AiR Bornholm – Open Workshops
A collaborative effort involving Bornholm’s open workshops which offer Artist-in-Residence programmes for periods of varying length. The facilities are designed for professional craft artists who work independently.
Bornholm’s open workshops: Svanekegaarden in Svaneke, which has a ceramics workshop; Møbelfabrikken in Nexø, which hires out workshops for the making of glass and ceramic art; and Tryk2 in Aakirkeby, which hires out facilities for printing.
Bornholm – the island of craft art
The island has been attracting artists and craft artists for over a century, and a large number of craft artists, working with a wide variety of materials, now live here.
AiR Bornholm makes it possible for visiting artists and craft artists from Denmark and abroad to visit and work in this unique environment.
Svanekegaarden’s Ceramics Workshop
This ceramics workshop is situated in idyllic surroundings in a refurbished 18th-century merchant’s house near Svaneke Harbour.
The workshop facility comprises a large, bright, rustically furnished room, laid out as two fine workshop spaces for making studio ceramics.
In addition, there is a small woodfired African kiln outside.
Self-contained apartments, a lovely large garden and a generous exhibition space with changing exhibitions are also associated with the ceramics workshop.
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Møbelfabrikken’s Glass and Ceramics Workshops
The glass and ceramics workshops are set up in a large, bright factory hall in a former furniture factory in Nexø.
The workshops are well-equipped and comprise a total of eight workshop spaces, some for the production of glass and some for ceramics.
A large project room is also associated with the glass and ceramics workshops and can also be rented if the artist in residence wishes to work with large scale installations or similar.
Møbelfabrikken has an accommodation area with rooms that share a kitchen and lounge. Continue/further details about Møbelfabrikken
Tryk2 Graphic Arts Workshop
This well-equipped graphic arts workshop is situated in one of Aakirkeby’s oldest buildings near Aakirkeby Square, in central Bornholm.
The graphic arts workshop has fine facilities for working with paper and for drawing, and for working with intaglio and relief printing techniques where artists have the plenty of room to work with large formats.
Accommodation (two large rooms, a kitchen with a small dining area and a cosy wooden deck) are associated with the graphic arts workshop.
During the summer, the graphic arts workshop’s back premises are the setting for changing exhibitions.
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