Born 1943. Works and lives in Haslev, DK

1958–61: Apprenticed in different potters studios, Denmark.

Selected  museums and collections: Designmuseum Denmark, Copenhagen; Odense Museum of Fine Arts, Odense; Trapholt Museum of Art, Kolding; Victoria & Albert Museum, London;  The Swedish National Museum, Stockholm; Nordenfjeldske Museum of fine Art, Trondheim; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig;  Museum of Modern Ceramics, Gifu, Japan; The National Arts Council, Sweden;  The New Carlsberg Foundation. DK;  The Danish Arts Foundation.  

Recent exhibitions include: Gallery Nancy Margolis, New York, 2005; “END” Designmuseum Denmark, Copenhagen, 2007; “European Ceramic Context 2010” Bornholm museum of fine Arts;  PULS Contemporary Ceramics, Brussels, 2011;  Copenhagen Ceramics Exhibition Space, 2012.

Selected public decorations: Akademiska Hus, Sundsvall, 1996–97. For The National Arts Council, Sweden;  The Danish Parliament, Christiansborg, 2001.

www.karenbennicke.dk


Diamond, 2010. Stoneware with glaze. Diam 32 cm


Green Form, 2008. Stoneware with glaze. L. 42 – H. 16 cm.


Yellow Turbulence, 2007. Stoneware with glaze. Diam. 36 cm.
Photos: Ole Akhøj