HENRIK VIBSKOV
The name Henrik Vibskov is most commonly associated not only with a fashion label, but a multitude of twisted yet tantalising universes created in relation to each collection.
“The Great Chain Of Sleepers”, The Five O´clock Leg Alignment” and “ The Kitchen Of The Non Existent” are just a few titles of shows Henrik Vibskov has produced lately, each title referring to a different but equally mesmerising world and set of logic. As a fashion designer Henrik Vibskov has produced around 40 mens (and later also women´s) collections since he graduated from Central St. Martins in 2001. Since January 2003 he has been a member of the Chambre Syndicale de la Mode Maculine and is one of the few Scandinavian designers on the official show schedule of the Paris Fashion Week.
Since the beginning of his career Henrik has been invited to and participated in festivals, contest and talks such as Artist Talk at London Design Week in 2017, Exhibition design and curating of Mindcraft17, Danish Pavilion at Salone del Mobile Milan in 2017, Art Basel Miami, Artist Talk and shop opening at Art Basel in Faena District Miami Beach in 2016, One Week Workshop at Domaine Boisbuchet, France 2016, Art Talk at Indaba Cape Town, South Africa 2014.
Throughout his career Henrik´s designs have won him such as The Royal Thorval Bindesbøl Medal, Copenhagen 2016, The Cologne Thrumber Award, Cologne Germany 2017, The Jury Prize at the Danish Fashion Awards in 2012, The Söderberg prize in 2011, the highest value design prize in the world, an award from the Danish Arts Foundation in 2009, Brand of the year Elle Awards 2020, the Danish Design Council Award 2007, New Name of the year 2003, The Becks Student Future Prize 2000.
Between designing new collections biannually and creating the universes surrounding them, Henrik keeps himself occupied as drummer with his own project Mountain Yorokobu, signed to Fake Diamond Records, also playing with Hess is More, Mikael Simpson and mostly Trentemøller, which he was touring with for 6 years.
Henrik Vibskov has exhibitited at 21st museum of contemporary art kanazawa, Japan, The Museum of Art and Design in New York, Art Cologne represented by Gallery Ruttskowski68, MoMA PS1 in New York, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, ICA in London, Zeeuws Museum in Holland, Kiyomizu-Dera Temple in Kyoto, Japan, Wilhelm Wagendfeld Haus in Bremen, NAI Nederlands Architectur Institut in Rotterdam, Holland, The Textile Museum, Washington, USA, just to name a few.
He has also produced several large-scale solo exhibitions at museums and galleries, including the TEMPO at Stockholm Stadsteater, Sweden, Daelim Museum, Seoul, South Korea, his “Neck Plus Ultra” exhibition which was shown at Galeries Lafayette in Paris and Gammel Strand in Copenhagen, a big retrospective of his work at Designmuseum Helsinki in Finland, and most recently the Solo Exhibition in Sophienholm, Copenhagen, Solo exhibition in Maisson du Danemark, Paris, Solo Exhibition in Gallery Ruttskowski68, Cologne, Germany.
Together with visual artist Andreas Emenius he created an on-going art project called `The Circular Series´, which they begun to work on in 2009. Like their earlier collaborations `The Fringe Projects`, in this project the circle is used as a clarifier, or visual glue, linking all the projects to the same universe. Henrik has also designed costumes for numerous operas and performances, including collaborations with Hotel Pro Forma, the Oslo Opera house and Brussels Opera House.
Henrik Vibskov is currently Professor at DSKD and has frequently given lectures and been a jury member at institutions such as Central Saint Martins in London, the IED in Madrid and the Antwerp Royal Acadamy of Fine Art amongst others.
Henrik has so far published five books, including a new 2020 monograph Book 1 covering the years 1997-2012
Book 2 and 3 is coming out in start 2021
Valeriya Olkhova
Textiles, knit designer. Originally from Ukraine.
Lived and studied in the UK from the age of 10.
Graduated from Chelsea University of Arts London.
Currently based in Copenhagen.
design aesthetic: talking textiles, normandism, animism , sensuous. fusion of traditional crafts and modern.
Internship/work : Anne Sofie Madsen, Obscure, Barbara i Gongini. Head costume designer for Roskilde interactive art performance "velvet state".
Costume designer for contemporary dancers performances. (freelance)
http://www.voft.eu
Mikkel Dahlin Bojesen and Rhoda Ting
We are ThinkingHandProduction. We are a creative production studio, that moves from a vision surrounding craftsmanship, embodied knowledge and a sharp aesthetic judgement. With a vantage point in theatrical set design, visual arts and the philosophy of Arts, we work with spatial, tactile and interactive installations that evoke an experience based curiosity with the user and the impact on everyday life at the centre. Focusing on works that showcase the playful and stimulating simplicity of organized chaos, they seek to create frameworks from a predominantly analogue approach that arouse an explorative personal kinesthetic empathy. Their works prioritise a focus on detail that emphasizes the symbiotic relationship between material and hand, thereby aiming to expand expressions and uses of conventional materials.
My Grönholdt (1986) is a Swedish choreographer, dancer and performer based in Denmark, educated at Den Danske Scenekunstskole with graduation in 2011, internship with Sasha Waltz and Troika Ranch in Berlin, and summer school with Katie Duck in Amsterdam.
My works as an artistic director and choreographer for MYKA, which produces strongly visual and aesthetic performances that unfold topical societal themes with a magical and poetic touch with hope for the future. A choreographic practice where choreography, light, sound, scenography and costumes are an equal scenic expression, often in 360 degree scenographies with inspiration in nature and natural phenomena. My reimagines choreography for the youngest with inspiration from the visual arts, sculpture and installation art in cross-aesthetic productions that think big, for the youngest. In recent years, MYKA has worked with the theme of "Slow Living" and "Radical Softness" - where the slow, listening, present, meditative and sensual unfold, in a circular and soft physical practice, rooted in the body and the cycle of life.
My / MYKA has been selected for the "Career Program - The Young Artistic Elite in 2020-2022", and her performances have toured on stages such as Dansehallerne, ZeBu, SWOP Festival Open Dance, BORA BORA, Dansstationen Malmö, ICE HOT Nordic Dance Platform CPH MORE MORE MORE , Skånes Dansteater, Shanghai Children's Art Theatre, China.
My works as CO artistic director and choreographer for NORDLYS, a choreographic collective that produces cross-aesthetic site-specific traveling performance festivals nationally and internationally, with performances in Denmark, Norway and the Philippines. NORDLYS creates creative networks and collective artistic collaborations in a link between the newly graduated and the established milieu, and rethinks how the audience can be guided in whimsical, sensual, playful and interactive ways, with personal meetings in focus.
Cristian Vogel
Cristian Vogel is a composer and music producer, known for his experimental DJ and Live performances, studio composition and production. Born in Chile 1972 but growing up in the UK, he now lives and works in Barcelona. He studied 20th Century Music at Sussex University, under the tutor-ship of the British composers, Jonathan Harvey and Martin Butler. Over more than a decade he has recorded a number of albums and released on eminent experimental techno labels such as Tresor Berlin, Novamute and Mille Plateaux. His most recent full length, 'Station 55' has been described as "an album which will keep you awake at night in all the wrong ways". Cristian has toured consistently since 1992 as DJ and live performer, as solo artist and also with Jamie Lidell as 'Super_Collider'. Of late, he has been singing and playing guitar in his new band 'Night of the Brain'. As a studio remixer, he has been invited to reinterpret songs by artists as diverse as Radiohead, Maximo Park, Thom Yorke, Juan Atkins and many others. Cristian Vogel's producer credits include albums for Chicks On Speed, Panico, Virüs, Las Perras del Infierno and others. Since 2002, he has returned to electro-acoustic composition, composing four original scores and live soundtracks for the renound Swiss choreographer Gilles Jobin. These pieces ( 2-0-0-3, Delicado, Steak House) have been performed and toured by Ballet du Grand Theatre de Geneve, Gulbenkian Ballet Lisbon, and Gilles Jobin's own company Parano. As well as contemporary dance, he has been involved in other projects with international multi-media artists - Roland Olbeter's 'Sound Cluster' for Sonar Barcelona 2003, Artificiel's 'Bulbes' for the Montreal museum of Contemporary Art in 2003 and Stefan Brüggeman's 'A Production of Nothing' in 2005. As if that wasn't enough, Cristian Vogel has also been behind four independent record labels, Station 55 Records, Rise Robots Rise Records, Mosquito Records and Sleep Debt Records, as well as hosting a long running internet community known as Erutufon ( http://www.no-future.com)