Astrid Krogh
Textile designer
Curriculum Vitaé
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Industrial Design
/Coloplast
Public Commissions
/The Royal Danish Library
//Danish State Railways
///Maersk Data
////The Danish Parliament

/////Næstved Kulturhus
//////Bergen
///////Frederiksberg
////////Birkerød
/////////NRGI, Århus
//////////Kolding Kommune
///////////Birkerød Aktivitetscenter


 

Private Commissions
/Brocade
Competitions
/GN Store Nord
//Tangen Vidergående Skole, Kristianssand

 

Exhibitions
/The Danish Museum of Decorative Art
//Trapholt Museum
///Paustian
////Malmø Kunstmuseum
/////Ideal House, Cologne 2006
//////Danish Design Centre, 2006

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“Textiles are texts, narratives
of patterns, that engender
superficial depths. In both
daylight and neon light,the
world unfolds itself in
the surface as complex,
immeasurably vast, wonderful
and incomprehensible.”

Sø Steff, 2002
 



  Taking her mark in the traditional methodical approaches to textile design, Astrid Krogh is working with the artistic potentials found in modern materials and seated in the application of new technologies. Working with light, both the ungovernable daylight and the more controllable sources of artificial light, is essential to Astrid Krogh's activity. What transpires is a complex developmental process of analysis, processing and reworking and design, where the specific context and its intrinsic qualities are crucial to the result.

The visual and sensual experience of space has a decisive impact
on whether we truly experience its qualities.


Astrid Krogh makes use of her professional intuition about the materials' functional and decorative possibilities with respect to form, light and colors in order to develop, to support and lift and
to qualify the projects in which she participates. She has managed
to develop a visionary idiom that suffuses an eventful extra dimension to the situational context of which it forms a part.

  “My work always represents the moment of surprise and change, either by virtue of the light's modulation or because the work
is interacting with the viewer's own movements. The sense
of wonder that these changes awakens in the viewers constitutes
a crucial dimension of my pieces.”

Every assignment has its own special character.


For Astrid Krogh, it is a matter of paying careful attention to
the place's special qualities at the site where the assignment is
to be carried out, and then moving into a constructive dialogue
with the assignment's partners. In this sense, design is a collective process that moves from idea to sketch to concrete implementation.
What is utterly crucial to Astrid Krogh is to secure an optimal dialogue and a thorough understanding of the project's basic idea with the users and the partners.
  Regardless of whether the product is being developed as design
or as integrated artwork, the vision always has to do with creating
a solidly cast product that will elicit an eventful connection between function and decoration, between materials and people.

Areas of professional expertise

• The execution of concrete site-specific decorative works of art
• Serving as consultant and/or sparring partner for architects and
others who are working with spatial concepts
• Product development