International Ceramics Studio–Open Day

The International Ceramics Studio will hold its Open Day again this year, where the public will have the opportunity to meet the artists participating in the International Symposium. During the event, the artists will give a glimpse of their work through their presentations, their ideas, their working methods and the milestones of their artistic careers, as well as a presentation on the theme by the Ethnographic Museum.

The final event of the programme will be a Symposium exhibition of the artists' works created during their four-week process at the Studio.

This year's symposium was organised with the cooperation and support of the Budapest Museum of Ethnography, and the organisers invited the artists to draw inspiration from the Museum's ceramics collection and to reflect on it in some way with their contemporary works. The theme of the symposium was "ROOTS", which was open to the artists to interpret freely and broadly. The word symposium means a narrow deliberation on a specific topic, and its modern interpretation comes from Plato's dialogue "Symposium", in which the participants of the feast engage in a philosophical discussion. The works of arts produced at the symposium will be exhibited at the Ethnographic Museum alongside the Chapel Gallery.
 

Participating artists of the 2023 International Ceramic Art Symposium:

Zsuzsa Boldizsár is a silica designer, graduated from the Hungarian University of Applied Arts in 2002. After graduating, she worked for three years at the Herend Porcelain Manufactory, and in 2008 she started to set up her own studio workshop, mainly designing porcelain tableware. She combines her technique of pierced and embroidered porcelain with individual representation.

Márta Jakobovits is a Noémi Ferenczy award-winning Hungarian ceramicist from Transylvania. She is a full member of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC) and the Hungarian Academy of Arts, Crafts and Design (2011). She works primarily with groggy clay, which is well suited to the archaic formal world and her clean style, which she began experimenting with back in the 1970s. Randomness and irregularity are also important elements in her art. Her ceramics are based on the trinity of material-colour-form, and her works are designed to conform to a higher system without constraints.

Máté Kovács graduated from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2016, majoring in ceramic design. He mostly creates interior design products, restaurant tableware and studio ceramic pieces of his own making. It is important for him to create artworks that are not defined by technical knowledge but by a basic idea. He is a founding member of CriminalCraft, a community of young artists.

Anita Monori is a ceramic designer who creates her porcelain objects with high quality and precision, so in addition to traditional methods, she also experiments with innovative technological solutions, such as the use of CNC milling machines. In 2012, she founded her own brand Design by Monori, which includes her small series porcelain objects.

Márta Radics studied ceramics at the Hungarian College of Applied Arts in Budapest and has been involved in art education in Miskolc since 2001. She responds to the expression of concepts associated with human existence with a rich toolbox, her ceramic sculptures are created through the interpenetration of fine and applied arts. He considers importance of balance, the equal and high quality presence of technology and the content communicated by the object.

Simon Holpert is a French-Hungarian ceramicist who has been living in Budapest, Hungary for four years. He thinks basically in terms of sculpture and series, he sees ceramics as an artistic medium, not from a pottery direction. He is excited by the constant research, the need to experiment, to what the material reacts, where the limits are.

Emilia Hiltner studied ceramic art at New York University and the Appalachian Center for Craft.  She currently lives in Portland, Oregon and runs a small business making her functional ceramics.  Her designs are inspired by finding joy in the small moments of life, she feels honored that her pieces live in people's homes, becoming part of everyday rituals around food and drink.  Emelia lived in Hungary as a child and is exploring her roots in Hungarian culture and life.

OPEN DAY PROGRAMME:

Presentations:

10.00: SIMON HOLPERT

10.30: MÁRTA JAKOBOVITS

11.00: EMELIA HILTNER (USA)

11.30: ZSUZSA BOLDIZSÁR

12.00 - 13.30: Lunch break

13.30: MÁTÉ KOVÁCS

14.00: ANITA MONORI

14.30: MÁRTA RADICS

15.00 - 16:00 PRESENTATION BY THE ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM

17.00 EXHIBITION OPENING

The Kecskemét Contemporary Art Studios - International Ceramics Studio, the Foundation for Contemporary Ceramic Art and the Ethnography Museum of Budapest invites you to join at the International Ceramic Symposium exhibition.
 

Exhibition opening:                     
Friday, 3rd of November 2023 at 5pm

Welcome speech by:                    
György Fusz, Noémi Ferenczy-awarded ceramic artists, president of the Foundation for Contemporary Ceramic Art

Opening by:                                   
Petra Gärtner art hirtorian, museologist of Ethnography Museum of Budapest

Exhibition opening times:           
between 10am-6pm, from Monday to Saturday until 18 November

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