ANDERS HERWALD RUHWALD. THE EARTH IS OUR COMMON GROUND

22.11.2025 - 12.04.2026

Anders Herwald Ruhwald’s exhibition is about our common ground, in both a concrete and a metaphorical sense.

Ruhwald’s sculptures are modelled in clay, a material that is found in the earth’s uppermost crust. The glaze on the sculptures contains minerals – lithium, cobalt and magnesium – excavated from deep underground and brought up to the surface through mineshafts. The sculptures are about the earth, rocks, trees, water, wind and plants and about how we relate to our environment in a time when nature is under pressure due to the overconsumption of natural resources.

The ground we stand on is also an ethical ground. What is right and wrong as we balance our own survival with the need to preserve conditions for life on earth and all living things in the future?

In Ruhwald’s sculptures, time stops. The rain stops pouring, and the trees in the forest stand still. We are allowed a moment to reflect and talk to each other about our way of being in the world.

Anders Herwald Ruhwald was born in 1974. He graduated from the Royal Danish Academy’s school for ceramics and glass on the island of Bornholm in 2000 and from the Royal College of Art in London in 2005. He lived and worked in Detroit and Chicago until 2024. His works are featured in museum collections around the world, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. After more than 200 exhibitions in Europe, Asia and North America,

Anders Herwald Ruhwald has now returned to Denmark. This his first solo exhibition at a Danish museum since 2004.