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	Eight Designers are Final Competitors for the Biennial Prize of DKK 100,000 The Biennial, the most prestigious prize within Danish crafts and design, will be given away on Thursday 3 May when The Biennial of Crafts and Design 2007 opens at Trapholt and the museum at Koldinghus.   205 designers have sent in works, drafts or idea suggestions for evaluation. Among those the curators initially selected 92 candidates for participation in the exhibition and the competition of The Biennial Prize. By now the number of candidates for the prize is further reduced to the eight nominated candidates.   The prize will go to 1-3 designers who at the exhibition show one or more remarkably outstanding works. Emphasis is put on innovative design, high quality and conceptual impact.   The nominated are in alphabetical order: Architect and precious metal designer Katrine Borup – Shocking Danish Weaver Lise Frølund – The Man as an Object Fashion designer Anna Gulmann - Idle Hands are the Devil's Workers Halskov & Dalsgaard Design and Design Factory – Set for Sticks'N'Sushi Ceramist Gitte Jungersen - The Longings of Spiderman a.o. Komplot Design, Boris Berlin & Poul Christiansen - Nobody Chair Ceramist Bodil Manz - Sampling Precious metal designer Karen Fly Melander – Cutlery of Margrethe bowls Download press photos and read more about the nominated projects and the prize comittee's here    FACTS ABOUT THE BIENNIAL The Biennial is Denmark's biggest and only reoccurring exhibition with focus specifically on crafts and design. The exhibition offers the opportunity of seeing the newest, most creative and innovative works made by the best Danish artists. More than 220 designers – the highest number ever – participate in The Biennial 2007. Further to the participants initially selected, the curators have invited quite 120 designers to participate as well.   The Biennial has been arranged by the two museums in Kolding in cooperation with the organisation of Danish Crafts.   The prize winners will be announced at the official opening at Trapholt on 3 May in the afternoon. The Biennial at Trapholt and the museum of Koldinghus is open to the public from Friday 4 May until 29 July 2007.   The Biennial Prize of DKK 100,000 is a donation from L. F. Foght's Foundation, and along with the prize the winner gets an invitation to exhibit at Trapholt and Danish Museum of Art and Design. Contact  Nanna Ebert, information manager, Koldinghus Tel. +45 79 79 10 74, mobile +45 51 33 66 44, e-mail: ne@koldinghus.dk Hans Christian Nedobrowsky, communication consultant, Trapholt Tel. +45 76 30 05 30, mobile +45 20 35 77 93, e-mail: hcn@trapholt.dk