Sigurd Bronger

1957, Oslo, Norway

Sigurd Bronger studied jewellery making at the Oslo vocational school between 1974 and 1975 before continuing his training in the Netherlands at MTS Vakschool in Schoonhoven. In 1979, he undertook a three-year apprenticeship as an engraver at the Koninklijke Fabrieken Posthumus in Amsterdam. Since the mid-1980s, his work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions, and is part of many prestigious private and public collections, including the Museum of Art and Design (MAD) in New York (US) and the Craft Museum of China in Hangzhou (CN), the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich (DE), the Röhsska Design Museum in Götteborg (Sweden), the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (GB), the Danske Kunstindustrimuseum in Copenhagen (DK), the Alice & Louis Koch collection in Zurich (CH), the Hellen Drutt-English collection in Philadelphia (US), the Bollman collection in Vienna (AT). In 2012, he received the world’s most important design award, the Torsten & Wanja Söderbergs Design Award in Göteborg (SE). He lives and works in Oslo.