« My vessels are called “Syncope” and the name refers to a musical expression. »

The delicate porcelain sculptures of the Danish artist, Lotte Westphael, are based on a personal immersion in a technique unfolded within a graphic universe.

Westphael is inspired by woven Bauhaus fabrics, and she works with proportionality in lines and colorfields, citing Anni Albers and Josef Albers as inspiration, as well as her Nordic heritage. Westphael has developed her own personal technique over the past few years with strips of colored porcelain constructed in vertical and horizontal lines. She works two-dimensionally in porcelain, where she build patterns in 2 mm thin porcelain plates, which are finely assembled into cylindrical jars: Syncopes. The outside surface of the vessel is mirrored on the inside, creating a visual relationship. She uses repetitions of lines with different distance, width and thickness to create intricated patterns. Her vessels are translucent and fragile, and at the same time with a strong, geometrical expression.

Lotte Westphael has exhibited throughout Europe and the United States, including the American Museum of Ceramic Art, USA; The Danish Culture Institut, St. Petersburg, Russia; Kagoshima Museum, Japan; Hjort Museum, Bornholm, Denmark; Albrechtsburg Meissen, Germany; Musée Magnelli Vallauris, Sofienholm.

Lotte Westphael, b. 1952 Denmark

EDUCATION
Institut of Art and Design, Design School – Kolding, Denmark, 1992-1993
Ceramic and glass, Design School – Kolding, Denmark,
1988-1992

INTERNSHIPS
Japan 6 months apprenticeship at Kazu Nagayoshi (3 months),
1987 Japan 5 months apprenticeship at Donna Gilliss (3 months),
1990 apprenticeship at Mamoru Teramoto (1 month), 1990
Masterclass /Susan Nemeth, International Ceramics Center, Kecskemet – Hungary, 2014

EXHIBITIONS
“Porcelain”, Hjort Museum, Bornholm, Denmark (2020)
“100 years in Danish Ceramics” curated by collector Carsten Lauritsen, Skovgaard Museum (spring 2020)
[Prolog-Epilog] -SOLO, Kaolin, Stockholm, Sweden (Octobre 2019)
“100 years in Danish Ceramics” curated by collector Carsten Lauritsen, Sofienholm, Denmark (July 2019)
“Vessels…at all times”, Ann Linnemann Gallery, Denmark, (June 2019)
Design Miami/Basel 2019, Maria Wettergren Galerie, Paris (June 2019)
Aarhussalonen, curatered af Anne Aarsland og Mette Helena Rasmussen (Septembre 2018)
II Porzellanbiennale Meissen, Albrechtsburg Meissen, Germany (August 2018)
Plinth Gallery, Denver USA (August 2018)
Ceramic Art Andenne, Belgium (May 2018)
Farenheit 2018, AMOCA, U.S.A. (Marts 2018)
Masterpieces, Ann Linnemann Gallery, Denmark (Marts 2018)
World Cup, Ann Linnemann Gallery, Denmark (Decembre 2017)
Cluj Ceramics Biennale 2017, Rumania (Octobre 2017)
“Ceramic Event VIII”, Galerie de Lô, Brussels, Belgium (Septembre 2017)
International Triennial of Scilicate Arts, Kecskemet, Hungary (Septembre 2017)
“Fomo 2017”, curatered by Helene Vonsil (Septembre 2017)
Art Association by 14. August, Exhibited at A.Petersen, Copenhagen (August 2017)
“Table for Two”, group-exhibition, Denmark (June 2017)
“Translated into transparency”-SOLO, Dina Vejling – Odense, Denmark (May 2017)
“Dialog”, Ann Linnemanns Gallery, 2017
“Toy”, Ann Linnemanns Gallery, 2016
Lerverk – Goetheburg, Sweden,2016
The Danish Culture Institut, – St. Petersburg, Russia, 2016
Officinet, The Crafts Prize, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016
Charlottenborg Springexhibition, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016
”Dead pigs are laughing”, SOLO, Kähler – Næstved, Denmark 1993
Horsens Museum, Denmark, 1993
Juried Exhibition, Kagoshima Museum – Japan, 1987

GRANTS
Danish Art Foundation, 2017, 2018 working grant
Danish Art Foundation, 2019 projectgrant for the exhibition “Vessels…at all times” at Ann Linnemann´s Gallery.
Danish Arts Foundation, 2019 projectgrant for solo exhibition at Kaolin, Stockholm.
Danish Art Foundation.”Translated into transparency”, 2016
Simon Spies Foundation, 1990
The Scandinavia Japan Sasakawa Foundation, 1990

PRIZES
Sold to ”14. August”, 2017
The Danish Crafts Prize, ”Kunsthaandvaerkerprisen, 2016
Villvinprize, Risør, Norway, 2016