Daniela Bergschneider: Selected works, 2020-2025
Daniela Bergschneider explores the relationship between textiles and ceramics in sculptural works that express a universal corporeality that extends beyond the human body. Her works push the boundary between the abstract and concrete, the beautiful and grotesque, and the familiar and the alien.
In the process of making she creates small modular porcelain elements by hand, that are then tied into hand dyed semi-transparent nylon fabric to construct larger forms. Using textiles and porcelain, she works with two materials that are easy to identify and familiar to us in our everyday lives, yet allow for transformation in a way that they appear unknown or new. The material hybrids are made from hard and soft elements, with the porcelain resembling the presence of bones and the textile as the sculpture’s skin. Together they form a skeletal structure in which both materials create a cohesive whole, akin to the inner functionality of living beings. Because of the dynamic tension between the two materials, they give the impression of being alive—almost as if they are breathing, expanding, and contracting.
Bergschneider’s sculptures are made to achieve an expression she calls Visual Tactility. This quest is characterized by using her studio as a laboratory to develop forms and surfaces that are charged with enough tactile and visual information to trigger the imagination into evoking an emotional response. Her goal is for viewers to sense the work within their own bodies, feeling a resonance in their muscular system as they approach the works.
Beginning, Becoming at Format, Oslo, 2025
A glitch in the forest at Gyldenpris Kunsthall, Bergen, 2025
Stemmer at the Textile Industry Museum, Bergen, 2022
Hybridia at Soft Gallery, Oslo, 2020
Captions
- Enclosed, 2025, dyed nylon fabric, handformed porcelain, knotted, 18 x 20 x 9 cm, photo Thor Broedreskift
Gyre, 2025, dyed nylon fabric, handformed porcelain, tied, 20 x 20 x 10 cm, photo Thor Brødreskift
Flex VI, 2025, dyed nylon fabric, hand shaped porcelain elements, tied, 50 x 25 x 12 cm, photo Thor Brødreskift
Outgrowth, 2025, dyed nylon fabric, handformed porcelain, tied, 26 x 15 x 15 cm, photo Thor Brødreskift
Untitled, 2025, dyed nylon fabric, handformed porcelain, tied, 46 x 38 x 13 cm, photo Thor Brødreskift
Gewächs IV (Detail), 2025, dyed nylon fabric, hand formed porcelain, tied, 190 x 95 x 20 cm, photo Ingjerd Kleivan, Format
Exhibition view, Beginning, Becoming, Format Oslo, Norway, 2025, photo Thor Brødreskift
Inflorescence (Detail), 2025, dyed nylon fabric, handformed porcelain, tied, 190 x 30 x 25 cm, photo Thor Brødreskift - Almost Blooming II and V, 2025, hand shaped porcelain elements, dyed nylon fabric, tied, 128 x 40 x 30, 95 x 30 x 25 cm, Photo Thor Brødreksift
Almost Blooming III, 2025, hand shaped porcelain elements, dyed nylon fabric, tied, 125 x 40 x 35 cm, Photo Thor Brødreskift
Almost Blooming II (Detail), 2025, hand shaped porcelain elements, dyed nylon fabric, tied, Photo Thor Brødreskift
Performance by dancer Yohei Hamada in dialogue with the works of Daniela Bergschneider, Gyldenpris Kunsthall 2025, Photo Thor Brødreskift - Oriri, 2022, Dyed nylon fabric, hand shaped porcelain elements tied, 200 x 80 x 90 cm, 240 x 70 x 70 cm, 180 x 80 x 80 cm, Work on the left acquired by National Museum Oslo, Photo Thor Brødreskift
- Exhibition view, Hybridia, Soft gallery, Oslo, Norway, 2020, Photo Øystein Thorvaldsen
Hybridia II, 2020, dyed polyamide fabric, tied-in hand shaped porcelain elements, 175 x 70 x 40 cm, Photo Øystein Thorvaldsen
Hybridia, 2020, dyed nylon fabric, handshaped porcelain elements, tied, constructed metal plinth, 50 x 70 x 90 cm, Photo Øystein Thorvaldsen
