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| | KES 2025
Sándor KecskemétiSandor Kecskeméti’s work derives its power from the clarity of his vision, a clarity based on his particular sensitivity to the materials he exploits. His best pieces are a synthesis of technical, formal, aesthetic and intellectual elements which go beyond the sum total of these parts. Exhibition opening: Thursday 19th June, 2025, at 5pm
Opening by: piroska Novák, design theorist, museologist at the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest.
Exhibition opening times: Tuesday to Saturday, from 14.00 to 18.00 until 19th July 2025 | | | |
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| | | | Kecskemeti’s works are characterized by an architectonic approach with sculptural concepts and monumentality. He has exhibited widely throughout the world and been involved in numerous symposia, and festivals including International Ceramics Festival in Wales, UK, Gordola in Switzerland, Philadelphia USA, Iceland, Japan and Korea.
His works are represented in numerous museums, galleries, public and private collections and in public places and buildings. | | | |
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Márta Radics ceramic artist
24.04.2025 - 17.05.2025In the design of her porcelain objects, she observes the interconnection and the form- and space-forming qualities of both the smaller elements that exist in nature and those that are the basic principle of architecture. Natural formations, like buildings, are made up of many components. This concept is the basis for her various creative, spatial structures, which in parallel reflect on different concepts: include - hide - grow - break out. Opening by: Ágnes Képiró art historian
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Residents exhibition
29.04.2025Claude Jones is a New Zealand-born, contemporary Australian artist, based in Munich. Her work explores the complex and often, contradictory relationship between humans, animals, and the natural world. She uses elements of narrative, irony and symbolism to make us re-evaluate our relationship with nature, and animals in particular.. "The works were produced with the financial assistance of the European Union.
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| | | | INTERNATIONAL CERAMICS FESTIVAL
ABERYSTWYTH 2025 | | | |
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27 - 29, June, 2025This festival is Europe’s largest ceramics festival which is held at Aberystwyth Arts Centre on the campus of Aberystwyth University on the mid-Wales coast. Since it began in 1987, the three-day festival has grown to become one of the world's leading ceramics events. The INTERNATIONAL CERAMICS STUDIO will again be in the trade area at this years festival. If you want to come and discuss residency opportunities and courses at this unique ceramic centre we will be pleased to meet you. Look forward to seeing old friends and making new ones. RESIDENCY AWARDWe are again pleased to sponsor this award. The artist selected for the award will be announced during the opening ceremony. ▶︎ International Ceramics Festival website
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| | | | RESIDENTIAL COURSES IN 2025-2026 | |
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| | ALL ABOUT MOULDS with Gabriella Kuzsel
2 - 6 September, 2025Gabi will demonstrate and instruct at this practical hands-on workshop. Participants willbentroduced to different types of moulds and ways of mixing plaster. You will learn how to design and make a model from plaster, how to make single and multi part moulds for either slip casting or press moulding.
Bring along your ideas or objects that you have always wanted to reproduce and learn the process. You will also be given lots of tips and shortcuts. | |
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| | Gabriella Kuzsel is a ceramist and teacher specialising in modeling, mouldmaking and slip casting porcelain. She works for commission, designing moulds and finished works for individuals and production while producing her own distinctive pieces for exhibition.
She was ceramic design lecturer in the University of West Hungary and has taught courses in many international universities including Glasgow School of Art, Kansas City Art Institute, Ohio University, University of Central Lancashire, Rhode Island College and many more. Mastercourse
ALL ABOUT MOULDS with Gabriella Kuzsel
2 - 6 September, 2025 | |
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| | | | Residential courses for 2025 / 2026 are now online. http://www.icshu.org/courses.html There are still more to be added so keep coming back to the website to see the tatest news.
Courses so far include . . . PORCELAIN A-Z with Ilona Romule.
FORM AND SURFACE with Eddie Curtis
THE ART OF CHINA PAINTING with Ilona Romule.
THROWING AND SURFACE DECORATION with Ruzicska Tünde
PORCELAIN TO WEAR with Sütő Erika.
MARBLED CLAY with Marc Leuthold
ALL ABOUT MOULDS with Gabriella Kuzsel.
CREATIVE MOULDMAKING with Simon Zsolt József.
HIKIDASHI TEA BOWL with Douglas Black
PATTERNS IN PORCELAIN with Guy van Leemput
KARATSU WARE AND KINTSUGI with Mike Martino
INTERDIMENSIONAL with Etelka Meixner
FUNCTIONAL SALTGLAZE with Fergus Stewart
NERIKOMI - COLOURED PORCELAIN with Susan Nemeth
COLOURED AND CAST BONE CHINA with Sasha Wardell | | | |
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| | DOUGLAS BLACKDouglas Black is an American artist based in Japan for more than 30 years. In 1992, he built his own kiln and studio in the Mashiko district, a place of ceramic tradition and the Mingei movement. It was the place Douglas chose to settle and where he developed his work, embracing both functionality and charm, celebrating the careful appreciation of culture in the presentations of food, drink, tea, and flowers. "My works are inspired from nature and the beauty of our mystery. Within the timeless art of clay and fire comes a sense of connection to common spirits who have created ceramics throughout history, spiritually and functionally. Along the ceramic process accidental discoveries happen." Black’s work draws on the Japanese aesthetics of wabi-sabi, derived from the distinctive taste of sixteenth-century tea master Sen-no-Rikyû, in his use of locally-available raw materials to produce irregularly shaped wares with the glossy black Setoguro achieved through the use of the hikidashi technique which is highly valued in the tea ceremony to this day. In fact, Black still produces simpler undecorated vessels for Japanese cuisine (washoku) and the tea ceremony (chadô), which he studies. Mastercourse
HIKIDASHI-GURO TEA BOWLS with Douglas Black
7 - 11 October, 2025
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| | | | STRUCTURES AND SURFACES
International ceramics symposium 2025
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| | 4 - 29 August, 2025The Foundation for Contemporary Ceramics (KKA) is a Hungarian non-profit organisation dedicated to the advancement of contemporary ceramic art. Each year, the Foundation organises one or more international symposia in co-operation with the world renowned International Ceramic Studio (ICS).
From the beginning, the Foundation has considered the promotion and support of contemporary Hungarian silicate art (ceramics, glass, concrete) to be its primary mission. In February 2011, the Foundation was granted public benefit status. Since then, its objectives have been broadened and articulated with greater ambition in the amended Charter. In addition to supporting contemporary artistic practices in ceramics, glass, and concrete, we are also committed to fostering the international recognition and development of Hungarian silicate art across craft, fine art, and design disciplines. In doing so, we actively build international relationships, promote Hungarian culture, and support cultural diversity.
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