METAMORPHOSES
Lisbet Thorborg Andersen (DK)
14 August – 20 September 2025
Exhibition opening 14 August from 16.00 to 19.00
Nina Husted Erichsen, teacher and head of program for Crafts in Glass and Ceramics, Royal Danish Academy, Bornholm, gives the opening address at 17.00
With Metamorphoses Lisbet Thorborg Andersen invites us into a world where past and present merge together into porcelain objects balancing between beautiful and alien. Species from an alternative evolution – enigmatic beings, talismans, insects and butterflies – emerge in delicate colour shades and symmetrical formations that make us see the world with new eyes.
The works were created using a method that the artist calls reverse archaeology: animal bones are pressed into sand, and the cavity they create is filled with liquid clay. What is missing becomes form – the invisible becomes visible. Instead of excavating the past, she draws out new forms and stories.
The transformation takes place both in the formal expression – as one form becomes another, thus revealing the connections between all living things – and in the ceramic process. Lisbet Thorborg Andersen works with recycled materials, examining their aesthetic and storytelling potential. In the kiln, porcelain mixed with crushed jam jars and beer bottles is transformed by heat into something hard and immutable yet fragile that appears to vibrate with an inner energy.
Through her ceramic works, Lisbet Thorborg Andersen invites us to pause and take a second look, not just at the objects but also at our own ideas about what we are seeing. She explores our connection with nature and our understanding of the world – and reminds us that there is always more than meets the eye.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with text by Mathilde Helnæs, curator at Sorø Art Museum, photographs by Kirstine Autzen and graphic design by Hanna Bergman.
