About
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is rooted in a fascination with the fragile complexity of nature and the subtle tensions that arise when organic structures meet the man-made.
Working primarily in glass, I explore how material can hold and transform traces of the natural world. Leaves, branches, and other found elements are pressed into the surface, leaving behind textures that function as imprints — small archives of fleeting moments.
Glass allows me to work between opposites: transparency and opacity, strength and fragility, control and unpredictability. The process itself becomes a negotiation between intention and chance, where each piece evolves through both precision and accident.
In a time where the distance between humans and nature continues to grow, my work reflects on our position within it. Not as observers, but as participants — embedded in the same systems we attempt to shape and control.
BIO
Morten Klitgaard (b. 1981)
Is a Danish glass artist based between Copenhagen and Lønstrup in Northern Jutland.
He works primarily in the cold shop and with kiln-formed glass, focusing on grinding, refining, and experimenting with materials and colour.
Klitgaard’s practice draws on sensory experiences from nature — textures, light, and surface — translating them into sculptural works that challenge traditional perceptions of glass. Transparency is often replaced by dense, tactile surfaces, where organic imprints and embedded materials create a sense of time and place.
His works function as fragments of lived experience, reflecting an ongoing dialogue between natural environments and human presence.
PUPLIC COLLECTIONS
Detroit Institute of Arts, ( DIA ) Detroit, US
The Danish Design Museum, Denmark
Victoria and Albert Museum ( V&A ) London
Collection Embrechts Ryckaert, Belgium
Ny Carlsbergfonden, Denmark
The Danish Art Foundation, Denmark
Glasmusset Ebeltoft, Denmark
Bornholms Kunstmuseum, Denmark
Hempels Glass Museum, Denmark
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2026 JURA, HAGD Contemporary, (DK)
2026 “ENTER” Art Fair, Køppe Contemporary (DK)
2027 “Veil” Køppe Contemporary (DK)
2027 CERAMIC BRUSSELS , Køppe Contemporary, (B)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 SCORIA (Solo) Køppe Contemporaty Objects (DK)
2022 Novum Vitrum, Hempels Glasmusseum, Holbæk (DK)
2021 Perception, (Solo), Køppe Contemporary Objects (DK)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 CERAMIC BRUSSELS , Køppe Contemporary, (B)
2025 The MindCraft Exhibition, Denmark
2025 “EU 2025” Craftmanship, Council of the European Union. Brussels, (B)
2025 Biennalen for Kunsthåndværk og Design, Glas – Museet for Glaskunst i Ebeltoft (DK)
2025 Collectiable Design ,Brussels, PULS Gallery, Brussels (B)
2025 The Den, HAGD Contemporary, (DK)
2025 “Summer” Materia Gallery, Detroit, (US)
2025 “Generation WHY”, Rian Designmuseum, Falkenberg, (S)
2025 BRUSSELS CERAMIC, PULS Gallery, Brussels (B)
2025 Collect Art Fair, Vessel Gallery, London (UK)
2024 Toyama International Glass Exhibitions (JP)
2024 Danish Glass, Hobro Art Museum (DK)
2024 GENERATION WHY, Rundetårn, Copenhagen (DK)
2023 Ireland Glass Biennale, Dublin (IRL)
2023 SCORIA (Solo) Køppe Contemporaty Objects (DK)
2023 ROTATIONS - Heller Gallery (US)
2023 Modern Glass From Denmark, European Museum of Modern Glass, Coburg (DE)
2023 The International Biennale of Glass, Sofia (BG)
2023 “A heart for glass”, Galerie Handwerk Munich (D)
2023 GENERATION WHY, Risor Kunstpark, (N)2023 “In The Making”, Glassmuseum Ebeltof (DK)
2023 Collect Art Fair, London (UK)
2022 “Creative Nature", Grande Halle of the Anciens Abattoirs de Mons (B)
2022 “Shades of Winter” Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Swizerland (CH)
2022 NEW POSITIONS, Simone de Sousa Gallery, Detroit (US)
2022 Odem Atalier, Stockholm (SE)
2022 “Enter” Art Fair, Køppe Contemporary-objects, Bornholm (DK)
2022 The Coburg Glass Prize, European Glass Museum (D)
2022 Herning Art Fair, Herning, Køppe Contemporary-Objects (DK)
2022 Collectible Design Fair, by Puls Contemporary Ceramics, Brussels (BE)
2022 “Danish” Puls Contemporary Ceramics, Brussels (BE)
2022 Homofaber, Venice (I)
2022 Texture, Heller Gallery, Heller Gallery, New York (US)
2022 European Glass Prize , The National Glass Centre, Sunderland (UK)
2021 Salon Art + Design, Heller Gallery, New York (US)
2021 Glass on the Edge of Craft - Challenging the Material, Koppe Contemporary Objects (DK)
2021 The Melting Point, Heller Gallery, New York (US)
2021 KLEUREYCK: Jan Van Eyck’s Colours in Design, Lille3000, Lille (FR)
2021 Enter Art Fair ,Copenhagen, Køppe Contemporary-Objects (DK)
2021 21/21 Anniversary show, Puls Contemporary, Brussels (B)
2021 Crafting a Difference, represented by Vessel Gallery, London (UK)
2021 KOGEI Award, Toyama (JP)
2020 Crafted Collectibles, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London (UK)
2020 Venice Glass Week, Palazzo Loredan, Venice (IT)
2020 Enter Art Fair ,Copenhagen, Køppe Contemporary-objects (DK)
2020 Kleureyck, Design Museum Gent (B)
2020 Craft from Bornholm, Hempels Glasmuseum (DK)
2020 Shapes ´n´ Surface, Køppe Contemporary-objects, Bornholm (DK)
2020 Collectible Design Fair, by Puls Contemporary Ceramics, Brussels (BE)
2020 Collect, Somerset House, London UK
2020 Craft from Bornholm, Hempels Glasmuseum,Holbæk (DK)
2020 ArtFair DK, Køppe Contemporary-objects, Herning (DK)
2019 Kanazawa, The International Exhibition of Glass (JP)
2019 The Ireland Glass Biennale, Dublin (IRL)
2019 CHART artfair, Køppe Contemporary-objects (DK)
2019 International Biennale of Glass, Sofia (BG)
2019 Celebrating Glass, London Glassblowing Gallery (UK)
2019 Crafting Europe, Revelations 2019, Paris (FR)
2019 Craft from Bornholm, Kunstetagerne, Hobro (DK)
2019 Roskilde Art Association, Roskilde (DK)
2019 In the middle of the sea – Island crafts” Åland (FIN)
2019 INSPIRED, CGS at London Glassblowing Gallery (UK)
2019 GATHER, London Glassblowing (UK)
2019 Køppe Contemporary-objects, offecinet, CPH (DK)
2019 WCC Europe Handicrafts, Kuwait (KW)
2019 Arts and Crafts Association Bornholm, exhibition, Grønbechsgaard (DK)
EDUCATION
2025 Residency Gleribergvik, Reykjavik (IS)
2025 Residency The Danish Art Workshops, Copenhagen (DK)
2022 Residency College for Creative Studies, Detroit (US)
2022 Residency Flint Institut Of Art, Flitnt (US)
2019 Master class, Nadége Desgenétez, Benjamin Cobb, Pilchuck (US)
2015 Master class, Jack Wax, Glasmuseet (DK)
2008-2012 BA, The Royal Danish Academy of Art, Bornholm (DK)
2011 Master class Martin Taulow, Visual Contemporary Art (DK)
2008 Master class Dante Marioni, Haystack School of Crafts (US)
SELECTED PRIZES
Hempels Glass Prize 2021 (DK)
Nominate for The Coburg Glass Prize 2022 (D)
Nominate for European Glass Prize , The National Glass Centre, 2021 (UK)
Nominate for the KOGEI Award for International artist, Toyama 2020 (JP)
Nominate for The International Exhibitions Of Glass, Kanazawa 2019 (JP)
Nominate for Stanislav Libenský Award, Prague 2012 (CZ)
SELECTED GRANTS
Danish Art Foundation, work Grant
Danish Art Foundation, travel Grant
Danish Art Foundation, Project Funding
Ellen & Knud Dalhoff Larsens Foundation
Grosserer L.F. Foghts Foundation
Den Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Foundation
The Danish National Bank's Anniversary Foundation of 1968
Finn Lynggaards Fundations
Det Reiersenske Foundation
Eickhoffs Grant Foundation
Esther & Jep Finks Memorial Foundation for Architecture and Applied Arts
