The 2025 Biennale Award goes to Lone Løvschal
The award committee has selected the recipient of the 2025 Biennale Award. The award goes to hollowware silversmith Lone Løvschal for her piece FLUCTUATING SPOONS.
The Biennale for Craft & Design opened on 9 October at Glas – Museum of Glass Art in Ebeltoft. After festive opening speeches by Mikkel Hammer Elming and Hanne Brøbech Sønnichsen, the recipient of the 20025 Biennale Award was announced.
This year’s award committee – Karen Grøn, director of the Trapholt museum of modern art and design, Rigetta Klint, publisher of the HÅNDVÆRK bookazine, and designer Lise Vester – presented the three nominees and provided the committee’s motivation for choosing Lone Løvschal:
"Thirty crooked, long, gnarled, elegant, whimsical and surprising spoons line up to tell the story of lived life and a lunar cycle over 30 days. Relinquishing control, the maker let her daily state guide the hammer. The spoons reflect Lone Løvschal’s mood, the weather, international politics and her hormonal fluctuations, demonstrating that craft making is not just serial production but is affected by the specific context that surrounds and shapes it. The encounter with Lone Løvschal’s fluctuating spoons provides an experience that intuitively resonates with the viewer’s own experiences – concrete experiences with spoons and personal experiences of lived life. Many will take this experience with them, rediscovering the unique design of the spoons in their kitchen drawer and gaining renewed understanding of and respect for everyday craft and design items as deliberately shaped objects.Lone Løvschal deserves the Biennale Award 2025. Her feat of creating one exquisite spoon a day is impressive testimony to her superior technical skill and creative drive and sparks admiration and inspiration in us all."
About the recipient of the 2025 Biennale Award
Lone Løvschal trained as a hollowware silversmith at Georg Jensen in Copenhagen and subsequently graduated as a master of art from the Royal College of Art in London.
The main focus of Lone Løvschal’s practice is one-off jewellery in precious metals. Her artistic expression is organic and has deep roots in Scandinavian design tradition.
The two other nominees are ceramic artist Lotte Westphael, for her piece A POETIC OF PATTERNS, and textile designer Emilie Palle Holm, for her piece WOVEN VOXEL.
The award committee motivates its choice of the two other nominees as follows:
"Lotte Westphael is nominated for her delicate, poetic and fragile and simultaneously powerful cylindrical porcelain vessels.
Vessels that, in the award committee’s interpretation, serve as tribute to the immersive and tireless effort – year after year – to elaborate and refine a unique technique and personal aesthetic.
Lotte Westphael deserves recognition for her exquisite mastery of her craft and a clear concept. No one needs more products – what we need is better products. And more poetry is a vital necessity. Lotte Westphael’s work is important – for the sake of the vessel and because we need her reminder and her approach."
"With WOVEN VOXEL, Emilie Palle Holm has created a fascinating three-dimensional jacquard-woven piece. She has not just transformed plane surface to form but has created a unique and exceptional piece that draws in the senses and creates spatial experiences."
Whatever our vantage point, we are provided new experiences of craftsmanship and aesthetic in a piece that balances between a controlled and a more diffuse expression that manifests a spatial universe of rhythmically undulating colour compositions and patterns.
Emilie Palle Holm deserves recognition for an original expression that arises in the interplay of the digital possibilities of the machine and classic craftsmanship."
The Biennale Award includes a prize sum of 100,000 kroner, generously donated by Danmarks Nationalbank’s Anniversary Foundation.
The other pieces in the exhibition will be presented over the coming weeks on biennalen.dk
The curator’s collective Ukurant curated the exhibition and designed the presentation at Glas.
The exhibition will be on display at Glas until 22 February 2026.
