Birgitte Due Madsen’s work evolves around craftsmanship and quality. With a constant awareness and humility toward functionality and quality her professional integrity lies in the fascination of the elongated project which examines elements such as materiality and aesthetics and which allows the project to develop in abstract form before it is formalized.

Through an autonomous and unpretentious approach, she integrates materials such as gypsum, resin, concrete or stone and uses various techniques to achieve her design ideals. Her work is produced in her own studio and by herself and are characterized by a subtle, poetic color scheme, tactile textures and a strict, playful geometry.

For Birgitte high quality is a central value to beauty and skilled works. In the interaction with the viewer she feels pleased to master materials that invites to a following touch. Contact with gypsum as exhibited material is rare since it is considered a sketching material and not the final expression. Resin is a hard material to master and shape. Both surprises and attracts with soft surfaces and deep reflections of light and shadow.

If you touch the objects you get a more sensible and sophisticated understanding of the craftsmanship behind as well as the beauty of the surface. Birgitte works on her pieces for a very long time continuing to refine the material in a way that pays of in the final result and in the interaction with the beholder. She trusts her instincts and values. Everything has a history and is inscribed in historic contexts and classic disciplines that seems to offer more inspiration, matter and content than passing trends or fleeting influences. We are all based on historic records and a rediscovery of this in our own time intensifies our presence.

“If one goes into the basic principles of geometry the possibilities of form are endless.“

Birgittes work is often centered around light as a function. Regardless if the project is developed as functional design in collaboration with distinct manufacturers, experimental prototypes or sculptural unique pieces her love with light is the focal point. Thus she often uses materials underlining this value. Both gyosum and resin are exceptional materials to absorb the light, highlighting curves and depicting reflections in the surface.

Birgitte graduated from KADK – The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, school of Design in 2008. She has an extensive curriculum at art and design fairs, galleries and museums at home and abroad and has been awarded several prizes, including the Danish Craft Award of 1879 twice and the Danish Arts Foundation’s grants. She lives and works in Copenhagen.