Participants
Yoonede celebrates togetherness through diversity. The exhibition is built upon a wish of bringing creatives together - to learn from each other’s differences and share a common passion for design, art, and objects.
The exhibition combines a wide range of expertises with the intention of sharing ideas and creating an inclusive experience lifted by multiple shoulders.
Read more about the featured artists and designers who are joining this years Yoonede exhibition.
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Artists
”Then Nothing Else” is a collaborative project between ceramicist Signe Fensholt and furniture designer Anne Brandhøj.
Anne Brandhøj (1984) graduated as a furniture designer from The Royal Academy in 2017. She is working in the intersection between functional objects and abstract sculptures in wood with symmetry and geometric shapes as the recurring motif. Anne Brandhøj is interested in the encounter between elements where cohesion and contrasts emerge - she analyzes and combines wood and shapes.
Signe Fensholt is a Copenhagen based ceramic artist. She graduated with a MA in Ceramic Design from the Royal Danish Academy of Arts 2018. Her work is investigating the interplay between two design principles: the intended design and the self generated shape. She leaves part of the shaping to the dynamic of the materials and the natural forces in the ceramic kiln. With nature as co-creator she balances between a precisely calculated outcome and a total loss of control.
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Bettina Nelson is a Swedish-English experimental designer based in Copenhagen. She obtained an MA in Object Design from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Design (2017). Her practice is motivated by a fascination for the playful and intuitive based on the exploration of the intrinsic movement and transformative memories in relation to shapes and material tactility.
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Since Danish Designer Kasper Kjeldgaard graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts of Design in 2016, he has been acknowledged for his extraordinary and poetic design universe, already featured in leading design magazines around the world.
Driven by a desire to create a composition that makes sense in itself, Kjeldgaard continuously pursues to broaden the definition of design through his work. In a poetic universe of balance and suspense Kjeldgaard explore and communicate aspects of nature, such as friction and gravity. In the process of making, every object is given shape on the metal lathe, striving continually to learn new techniques and test new materials. Kasper Friis Kjeldgaard’s work has a refined expression with a clear emphasis on craftsmanship. His objects hide nothing but lay their inner workings bare, available for decoding.
Kjeldgaard’s works has among others been exhibited at Mindcraft in Milano, The Curio – Chart Art Fair and at Patrick Parrish Gallery in New York.
Most recently Kasper won the Danish design award for light of the year with his pendel Oneline for Fritz Hansen
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Birgitte Due Madsen is an artist and designer living and working in Copenhagen. Her portfolio ranges from handmade custom and serial furniture to sculptures and unique pieces. With a constant awareness and humility toward functionality and quality Birgitte is fascinated by the elongated project which examines elements such as materiality and aesthetics and which allows the project to develop in abstract form before it is formalized.
Through an autonomous and unpretentious approach, she integrates materials such as gypsum, resin, concrete, or stone and uses various techniques to achieve her design ideals. Her works are characterized by a subtle, poetic color scheme, tactile textures, and a strict, playful geometry.
Born in Copenhagen, Birgitte Due Madsen studied at the The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, school of Design. After graduating in 2008 Birgitte established her own studio engaging in different collaborations. She has received multiple grants and honorary prizes and continuingly participated in international exhibitions and fairs such as Salone del Mobile, Milano, IM Cologne, Cologne and Maison et Objet, Paris. In 2019 she moved her practice to a larger studio in Copenhagen, focusing on new projects that evolves around craftmanship and quality. Her work is produced in her own studio and by herself.
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Artist & co-founder of Yoonede
Sofie Østerby is a Copenhagen-based designer working in various creative areas spanning from furniture and interior design to producing unique sculptural works. Her creative process combines both physical and digital aspects and frequently involves collaborating with local workshops and furniture manufacturers. 3D printing, casting, cutting, and milling are recurring techniques using mainly metals, stone, glass and wood as final materials.
By merging traditional crafts and materials with modern techniques each product is obtaining a unique corporeality. She describes her design method as “a constant intuitive balancing between material presence and shape”. She finds beauty in the imperfect and as a result the individual irregularities of a given material and traces of production are highly valued in final pieces.
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Antrei Hartikainen (b. 1991) is a master cabinetmaker and designer from finland known for his exquisite works in wood. The award- winning pieces, including functional products and pure art works, achieve heights of sensuality, elegance and craftsmanship. These important factors are emphasized in antrei hartikainen's work, which constantly seeks to challenge and blur the traditional categorizations between functional objects and visual arts. Hartikainen’s sculptural approach can be studied through his organic body of work, which simultaneously highlights the inspiration drawn from the materials.
Antrei hartikainen has shown his works in numerous solo and group exhibitions. He has been nominated and awarded several awards, such as young designer of the year 2018 in finland, shortlisted emerging designer of the year 2019 and longlisted emerging design studio of the year 2022 at the dezeen awards and the most recently rising star of the year 2023 award at the scandinavian design awards.
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Alexandra is educated as an architect, with a great love for space, shapes and materials. In the borderland between art, architecture and design, she works with sculptures that either relate to the space or make the viewer take an active position towards the work.
In addition to the large unique mirrors (made from leftover materials), Alexandra works with elements made of steel and concrete. Furthermore, she has worked a lot on ceramic vases, which, in addition to being able to hold flowers, are small sculptures in themselves.
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Designer & co-founder of Yoonede
For over 15 years, Line Øhlenschlæger has been working in the international design industry as an Art Director, specializing in developing concepts and brands with a keen eye for proportions and a rare simplicity. She understands the significance of balancing a business mindset with intuition and emphasizes the importance of an aesthetic perspective combined with a gentle approach.
For the last couple of years she has expanding her creative vision to other aspects of the design anatomy which is now not only graphics and styling, but also design within product and craft.
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Brand
Understated yet refined, iril creates audio systems to the highest standards. Materials that age with grace, aesthetics that live beyond trends, technology carefully selected to remain relevant also tomorrow - all fused into a deceptively simple music experience.
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Studio Oro is a small studio based in Frederiksberg that creates unique handmade vases, wall art and tables composed of leftover pieces of marble and resin. All works are characterized by their unique shapes and vibrant colors, all of which are handmade in resin, which is an extremely durable and versatile material.
Studio Oro was founded by artist Sascha Anthony in 2021 during the pandemic with a passion to create unique and functional works of art that can live long in every home.
Since then, the small company has gained popularity among art enthusiasts and collectors for its playful organic expression.
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Designer & co-founder of Yoonede
Maaria Repo is a Finnish interior architect living in Copenhagen. She embodies a unique approach to living that places aesthetics, grace, and independence like few others.
With a versatile experience in retail design and working with strong identity brands, she makes things happen from basic to beautiful. She is curious and wondering by nature, which is often expressed in her varied works.
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Brand
KUSINER Carpets is a fusion of ancient Bedouin weaving skills and a strong Nordic design tradition: Just as weaving is deeply rooted in Bedouin nomadic culture – so is the tradition of functional and effortless Danish design.
Part of our Bedouin Rugs and the whole Jute Colellection is designed in cooperation with renowned textile designer Barbara Bendix Becker - who herself is a skilled weaver with a strong and sophisticated sense of design.
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Artists
MBADV is a Copenhagen based studio founded in 2013 by furniture designer Maria Bruun (born 1984, Denmark) and architect Anne Dorthe Vester (born 1984, Denmark).
Intrigued by the notion of the dialogue, MBADV often focuses on abstractions, like idioms, functional hybrids, and on the aesthetics of materials and form in relation to surrounding spaces – all created with attention to the crafted detail. In 2014 MBADV debuted with the distinct work series ‘Objects of Use’ at Etage Projects. The following year the series was awarded the National Solo Prize at the Spring Exhibition. MBADV has had solo exhibitions at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen and in Bagsværd Church designed by JørnUtzon.
They have presented their works on the international design and art scene on prominent platforms such as Etage Projects in Copenhagen, Mindcraft in Milan, Design Miami Basel and Patrick Parrish in New York. MBADV is represented by UK based gallery FUMI
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Brand
Since 1942, Bergs Potter has crafted premium products for plants and people to thrive in unison. Timeless designs crafted with love the traditional way. All made to last for generations.
The roots run deep, and it all started during one of the bleakest periods of World War II, when founder, Victor Berg, inherited a ceramics shop in the Nørrebro neighbourhood of Copenhagen and built Bergs Potter to fulfil his dream of bringing a little more life and colour into the war-depressed lives of his fellow Copenhageners.
A lot has changed since 1942, but one thing remains the same: plants make people thrive. Bergs Potter is devoted to crafting designs that help people nurture and care for their plants and strives to provide the best conditions so that people and plants, in unison, will thrive, grow, bloom, and radiate their beauty into the world.
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For Josefine Winding, it is all about shape, surface and spatial awareness.
Ever since she was a child, art and sculptures in particular, have been an important part of her life. Josefine spent much of her childhood in her grandfather’s studio and his three-dimensional grasp of shadows, depths, curves and balance has shaped the way she approach her own work today.
Josefine have always been fascinated with the abstract, powerful, and simple artistic idiom. As she create her sculptures, Josefine strive for balance more so between linear and geometric lines versus asymmetric and mobile. The depiction of these contrasting ideals gives rise to something exciting - something that I am continuously exploring. A sense of tension emerges in the sculpture, as if it might expand or sprout new limbs at any moment.She give her sculptures a calm, stringent and rustic exterior in order to let shapes play the principal role in the artistic experience. An aim for a synergy between shape and surface when the surface supports and highlights the shape while the shape brings out the beauty and vitality of the surface through the sculpture’s position in the room and the light that falls on it.
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Laura Fiig graduated with a master's degree in Furniture and Object from the Royal Danish Academy in 2022. She is particularly interested in working with light and lamps as well as patterns and colors on wooden objects. She has a background in fashion, which is reflected in the way she carefully works with form, patterns, construction and materials.
Her designs are often based on traditional crafts with a modern take. The way she works with her designs are often with a certain sensuousness in mind and with a constant focus on the relation between form, color and material. She is not afraid to create objects that have references to something recognizable or figurative - by doing this she adds personality to the object.
"When I design a lamp I dress the light. The light will not get a personality before it's dressed and captured by a material. I control the expression and function of the light by constructing form around it"
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The design studio of Caia Leifsdotter creates atmospheric
spaces that enhance contemporary interior with a vintage flair
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With a creative approach to design, Caia Leifsdotter combines
functionality and aesthetic spaces with respect for the historical
and architectural framework.
Caia Leifsdotter’s Scandinavian heritage is reflected in her
sense of style with minimalistic shapes combined with the use
of colours adding a touch of freshness and originality.
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Sophie Klerk is a Danish collage artist who is known for her intuitive approach to materiale and form. Having lived and worked in the Netherlands, England, Mexico and most recently in New Zealand, Sophie’s work is largely shaped by her international background. Her artistic style is often described as unique, minimalist and expressive and explores the interactions between different papers, colours, shades, textures, threads, paint and photos. Inspired by the curiosity and challenge of the unknown, Sophie’s stitched-together collages often bear the imprints of the previous lives of their materials. Her work is held in private collections worldwide, and she undertakes collaborations and commissions on request.