Anders Ruhwald

Early life and education Ruhwald completed his BFA at the Royal Danish Academy in Bornholm, Denmark in 2000. While there, he apprenticed for artist Jun Kaneko, whose work had a lasting influence on his practice. and his work can be understood as an amalgamation of both art and design without giving regard to the hierarchies normally assigned to these. Instead, Ruhwald's work implies that "subjectivity arises in the perception of differences, one that is both durational and spatially determined". and as a result Glenn Adamson has noted that "for all their compressed particularity, [his] sculptures are also enlivened by inexhaustible nuance. Ruhwald takes seriously the idea that surface is where form interfaces with spatial context, so his surfaces have an intensity in all registers".

Solo presentations of Ruhwald's work have been mounted at Indianapolis Museum of Art; Casa Museo Jorn, Italy; MOCA Cleveland; Kunstner Forbundet, Norway; The Saarinen House, Cranbrook Art Museum, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK. In 2019, he completed the permanent installation Unit 1: 3583 Dubois St in Detroit, supported by the Knight Foundation, The Graham Foundation, The Gilbert Family Foundation, and the Danish Art Foundation.

In 2011, Ruhwald won the Gold Prize at the Gyeonggi International Ceramics Biennial in South Korea, and he was awarded the Sotheby's Prize at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2007.

His works is the included collections of Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The Art Institute of Chicago, US; Philadelphia Museum of Art, US; Detroit Institute of Art, US; Indianapolis Museum of Art, US; The Denver Art Museum, US; The British Crafts Council; Nasjonal Museet, Oslo, Norway; Musee de Arts Decoratifs, Paris; Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden; Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway; Icheon World Ceramic Center, South Korea; Clay Museum, Denmark; From 2018 to 2022, he was a visiting professor at The National Academy of Art in Norway.

Notable exhibitions Century Garden, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN 2020 Unit 1: 3583 Dubois, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, 2016 One thing follows the other (and you make it happen), The David Ousley Museum of Art, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2013 The Anatomy of a Home, Saarinen House, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 2013 You in between, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK, 2008

Published works Monographs Ruhwald vs. Stålhane (Jönsson, Love, ed.), Essays by Love Jönsson, Shelley Selim, Martina Margetts and Anders Ruhwald, Rian Design Museum, 2022, The Body, The Mind, This Constructed World (Bochicchio, Luca Ed.), Essays by Luca Bochichio, Glenn Adamson, Ruth Baumeister, Casa Museo Jorn, 2018, The Anatomy of a Home (Wittkopp, G, ed.), Essays by Claudine Ise, Love Jönsson, Asdis Olafsdottir and Anders Ruhwald, Cranbrook Art Museum, USA, 2013, Anders Ruhwald, 2009–10, Lemberg Gallery, Detroit, 2010 You in Between (Beighton, James, ed.), Essays by Louise Mazanti, Ezra Shales and Glenn Adamson, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK, 2008 Form and Function, Essay by Edmund de Waal, Exhibition Catalogue for IngerMolin Gallery, Sweden, 2007

Essays At Søge, Finde og Huske (To Search, Find and Retain), in Ruhwald vs. Stålhane (Jönsson, Love, ed.) Rian Design Museum, 2022, The Anatomy of a Home in Contemporary Clay and Museum Culture (Brown, Christie; Julian Stair; Clare Twomey, eds.) Routledge, 2016 pp. 73–85

Publications Ceramic Art And Civilization, Greenhalgh, Paul, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Great Britain, 2021, , pp. 9, 468, 469 Ler er Livet!, (Wirnfeldt, Pia, ed.), Clay Museum of Ceramic Art, , pp 54, 139 With Eyes Wide Open: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932, (Blauvelt, Andrew, ed.), Cranbrook Art Museum, 2020 pp. 504–05 Rejsen som Redskab (Elna Svenle, ed.), Vandalorum, Sweden, 2020 pp. 34–42 and 116–17 Objects USA (Adamson, Glenn, ed.), Monacelli Press, New York, 2020 pp. 188–89 Landlord Colors (Blauvelt, Andrew, Judi Duki, Laura Mott and Ian Gabriel Wilson, eds.), Cranbrook Art Museum, p. 250 Vitamin C: Clay and Ceramics in Contemporary Art (Morrill, Rebecca, ed.), Phaidon Press Limited, 2017 pp. 258–61 Contemporary Clay, Ericson, Heather Mae (ed.), WCU Fine Arts Museum, Western Carolina University, pp 14, 54–55, Contemporary Clay and Museum Culture (Brown, Chiristie; Julian Stair; Clare Twomey, eds.) Routledge, 2016 pp. 73–85 The Making Process, (Cho, Hyeyoung, Ed.) 2015 Cheongju Craft Biennial, pp. 282–289, 2011 Gyeonggi International Ceramics Biennial, (Choi, Hong-Chul, ed.), Korea Ceramics Foundation, 2011 pp. 34–35, 204, 210 XXe Biennale Internationale de Céramique Contemporaine de Vallauris (Peltier, Yves, ed.) Somogy Editions, Paris, pp. 170–173 2008