The Biennale Award 2017

Lotte Myrthue. Photo: Dorte Krogh/Biennale for Craft & Design

Left: Banja Rathnov, Lotte Myrthue, Hans Christian Asmussen and Anna Mee Allerslev (Mayor of Integration & Employment) — Banja Rathnov, Lotte Myrthue, Hans Christian Asmussen and Anna Mee Allerslev (Mayor of Integration & Employment, Cph)
Photo credit: Frederikke Heiberg

Textile designer Lotte Myrthue was awarded with The Biennale prize 2017. The Award comes with a prize sum of 100.000 Danish kroner kindly donated by Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond.

The piece “Quilt Promises Quilts” interweaves the intimate patterns of family life with the rule-based language of bureaucratic case management, colours and graphic structures. The letter ‘blankets’ function as textile images of the experience of having one’s closest personal relations dissected in a bureaucratic process. Read more

Prize committee
Christian Holmsted Olesen, DK, Head of Exhibitions and Collections at Designmuseum Danmark
Banja Rathnov, gallery owner (Museumsbygningen)
Steen Ipsen, ceramicist