Earth and Clay

TLmag spoke to Geertje Jacobs about her new role as the director of the EKWC, the unique artist-in-residency centre in Holland focused on ceramics.

Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art at The Hayward Gallery explores the expansive potential of clay through a variety of playful as well as socially-engaged artwork.

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki presents Calix by Päivi Rintaniemi. In this solo exhibition, the Finnish artist shows a selection of her monolithic, hand-built ceramic sculptures and delicate supporting works. 

In a small town in the centre of Mallorca, Huguet has been manufacturing cement tiles for nearly a century. A heritage company that has managed to grow and shift with the times, always emphasizing tradition alongside a contemporary vision.

Officine saffi, ceramic arts in Milan asked their artists to make their very own small encyclopedia, TLmag cherry-picked three works.

In his material-based and experimental practice, Carl Emil Jacobsen paints his organically shaped pieces with self-made pigments from locally sourced bricks and natural stones in light to burnt hues, his work speaks to all of our bodily senses.

New York based curator and writer Glenn Adamson navigates through the decades-long practice of Belgian ceramicist Piet Stockmans in his latest essay as part of TLmag 33 print edition: The New Age of Humanism.

Romane Sarfati, CEO of Sèvres – Cité de la Céramique, sits down with TLmag to share her vision for the centuries-old cultural institution and the future of porcelain.

Celebrating his 80th birthday this autumn, Belgian visual artist Piet Stockmans presents a new publication as well as a new exhibition in the former metal warehouse of the Winterslag coal mine, which coincidentally, is where his studio, Studio Pieter Stockmans, is also located.

With his ‘Pressed’ objects, innovative Dutch ceramicist Floris Wubben continues to push the limits of his materials by using a self-developed extrusion machine to explore their characteristics and their behaviour when being moulded.

Ceramic artist Bela Silva’s first solo show at Spazio Nobile (BE) is the perfect occasion to (re)discover her poetic works and universe.

One of Finland’s most internationally renowned ceramic artists, Kristina Riska’s first solo show with Galerie Forsblom showcases two series that each reflect on the artist’s methodology of bringing unknown or looked over ideas into the spotlight.