Ida Raselli: Seasons

In the organizer's words:

In her artistic work, Danish artist and 2024 Caspar David Friedrich Prize winner Ida Raselli focuses on natural materials and their relationship to space. She creates works partly in situ on the walls, but also clay and bronze objects as well as paintings with found earth and pigments can be seen. As an extra, the "Seasons" exhibition includes works by two of Raselli's colleagues that are related to her own work.

Award of the Caspar David Friedrich Prize 2024 to Ida Raselli from Copenhagen

In the application for the Caspar David Friedrich Prize, which has been awarded annually since 2001, the jury chose Ida Raselli (*1986), at that time still a student at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Copenhagen (KADK), on October 7, 2023. She prevailed against 17 other applicants and was ultimately chosen by the jury in a close neck-and-neck race as the CDF prizewinner for the anniversary year 2024.

Josephine Steinfurth, chair of the nine-member jury, explains the decision in favor of the Danish artist as follows "Ida Raselli impresses with her sensitivity to detail and her use of natural materials, which lead to a multi-sensory, highly sensual and poetic experience. A deep connection to nature is reflected throughout the entire creative process, which brings her into close harmony with Friedrich. Like him, she hikes and observes nature closely. She creates landscapes, restrained in color and natural, on entire walls by arranging a multitude of small, mostly fragile objects on the wall surface. Delicate ceramics and natural materials play a particularly important role here. The earth from which the clay is made was collected by the artist herself on her hikes, as were all the other objects she uses. Ida Raselli creates order in the wild and in chaos with a unique sense of space. Sometimes the arrangements are reminiscent of climbing walls. The works in situ give the respective exhibition spaces a special significance."

In addition to prize money of 2,500 euros, the winner can now expect a postcard edition with two motifs, temporary free membership of the CDF-Gesellschaft e. V. and a solo exhibition in the gallery of the CDF Center, which will be officially opened on Saturday, October 26, 2024, from 2 p.m. and will be on display in the gallery of the CDF Center until December 21, 2024.