Bitten Hegelund
Textile artist & textile printer
Raadvad, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
@bittenhegelund
mail@bittenhegelund.dk
Website designed by Kiosk Studio
(Anne Voola, Josefin Askfelt & Emil Willumsen)
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Featured in Publications
1996– Included in Kraks Blå Bog (Danish Who’s Who)
2021 Biennale for Crafts & Design, Denmark
2021 Exhibition catalogue, http://www.formkraft.dk, archive
2021 Jette Lykke Nielsen: Pandemiens Aftryk (Imprint of the Pandemic) in Magasinet Kunst https://www.magasinetkunst.dk/Home/Detail/MTU1MDg%3D
2019 Is This Colour?
2019 Exhibition catalogue,
2019 http://kontempo.dk/isthiscolour-2019/
2019 Biennale for Crafts & Design
2019 Exhibition catalogue, http://www.formkraft.dk, archive
2004 Nordic Cool: Hot Women Designers
2004 Exhibition catalogue published by National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
1997 OCTO: a book by and about OCTO, funded by the Danish Ministry of Culture as part of a book series on crafts and design, published by Rhodos
1997 Arne Karlsen: Dansk Design ved Årtusindeskiftet (Danish Design at the Turn of the Millennium), published by Chr. Ejlers, Copenhagen
1990 Chloë Colchester: The New Textiles, published by Thames & Hudson
Awards
2016 From Lausanne to Beijing: 9th International Fiber Art Biennale
2016 Guan Shan Yue Art Museum, bronze medal
1998 The Georg Jensen Prize awarded to OCTO
1996 Prize from the Danish Arts Foundation for Marokkopuder (Puffs), part of the Duplika exhibition at the Danish Architecture Center, with OCTO
1993 Hetsch Medal
1992 Honorary Award for Interplays 92
1992 Part of the International Exhibition of Crafts and Applied Art in Bratislava, with OCTO
Travels and Residencies
2010 USA
2005 India
1992 Japan
1991 USA
1986 Japan
Grants
1994 Poul Michelsen Honorary Grant awarded to OCTO
1989 Danmarks Nationalbank’s Anniversary Foundation of 1968, Danish Arts Foundation, Thomas B. Thriges Fond and L.F. Foghts Fond, among others
Selected Exhibitions
2023 Biennale for Crafts & Design, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen
2022 Tradition is Contemporary: Indian and Danish textiles in art and design National Crafts Museum, New Delhi, India
2022 Stoftryk Tre (Textile Printing Three), Udstillingssted for Tekstil (Exhibition Venue for Textile), Copenhagen
2021 Biennale for Crafts & Design: Takeaway, Koldinghus, Kolding, Denmark
2020 Metervarer (Piecegoods), Udstillingssted for Tekstil
2019 Stoftryk (Textile Printing), Udstillingssted for Tekstil
2019 Biennale for Crafts & Design, Nordatlantens Brygge (North Atlantic House), Copenhagen
2019 Is this Colour?, The Round Tower, Copenhagen
2019 Stil o Teks (Style o Tex), Udstillingssted for Tekstil
2018 10th International Fiber Art Biennale: From Lausanne to Beijing, Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing, China
2016 Art in Embassy, curated Danish crafts and design objects for the Danish Embassy in Washington, DC, commissioned by the Danish Arts Foundation
2016 9th International Fiber Art Biennale: From Lausanne to Beijing, Guan Shan Yue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2013 Kunstforeningen af 14. August (Art Association of 14 August), Montana showroom, Copenhagen (Lund & Hegelund)
2011 Biennale for Crafts & Design, Koldinghus; nominated for the Biennale Prize.
2011 Mini Tekstiler (Mini Textiles), arranged by Stoftrykker & Væverlauget (Textile Printers’ and Weavers’ Guild), Nordre Mølle, Kongens Lyngby, and Nicolai, Kolding
2009 Kunstforeningen af 14. August, Designmuseum Danmark, Copenhagen (Lund & Hegelund)
2006 Tid Til (Time for), The Round Tower
2006 Beklædning til stol og krop: Tekstiler i striber – på langs og på tværs (Fabrics for chair and body: Textiles in stripes – this way and that), The Round Tower, Sønderborg Castle and Tekstilforum (Textile Forum), Herning, Denmark
2004 Nordic Cool: Hot Women Designers, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
2004 STUFF, York Quai Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2004 Biennale for Crafts & Design, Trapholt, Kolding, and Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark
2004 SOFA: Sculptural Objects / Functional Art, Chicago, with Gallery DeCraftig
2003 Artists at Work: New Technology in Textile and Fibre Art, Museo del Tessuto (Museum of Textile), Prato, Italy
2003 SOFA: Sculptural Objects / Functional Art, Chicago, with Gallery DeCraftig
2003 Derfor (That’s Why), arranged by Danish Crafts, Paustian, Copenhagen
2002 Biennale for Crafts & Design, Designmuseum Danmark, Copenhagen
2001 OCTO, Randers Art Museum, Denmark
1999 Sjaler (Shawls), Tekstil Forum
1999 New Scandinavia: Aktuelles Design aus dem Norden (Contemporary Design from the North), Museum Angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany and Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany
1999 OCTO, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
1998 Georg Jensen Prisen (The Georg Jensen Prize), Designmuseum Danmark, with OCTO
1998 Sjaler, The Round Tower
1997 OCTO, Frederiks Bastion, Copenhagen
1996 I Tråd med Tiden (In Line with Time), Munkeruphus, Dronningemølle, Denmark
1996 Duplika (Duplicates), Danish Architecture Center, Copenhagen, with OCTO
1995 Design Aktuelt (Contemporary Design), Sophienholm, Kongens Lyngby
1995 OZONE, Tokyo, Japan
1995 From Golden Day to Present Day, Edinburgh, Scotland
1995 Paperworks, Vaerket, Randers, Denmark, with OCTO
1994 Danish Days, Ljubljana, Slovenia, arranged by The Danish Cultural Institute in Vienna, Austria
1994 Hetsch Medal, Designmuseum Danmark
1994 Dagligdagens Rum & Ritualer (Everyday Rooms & Rituals), Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, with OCTO
1994 New Scandinavian Furniture Fair, Bella Center, Copenhagen, with OCTO
1994 OCTO Møblerer Munkeruphus (OCTO Furnishes Munkeruphus), Munkeruphus
1993 OCTO, Brandts, Odense, Denmark
1993 Blå Fjord (Blue Fiord), Langes Magasin, Frederikssund, Denmark
1993 OCTO, Kvadrat, Ebeltoft, Denmark
1993 New Scandinavian Furniture Fair, Bella Center, with OCTO
1992 Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
1992 ID-Forum, Tobaksgården, Horsens, Denmark, with OCTO
1992 3rd International Textile Competition, Kyoto, Japan
1992 Interplays 92: The International Exhibition of Crafts and Applied Art
1992 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, with OCTO
1992 New Scandinavian Furniture Fair Bella Center, with OCTO
1991 New Scandinavian Furniture Fair, Bella Center, with OCTO
1990 Møbler & Textiler (Furniture & Textiles), O-Overgaden, Copenhagen, with OCTO
1989 Tryk På (Imprint), Esbjerg Art Museum, Denmark
1988 Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg
1987 21 Profiler (21 Profiles), The Round Tower, Brandts Klædefabrik and Esbjerg Art Museum
Education
1983–1987 Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation, Textile Design (The School of Decorative Art), Copenhagen, Denmark
Studio, Employment and Commissions
1987– Own textile printing studio
2006–2018 Design studio Lund & Hegelund with textile designer Marie Lund; design and production of scarves in India and Nepal
2022 - Danish Art Workshops; SVFK.dk, Copenhagen – consultant; textile workshop
2003–2004 Member of Gallery DeCraftig, Copenhagen
2001 Head of Textile Printing Workshop at the Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation
1989–2001 Member of OCTO, design group based in Copenhagen
2000 Exhibition design and concept for DANSK FORM: Design Vom Nachbarn, Stilwerk, Hamburg and DANSK FORM: Design für Kinder und ihre Eltern, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, with OCTO
2000 CIRCLE: printed puff, collaboration with Erik Jørgensen A/S
1997 Textile design for Jan Machenhauer, ZONE 1, Copenhagen
1997 Design proposal for the Danish Cultural Institute, Rome, Italy, with OCTO
1995–1997 Member of Officinet Committee for Danish Crafts & Design Association, Copenhagen
1996 Co-initiator of the exhibition concept Biennale for Crafts & Design, Denmark
1996 Colour design Genoa for chair designed by Troels Grum Schvensen for the furniture maker E.H. Møbler
1989–1991 Freelance designer, InWear, Copenhagen, Museums and Collections
2016 Danish Arts Foundation
2004 Designmuseum Danmark
2000 Kunstforeningen af 14. August, Kunstforeningen A.K. (Art Association A.K.)
1999 The Grainer Collection, Washington, DC
1997 Kunstforeningen af 14. August
1990 Designmuseum Danmark