Ivan Weiss
Ceramist
Ivan weiss CV
1962-66 Education as overglaze painter, Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory.
1966-70 Collaboration with ceramist and painter Nils Thorsson, Royal Copenhagen
Porcelain Manufactory.
1970-72 Studies in Japan.
1972-2002 Employed by Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory (now Royal
Copenhagen).
1995-2003 Visiting lecturer at the Danish Design School.
2003- Freelance artist at Royal Copenhagen.
2003- Own workshop in Herfølge south of Copenhagen.
Separate Exhibitions
1973, 87 Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory, Copenhagen.
1979 Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen.
1979 Dordrecht Museum, Dordrecht, the Netherlands.
1981 Holbæk Museum, Holbæk, Denmark.
1981, 82,87 Takashimaya, Tokyo.
1983 ‘Galerij Desko’, Kortemark, Belgium.
1992, 94 Royal Copenhagen, Copenhagen.
1992 The Danish House, Stockholm, Sweden.
1995 Yamaguchi-shi, Japan.
1997 ‘The Bowl’, Galleri Nørby, Copenhagen.
1998 Mitsukoshi, Japan.
1999 ‘Stoneware and Porcelain’, Royal Copenhagen.
1999 Grimmerhus (now Clay Museum of Ceramic Art), Middelfart, Denmark.
1999 ‘Boxes’, Galleri Nørby, Copenhagen.
2002 Bremen, Germany.
2002 ‘Stoneware and Porcelain’, Royal Copenhagen.
2003 ‘Stoneware and Porcelain’, Gjethuset, Frederiksværk.
2005 Commercial college, Frederiksberg.
2008 Höganäs Museum. Sweden
Selection of Exhibitions
1970 ‘Dänische Keramik’, Arbeiten der Königlichen Porzellan Manufaktur
Kopenhagen aus Gegenwart und Vergangenheit, Hetjens-Museum, Deutsches
Keramikmuseum, Düsseldorf.
1974 Faenza, Italy.
1977 Kyushu, Japan.
1977 Faenza, Italy.
1979 Sopot, Poland.
1980 Faenza, Italy.
1981 ’Stentøj før og nu’, Vejle Kunstmuseum, Denmark.
1981 The Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art.
1982 Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York.
1983 Minnesota Museum of Art, Landmark Center, St. Paul.
1983 Renwick Gallery, Washington D.C.
1984 ‘Scandinavian Modern’, Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen.
1984 Marienlyst Castle, Elsinore, Denmark.
1985 ‘Craft, Spirit and Fire’, Royal Copenhagen.
1985 Moderne Keramik aus Dänemark und Schleswig-Holstein, Schloss Reinbek,
Germany.
1986 The 1st International Ceramic Exhibition, Japan.
1987 ‘Scandinavian Craft Today’, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo.
1987 The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
1988 American Craft Museum, New York.
1988 Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
1988 The Fine Art Museum of the South, Mobile, Alabama.
1988 ‘Contemporary Danish Ceramics’, Alden Biesen, Belgium.
1989 ‘Glass & Stoneware’, Næstved Museum, Denmark.
1992 Trapholt Museum, Kolding, Denmark.
1993 ‘Danish Visions’, Centre de conferences of the EC Commission, Bruxelles.
1994 ‘Stoneware and Glass’, Nikolaj, Copenhagen.
1994 ‘Unikat - neue Keramik aus Dänemark‘, Keramion, Frechen, Germany.
1994 Grimmerhus (now Clay Museum of Ceramic Art), Middelfart, Denmark.
1995 ‘Danish Design of Today’, Sophienholm, Denmark.
1995 Fyns Kunstmuseum, Odense, Denmark.
1995 The Danish House, Paris.
1995 ‘From The Golden Age to The Present Day’, Edinburgh.
1996 St. Petersburg, Russia.
1996 ‘Unika’, Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen.
1997 2nd Danish Triennale of Ceramics, Trapholt Museum, Kolding, Denmark.
1997 ‘Ceramics in Open Air’, Geographic Garden, Kolding, Denmark.
1997 Ka-De-We, Berlin.
1997 ‘Danish Ceramics 1850-1997’, Sophienholm, Lyngby, Denmark.
2000 ‘Challenges’, Royal Copenhagen, Amagertorv, Copenhagen.
2000 ‘Provocations in porcelain’, Royal Copenhagen, Amagertorv, Copenhagen.
2000 Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen.
2001 Grimmerhus (now Clay Museum of Ceramic Art), Middelfart, Denmark.
2002 The 8 th Biennale of Ceramics in Andenne, Belgium.
2003 Gallery “The golden Lion”, Varnæs at Aabenraa, Denmark.
2004 The Biennial of Craft and Design 2004. Trapholt Museum and Nordjyllands
Kunstmuseum.
2005 ‘Conversation Pieces’, Galleri Nørby, Copenhagen.
2005 ‘Danish Design’, Rundetaarn. Copenhagen.
2005 ‘2 + Weiss’, Frederiksberg Art trade, Copenhagen.
2007 Palæfløjen, Roskilde, Denmark.
2008 Collect 2008, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
2010 Kirkehavegaard, Allerød, Denmark.
2010 ’Ceramics’, Palæfløjen, Roskilde, Denmark.
2011 Galerie Maria Wettergren, Pad – London.
2012 Galerie Maria Wettergren, Pad – London.
2014 Galerie Maria Wettergren, Pad – Paris.
2015 Galerie Maria Wettergren, Miami Basel Schweiz
2016 Galerie Maria Wettergren, Miami Basel Schweiz
2016 Galerie Maria Wettergren, The Salon, New York.
2018 ‘Glass and ceramics’, Palæfløjen, Roskilde, Denmark.
Represented at
CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark, Middelfart, Denmark.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York.
Designmuseum Danmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, the Netherlands.
International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy.
KKAM Höganäs Museum, Höganäs, Sweden.
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden.
Palmer Museum of Art at The Pennsylvania State University.
Trapholt – museum of modern art, craft and design, Kolding, Denmark.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Awards
1974 The prize ’Province de Ravenne’, Faenza, Italy.
1978 Artist-Craftsman Prize, Technical Society Schools, Denmark.
2003 Solar Fonden af 1978, honour grant.
2006 Grant from ”Højesteretssagfører H.H. Bruun’s Legat til Kunstens Fremme”.
Commissions
1975 Large tile image as 200-year anniversary gift from the employees to Royal
Copenhagen Porcelain.
1979 Danmarks Nationalbank, Copenhagen.
1979 Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen
1983 Registry of Gladsaxe Court, Gladsaxe, Denmark.
1990 Restoration of the portrait frieze on the Dipylon Gate, Carlsberg Brewery,
Copenhagen.
1995 Danish Centre for Forrest, Landscape and Planning, Hørsholm.
2001 Danish Centre for Forrest, Landscape and Planning, Hørsholm.
2004 Royal Copenhagen, Glostrup, Denmark.
2011 Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management , Frederiksberg.