Per Ahlmann (b. 1965) is a ceramic artist based on the Danish island of Funen, where he also has his studio. He was educated at the Institute for Unique Design at Design School Kolding and has exhibited at numerous museums and galleries in Denmark and abroad. His works are represented in several public and private collections, including the New Carlsberg Foundation, the Danish Arts Foundation, and Designmuseum Danmark.

In recent years, he has also created a number of public art commissions in collaboration with institutions such as the Danish Building and Property Agency and the Danish Arts Foundation – most recently a large ceramic sculpture installed in 2024 at Absalon and Helix Lab on the Kalundborg Campus.

Ahlmann has received several accolades, including the Annie & Otto Johs. Detlefs Ceramic Prize, an honorary grant from the Ole Haslund Art Foundation, and a three-year working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation.

Per Ahlmann works with sculpture in a highly personal and independent formal language, where recognizable and unfamiliar elements meet in complex compositions and visual paradoxes. His works bear traces of both the industrial and the organic – forms that may resemble machine parts, organs, textiles, fur, etc. – bound together by glazes that range from luminous and conciliatory to confrontational and rejecting. This duality between the familiar and the ambiguous is a recurring theme in his work.

Since 2023, Per Ahlmann has been director and owner of Tommerup Ceramic Workshop on Funen, which for nearly four decades has been internationally recognized for its production of large-scale ceramic art. Under his leadership, the workshop continues to explore the artistic potential of ceramics through collaborations with artists, designers, and architects, uniting tradition with innovation. It is considered a key institution for material-based art in Northern Europe.

Privately, he is married to visual artist Lisbeth Eugenie Christensen, and together they have two sons.