EXPOSITION MUSEALE: GERMAN AND INTERNATIONAL CERAMICS SINCE 1946, AU GRASSI MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS

Je suis ravi de participer à l’exposition German and International Ceramics Since 1946, qui se tient au GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts à Leipzig, en Allemagne, depuis le 8 novembre et qui se terminera le 4 octobre 2026. L’évènement présente ma pièce Gravité : trempé dans une mer d’acide (2020), qui fait partie de la collection du musée depuis 2021.

Cette rétrospective donnera également lieu à la publication du quatrième catalogue de la collection de céramique du musée, prévu pour l’année prochaine.

Extrait du texte d’exposition (anglais) :

Since 2008 the GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts has already dedicated three major and highly acclaimed exhibitions to studio ceramics. Today, this is one of the museum’s most substantially
developed collection areas, recognised for its international scope and quality. Notable acquisitions and donations – including works from the Adams, Budelman, Freudenberg, Koch, Philippi, Schmidt, Siemssen, Reimers, Verberne, Vetter and many others – now provide the occasion for another edition of the continuation of the exhibition. The exhibition traces artistic developments from 1946 to the present, bringing ceramic works – with their expressive forms and distinctive glazes – into aesthetic dialogue, constantly exploring the shifting relationship between the functional vessel and autonomous sculpture.

The two artistic approaches are juxtaposed in the exhibition — not as opposites, but in a reciprocal dialogue. Arranged both dually and chronologically, it becomes clear that modern studio ceramics are increasingly moving beyond mere functionality, experimenting with sculptural autonomy, yet never losing sight of the vessel as their guiding theme.