The Biennale Award 2017


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