Variations on Turquoise

‘One genre, an infinity of approaches’ is one way to describe the Museum of Ethnography’s Ceramics Space, a permanent exhibition opened to the public in 2022. In this series, we will be taking a look at some of the objects on display through the eyes of symposium artists from the Kecskemét International Ceramics Studio, in each case drawing inspiration from the exhibition’s own 3000-plus pieces. The fifth installment of the series features a work by ceramic artist Márta Jakobovits.

Location: Ceramics Space (Level -2)

On view until: 31 August 2025

Márta Jakobovits is a Romanian ethnic Hungarian ceramic artist and recipient of the Noémi Ferenczy Award. She is a full member of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC) and the Design and Applied Arts Section of the Hungarian Academy of Arts, as well as a member of the Union of Fine Artists of Romania. Since the 1970s, she has been consistently present at both Romanian and international exhibitions and symposia. An experimental artist, she is “provoked” by material, form, the perfection of specific technical solutions, and the pursuit of a certain atmosphere. Throughout her artistic career, she has been deeply engaged with the process of the emergence of forms and their relationship to nature, as well as the potential for chemically altering glazes. Her works have entered numerous public collections, including in Hungary (Budapest, Kecskemét, Sárospatak), Romania (Oradea, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Covasna, Timișoara, Baia Mare, Jimbolia), Slovakia (Dunajská Streda), Italy (Rome), the Netherlands (Rotterdam), Iran (Tehran), and the United Kingdom (London). In recent years, her works have been featured in retrospectives and exhibitions highlighting key segments of her oeuvre at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest (Muzeul Naţional de Artă Contemporană), the Transylvanian Art Centre in Sfântu Gheorghe, the Museum of Fine Arts in Brașov (Muzeul de Artă Brașov), the Romanian Academy in Rome, the Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery in London, and the Liszt Institute in London. To mark the artist’s 80th birthday, a retrospective exhibition was organized by the Țării Crișurilor Museum in Oradea.