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| | | | EXHIBITIONS AT KÁPOLNA GALLERY
2025 INTERNATIONAL CERAMICS
SYMPOSIUM EXHIBITION
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28 August - 27 September, 2025Exhibiting artista: Jianshen Li, Sándor Kecskeméti, Fuzesi Zsuzsa, Simon Zsolt József, Mader Barnabas, Ljubica Jocić-Knezević, Maruša Mazej, Anca Ion.
This year’s guiding concept is: ‘Structures and Surfaces’. While the theme is open to free and creative interpretation, we hope to inspire works that explore form-making through structural or system- based thinking and construction. Clay, as a medium, offers exceptional possibilities for expressing such an approach—whether through abstract or functional forms. Exhibition opens: Thursday 28 August, 2025, at 17.00
Opened by: Zsigmond György
Opening times: Tuesday - Saturday 14.00 - 18.00 until 27 September, 2025
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| | KUNGL70 // 2.0
György Kungl | |
| | György Kungl Munkácsy Prize-winning sculptor and ceramicist would have celebrated his 70th birthday this year. György Kungl was one of the most characteristic artists of Hungarian ceramic sculpture in recent decades. The artist, who started in the 1980s and 90s - at the time of the spread of what in painting was known as the ’new sensibility’ - and quickly became known as one of the first to cultivate postmodern figurality, created deep, acid artistic reflections of a changing world. His works commented on the smiling pettiness of the characters and fans of mass culture with compassion and great formal invention. The tension in his work is equal parts restlessness, elevated, often sacral character, mythicism mixed with ironic humour, and the contemplation, exploration and capture of beauty with a gentle smile.
The founding director of the Premontrei Keresztelő Szent János Általános Iskola, Gimnázium és Alapfokú Művészeti Iskola in Zsámbék, he lived and worked in Zsámbék from 1985 until his death IN 2023. Opened by: Enikő Kontor ceramist
Exhibition opening times: Tuesday to Saturday, from 14.00 to 18.00 until 23rd August 2025 | |
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Tim Martin
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| | Tim Martin is an Australian architect, sculptor, and ceramicist. He was a permanent resident artist at the International Ceramics Studio in 2024 - 2025. He primarily uses clay to explore graphic and structural concepts such as balance and scale, weight and lightness, movement and stillness. In his works, he tries to distill simple, evocative themes - landscapes, figures, plants, built environments - and sculpts forms that are barely recognisable but hopefully embody a calm, emotional presence.
"In this small exhibition I was interested in producing energy and movement from my clay forms. I wanted to contrast elegance and gesture with a brutalist, earthy style. Many of my pieces are without glaze, as the texture, colour and honesty of my chosen clay is all I require.”
- Tim Martin.
Opened by: Tim Martin
Exhibition opening times: Tuesday to Saturday, from 14.00 to 18.00 until 23 August, 2025
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| | | | SYMPOSIUM OPEN DAY
Thursday 28 August, 2025 | |
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| | PRESENTATIONS 10.00: SIMON ZSOLT JÓZSEF (HU)
10.30: MÁDER BARNABÁS (HU)
11.00: FÜZESI ZSUZSA (HU)
11.30: MARUSA MAZEJ (SLO) 12.00 – 13.00: Ebédszünet 13.00: JIENSHEN LI (CN)
13.30: ANCA ION (SP)
14.00: LJUBICA JOCIC KNEZEVIC (SRB) | |
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14.30 – 15.00: JIENSHENG LI (CN) 15.00 – 15.45: ANCA ION (SP), MÁDER BARNABÁS (HU), LJUBICA JOCIC KNEZEVIC (SRB) 16.00 – 16.45: FÜZESI ZSUZSA (HU), MARUSA MAZEJ (SLO), KECSKEMÉTI SÁNDOR (HU) 17.00 SYMPOSIUM EXHIBITION OPENING | |
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| | | | ICS - ABERYSTWYTH RESIDENCY AWARD 2025Each year the selection gets more difficult and our board had again a really difficult task and would like to personally thank all the applicants - but sadly there can only be one winner. | |
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| | NAOKO TAGAILast month we were pleased to present the 2025 Kecskemét - Aberystwyth Residency Award to NAOKO TAGAI during the 2025 festival. Naoko was born in Kyoto, Japan, and is currently based in London. She gained MA in Ceramics and Glass at the Royal college of Art. She sees porcelain as the perfect material to represent the idea of fragility, strength, vitality and the power of transformation of people and nature itself. She strives to capture the life force, the vitality yet fragility that nature and people naturally exhibit - something indeed we can learn much from, both as a species and as individual people. | |
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| | Thanks to the festival for making us so welcome again and to everyone who came to visit us. Don’t forget to keep in touch and maybe one day we will meet in Kecskemét. Thanks also to Natasha Mayo, 2023 award winner, for her wonderful presentation about her experiences at the residency. | |
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| | | | Come and learn how to make thrown and handbuilt teabowls and fire them high temperature, using this exciting technique. | |
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| | Enjoy a bowl of tea to your heart’s content created with the guidance of the artist, Douglas Black, who carries on this traditional ceramic art of Japan. | |
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| | | | GUY VAN LEEMPUT"The heart dictates the form, the head takes the decisions. Each result shows me who I am and better knowledge allows for yet a deeper digging. Thus, each work becomes a quest. I usually work in series, which sets limits but also offers growth.The pattern on the inside is interfering with the pattern on the outside, depending on the amount of light falling on the pot. Thus the spectacle changes during the day and the seasons." Patterns in Porcelain is an introduction to making wafer-thin bowls with flax reinforced porcelain as well as discovering how to make a shrinking support on which the wafer-thin bowl can be hung in the kiln. | |
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| | You will start by getting to know the material and learning how to make very thin pieces. Guy will demonstrate many techniques for applying patterns with the opportunity to practice yourself. Each participant will start a bowl with one or more of the demonstrated techniques. You will also make the shrinking supports that will carry the piece in the kiln. | |
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| | Residential Mastercourses in a range of ceramic techniques and processes for beginners, experienced and professional ceramists. The opportunity to learn in a mutually supportive environment with experienced teachers. There are still more to be added so keep coming back to the website to see the tatest news.
Courses so far include . . . | |
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