BUDDED IMPRESSIONS
Turi Heisselberg Pedersen (DK)
19 February – 28 March 2026
Exhibition preview on 19 February from 16.00 to 19.00
Opening address at 17.00 by Rigetta Klint, writer and publisher of the HÅNDVÆRK bookazine
Nature is the constant focal point in Turi Heisselberg Pedersen’s art. She explores our complex relationship with nature, from plants and geology to the worlds that lie hidden above and below the earth’s surface, often unnoticed by the human eye.
Nature has its own vital expressions, both poetic and dramatic. Something is smouldering underneath the surface, as small, unseen events unfold. Everything is connected, but sometimes, human beings intervene and dictate the state of affairs by cutting, trimming and controlling.
The pieces presented in this exhibition are forms and figures that spring from Heisselberg Pedersen’s inner vocabulary of memories and observations of nature. The sculptural objects appear as stylized abstractions and rhythmic sequences echoing nature’s own language of form. Her inspiration ranges from the microscopic to the monumental: an opening bud, the sliding movement of a landslip or traces of human intervention. Like fragments of an almost surreal world, the ceramic objects move freely between geological shifts and organic growth sequences.
A series of small wall reliefs form a counterbalance to the stringently modelled sculptures. In these wall-mounted pieces, the focus is on the process and on the intrinsic nature of the material. Slabs of clay are thrown onto selected human-made and natural objects to pick up their imprint. The result is a series of playful and random ‘snapshots’ that manifest as a form of nature in their own right.
Turi Heisselberg Pedersen (b.1965, DK) graduated from Kunsthåndværkerskolen (School of Arts and Crafts) in Kolding (1990). She lives and works in Frederiksberg and taught at Kolding School of Design from 1994 to 2007. From 2008 to 2025, she was an external examiner at the Royal Danish Academy. She founded her own studio in 1990 and mainly produces one-off ceramic pieces but has also created design projects for Kähler.
She has presented in solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in Denmark and abroad and is represented in a number of public and private collections, including the National Ceramics Museum in Sèvres (FR), Magnelli, Ceramics Museum (FR), the New Carlsberg Foundation (DK), Designmuseum Danmark (DK) and Clay Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark (DK). Turi Heisselberg Pedersen has received numerous grants, including from Annie og Otto Johs. Detlefs Keramikpris, travel grant (DK), Bayerischer Staatspreis (DE), XXIst International Biennale of Vallauris (FR), Ole Haslunds Kunstnerfond (DK), the Danish Arts Foundation’s three-year working grant and Danmarks Nationalbank’s Anniversary Foundation (DK).
