Pia Aleborg

I am nominated for the 2011 Guldbagge Awards!

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:38:48 +0000

I am one of three nominees for "Best Costume Design" in the upcoming 2011 Guldbagge Awards.

The Guldbagge is Sweden's premier award for 'outstanding achievement on behalf of Swedish film' and the nomination is for my work with the feature film Play, directed by Ruben Östlund.

Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design

admin — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:07:22 +0000

The travelling exhibition "The Ring - Jewel Forever" is now being shown at The Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Talinn. The opening is on Thursday, November 10th 5 p.m. The exhibition will be open until January 15th 2012. Read more: hnoss gallery Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design

ALLA

admin — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:04:52 +0000

Jewellery has always been a way to show cultural identity, belonging, status or views. ALLA is a project where 30 jewellery artists living in Sweden have created unique brooches as a reaction to the theme of xenophobia. These brooches will be taken on a journey from northern to southern Sweden between the 25-27th of October. Read more: www.allaallaalla.se

Jewellery Unleashed!

admin — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:57:16 +0000

curator: Liesbeth den Besten from 05.11.2011 till 05.02.2012.2011
In Novembre the Museum Voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem presents the exhibition Unleashed!, an overview of rule-breaking jewellery. In this state-of-the-art overview, pieces of jewellery will break out of the museum cases and be scattered over the walls and floors and decorate streets and squares. From small imaginative brooches to portraits of pop-stars woven from strings of pearls and meters-high pieces interwoven with street furniture: in Unleashed! an international community of jewellery designers shows that the possibilities and applications of jewellery are almost boundless.
Art Jewellery Unleashed! is an exhibition featuring jewellery with connections to the visual arts, fashion and design: art jewellery. This type of jewellery has developed worldwide over the past forty to fifty years. Since the end of the 1960s, the Netherlands has played an important role in this development -— a reason for the MMKA to collect and present these pieces of jewellery from the beginning.

There are pieces on display from artists like: Natalya Pinchuk (United States), Lisa Walker (New Zealand), Pia Aleborg (Sweden), Mia Maljojoki (Finland / Munich), Mari Keto (Finland / Copenhagen), Suska Mackert (Germany / Hamburg), Christian Hoedl (Austria / Munich), Celio Braga (Brazil/ Amsterdam), Frédéric Braham (France), Jiro Kamata (Japan /Germany), and Lucy Sarneel, Liesbeth Bussche, and Erik Kuiper from the Netherlands.

This is the first time in many years that work by international jewellery designers has been displayed in the Netherlands on such a scale. (The last large international exhibition was Facet at the Kunsthal Rotterdam in 1993.

Metadomestic

admin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:35:39 +0000

Curator: Monica Gaspar The exhibition event Metadomestic will be opened at the Landesgalerie Linz in 22nd September 2011. Metadomestic sets out to explore current responses to the notion of applied art today and its impact in the discourse of art and design. The exhibition attempts to revise and mobilize the role of objects, their aesthetics and performance in the very particular microcosm of the contemporary home. In the hands of contemporary artists and designers/makers the term ‘applied’ has adopted a renewed currency, able to operate aesthetic interferences in everyday life and to bring the perplexing encounter between people and ‘things’ at the forefront of its purpose. Taking inspiration from the short story by Georges Perec “approaches to what?” (L’Infraordinaire, 1977) the exhibition will bring together the work by several reknown artists and designers that answer to this question. Metadomestic invites the public to challenge their conventions on what they do understand under “applied” and develop new readings while discovering contemporary positions in a multidisciplinary approach to object-based practices. Participating artists: Pia Aleborg, Martin Arnold, Barnaby Barford, Sebastian Brajkovic, David Clarke, Gemma Draper, Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby, Martino Gamper, Bauke Knottnerus, Thomas Mailaender, Yuka Oyama, Georges Perec, Anders Ruhwald, Veronika Schubert, Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, Studio Makkink & Bey.

The Ring – Jewel Forever

admin — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:58:01 +0000

PLAY

admin — Tue, 17 May 2011 17:55:12 +0000

Play is an astute observation based on real cases of bullying. In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008.The thieves used an elaborate scheme called the ‘little brother number’ or ‘brother trick’, involving advanced role-play and gang rhetoric rather than physical violence. Venue: Cannes Film Festival (Directors' Fortnight) Sales: Coproduction Office Production: Plattform, Coproduction Office, Parisienne de Production Cast: Anas Abdirahman, Sebastian Blyckert, Yannick Diakite, Sebastian Hegmar, Abdiaziz Hilowle, Nana Manu, John Ortiz, Kevin Vaz Director-screenwriter: Ruben Ostlund Producers: Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober Director of photography: Marius Dybwad Brandrud Production designer: Pia Aleborg Editors: Ruben Ostlund, Jacob Schulsinger Music: Saunder Jurriaans, Daniel Bensi Running time: 125 minutes Go here for a short clip of Play.

PLAY – World Premiere at Cannes Film Festival

admin — Sun, 15 May 2011 11:01:02 +0000

Conte D’Amour is now touring

admin — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:54:47 +0000

Coming performances: Kulturhuset, Stockholm 15-16th of April Theatre de Gennevilliers, Gennevilliers 26-27 May Theater Festival Impulse, Germany, May Conte D’Amour is a collaboration between the Swedish theatre group Institutet and the Finnish group Nya Rampen, investigating the themes: nuclear family and romantic love in the case of Joseph Fritzl and his cellar-bunker in Amstetten, Austria. I have made the costumes and some extra members of the family for this Play. Rewiew (Swedish). Text about the Play from www.kulturkritik.se (Swedish). Text: Anders Carlsson Direction and Set Design: Markus Öhrn Costume: Pia Aleborg Music and Composer: Andreas Catjar Light: Daniel Goody Actors: Rasmus Slätis, Elmer Bäck, Jakob Öhrman, Anders Carlsson Photo: Markus Öhrn Production: Elin Westerlund, Alexandra Hill

Currency is now shown at Galleri Format, Oslo

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:24:48 +0000

Thu 4/7 2011 - Sun 5/8 2011, Galleri Format, Oslo, Norway Curated by Think Tank: a European Initiative for the Applied Arts Think Tank Galleri Format THINK TANK was founded in September 2004 in Gmunden, Austria, with the generous support of the City of Gmunden at Lake Traun . THINK TANK is a group of 9 leading thinkers, writers, theorists, curators and makers representing a broad range of European countries. All participants of THINK TANK are deeply engaged with craft and design, through writing, teaching and lecturing. The group will be kept relatively small in order to function effeciently. The exhibition Currency is a touring exhibition curated by THINK TANK. The show features work by Pia Aleborg, anonymous, Heidi Bjorgan, Lin Cheung, Rudolf Huber-Wilkoff, Otto Kuenzli, Mette Saabye, Karl Scheid, Caroline Slotte, Hans Stofer and one item found at V&A Museum Shop. text by Love Jönsson about his choise of my necklace for the Currency exhibition. Slide Show from Semnar at Oslo National Academy for the Arts. Exhibition at Gallery Format Oslo. Photo: André Gali. Currency exhibition and events in 2010 and 2011: Currency Symposium, Gmunden-Austria, 16.09 till 19.09.2010 Currency exhibition, Kammerhof Museen Gmunden, Gmunden/Austria, 16.09. – 03.10.2010 Currency exhibition, Galleri Officinet, Kopenhagen/Denmark, 14.01 – 12.02.2011 Currency exhibition, Internationale Handwerksmesse München/Germany, 16 – 22.03.2011 Currency exhibition, Galleri Format, Oslo/Norway, 07.04 – 08.05.2011