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Lisbet Thorborg Andersen studied ceramics at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Bornholm (2016-2019).

She has exhibited at Peach Corner, Frederiksberg (2025), European Ceramic Context, Bornholm (2024), the Biennale for Craft & Design, Copenhagen Contemporary (2023), as part of the exhibition series New Talents at Officinet, Copenhagen (2022) and at CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark (2019).

 

Through my ceramic work I explore human cognition and our relation to nature. Inspired by Rorschach inkblot tests, the figures speak to the unconscious and seek to evoke new interpretations of the world. I am captivated by symmetry as a means to create recognition and ambiguity.

By excavating cavities in sand I perform a kind of reverse archaeology, where something unknown emerges through my hands. The casting of my excavation reveals artefacts, pointing towards the future.

– Lisbet Thorborg Andersen

Lisbet Thorborg Andersen works in porcelain, yet her pieces extend far beyond the material’s traditional aesthetic. Her approach is sensory and exploratory, often guided by the motifs that emerge in the process. In her hands, the material becomes a channel between the past and possible futures.

Through combinations that transcend species and eras, new ambiguous organic forms arise: insects, fossils, talismans, perhaps even creatures from an alternative evolution? It is in this in-between space - between the seen and the imagined, the physical and the intangible - that the works acquire their magical quality.

Each piece bears traces of its creation: the imprint of the sand, the heat of the fire and the shaping hands - but also a spiritual resonance that connects us to forgotten stories and sensuous new worlds.

– Mathilde Helnæs, Art historian