Curation

The Mindcraft Project works with changing curators for the annual exhibitions. Christian and Jade are curators of The Mindcraft Exhibition 2026.

Curator 2026: Christian and Jade

Christian and Jade represent a contemporary wave of Danish designers who are re-contextualising the role of craft and material research within the design field today. They have brought their own hands-on experience across materials and scale into their curatorial vision for this year’s exhibition; drawing a focus on the inherit qualities of natural materials, a devotion to craft, and the importance of tacit knowledge built through the act of making.

Read curator brief (in Danish only)

Past curators

Curator 2025: Pil Bredahl

Curator 2024: Maria Bruun

Curator 2023: Sara Martinsen

From 2020 to 2022, the exhibitions were curated with curatorial advice from a dedicated advisory board.

Curatorial advisory board members, 2022: Julius Værnes Iversen (Creative Director and Founder of TABLEAU), Marie-Louise Høstbo (Head of Design at Fritz Hansen), David Thulstrup (Founder and Creative Director of Studio David Thulstrup).

Curatorial advisory board members, 2021: Nicolai de Gier (Head of Furniture and Object Design at the Royal Danish Academy and Design Director at TAKT), Mette Barfod (Editor In Chief of Ark Journal), Jamiee Williams (Architect, Strategy, Innovation, Climate, former SPACE10 and CHART Art Fair).

Curatorial advisory board members, 2020: Maria Foerlev (Owner of Etage Projects), Niels Strøyer Christophersen (Founder & Creative Director of Frama), Henriette Noermark (Independent Curator).

Curator 2018: Ditte Hammerstrøm

Curator 2017: Henrik Vibskov

Curators 2015-2016: GamFratesi

Curator 2014: Nina Tolstrup (studiomama)

Curators 2013: Kasper Salto and Thomas Sigsgaard

Curator 2011-2012: Cecilie Manz

Curator 2008-2010: Karen Kjærgaard