Biography
Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl (b. Denmark 1954) studied Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art (1988-90) under Alison Britton and Martin Smith. He had worked in Jane Hamlyn's salt-glaze pottery in the 1970s for six months which had given him the inspiration to pursue a career in ceramics. He has had solo exhibitions in Copenhagen and elsewhere in Europe and participated in group shows internationally, most recently: Bend, Bubble and Shine, Hostler Burrows Gallery, New York and Los Angeles; Maison Louis Carré, Paris and Taste Contemporary (both 2021); Five Cubed, Taste Contemporary, Geneva; 100 Years of Danish Ceramics, Sopehieholm, DK; Marsden Woo Gallery, London; Ceramic Momentum – Staging the Object, CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art, Denmark (all 2019). Kaldahl has taught at the Danish College of Design, Copehagen as well as being guest designer there (2005-08). He is a pivotal artitst of END (England, Norway and Denmark), a group of Scandinavian and British artists who held an exhbition in the Danish Museum of Art & Design in 2008)