Born 1958, Ceramist and designer. Lives and works in Copenhagen
Education: Design School Kolding 1981 – 85, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts,
Copenhagen 1985 – 89.
Exhibitions and Projects: ’Form & Imagination’, (with Louise Birch), Ann Linnemann Studio Gallery, Copenhagen 2012; ’The Hærvej Project’, by the Danish Art Foundation 2010; ‘It’s a Small World’, Danish Design Centre, Copenhagen 2009; ‘Mind craft 09’, Milan 2009; ‘European Design Since 1985 – Shaping the New Century’, Indianapolis Museum of Art 2009; ‘Mind craft 08’, Milan 2008; Torsten and Wanja Söderberg’s Prize and retrospective exhibition, Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg 2006 (solo)
Represented: The Danish Arts Foundation; Designmuseum Danmark, Copenhagen; The New Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen; Art Museum Trapholt, Kolding; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne; Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden; Habitare Collection, Design Museum, Helsinki
Awarded a lifelong artists grant by the Danish Arts Foundation in 2009
Designs manufactured by: Royal Copenhagen; Louis Poulsen Lighting; Normann Copenhagen;
Muuto; Room Copenhagen
www.olejensendesign.com
Ceramic 1994 – 2009. Photo: Jeppe Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
Washing-up bowl, rubber, 2002. Photo Ole Akhøj
Watering can, earthenware, 2012. Photo Ole Akhøj
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