Ida Raselli: Seasons

29 October 2024 - 21 December 2024

 

Vernissage and award ceremony of the Caspar David Friedrich Prize 2024

on Saturday, 26 October, at 2 pm

in the CDF Centre

 

In her artistic work, Danish artist and 2024 Caspar David Friedrich Prize winner Ida Raselli focuses on natural materials and their relationship to space. She creates works partly in situ on the walls, but clay and bronze objects as well as paintings with found earth and pigments will also be on display. As an extra, the ‘Seasons’ exhibition will include works by two of Raselli's colleagues that are related to the content of her own work.

 

 

 

Awarding of the Caspar David Friedrich Prize 2024 to Ida Raselli from Copenhagen

When applying for the Caspar David Friedrich Prize, which has been awarded annually since 2001, the jury chose Ida Raselli (*1986), who was still a student at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Copenhagen (KADK) at the time, on 7 October 2023. She was chosen over 17 other applicants and, in a close neck-and-neck race, was ultimately named the CDF prizewinner for the CDF anniversary year 2024 by the jury.

 

Josephine Steinfurth, chair of the nine-member jury, explains the decision in favour of the Danish artist as follows: ‘Ida Raselli impresses with her sensitivity to detail and her use of natural materials, which lead to a multisensory, highly sensual and poetic experience. A deep connection to nature is reflected throughout the entire creative process, which she strongly harmonises with Friedrich. Like him, she wanders and observes nature closely. She creates landscapes, restrained in colour and natural, on entire walls by arranging a multitude of small, mostly fragile objects on the wall surface. Delicate ceramics and natural materials play a particularly important role. The earth from which the clay is made was collected by the artist herself on her travels, as were all the other objects she uses. Ida Raselli creates an order in the wild and in chaos with a unique sense of space. Sometimes the arrangements are reminiscent of climbing walls. The works in situ give the exhibition spaces a special significance.'

 

In addition to prize money of 2,500 euros, the winner can now expect a postcard edition with two motifs, temporary free membership of the CDF Society and a solo exhibition in the gallery of the CDF Centre, which will be officially opened on Saturday, 26 October 2024, from 2 pm and will be on display in the gallery of the CDF Centre until 21 December 2024. 

 

Further information about the artist and an impression of her artistic work can be found on her website and on Instagram: @raselliida

 


Foto: Ida Raselli im Kunstmuseum Horsens. © Ida Raselli 2024, Foto: Mads Dalegaard

 

Exhibition period: 29 October - 21 December 2024

Opening and award ceremony of the CDF Prize 2024: 26 October, 2 pm - admission is free!

 

 

Guided tours through the exhibition (CDFZ_kontemporär)

Wednesdays, 4 - 5 pm

 

CV - Ida Raselli

 *1986, lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark

 

Education 

2019-2023 Master of Fine Arts from The Royal Danish Art Academy in Copenhagen
with Specialization in Art, Writing and Research
2016-2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Royal Danish Art Academy in Copenhagen
2008-2012 Bachelor of Arts in sociology from University of Copenhagen 
 
Grants and prizes 

2024

The Danish Art Foundation

2023

Caspar-David-Friedrich-Prize
Poul Erik Bech Fonden, præmiering af afgangsværket
Vibehus Fonden
Elli og Peter Ove Christensens Fond
Birgit Vibeke Tofts Mindefond

 
Selected Exhibitions & Art Projects
2024
Seasons, solo exhibition at Caspar-David-Friedrich-Centre in Greifswald, Germany
In the Darkness, We Ask the Sun to Remember us, group exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde, in the Sankt Hans Garden
A rush of Being, solo exhibition at Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Det som ånder (Which breathes), solo exhibition at Horsens Art Museum
2023
Kunstnerkeramikken NU!, Vejen Kunstmuseum
Between grains of sand(salt), Gas9Gallery (now WilsonSaplana)
Afgang 2023, Kunsthal Charlottenborg
2021

Gule Sommer (Yellow Summer) - Udstillingsstedet Q

2019
Into the Chambers, exhibition with Lotte Lind & Miki Skak in private appartment
2018

Til Vægs (Art in public space), Til Vægs

2017

Pulseworks, co-curation and production of showcase for sound exhibitions 

2016

Plantasia, collective art garden on the rooftop of the culture pram Illutron.