cranbrook Academy of Art. 29 July 2016. Cranbrookart.edu. 21 July 2022.
  33. Web site: ANDERS HERWALD RUHWALD. Denmark, 1974. Artshell-production-assets.s3.amazonaws.com. 21 July 2022.
  34. Book: Ruhwald Vs Stålhane . Rian Designmuseum . 2022 . 9789197112796 . Jönsson . Love . Sweden.
  35. Book: The Body, The Mind, This Constructed World . Casa Museo Jorn . 2018 . 9781532391736 . Bochicchio . Luca . Italy.
  36. Book: Wittkopp, Gregory . The Anatomy of a Home . Cranbrook Art Museum . 2013 . 9780989186407 . USA.
  37. Book: Ruhwald, Anders . Anders Ruhwald 2009-10 . Lemberg Gallery . 2010 . 9788799434008 . Detroit.
  38. Book: Beighton, James . You in Between . Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art . 2008 . 978-0860830788 . UK.

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