Astrid krogh biography
- Since then, Krogh has provided a consultancy service to architects and product designers, received government commissions for public works and created site-specific artworks.
- Born in Denmark in 1968, after graduating from the textile faculty at The Danish Design School in 1997, Krogh established her own studio the following year.
- Astrid Krogh lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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The Artwork China Blue
The Artwork China Blue
China Blue, which is the title of the artwork, is designed by the Danish textile designer and internationally acclaimed artist Astrid Krogh, who has previously produced integrated art for companies and institutions in Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands, among others.
Visual and Acoustic Functions
At first sight the artwork looks like a gigantic white and blue watercolour painting. It represents the Danish and Chinese skies fusing. The work also has a practical function and therefore consists of two layers of textile. Where the transparent layer makes it possible to screen the auditorium from sunlight, while at the same time maintaining the view, the heavier velour layer has an acoustic function. A total of 1,800 square metres of textile went into making the curtain.
The artwork is named after the cobalt blue china painting technique ‘China Blue‘. It is a Chinese technique from which Danish Royal Copenhagen’s well-known blue-fluted porcelain series has drawn inspiration.
Member of the Board of the New Carlsberg Foundation Stine Høholt says abo
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ASTRID KROGH "SPACE ODYSSEY"
The Universe is flooded with patterns, from the smallest particles to intergalactic structures, infinite in numbers and in constant change, chaotic and organized at one and the same time. Krogh, who has always been fascinated by the force of patterns, approaches these empirically but tenderly, using light as her main source, both natural daylight and artificial light, which she organizes in different patterns, mixing random and order. By exploring a large specter of materials and techniques, including organic seaweed, gold leaf, fiber optics, mirror foil and photographic cyanotypes, Krogh thrives to reveal, in an almost alchemist way, the deep poetic feeling and grace of the Universe through the metamorphosis of these materials. This interdisciplinary approach is highly characteristic of Krogh’s vocabulary, who since the end of the 1990s, has continually combined different disciplines and materials in the fields of textile and light art. Concurrently, it echoes an ever-growing tendency among contemporary artists and designers today, opening up for new
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Remembering landscapes
It is an early summer morning. I am camping with my kids on a beach. It’s a stretch of the beach we consider our own. Quite desolate in a primordial kind of way. The trees are reaching almost to the water’s edge, ramsons are growing up the slope nearby.Waking up, I wonder if the sun is rising. The birds are just about to waken. I get out of the tent. Heavy clouds are scattered in the dark sky. On the horizon lies a tiny flash of light. Here comes the sun. For the next 20 minutes nature presents a drama of colours I have never seen before, nor ever since. That summer I had an idea to paint the nuances of the colours of the sky at various moments of the day. I get hold of my watercolour paintbox. Seated on a boulder, I start capturing the colours. Soon it dawns on me, I can’t catch them. The colours change smoothly, almost meditatively, but still quite dramatically. From the pitch black of the night through orange, towards a shining turquoise into a blue purple, luminous gold, a subtle yellow, a light blue, dissolving again into white clouds drifting
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