Stine Bidstrup (Danish, b.1982) is a Danish artist, educator and curator whose practice investigates optical phenomena, interpreting past social and architectural utopian ideologies, and reanimating them through sculpture, installation and video. Her work explores the power of context, point of view, and our perception in constructing a visual understanding of the world around us, in which the human eye and mind are ceaselessly engaged in a host of negotiations and determinations.
Bidstrup has taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, School of Design on Bornholm since 2009, and was a visiting lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015. Together with fellow Copenhagen-based glass artists she founded the collaborative studio Luftkraft Glass Studio in 2007, and has exhibited nationally and world-wide for the past 15 years. In 2018 Bidstrup joined the exhibition council at the Glass Museum Ebeltoft, and in 2019 she was awarded the 3-year work grant from The Danish Art’s Foundation.
STINE BIDSTRUP
Danish, b.1982
EDUCATION
2019 University of Copenhagen, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Denmark
2006 Rhode Island School of Design, RI, USA
2004 The Royal Danish Academy of Art, School of Design, Denmark
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Focus: Stine Bidstrup, Heller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Architectural Glass Fantasies, Gallery FUMI, London, United Kingdom
2018 Architectural Glass Fantasies - Utopia Materialized, Heller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2015 To Present What has Already Past, 7th Floor Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
2013 Stine Bidstrup at the X-room, HUSET i Asnæs, Asnæs, Denmark
2012 Hempel Glass Prize Recipient 2012, Hempel Glass Museum, Nykøbing Sjælland, Denmark
Rupert’s Chaos, BOX Gallery, LYNfabrikken, Aarhus, Denmark
2011 Studies in Search of Order and Chaos, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark
2010 Stine Bidstrup New Works, Gallery Jytte Møller, Fredericia, Denmark
2009 When the Earth Reflects,The HOUSE in Asnæs, Denmark
2008 Sense of Reflection, Agallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
We Map Ourselves Inside of It, Tesch & Hallberg, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006 Double Visions (with Kim Harty), Hillel Gallery, Brown University, Providence, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Matter at Hand, Hostler Burrows, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2021 Matter at Hand, Hostler Burrows, New York, NY, USA
Homo Faber, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, San Giorgio Maggiore Island, Venice, Italy
Mindcraft Project 2021, Virtual platform, Copenhagen, Denmark
Passage at The Byre, Bullseye Projects, Latheronwheel, Scotland
New Glass Now, The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington DC, USA
The Biennale for Craft and Design, Museum Koldinghus, Kolding, Denmark
A Vase is a Vase is a Vase, Hempel Glass Museum, Nykøbing Sjælland, Denmark
Glass Art - Art in Glass, Galleri Montan, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020 It’s Good To Be Home, Gallery FUMI, London, United Kingdom
The Spring Exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Gallery FUMI for Sotheby’s Preferred, Sotheby’s Preferred Members Room,
London, United Kingdom
The Palace, The Glass Factory, Boda Glasbruk, Sweden
Detox - Clean it up!, Rejmyre Art Lab Residency Exhibition, Rejmyre Glass Museum,
Sweden
Opening Exhibition - Contemporary Glass, Holmegaard Værk, Denmark
Intersect Aspen 2020, represented by Heller Gallery, Virtual viewing room
Intersect Chicago 2020, represented by Heller Gallery, Virtual viewing room
2019 New Glass Now, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, USA
Art Market San Francisco, represented by Heller Gallery, Fort Mason Center,
San Francisco, California, USA
Now & Then: Moments in Glass History, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, USA
13th International Glass Symposium Novy Bor Exhibition, Museum of Decorative Arts,
Prague, Czech Republic
Chance Encounters, Gallery FUMI, London, United Kingdom
2018 Scandinavian Glass - Starting All Over, Glass Museum Ebeltoft, Denmark
New Scandinavian Glass, Vessel Gallery, London, UK
AIR in S12 - a retrospective, S12 Gallery and Studio, Bergen, Norway
2017 Scandinavian Glass – Starting all over, The Glass Factory, Boda, Sweden &
The Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimaki, Finland
Glass Weekend with Heller Gallery, Wheaton Arts Center, New Jersey, USA
Mapping Denmark II: Luftkraft, Grønbechs Gård, Denmark
Summertime ‘17, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 Great Danes - Danish Glass from Modern Factory Design to Contemporary Art,
Glazenhuis Flemish Center for Contemporary Glass Art, Lommel, Belgium
Europa grenze(n)loos glas, Glasrijk Tubbergen 2016, Holland
FUNN, S12 Gallery, Bergen, Norway
Mapping Denmark II: Luftkraft, Glass Museum Ebeltoft, Denmark
2015 The Process - The International Glass Prize 2015, Glass Museum Glazenhuis,
Lommel, Belgium
The Soul and The Pawnshop, Sediment Gallery, Richmond,Virginia, USA
Danish Glass 15, Glass Museum Ebeltoft, Denmark
European Glass Experience, Museo del Vetro, Murano,Venice, Italy
Pop-Up exhibition, Studio 0601-0603, Copenhagen, Denmark
COLLECTIONS
2020 Designmuseum Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark 2019 Corning Museum of
Glass, NY, USA
2018 Toledo Museum of Art,Toledo, Ohio, USA
2017 Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
2015 Chazen Museum of Art, Madison,WI, USA
The Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki, Finland Glass Museum Alter Hof Herding,
Germany Designmuseum Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 The Art Association of The Swedish Handelsbank, Stockholm, Sweden
2013 Museum of American Glass, Millville, USA
2012 Hempel Glass Museum, Nykøbing Sjælland, Denmark
2011 The Art Association of August 14th, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007 Glass Museum Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark Museum of American Glass, Millville, USA
AWARDS
2021 Inga & Eivind Kold Christensen’s Honorary Award
2018 Four x SOFA Special Merit Awards, Chicago, USA
2012 Hempel Glass Prize 2012, Denmark
2010 The Danish Arts and Crafts Award of 1879, Denmark
2007 The Danish Art Foundation Honorarium, Denmark
2005 Rhode Island School of Design Fellowship, USA Talente Prize for Design, Germany
