Perspectives Festival 2025: A new vision for Ceramic Art Andenne

In 2025, Ceramic Art Andenne enters a new chapter under the name Perspectives Festival, a title that reflects a deepened commitment to highlight contemporary ceramic art practices. Conceived as a triennial, this year's festival brings together over one hundred artists from around the world in eight exhibitions across Andenne, Belgium. This year's edition stands out for its strong program and...

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Sticks, Stickness, Stickiness

By Joshua G. Stein Objecthood is complicated. At first, we might assume that we easily know how to draw the profile of a tree. Maybe we understand that in the interest of time we might not be able to outline every single branch, every single leaf, or every single root, but with enough time we imagine we can trace this...

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Tontouristen Kollektiv: What can be found in the gap between the different clay narratives?

By Tontouristen Kollektiv A contemporary and popular idea about clay and ceramics is of a romantic character. It is associated with slow movement, the field of small-scale business, handmade juxtaposed to industrial, therapeutic, and healing: a justified way to navigate in this time of heavy materialistic and commercial reality. Clay is also mistaken to be sustainable, harmless, and 'pure' –...

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Transitional Connections: The 8th Vilnius Ceramic Art Biennial

By Rita Mikučionytė I believe the acronym TARP, chosen by the organisers of last year’s ceramic art biennial, is a thoughtful and forward-looking decision. It reflects both the multi-layered nature of the event and the inevitable creative diversity brought by its forty-four participants. Naturally, I cannot fully address all twelve key concepts proposed by the ARKA Gallery and the Section...

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The Temporality of Creative Thinging: Movements Captured in Clay

By Anne-Brit Soma Reienes and Per Ditlef Fredriksen Who or what is the source of creativity when working with clay? In this essay we reflect on the outcomes of a collaboration between a ceramic artist engaging in performative pedagogy and an archaeologist working with contemporary material knowledges. Seeking a common conceptual ground, we explore the unruly outcomes of creativity in...

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Josephine Mette Larsen, Jinsik Yoo, and Liisa Nelson – Resident artists exhibitions at The Clay Studio

By Jennifer Zwilling The three solo exhibitions currently on view at The Clay Studio present work by current and recent Resident Artists. The aesthetics of the three exhibitions are quite disparate. Josephine Mette Larsen's work is precise, nearly monochromatic, and meditative. Yinsik Yoo's figural procession across a large pedestal evokes a feeling of evolution of a human being over time,...

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On Kate Newby’s site-specific installation 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 at Klosterruine Berlin

By Katherina Perlongo In the middle of Berlin's historic city center, not far from Alexanderplatz—one of the city's most famous landmarks, tourist attractions, and transport hubs—we find Klosterruine, located at Klosterstraße 73a. The ruins of the former Franciscan monastery are one of the oldest preserved buildings in Berlin and seem to have fallen out of time. It is one of...

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Tracing Ways: Mapping Presence Through Material and Place

By Katherine Ross In Tracing Ways, artists E. Saffronia Downing and Rosemary Holliday Hall embrace a collaborative approach to materiality, exploring themes of place-making and site-specificity. Using clay, found objects, and collected traces, their installation maps the relationships between makers, matter, and the environment. This review by Katherine Ross examines how the artists reimagine material as a vessel for presence,...

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New dimensions in Contemporary Ceramics: A look at Ceramic Brussels 2025

By Andrea Müller-Fincker The second edition of the international art fair for contemporary ceramics took place at Tour&Taxis in Brussels from January 22nd to 26th, 2025. The Gare Maritime area, which represents an extraordinary combination of historic industrial architecture from the beginning of the 20th century, offered a unique exhibition experience in the heart of Europe. As the only art...

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Finding a South African voice: The first South African Clay Awards

By Ann Marais The first South African Clay Awards exhibition, held at Rust-en-Vrede Gallery and Clay Museum in Durbanville, outside Cape Town, from November to December 2024, marked a significant milestone for South African ceramics. It followed the gallery's accreditation as an affiliate member of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC). The IAC formally endorsed the exhibition with this accreditation,...

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Ceramics Now announces a new Call for Papers

Ceramics Now announces a new Call for Papers In honoring our commitment to showing the evolving trends and concepts that shape contemporary ceramics, Ceramics Now is pleased to announce a new call for papers. We invite thought-provoking essays, comprehensive exhibition reviews, and features that address significant movements or major events in the field. We particularly encourage essays that examine current...

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