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ceramics now

15-year anniversary edition

“ Ceramics Now Magazine celebrates fifteen years of Ceramics Now through a special, artist-driven issue spanning 150 pages. Shaped by an open call that received over 950 applications, this edition brings together 24 selected artists whose practices reflect the diversity, urgency, and imagination of ceramics today.

Feeling incredibly honored and grateful to have my work included alongside so many incredible artists. 

The digital edition can be ordered online.


Featured artists: Amber Rane Sibley, Renata Cassiano Alvarez, Andile Dyalvane, Linda Nguyen Lopez, Jovan Matić, Erin Berry, Tim Fluck, Céline Arnould, Heidi Bjørgan, Ahrong Kim, Yinchen Li, Toni De Jesus, Chiao-Chih Lu, Mark Goudy, Andréa Keys Connell, Yuka Nishihisamatsu, Théo Ouaki, Nick Ervinck, Tümay Erman, Ariana Heinzman, Barbara Léon Leclercq, Yaerin Pyun, Ana Buitrago, Renqian Yang


[ceramics now]15-year anniversary edition

Room for a View

group exhibition Zermatt

Very happy to be part of the exhibition Room for a View in Zermatt, curated by Bahay Contemporary, a travelling art gallery.

The show brings together twenty artists and presents a year-long selection of works across different media.

Pleased to show one work from my series flat folds.

Public opening
Friday 19 December 2025, 16:00 to 19:00
RSVP: info@bahaycontemporary.com


Olga Antonova, Céline Arnould, Dimitri Baer, Benoît Billotte, Michael Tulio, Chun Chen, Harald Erath, Luca Gianola, Niklaus Manuel Güdel, Marianne Herjean, Audrey Julien, Tetiana Kartasheva, Arno Mathies, Yves Meier, Lovis Moos, Léonard von Muralt, Elzara Oiseau, Nadia Sawas, Benjamin Taillard TenkoKsenia Tornay
[installation views]Benoît Billotte, Olga Antonova, Tetiana Kartasheva, Céline Arnould

in good company

Zurich Design Weeks

As part of Zurich Design Weeks, Robert Wettstein has invited a number of designers to create experimental light objects. I, too, had the chance to realise a piece. All works will be presented in an open-studio format.

opening
4 September, 17:00

open
5 & 6 September

[Robert Wettstein]prototypes

keramik kiosk

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A variety of ceramic works to see, discover, and buy: lamps, bowls, cups, candleholders, vases, vessels, sculptures, and more.

For 10 days, artists, designers, and ceramicists will be exhibiting their work!

participants
Céline Arnould I Anneka Beatty I Pierre Bögli I Louisa Goldman I Marie Griesmar I I wanna thank me. I Karin Kurzmeyer I
Thomas Legler I Valerie Lipscher I Room For I Noelani Rutz I Sabrina Simili I Fabienne Wich

address
September 3 – 14, 2025
Forchstrasse 193, 8032 Zürich

opening
Wednesday, September 3, from 5:30 pm

opening Hours
Wed – Fri: 2 – 7 pm
Sat & Sun: 11 am – 6 pm

[illustration]Karin Kurzmeyer & Pierre Bögli

collaboration with Louisa Goldman

insights into the archive

Two ceramic techniques, one material: Louisa at the turning wheel, myself working with porcelain casting slip and human hair. In a series of experimental studies, our approaches meet on equal terms. The cylinder serves as a shared form, the archive as a space for sorting, comparing, and deciding.

The project is becoming more and more defined, and we’re excited to share glimpses of the final series very soon.

Many thanks to the Ikea Foundation Switzerland and the Canton of St. Gallen for making this work possible.

[insight]process archive

open studios Heimspiel

January 11 – 12, 2025  |  11.00 AM – 5.00 PM

As part of the open studios of Heimspiel, around 150 artists from the Heimspiel region will open their studios to the public.

My studio will be open on 11–12 January 2025. During these days, the second edition of «hairpening» will take place, where hair will be cut by me and collected for future ceramic works. All slots for this event are already fully booked.

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[graphic design]Imma Caretta & Soma Wonglamdab

F+F preparatory course

studio visit

As part of the career preparation week of the F+F preparatory course, 10 students visited my studio.

During the visit, they had the opportunity to explore the artistic process and gain insights into the work within the ceramics field. The aim was to help the students broaden their understanding of potential career paths in the creative industry.

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[insight]studio visit

Design am Rhein

«flat folds» – at Design am Rhein

The «Design am Rhein» platform will be launched for the first time in 2024 and will take place from Chur along both courses of the river to Disentis-Sedrun and Andeer respectively. 

Creative professionals will open their studios / workshops and provide insights into the process of their creative work. Find the objects «flat folds» exhibited in Ilanz and see a live performance of the work process on 06 July with the designer.

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[graphic design]Beat Cadruvi

Museum für Gestaltung

Talking Clay!

Exited to talk about my work at the roundtable «talking clay» as part of the Margrit Linck exhibition at «Museum für Gestaltung». 

With Laurin Schaub, Zoe Vai and Maurizio Ferrari.

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Umberto Romito & Ivan Šuta
[photography]U. Romito & I. Šuta – MfG – ZHdK

Gewerbemuseum Winterthur

«Blut & Staub» – at Gewerbemuseum Winterthur

Happy to be part of the exhibition «Blut & Staub» at the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur. The special presentation shows the valuable use of residual materials as materials and draws attention to the untapped potential of materials that are still labelled as waste today.

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blut & staub cover image
[graphic design]Janic Fotsch

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Ikea Foundation Switzerland & Kanton St. Gallen

Very happy to announce that Louisa Goldman and I have received a grant from the Ikea Foundation Switzerland and the Canton St. Gallen to realise our joint project.

Project

In our collaboration, our two craft areas will meet: porcelain with hair combined with wheel thrown objects made of porcelain. We are particularly interested in inviting chance back into the design process as a co-author. We will focus on the particularities of the material and the traces of the making of the object. This work will highlight the advantages of both types of objects. The flawless looking porcelain objects will be contrasted by the coral-like structure of porcelain objects formed from human hair. Both techniques will be treated equally and neither will be used for purely decorative application.

image of two different textures
[two crafts will meet]close-up structures