Pernille Pontoppidan Pedersen

Pernille Pontoppidan Pedersen (Born 1987) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2012. She started her career as a ceramist by undermining the bases of this discipline. She developed an aesthetic of the ugly, the failure, the missed attempt. In one of her first series of work, she chose to disregard her training to excellence by integrating to her art the failed experiences of the best ceramic artists of the country. She Kills the jar, the pot, bowl and all the craft objects, to which ceramics limited itself for a long time. She undermines her discipline, and starts to reconstruct: shaky and almighty structures, tiered tempettopieces, sandcastles, heaps of found objects caught in a heavy flow of clay, foamy glazes that overflow like washing up fluid.

The works of Pernille Pontoppidan tell a hundred pieces of fascinated stories superimposed in a cadaver exquis of good and very bad taste, of baroque and minimalism, of extreme dexterity and bitter failures.