Signe Emdal, b. 1979, Denmark
Danish artist, Signe Emdal, characterizes herself as a textile composer, transforming emotions and ambiances into tangible constructions in textile, in an attempt to make a smoother way to collaborate in today’s hectic world. Her unique works transcend their materiality in reference to historic objects, nature, spaces and cultural textile heritage. Her process is both a marriage of traditional cultures and new innovative textile structures that she develops herself. The nomadic journey of textile culture and women’s craft that emerges from different cultures and landscapes and migrates over centuries from country to country is characteristic of Emdal’s practice. Each new work invites a new technique, which takes its departure from the previous one. The individual processes that she creates are called “Fusion Techniques”.
Signe Emdal trained at the Designskolen in Kolding, Denmark, where she specialized in Jacquard knitting techniques and conceptual structures. Emdal has exhibited internationally with notable exhibitions including the National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark; Gallery Direktorenhaus, Berlin, Germany; National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland; and most recently at the Fondazione Cini in Venice, Italy.
EDUCATION
2002—07 MA in Textile design at Designskolen, Kolding, Denmark
Jacquard knitting techniques & conceptual structures
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Anna´s Roots at Skagens Museum, Skagen, Denmark
2011 Knitted Silence Experience, Direktorenhaus Berlin, Germany
2010 Knitted Silence Experience, Grønbechsgaard, Denmark
2008 Deve Architects, Copenhagen Denmark
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Design Miami Basel, Galerie Maria Wettergren, Basel, Switzerland
2022 Arden Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2022 Homo Faber, Cini Foundation, Venice, Italy
2020 Mimosa Memory at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark
2019 Inner Garden Series & Touch Material, Chart Design
2019, Copenhangen, Denmark 2019 Is This Colour? at Round Tower, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018 Lake Como Design Fair, Como, Italy
2018 Textiel Lab, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2017 Danish Design Makers, Stockholm Furniture Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2016 National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
2016 Danish Design Makers, Cologne, Germany
2015 Textiel Lab, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2015 National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012 Pictoplasma X Miss Lotion, Berlin, Germany
2008 Forårsudstillingen Charlottenborg, Denmark
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2022 Artscape Toronto, Canada
2022 Statens Værksteder For Kunst & Design, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021 Villa Gress, Møn, Denmark
2020 Statens Værksteder For Kunst & Design, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020 Klitgården Refugium, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019 Travel & Talk, Chicago & Detroit, USA
2019 Statens Værksteder For Kunst & Design, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019 Artscape Toronto, Canada 2018 Icelandic Textile Center, Blönduós, Iceland
2018 Artscape Toronto, Canada
