Biography Grethe Sørensen
Education
1968-72 Kolding Kunsthåndværkerskole
1977-78 Studied gobelin weaving in Suisse & France 1977-78
1973 - Studio in Vamdrup, Denmark
Represented by
2012 - Gallerie Maria Wettergren
2001 - BrownGrotta Arts, CT. USA
Design
2014 - Freelance designer for Wolf Gordon, NY, USA
2001 - Freelance designer for Kvadrat, Denmark
1984 - 2000 Freelance designer for Georg Jensen Damask
Professional positions
1993 - 96 Member of ‘3-mandsudvalget for Kunsthåndværk og Design’ The Danish Arts Foundation
1997 ’Den indiske sari’ Trapholt Museet, Kolding
1984 Member of Kunstnersamfundet
1973 -77 / 1983 - 90 Visiting professor at the Design School Kolding, Denmark
Public collections
Museum of Contempoary Design and Applied Art, MUDAC, Lausanne, Suisse
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, USA
21st Century Museum Hotel, USA
Textile Museum of Sweden, Borås
Designmuseum Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Trapholt museum of modern art and design,, Kolding Denmark
The Danish Arts Foundation
New Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ribe Amts Kunstfond
Design School Kolding, Denmark
Public commissions
2016 Frederiksbjerg Skole, Aarhus
2015 Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway/ koro.no
2014 National Archive, Viborg
2014 Rådhuskvartalet Kristiansand, Norway/ koro.no
2013 Vonsild Kirke
2013 Nøtterøy Kommune Helsecenter, Norway/ koro.no
2012 Børn og Unge Psykiatrien, Roskilde
2011 Tronrud Engineering, Hønefoss, Norway
1997 Tinghuset, St. Heddinge
1995 Menighedshuset, Sdr. Stenderup
1993 Herning Sygehus
1992 Dronningens Ferieby, Grenå/ Danish Arts Foundation
1990 Vejle Rådhus
1983 / 1993 Amtscentralen, Esbjerg
Awards and grants
2025 Inga og Ejvind Kold Christensens Fonds Hæderspris
2017 'Nordic Award in Textiles 2017'
2012 Lis Ahlmanns legat
2011 Ole Haslunds Kunstnerlegat
2009 Finalist ’Nordic Selected Award, best design 00-09'
2007 +1 Award - best new product at Cph. Furniture Fair
2007 Honorary Mention, 12th Int. Tapestry, Lodz, Polen
1992 Rejselegat for en væver, awarded by the Solarfondet
1991 The Danish Arts Foundations 3-years grant
1983 Thomas L. Jørgensens mindelegat
1973 award by ’Akademi rådets Jury’
Nationalbankens Jubilæumsfond
The Danish Arts Foundation
Danish Crafts
Augustinus Fonden
Dalhoff Larsens Fond
Vejle Amts Kunstnerlegat
L. F. Foghts Fond
Finks Fond