As the daylight disappears, Horizon enters the scene. Evoking the meeting of the sky and the earth, Horizon offers the viewer an imaginary trip to the horizon, where movements in the light constantly create new skylines in vibrant, flowing colors.
Danish textile artist Astrid Krogh is considered as a pioneering artist in the field of high technological textile installations, starting by the end of the 1990s making monumental light weavings for important museum exhibitions and site-specific commissions such as the Maersk building and the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen. In 2013, the 21 C Museum International Contemporary Art Foundation in Cincinnati commissioned the monumental work Lightmail, and in 2014 the Longchamp Flagship in Paris bought the permanent art installation Cloud Illusions.
In 2006, 2009 and 2011 she received the Danish Art Foundation Prize. She won the Thorvald Bindesboell Medal in 2008 and received the Inga & Ejvind Kold Christensen Prize in 2013.
Astrid Krogh embraces traditional craft techniques while using high tech materials as she hand weaves lengths of optic strands on a loom to make iridescent tapestries that illuminate into a rainbow of brilliant colors. The fibers in the tapestries are connected to monitors that regulate the color palette, and slowly and hypnotically move the color throughout the piece. Inspired by natural phenomenon, Astrid Krogh succeeds in giving light a rare soft and tactile quality. She proposes a highly original and poetic vocabulary in the field of light installations, based on sensual color experience and meditative perception.
Horizon
2013
Optic fiber, metal, light monitors
420 x 200 x 20 cm
Unique piece
Horizon
2013
Optic fiber, metal, light monitors
420 x 200 x 20 cm
Unique piece
Horizon
2013
Optic fiber, metal, light monitors
420 x 200 x 20 cm
Unique piece
Horizon
2013
Optic fiber, metal, light monitors
420 x 200 x 20 cm
Unique piece
Horizon
2013
Optic fiber, metal, light monitors
420 x 200 x 20 cm
Unique piece
Astrid Krogh is working at the intersection between art, architecture and design. Born in Denmark in 1968, Krogh graduated from the textile faculty at The Danish Design School in 1997 and established her own studio the following year, where she started using optical fibers to create woven textiles, thereby weaving with light itself. Krogh’s point of departure from conventional textile design was not merely her fascination with light but also her at traction to shape-morphing objects and shifting colorways, “I use light as both a material and a technology”, Krogh explains. Few artists speak a refined language as fluently as Astrid Krogh, who uses light to describe aspects of Nature that words simply cannot. Her vocabulary is nuanced by sensory experiences, which are articulated through a lexicon of color and light. Astrid Krogh’s works are included in important museum collections, such as the Designmuseum Danmark and the 21C Museum International Contemporary Art Foundation, USA. She has carried out monumental light installations and site-specific commissions for private and public collections, such as the 21C Museum International Contemporary Art Foundation, Cincinnati, USA; Longchamp Flagship store, Paris, France; Danish University Center, Beijing, China; Maersk building, Copenhagen, Denmark; and Danish Parliament, Copenhagen, Denmark. Krogh’s works are published in important books about contemporary textiles, architecture and design and the artist has won several prizes, including the Thorvald Bindesboell Medal, the Inga & Ejvind Kold Christensen Prize, the Annual Honorary Grant of the National Bank of Denmark, the Finn Juhl Architecture Prize and the CODA Award.