New Glass Review 43

Very happy that my work has been selected for and included in the Corning Museum of Glass publication - New Glass Review 43 -

Words by curator Samantha De Tillio /

A site-specific installation, Double Down is in communion with its ecosystem. Mimicking the rhythm of the trees, the bundle of tubular glass and supporting steel armature is at once too large and too small for its environment. Super-sized fungi elevated above the forest floor or interstellar craft set down amid the shifting light and changing seasons and weather patterns. Embodying its surroundings, the work will accumulate various organic matter - spruce needles, condensation, algae, fungus - and become home to small creatures, a microcosm within a macrocosm, eventually succumbing to the natural cycles of life and decay.

A big thank you to the curators /

Samantha De Tillio

Davin K. Ebanks

Kim Harry

Kimberly Thomas

Double Down - Deep Forest Art Land, Denmark.

Modern Glass from Denmark - European Museum of Modern Glass, Germany

I am very happy to be participating with my installation passage at the exhibition - Modern glass from Denmark - at the European Museum of Modern Glass from May 29 - November 19 - 2023.

European Museum of Modern Glass
Rosenau 10
96472 Rödental - Germany

Extract from the museum’s website /

The exhibition brings together a good 50 works made over a period of 40 years by 27 artists and designers who were born in Denmark, live in Denmark or have worked there. Denmark has a long tradition of hand-blown glass and this is also evident in the exhibition. It begins with the works of the founding father of the Danish studio glass movement, Finn Lynggaard.

Some multi-part arrangements and installations go far beyond traditional glassblowing. Steffen Dam presents a series of glass cylinders which with their jellyfish-like forms are reminiscent of curiosities, while Ida Wieth’s installation, Passage, consists of numerous blown glass tubes that enclose a closely defined space that one can walk into.

Participating artists:

Maria Bang Espersen, Michael Bang, George William Bell, Stine Bidstrup, Lene Bødker, Ned Cantrell, Steffen Dam, Trine Drivsholm, Darryle Hinz, Jeannet Iskandar, Susanne Jøker Johnsen, Micha Karlslund, Jesper Kerrn-Jespersen, Anja Kjaer, Morten Klitgaard, Maria Koshenkova, Karen Lise Krabbe, Per Lütken, Finn Lynggaard, Anna Mlasowsky, Tobias Møhl, Jonas Noel Niedermann, Karen Nyholm, Stig Persson, Lene Charlotte Tangen and Ida Wieth.

photo / Veste Coburg Art Collection (Dieter Ertel)

wander / wonder at Art Herning 2023

Exhibiting my installation - wander / wonder - this weekend with Køppe Contemporary Objects at Art Herning 2023.

January 26th - 28th /

MCH Herning Kongrescenter 
Østergade 37
7400 Herning

From Køppe Contemporary Objects / We are proud to present the glass installation ‘wander / wonder’ by Ida Wieth.

Ever since her first manifestations, Ida Wieth has moved far beyond conventional crafted glassware, thus freeing herself from object categories and dogmas, operating in a sculptural and installation-artistic field. She works with glass that she combines with other materials such as metals, ceramics, and wood to bring forth artistic concepts and aesthetic innovation. Ida Wieth combines the artistically poetical, with the tangible knowledge of materials and techniques of the artisan, in a highly expressive and emotional manner

Technique:
The installation consists of 6 bundles of mouth blown and stretched glass tubes (hollow cane-technique) with iron oxides. The tubes have been layered and fused together in a large kiln. The iron oxides, added to the glass during the blowing process, both melts into and at the same time elevates from the surface. This contributes to a coarse and fragmented texture in contrast to the delicate and transparent glass, bearing reminiscences of traces found in nature.



Exhibition opening - In The Making - Glasmuseet Ebeltoft

Opening of the exhibition - In The Making - at Glasmuseet Ebeltoft this weekend.

In the Making focuses on the creative process behind the works, and is curated by Eva Lynggaard (Finn Lynggaard’s daughter) and Tchai Munch (glassmaker and Finn Lynggaard’s widow). The exhibiting artists have all received the Finn Lynggaard Grant, which has been awarded by The Finn Lynggaard Foundation since 2010.

The ten artists represented in the exhibition - Lise Eggers | Bjørn Friborg | Johanne Jahncke | Morten Klitgaard | Jonas Noël Niedermann | Karen Nyholm | Marie Retpen | Tobias Sode | Aoife Soden | Ida Wieth - belong to a strong generation of younger glass artists, who all work professionally with glass. There is a wide range of works and the topics are many. From experimental and material-based practices with Ida Wieth and Johanne Jahncke to studies of expressions of nature and raw materials with Morten Klitgaard and Lise Eggers.

Vernissage January 13th at 5 pm. All Welcome!

Glasmuseet Ebeltoft

Strandvejen 8,

8400 Ebeltoft

Ida Wieth, portrait by Kåre Viemose, Hammerhøi vibes

Portrait, Ida Wieth. Photo by: Kåre Viemose

Exhibition in Madrid

I am taking part in the exhibition - Strpped - at Galeria Azur, Madrid with my work Five Frames.

Opening soon - June 30 at 8.30 - Please stop by if in Madrid Spain at this time.

Calle de Válgame Dios 6, Chueca, Madrid, Spain.

Film & podcast about Double Down

Film (with English subtitles) & podcast (in Danish) accessible HERE

From The Charlottenborg Foundation /

Get behind the creation of new site-specific work by Ida Wieth, winner of the Deep Forest Art Land Prize 2021

We are pleased to present a podcast and video about Double Down (2021) by Ida Wieth, created in connection with the award of the Charlottenborg Foundation's Deep Forest Art Land Award 2021. 

Danish artist Ida Wieth won this year's Deep Forest Art Land Award for Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2021 and as part of the award has created a new site-specific work for Deep Forest Art Land in Kibæk, which opened on 23 October 2021. The exhibition is part of a new partnership between the Charlottenborg Foundation and Deep Forest Art Land, which aims to strengthen artists' ability to develop their practice as well as create solo presentations in a professional setting.

In the podcast, which was produced in collaboration with The Lake Radio, Thorbjørn Saugmann Andersen talks to sculptor Ida Wieth about her work Double Down (2021). "What's it like to exhibit glass art in a forest? How to work with glass on a large scale? And what is the handicraft's relationship to contemporary art?" Listen in HERE (in Danish).

Double Down now opened

Go visit my site-specific work for the sculpture park - Deep Forest Art Land, in Kibæk, Denmark. 

Here is a few words on the art work /

Double Down, consists of a unity of bundled tubular glass elements, mounted on bold geometric and circular iron construction, which embraces and carries the glass with a floating sensation.

The shape and layered structure of the glass bear reminiscences of a forest in itself - as transparent tree trunks or branches, as does the location and framing of the work, representing the characteristics, lines and shapes of the forest. 

The glass will be in a constant flow of changing expression, as it will be affected by the shifting light, changing of seasons and weather conditions. In itself, it will become a kind of micro cosmos of the forest, as it will intercept e.g. dew, spruce needles, water and frost, and over time spawn algae, fungus, rust and cracks in the glass. The work both enhance, challenge and mimics several elements from nature, and subscribes to its cycle and decay, with both an immense inherent strength and fragility. Thus a mutual reflection between place and work arises, with a perspective-distorted and almost kaleidoscopic effect.

The title Double Down refers to acting with increased determination and commitment, just as the glass elements themselves consist of a duality of two composite and fused glass tubes. Where the two parts meet, they are separated by a barrier of glass enhanced with iron powder. The units seemingly holds similar properties, but will be affected with different impact - the work will thus gradually change its character by virtue of time and course of nature.

Blown glass with iron powder. Iron structure.

H: 210 cm. W: 130 cm.  D: 130 cm.

Double Down at Deep Forest Art Land - Exhibition invitation

Double Down at Deep Forest Art Land - Exhibition invitation

You are hereby invited to the opening of a new site-specific work by the Danish artist Ida Wieth on October 23 in Deep Forest Art Land. Ida Wieth won this year's Deep Forest Art Land Award at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2021 and has - as part of the award - created a new site-specific work for Deep Forest Art Land in Kibæk. The exhibition is part of a new partnership between the Charlottenborg Foundation and Deep Forest Art Land, which aims to strengthen artists' opportunities to develop their practice and create solo presentations in a professional setting.

For Deep Forest Art Land, Ida Wieth has created the site-specific work Double Down, which consists of a whole of glass elements shaped like tubes, which in a layered structure appear with a perspective-distorted and almost kaleidoscopic effect. The work was created at Holmegaard Glasværk.

Ida Wieth makes use of classically learned craft skills based on the tradition-bound mouth-blown glass, and continues to push the boundaries of the material's possibilities in an artistic context. She works in a sculptural and conceptual way that revolves around concepts such as time, variability and course with literary and art historical references.

The title of the work Double Down refers to acting with increased determination, just as the glass elements themselves consist of a duality of two fused tubes. In the meeting between the two parts, they are separated by a glass barrier which is underlined with iron powder. The units apparently have similar preconditions, but will be part of, and are affected differently by the seasons - the work will thus gradually change its character due to the passage of time and nature. The layered structure of the glass simulates a forest in itself - like transparent trunks and branches, with a floating expression. The work thus mimics several elements from the forest, and subscribes to the cycle and transience of nature, with both an inherent strength and fragility.

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Selected for Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2021

I am so pleased that my work - wander / wonder - has been selected for this year Spring Exhibition at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen 7/3 - 4/4 2021 - AND that I was awarded The Deep Forest Art Land Prize.

The exhibition is on digitally here - and the catalogue can be found here

Here is the motivation for the Deep Forest Art Land Prize /

The jury selected the craft artist Ida Wieth to receive the Deep Forest Art Land Award for her innovative form experiments in glass and metal. In her practice, Ida Wieth remains loyal to her material, which she is constantly pressing to take in new directions in an inquisitive and persistent exploration of the transformative and expansive capacity of glass. Her work with abstraction creates a series of fleeting images and associations to actual objects, opening up new spaces and testing the faculties of viewers as well as the potential of glass. We are convinced that her delicate compositions with their poetic presence and focus on imprints and impressions will find a comfortable home among the vegetation at Deep Forest Art Land and enrich the many dialogues already taking place there. We look forward to discovering how Ida Wieth will tackle this context and anticipate experiencing the everlasting fragility of glass in the forest.

On behalf of this year’s jury and Deep Forest Art Land

photo by / Bent René Synnevåg

photo by / Bent René Synnevåg

wander / wonder - solo show in Bergen

My solo show - wander / wonder - is now open!

I feel so grateful and honoured to be exhibiting at this amazing gallery - ENTRÈE - run by Randi Grov Berger.

Go visit /

ENTRÈE

Markeveien 4b - 5012 Bergen, Norway.

wander / wonder is on from 17/10 - 22/10

For the past 6 weeks I have been in Bergen, Norway as an artist in residency at the glass studio S12, where I have developed and produced the works for the exhibition.wander / wonder (detail)  blown glass with iron oxides.

For the past 6 weeks I have been in Bergen, Norway as an artist in residency at the glass studio S12, where I have developed and produced the works for the exhibition.

wander / wonder (detail) blown glass with iron oxides.

wander / wondersandcasted glass with enamels, oxides and organic materials.

wander / wonder

sandcasted glass with enamels, oxides and organic materials.

The Venice Glass Week

My work has been selected to be exhibited at The Venice Glass Week . I partake with four works (Four Frames) which will be displayed at Palazzo Loredan from 5-13 Septemper. If in Venice, please come by and visit the exhibition.

Four Frames photograph from the display at Palazzo Loredan, Venice

Four Frames

photograph from the display at Palazzo Loredan, Venice

Four Framesphotograph from the exhibition space at Palazzo Loredan, Venice

Four Frames

photograph from the exhibition space at Palazzo Loredan, Venice

Earth, Wind, Fire, Water – Nordic Contemporary Crafts

I am honored to take part in the 44th edition of Tendenser at Galleri F15 in Moss, Norway.

Curated by the amazing Randi Grov Berger. The exhibition will be open from June 16th to October 4th.

More about the exhibition here /

Earth, Wind, Fire, Water – Nordic Contemporary Crafts is the 44th edition of the exhibition series Tendenser (Tendencies) at Galleri F 15 in Moss, Norway. For nearly fifty years, Tendenser has been one of the leading platforms for contemporary craft in the Nordic region. First presented in 1971 as an annual exhibition highlighting Norwegian practitioners, Tendenser has since expanded to a biennial format, incorporating trends from across the Nordic countries.

This year’s exhibition is curated by Randi Grov Berger and brings together seventeen artists and artist groups from the Nordic countries who uses their craft, their tools, and their deep material knowledge to address pending environmental issues. Acknowledging the powerful interdependence between humankind and often overlooked materials and organisms, many of the presented artworks evoke the fragility and transiency of our earthly existence by way of components that alter, dry up, or decay throughout the exhibition period. Others reflect holistic ecological practices, implementing material collaborations to connect with the surrounding environment, with a piece of land, or with the material itself.

The artists featured in Earth, Wind, Fire, Water each explore the potential of materials and the elements to co-author artistic works; to participate in and at times control the process and outcome. Encompassing biology, geology, and cosmology, their practices confront a longing for a deeper connection to the earth. They challenge our perception of materials, of the so-called natural world, and of ourselves.

In collaboration with the Nordic Network of Crafts Associations.
Supported by Nordic Culture Fund and Nordic Culture Point.

ARTISTS
Hildur Bjarnadóttir (IS), Ebba Bohlin (SE), Fellesskapsprosjektet å Fortette Byen (Sápmi/NO), Alma Heikkilä (FI), Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen (NO/FI), Guðjón Ketilsson (IS), Kasper Kjeldgaard (DK), Stian Korntved Ruud (NO), Ivana Králíková (CZ/SE), Valentin Manz (DE/NO), Britta Marakatt-Labba (Sápmi/SE), Pekka Paikkari (FI), Louise Sidelmann (DK), Brynjar Sigurðarson & Veronika Sedlmair (IS/DE), Ida Wieth (DK), Hedvig Winge (NO) and Charlotta Östlund (SE/FI).

Passage, 2019. Photo by Trine Otte Bak Nielsen

Passage, 2019. Photo by Trine Otte Bak Nielsen

New Glass Now - ending

One month left to experience the New Glass Now exhibition at Corning Museum of Glass.

The exhibition runs until January 5, 2020.

The Corning Museum of Glass

One Museum Way - Corning

NY 14830 - USA

More info here / New Glass Now

- Reach -mouthblown and kiln formed glass, metal oxides, copperwire.

- Reach -

mouthblown and kiln formed glass, metal oxides, copperwire.

- Reach -mouthblown and kiln formed glass, metal oxides, copperwire.

- Reach -

mouthblown and kiln formed glass, metal oxides, copperwire.

The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa 2019

Two of my works has been selected for the Triennale Exhibition - The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa in Japan. The exhibition will be showing at The Shiinoki Cultural Complex in Kanazawa from October 30th - November 11th, and from November 15th 2019 - January 11th 2020 - the exhibition will be shown at Notojima Glass Art Museum.

Also, I am very happy to say that The Executive Committee has awarded my work a Honorable Mention.

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