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ABOUT

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Felicia Hansen (b. 1993, Denmark) is a multidisciplinary textile artist, designer, and self-proclaimed professional teddy bear killer. Known for her unconventional approach, she deconstructs stuffed animals to create sustainable art and interior designs, using her work to raise awareness about post-consumer waste from the toy industry.

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With a five-year design degree from The Swedish School of Textiles in Borås, Felicia specialized in sustainable textile practices, focusing on repurposing toy waste. Her work goes beyond typical design - she explores the emotional value we place on toys, even after we’ve outgrown them, turning them into new forms that highlight the potential for reuse. This is showcased in her projects like Teddy Bear Orbs, where recycled stuffed animals are reshaped into colorful, round forms, and the Teddy Bear Killer Workshop, which invites participants to create their own art using discarded toys.

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Felicia’s work has been featured in exhibitions such as Looking Forward at Dutch Design Week, Milan Design Week, Teddy Orb Landscape at Way Out West in Gothenburg, and Pop Up Festival in Copenhagen. Her 2023 solo exhibition, Where is Your Teddy?, was a significant success, exploring the sentimental connections we have with toys and their sustainable possibilities. This success continued in 2024 with her solo exhibition, Do you still love me?, where she deepened her exploration of these emotional ties and the potential for repurposing toys, dedicating a whole exhibition to interior objects made entirely from discarded stuffed animals.

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Recently, Felicia has also expanded her practice to include exhibition design, curating, and producing. In 2024, she curated, designed, and produced the exhibtion Thrive & Nurture for STPLN during Malmö Gallerihelg, which was a huge success with over 200 visitors in three days.

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Whether through her art, workshops, or exhibitions, Felicia brings a creative, innovative, and environmentally conscious perspective to everything she does.

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If you're interested in her work or services, feel free to reach out!

Exhibitions

2024    Fluxus, Kaunas Artist house/Kaunas Bienale, Kaunas LT

2024    Do you still love me?, Galleri Redan, Malmö SE, SOLO

2024    Discarded Embraces, Galleri Jaktpaviljongen, Malmö SE, SOLO
2024    Group expo at BISe, SSDD, Malmö SE
2024    8 M, Gallery Fishtank, Malmö SE

2024    Group expo, Arkana, Malmö SE

2023    Work in Progress Festival, Malmö, SE

2023    Lagerhaus X Felicia Hansen, mini exhibition, SE

2023    Nesting II, Brändan, Malmö, SE

2023    Rehearsels of [others] realities, STPLN, Malmö, SE

2023    Pop up Festival, Pop up Art, Copenhagen, DK

2023    Where is your teddy?, SSDD, Malmö, SE, SOLO

2023    Art as Resilience, Röda korset Skärholmen, Stockholm, SE

​2022    Looking forward, Dutch design week, Eindhoven, NL

2022    Teddy Orbs, Staden som Galleri Galej, Borås, SE 

2022    Looking forward, The Textile Museum, Borås, SE

2022    Teddy Orbs, Way Out West, Gothenburg, SE

2022    Looking forward, Milan design week, Milan, IT

2021    Material Meetings, Form & Design center Malmø, Malmø, SE

2021    Material Meetings, The Textile Museum, Borås, SE

2020    EXI(S)T, Dutch design week, Virtual

2020    Textile Matter, Stockholm furniture fair, Stockholm, SE

2019    The Gently Explosive Art of Yarn Bombing, St. Pancras gallery, UK

2018    Knits, The Textile Museum, Borås, SE

2017    Pattern & form, Textile gallery, The Swedish School of Textiles, SE

2015    Unikadesign af overskudsmaterialer, The library of Aarhus, DK

Capabilities

  • Adobe CC: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Bridge.

  • Blender

  • Cinema 4D

  • Clo3D

  • Microsoft Office

  • Staubli, Scotweave, Weavepoint

  • Weaving: Domestic & Industrial

  • Knitting: Domestic & Industrial

  • Printing: Dyeing, Screen-, Digital- & Transfer print

  • Tufting

  • Sewing & embroidery

  • Pattern construction

  • SketchUp

Education

2024-2025 Independent course, Exhibition design, Malmö University, Malmö

2020-2022 MFA, Textile design. The Swedish School of Textiles, Borås

2017-2020 BFA, Textile design. The Swedish School of Textiles. Borås

Internships

2021 (Summer)          Kristine Mandsberg, Copenhagen, DK.

2019 (Sep-Nov)          Sophie Cochevelou, East-London, UK. 

Residencies

2024                          Kaunas Art Biennial x MagiC Carpet x OpenArt Örebro residens, Kaunas

2023-2024                 STPLN:LAB in Malmö, Sweden

                                                - 1-year incubator program for creatives in SkaÌŠne

Languages

Danish

English

Swedish

Awards

2022      The Global Design Graduate show

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Teddy Vessels [also known as our former best friends] was shortlisted for the Global Design Graduate show 2022 in the category Fine art, Photography and Craft.

 

2022       Lagerhaus Student prize

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Motivering: ”Vårt pris går till en student vars verk uttrycker glädje och lekfullhet och samtidigt bidrar till en hållbarare värld. Den ifrågasätter det vi lämnar efter oss, men undersöker hur man med god design kan använda befintligt material för att skapa nya produkter. Vi vill ge vårt pris och en jättestor teddybjörnskram till Felicia Hansen för exjobbet ”TEDDY VESSELS”

 

Justification: “Our prize goes to a student whose work expresses joy and playfulness and at the same time contributes to a more sustainable world. It questions what we leave behind, but examines how, with good design, existing materials can be used to create new products. We want to give our prize and a huge teddy bear hug to Felicia Hansen for the ex-job “TEDDY VESSELS”

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