The Biennale Award is a major recognition of Danish craft and design with a prize sum of DKK 100,000, which is generously donated by Danmarks Nationalbank’s Jubilæumsfond.
All Biennale exhibitors are basically nominated for the Biennale Award. The award recipients are revealed on the Biennale’s opening day and selected by an award committee.
The prize is awarded to one of the Biennale exhibitors who are awarded for one or more works. Emphasis is placed on awarding works that contain innovative thinking in terms of form, high quality and conceptual impact.
Award recipient: Lone Løvschal
Nominees: Emilie Palle Holm and Lotte Westhphael
Prize committee: Karen Grøn, Rigetta Klint, Lise Vester
Karen Grøn, museumsdirektør på Trapholt siden 2010. Hun har en cand.mag i Æstetik og Kultur fra Aarhus Universitet og en Master in public management fra SDU. Karen Grøn har modtaget adskillige priser for sit arbejde og blev i 2023 hædret med Ny Carlsbergfondets Museumslegat.
Rigetta Klint, designer, skribent, fotograf og udgiver af det annoncefrie og uafhængige printbookazine HÅNDVÆRK, som udkommer på både dansk og engelsk og distribueres i 20 lande. I formidligen drager Rigetta Klint nytte af sit mangeårige virke – først som udøvende håndværker og formgiver, siden som skribent og fotograf.
Lise Vester, møbel- og produktdesigner med base i København og uddannet fra VIA Design i Herning og Royal College of Art i London. Hun arbejder med design og lysinstallationer med særligt fokus på sanselighed, neuroæstetik og forbindelsen mellem mennesker og natur. Hun står bl.a. bag Dream View Bench for Muuto og udstiller værker på Designmuseum Danmark, herunder Lighthouse Chandelier i samarbejde med Louis Poulsen.
Award recipient: Wang & Söderström
Nominees: Astrid Skibsted & Michelle Yi Martin and Tideland Studio
Prize committee: Majken Overgaard, curator, Mikkel Hammer Elming, museum director of Glas, and Kristine Tillge Lund, ceramist
Award recipient: Helle Vibeke Jensen
Nominees: Helen Clara Hemsley and Dorte Østergaard Jacobsen
Prize committee: Mads Quistgaard, CEO Urgent Agency, Jane Sandberg, Museum director Enigma, Maria Sparre-Petersen, glass designer, study lecturer at KADK, MFA, Ph.d.
Award recipient: textile designer Bess Kristoffersen, precious metal shaper Katrine Borup, precious metal shaper Pernille Mouritzen
Nominees: ceramicist Sarah Oakman & glass shaper Maj-Britt Zelmer Olsen and textile designer Charlotte Østergaard
Prize committee: museum inspector Pernille Stockmarr, ceramicist Peder Rasmussen and senior lecturer Christina Zetterlund
Textile designer Lotte Myrthue
Prize committee: gallery owner Banja Rathnov, ceramicist Steen Ipsen and museum inspector Christian Holmsted Olesen
Ceramicist Søren Thygesen
Prize committee: gallery owner Maria Foerlev, ceramicist Gurli Elbækgaard and head of research Lars Dybdahl
Textile artist Anne Fabricius Møller
Jewelery designers Josephine Winther and Gitte Nygaard
Prize committee: art critic Trine Ross, curator Lars Sture and director of Charlottenborg Kunsthal Jacob Fabricius
Weaver Anne Mette Larsen
Prize committee: ceramicist Louise Hindsgavl, curator and art critic Love Jönsson, jewelery artist Sigurd Bronger
Architects Nils Toft & Henrik Jeppesen
Textile designer Maria Kirk Mikkelsen, Jewelery designer Katrine Borup
Prize committee: Museum director Britta Tøndborg, ceramist Mark Lauberg and ceramist Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl
Komplot Design – Boris Berlin and Poul Christiansen
Precious metal designer Karen Fly Melander
Prize committee: head of research Lars Dybdahl, designer Ole Jensen, art historian Mette Strømgaard Dalby and textile designer Dorte Østergaard Jakobsen
Ceramicist Louise Hindsgavl
Goldsmith Mette Saabye
Prize committee: architect Karen Kjærgaard, museum inspector Trine Ahrens Holst, textile designer Dorte Østergaard Jakobsen
Jewelery designer Camilla Prasch
Ceramicist Anders Ruhwald
Prize committee: Clothing designer Alet Pilon, museum inspector Henrik Most, textile designer Kirsten Trojel Fribert
Textile designer Johnna Sølvsteen Bak
Ceramicist Anne Tophøj & Jobim Jochimsen
Textile designer Johnna Sølvsteen Bak
Ceramicist Anne Tophøj & Jobim Jochimsen
Textile designer Anne Fabricius Møller
Ceramicist Vibeke Fonnesberg Schmidt
Textile designer Grethe Wittrock and clothing designer Ann Schmidt Christensen
