Anders Ruhwald

Anders Ruhwald’s practice uses clay as an extension of body and mind, allowing the medium to record movements, both intentional and unintentional.

Ruhwald has had more than thirty solo exhibitions in the last twenty years in museums and galleries around the world including Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (UK), The Museum of Art and Design (Denmark), Casa Museo Asger Jorn (Italy), and MOCA Cleveland (OH). During the same time, his work has been shown in more than one hundred group shows at venues like Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (CA), Fondation d’entreprise Richard (Paris), Denver Art Museum (CO), Taipei Yingge Museum (Taiwan), and Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Denmark).

In 2019 Ruhwald opened the permanent installation, Unit 1: 3583 Dubois, inside an apartment on Detroit’s east side. Ruhwald worked for six years on this immersive seven-room installation that considers the effects of fire in the context of the domestic and intimate. The installation was supported by the Knight Foundation, the Graham Foundation, the Danish Art Foundation, and the Gilbert Family Foundation. Ruhwald’s sculptures are represented in over twenty public museum collections including The Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), The Denver Art Museum (CO), The Art Institute of Chicago (IL), The Detroit Institute of Art (MI), Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA), Musée des Arts Décoratifs (France), The National Museum (Sweden), The Museum of Art and Design (Denmark), and Taipei Yingge Museum (Taiwan).

Ruhwald attended the Royal College of Art and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.