Bodil Manz

BODIL MANZ (b. 1943)

Bodil Manz was born in Copenhagen in 1943. After graduating from the School of Arts and Craft, Copenhagen in 1965 she went on to study at the Escuela de Disneño y Artesanias in Mexico and Berkeley University in California. She established a studio with her late husband, ceramist Richard Manz, in 1967 in Horve, where she continues to live and work today.

Manz has had solo exhibitions in Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdamn, London and New York and in 2008 was honoured with a major retrospective exhibition at the Kunstindustrimuseet in Copenhagen. Her work is represented in public collections worldwide including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Musée de Sèvres, France and the Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan. In 2007 she was awarded the Grand Prize at the 4th World Ceramic Biennale, Korea.

Curriculum Vitae

Solo Exhibitions since 1998:
1998	Galerie Besson, London
	Garth Clark Gallery, New York
	Galerie Carla Koch, Amsterdam
2000	Galerie Carla Koch, Amsterdam
	Galleri Nørby, Copenhagen
2001	Garth Clark Gallery, New York
2002	Galerie Carla Koch, Amsterdam
	Puls Contemporary Ceramics, Brussels
2003	Galerie b15, München
	Garth Clark Gallery, New York
	Galerie Carla Koch, Amsterdam
2004	Galleri Nørby, Copenhagen
2005	Puls Contemporary Ceramics, Brussels
	Galerie Besson, London
2006	Galerie Pierre, Paris
	Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
	Garth Clark, New York
2008	Danish Museum of Art and Design, Copenhagen

Selected group exhibitions since 1998:
1998	Galerie Ortilles-Fourcat, Paris The 5th International Ceramics Competition, Mino, Japan Living design – Dialogue, (touring exhibition) Estonia Triennale de Porcelaine, Nyon, Switzerland The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh Galerie für Englische Keramik, Marianne Heller, Heidelberg Galleri Nørby, Copenhagen
1999	Artists from the World, Museo Internationale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy Keramik aus Dänemark, Galerie Handwerk, Munich (UN)Limited, Crafts Council, London Form – Transformation, Kunstindustrimuseet, Copenhagen
2000	Steninge Slot, Mörsta, Sweden Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt The 6th Taiwan Golden Ceramics Awards, Taipei The Danish Wave, Guangdon Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Museum voor Sierkunst, Gent, Belgium Maison de la Culture, Arlon, Belgium Form und Glasur, Hoechst, Germany Pakhuset, Nykøbing Sj., Denmark Keramiske veje, Den Frie, Copenhagen
2001	Bodil and Cecile Manz in Conversation, Centrum Goed- Werk, Zulte, Belgium Sigtuna Museum, Sigtuna, Sweden Crafts Now, Kanazawa, Japan Galerie le Vieux-Bourg, Switzerland Poetics of Clay, The Philadelphia Art Alliance Pakhuset, Nykøbing Sj., Denmark
2002	The 6th International Ceramics Competition, Mino, Japan Biennale de la Céramique, Andenee, Belgium The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto Campio-Masterpieces, Torino, Italy From the Kilns of Denmark, (touring exhibition) U.S.A.,Paris & Berlin Galerie Pagter, Kolding, Denmark
2003	World Ceramic Biennale, Korea Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan Crafts Now, Kanazawa, Japan The International Invitational Exhibition, Korea
2004	Galerie Pierre, Paris Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Keramiske veje, Den Frie, Copenhagen Biennalen 04, Museet Trapholt, Kolding & Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
2005	Biennale Europenne de Céramique Contemporaine, Troyes, France The 3rd World Ceramic Biennale, Korea The 7th International Ceramics Competition, Mino, Japan Huset, Holbæk Transformations: The Language of Craft, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2006	Neue Keramik, Handwerksforum, Hanover Garth Clark, New York Galerie Pierre, Paris To Hold, Farmleight Gallery, Dublin
2007	Grand Prize at the 4th World Ceramic Biennale, Korea Keramik aus Danemark, Bayerischer Kunstgewerbe-Verein, Munich Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh Carla Koch, Amsterdam Biennalen fur Kunsthandvaerk og Design, Trapholt, Kolding Pakhuset, Nykobing Transparenze und Masse, Museum Eckernforde, Germany
2008	Twenty Years - Twenty Pots, Galerie Besson, London

Public Collections:
The Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen The Danish Arts Foundation, Denmark The New Carlsberg Foundation, Denmark Röhsska Konstslöjdmuseet, Göteborg, Sweden Tapei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan Nationalmuseum, Stockholm Kunstindustrimuseet, Helsinki Victoria & Albert Museum, London Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland The Trapholt Museum of Danish Visual Art, Arts and Crafts and Furniture Design, Kolding, Denmark Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany Museum Het Princessenhof, Leeuwarden, Holland Museum Keramion, Frechen, Germany Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Montreal Seattle Art Museum Houston Museum, Texas Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York The Newark Museum, New Jersey Musée de Sèvres, France Musée des Arts Décoratifs, The Louvre, Paris Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, USA Spencer Museum, Lawrence, USA The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan Neue Pinakotek, Munich Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg

Exhibitions at Galerie Besson

Twenty Years - Twenty Pots	Sep - Oct 2008
Classic and Contemporary Ceramics	Feb - Mar 2007
Bodil Manz	Nov 2005
Commemorative Mugs for the Millennium	Dec 1999 - Jan 2000
Bodil Manz	Oct - Nov 1998

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