JURY 2019

Tove Storch graduated in 2007 from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Academy there Bi-managing Künste in Vienna. Her practice is often based on how a sculpture occurs and how it exists. Her works take the form of sculptural manifestations that explore the structural and geometric, where materials are incorporated into contrasting situations with each other; transparent silk against hard steel, white paper sandwiched between heavy greasy iron rods or images shown forward while tucked away. Tove Storch lives and works in Copenhagen.

Anna Krogh is curator at BRANDTS – Museum of Art and Visual Culture. She has previously been employed at ARoS as a collection inspector with contemporary art as a specialty (2001-2005). She has written numerous articles on art and served as editor of several art books. During the period 2010-2013 she was a member of the International Art Committee of the Danish Arts Council and until 2016 chair of the board of directors at the Factory for Art and Design (2012-2016). Anna Krogh is mag.art. in art history from the University of Copenhagen (2000) and holds an MA from The State University of New York (1995).

Anna Bjerger graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 2001. She returned to Sweden 14 years ago after living in London. She now lives and works in Småland, southern Sweden, and has exhibited at abroad and abroad. Her works can be found in collections such as Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Moderna Museum, Stockholm and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Anna Bjerger has upcoming exhibitions at Man Museum, Sardinia, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm and Galleri Bo Bjergaard, Copenhagen.

As owner and creative director of architecture at Norm Architects, Linda Korndal works with combining intention, empathy and aesthetics. Why do some spaces produce certain emotions and thus behavior? What is the perceived quality? How do we become aware of how space affects us — and how do we use that knowledge in a meaningful way? Her approach is shaped by a decade of international experience in architecture and communication, as well as as a lecturer and researcher at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Linda Korndal has been nominated for designer of the year by Design Awards 5 years in a row and has received a number of international awards.

Irene Griegst (born in Morocco) was taught in 1973-78 by jewellery artist, sculptor and designer Arje Griegst (1938-2016), whom she married in 1967. She is also a graduate of French and English literature from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. Over the years, Irene Griegst has received numerous grants and awards and participated in numerous exhibitions at and abroad. Her jewellery can be found in collections at Designmuseum Danmark, Statens Kunstfond and Röhsska – Museum of Design and Craft, Gothenburg, Sweden. In 1963, Arje established Griegst Griegst Jewelry and in 1978 Irene Griegst became part of the company. Griegst Jewelry is today considered one of the most recognized jewelry houses in Denmark, and continues to be run by Irene Griegst and the couple's son Noam Griegst, who has been creative director since 2016. Irene still creates jewellery in her workshop in Copenhagen.