Born in 1965 in Holsted, Denmark, Turi lives and works in Copenhagen
Turi Heisselberg Pederse's work has mostly been exhibited in Europe. She regularly exhibits in Germany and Scandinavia where her works are part of public collections. Turi Heisselberg Pedersen is a member of New Danish Ceramics, a group of seven notorious ceramic artists. In 2009, the Kunstindustrimuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhaguen) hosted TIME OUT, an exhibition confronting the works of Turi Heisselberg Pedersen and Lone Skov Madsen and a selection of objects from the museum collection. The exhibition was prized by the Danish Arts Foundation.

She has also been presented in the United States (American Crafts Museum, NY, Fitchburg Art Museum, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento and Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin, 2003-2004). Turi Heisselberg Pedersen's sculptures inscribe themselves like a body in space attracting attention as much on themselves as on the "negative" space surrounding them. With their mat and dry surfaces, the pronounced contours of these "vases" create an optical play leaving doubt over the reality between two and three dimensionality.


Permanent public collections
Musée National de la céramique de Sèvres, Musée Magelli -Musée de la Céramique of Vallauris, The Danish Arts FoundationSchloss Gottorf Schlesvig, Holtsteinisches Landesmuseum of Germany, Designmuseum Denmark of Copenhagen, CLAY The Danish Ceramic Museum of Middelfart, Annie and Otto Dettlefs Art Collection of Denmark.