Design Miami/ Basel

21 – 26 September 2021

Galleri Format Oslo will participate at Design Miami/ in Basel from 21 – 26 September 2021. Showing works commissioned specifically for Design Miami/, Galleri Format Oslo will highlight innovative and high quality Scandinavian contemporary crafts by Edith Lundebrekke and Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl.

Edith Lundebrekke will present a concept specifically developed for Design Miami/ Basel. A complete installation of large unique reliefs of wooden bars mounted directly on the wall of the booth – a three-dimensional installation with a striking visual effect. Colors are a key element in the works, creating changing experiences in interaction with the environment and the spectator, as the perception of the work changes through the spectator’s movement. The reliefs can be assembled and customized in numerous ways. Ornament and patterns are the starting point for all of Lundebrekke’s artworks. Through repetition, rotation and reflection of simple elements, symmetrical patterns and formations appears. These elements can be arranged and placed in new ways and take on new forms and constellations, all in relation to context and place. New contexts create new expressions.

Edith Lundebrekke, born in 1959 in Trondheim, graduated with a master's degree in 1992 from the Department of Textiles at Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Ornament and pattern are common denominators in her art. Through several exhibitions and public art commissions she has explored this both in relation to architectural spaces and in various materials. She has exhibited widely in Norway and internationally. Lundebrekke is represented in art collections in many of Norway's leading art institutions and she has been awarded several major commissions, including Hospitals, Airports, Churches, Schools, Public Squares, Embassies and Government Representational Facility.

For Design Miami/ Basel, Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl has created two large scale ceramic sculptures specifically for the fair. Kaldahl works with the expressive power of abstract, non-narrative form to directly impact the viewer’s sensuous experience of the artwork. The motif is always clear in its simplicity – you see what you see. From a seemingly insignificant starting point the work builds up to occupy space, bit by bit, in a type of surrealist automatic drawing in three dimensions. The time-dimension of its own making thus becomes part of its monumental presence and intense energy. Kaldahl chooses to emphasize the physical joints between the segments of his sculptures, heightening their visual impact through the addition of a glazed “skin” that emphasizes texture.

Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl (born 1954) lives and works in Copenhagen. He was educated at the Royal College of Art in London (MA, 1990). His works is represented in international museums and private collections e.g. V&A Museum, London; Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris; National Museum, Oslo; Röhsska Museum, Sweden; Designmuseum Denmark, DK; Trapholt Art Museum, DK; CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art, DK; MIMA, Middlesborough, UK; Diane and Marc Grainer Collection, Washington DC; Annie and Otto Johs Detlefs Foundation, Denmark. Recent exhibitions include Bend, Bubble and Shine, Hostler Burrows Gallery; New York City, 2021; Maison Louis Carré, Paris, 2021; Ceramic Momentum – Staging the Object, CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art, Denmark, 2019; Five Cubed, Taste Contemporary Gallery, Geneva, 2019; MarsdenWoo Gallery, London, 2019.

Since launching the first fair in 2005, Design Miami/ has become the global authority for collectible design, with biannual events that bring together the design world’s most influential players. For over 15 years, the fair has dedicated its efforts to the elevation and celebration of design, with the goal of transforming not only the way design is bought and sold but also how it is understood and discussed within the wider cultural landscape. Driven by the idea that design is as collection-worthy as art, our premier events feature selling-exhibitions of museum-quality 20th and 21st century furniture, lighting, and objets d’art from the world’s top, expertly vetted galleries.

 Galleri Format Oslo was founded in 1991 and is a leading gallery for contemporary crafts and design in Norway. The gallery is an exhibition and sales venue of the finest artistic quality within the material-based arts. The gallery aims to strengthen the position of Norwegian contemporary crafts and design internationally and through working with both established and emerging artists the gallery reflects the various tendencies in contemporary crafts and design today. The gallery’s goal is to challenge established norms while highlighting key values in the field by actively bringing a wider spectrum of artistic practices in material-based art to the fore.

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