ARTIST TILDE GRYNNERUP

TILDE

Textile · Wood · Art · Antakly Projects · Copenhagen

Tilde
Grynnerup

b. 1973 · Copenhagen · Textile Design · Embroidery · Carpenter's Daughter

Danish multidisciplinary artist working in textile, wood, installation, embroidery and photography. Inherited her tools from her carpenter father. Works between a forest workshop and a Copenhagen studio. Analogue woman, social indignation, and a glass of wine at the end of the day.

Copenhagen Textile · Wood · Brass Feminist Madrid 2026

Her guiding principle · Meret Oppenheim

"Nobody will give you freedom. You have to take it."

— Meret Oppenheim

Tilde Grynnerup is a Danish multidisciplinary artist educated in textile design and specialised in embroidery — who works, as she puts it, without limitations. A carpenter's daughter who inherited her tools, her working-class directness, and a deep belief that art belongs to everyone.

the artist

Background

Tell us about yourself.

"I inherited craftsmanship from my carpenter father, so woodwork is like family. I work with him in our joint workshop by a small forest. The interaction between the countryside nature and the city is my perfect balance. Just like the interaction between working with soft materials like textile and hard materials like brass and wood."

"Having spent a decade writing songs, and another decade working with fashion, I create works of art combining words and textile — choosing whichever media expresses my vision the best."

Countryside · forest workshop

Wood sculptures

Intuitive. Juggling shapes. Remnants and off-cuts. Finding balance and tension. Her father works here too, retired, beside the small forest.

Copenhagen · city studio

Painting + textile

She brings the assembled sculptures back to paint them. Same method: balance and tension. And when it's finished, it's finished — she just knows.

Soft · textile

• Embroidery
• Fabric
• Thread
• Installation

Hard · structure

• Wood
• Brass
• Paint
• Photography

the process

Creative process

Tell us about your creative process.

"You can say my work method is all intuition and gut feeling. I juggle different ways of conveying my message and keep at it until it works."

"I think that when your primary work method is as elusive as intuition and gut feeling, it's very important to really master the two, along with having a great deal of discipline, consistency and courage."

"My greatest inspiration is life. I can be influenced by a feeling, a person, an injustice or something beautiful. It feels random — just like life."

Technology · analogue

How does technology affect your work?

"I'm an analogue woman from 1973. I like holding a hammer in my hand, and the feeling of materials — wood and textile. Even the tactile sensation of pressing a real button with a finger."

"When I think about NFT, I get a little dizzy and feel like moving to the countryside and growing my own veggies. But I think the whole Instagram era has also paved the way for me as an artist — creating a platform to play and experiment and share. I have fun with it, and enjoy connecting with people worldwide."

On feminism · art · access

"Growing up, I thought the art world was only for the few and privileged. I didn't think becoming an artist was possible for the likes of me — working class. It wasn't until I made a profile on Instagram and really started experimenting and showing my work, that I slowly opened up to the idea that I could be part of an art world. I suddenly felt at home, work-wise, for the first time in my life."

"Feminism is to me about equality and the freedom of being — and that subject is a constant in my work. Driven by social indignation and a general curiosity about people and life."

Upcoming · solo exhibition

Upcoming projects we should know about?

"I am currently working on a solo exhibition at Galeria F&deO in Madrid next year, and of course really looking forward to that. I think it will be a mix of textile, wood and installation — whatever my heart desires in a sustainable loving context."

"I just want to press pause to the negative and violent self-reinforcing spiral that humanity is on, and try to convey a different, more hopeful and loving world, just as an alternative to the goddamn news."

Wellbeing

What does wellbeing mean to you?

"Wellbeing for me is feeling present and balanced in life. I go for runs and meditate, as often as the old hip allows — excuses excuses. It is also spending time with my son. Wellbeing is also a glass of wine at the end of the day. I practice that too."

Explore her full body of work at tildegrynnerup.dk ↗ and follow her at @tildegrynnerup ↗

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About Antakly Projects

Antakly Projects — originally Ninu Nina — has been in conversation with artists, designers, musicians and creatives from around the world since 2003. Tilde Grynnerup's practice — analogue, feminist, quietly urgent — is exactly the kind of work this platform was built to share.

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Just as an alternative to the goddamn news. ✦