Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future exhibition opened on Tuesday May 15th for the sixth time, this time at the National Museum of Slovenia (Narodni Muzej Slovenije) in Ljubljana.

Opening at the National Museum of Slovenia

The opening started with a speech from Barbara Ravnik, the director of the National Museum of Slovenia and her speech was followed by a speech from Wilhelm Siemen, the director of Porzellanikon and the leader of the Ceramics and its Dimensions project. He spoke about the importance of European collaboration and that one of the important missions of the project is to take ceramics into the future. “We want to show people that ceramics in everywhere in our lives” he stated.

Professor Maarit Mäkelä, the leader of the Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future sub-project, spoke in her opening speech about how future is built together with students, teachers, professors and professionals. This is also one of the reasons why their works are shown side by side in the exhibition. She ended her speech with an invitation: “Via this exhibition I invite you to co-envision with the exhibiting artists and designers how the intersection of different fields – in this case art, craft, design and technology – might overlap productively in the future, especially in the context of ceramics.” Finally Damjana Pečnik, the State secretary at Ministry of Culture of Slovenia, opened the exhibition.