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30/01/2018 – 22/04/2018 Exhibition in Berlin / Germany

Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future

January 30th – April 22nd 2018
Tuesday – Sunday 10 – 18
Opening: Sunday January 28th 2018 at 12

Bröhan-Museum
, Landesmuseum für Jugendstil, Art Deco und Funktionalismus
Schlossstraße 1a
14059 Berlin (near Charlottenburg Palace)
Germany

Around Europe ceramics has always played an important role in everyday life, people use ceramics daily both in the private as well as the public sphere. What significance does ceramics as a traditional material have in today’s society? How are the industrial and the handcrafted production in connection with each other? What is the potential of new digital techniques? And will the material play a role in the artistic education in the future? These are some of the questions that are at the focus of the Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future exhibition which is a result of the Ceramics and its Dimensions project that has eighteen partner institution in eleven European countries. Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin is one of the partners of the project and the students and staff of the school have contributed with their works to the exhibition.

 

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Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future

30. Januar bis 22. April 2018
Dienstag bis Sonntag von 10 bis 18 Uhr und an allen Feiertagen
Eröffnung: So, 28.1.2018, 12 Uhr

Kuratorenführungen mit Prof. Barbara Schmidt
Sontag 4.3. 15 Uhr
Samstag 24.3. 15 Uhr (im Rahmen der “Europäischen Tage des Kunsthandwerks”)
Samstag 14.4. 16 Uhr: Studierende der weißensee kunsthochschule berlin stellen ihre Beiträge zur Ausstellung “Ceramics and its Dimensions. Shaping the Future” vor. Digitale Werkzeuge werden live demonstriert. Prof. Barbara Schmidt führt durch die von ihr kuratierte Ausstellung. Museumseintritt, Anmeldung nicht erforderlich.

Bröhan-Museum, 
Landesmuseum für Jugendstil, Art Deco und Funktionalismus
Schlossstraße 1a
14059 Berlin (am Schloß Charlottenburg)
Deutschland

In ganz Europa spielt Keramik seit jeher eine wichtige Rolle im alltäglichen Leben der Menschen: Ob im privaten oder öffentlichen Raum, Keramik umgibt uns überall und wird täglich von uns genutzt. Welche Bedeutung hat das traditionelle Material Keramik heute? Wie stehen industrielle und handwerkliche Produktion zueinander, wo liegt das Potenzial digitaler Techniken und unter welchen Perspektiven wird das Material in Zukunft eine Rolle in der gestalterischen Ausbildung spielen? Mit diesen Fragen befasst sich die Ausstellung “Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future” Es werden Ergebnisse des gleichnamigen internationalen Projektes gezeigt, das neben der Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin weitere 20 Partnerinstitutionen aus elf europäischen Ländern vereint. Durch die Nutzung digitaler Medien werden die Projektergebnisse einem breiten Publikum zugänglich gemacht.

23/9/2017 – 5/11/2017 Exhibition during BCB in Stoke-on-Trent / UK

The Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future exhibition accompanied by the works of the Future Lights ambassadors of 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 is a part of the British Ceramics Biennial (BCB) 2017 in Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom. The exhibition is held in the Spode-China Hall and is open between 23rd of September and 5th of November 2017.

Tanguy Fraiture, GER: Unplugged Cool-Maker, 2016. (c) Chikako Harada

In Stoke-on-Trent the core of the exhibition has been joined by a local addition: a selection of prototypes, that are the results of Martin Smith and Steve Brown’s AHRC funded research project Extending the Potential for the Digitally Printed Ceramic Surface.

Related Events during BCB

Several events related to the exhibition are run alongside the BCB programme including a panelled Round Table discussion, the annual European Future Lights competition, the Ceramic Values conference which is at the same time the Ceramics and its Dimensions Final Congress  and a meeting with the European partner institutions participating in the project.

The Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future exhibition is open in Spode-China-Halls during British Ceramics Biennial in Stoke-on-Trent (UK) until November 5th 2017.
The Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future exhibition is open in Spode-China-Halls during British Ceramics Biennial in Stoke-on-Trent (UK) until November 5th 2017. (c) Minerva Juolahti

Ceramic Values Conference

On 5th and 6th of October the Ceramic Values conference takes place in Stoke-on-Trent. The theme of the conference is the value and role of ceramics in the society. Many participants of the Shaping the Future exhibition are speaking at the conference. Among the speakers are professor Maarit Mäkelä, professor Barbara Schmidt,  lecturers Nathalie Lautenbacher and Anna van der Lei as well as students Tuuli Saarelainen, Saija Halko and Babette Wiezorek. Also the following Future Lights ambassadors present their work at the conference: Sabrina Vasulka, Rhiannon Ewing-James, Wendy Ward, Karolina Bednorz, Monika Müller and Maria Juchnowska. The conference is free and open for all. Read more about the conference and about how to register here.

The Clay Pit Workshop

Within China Halls an interactive workshop space The Clay Pit is created. The workshop is open during the whole BCB and it is also part of the programme of the Ceramic Values congress (Module 10). Via a series of large clay pits, copious amounts of ceramic material, oversize clay tools, and creative props, The Clay Pit will encourage communal hands-on play, exploration and construction. The workshop is part of the education and audience development program (Module 7) and has been carried out by BCB community and engagement programme manager Dena Bagi and Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future coordinator Priska Falin.

Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future
23rd September – 5th November
Spode-China Halls
Stoke town, Kingsway, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 1JB
Tuesday—Saturday
10.00am—5.00pm
Sunday 12.00 noon—5.00pm
Closed Mondays

See the exhibition and read more about the whole biennial on the web page of BCB here.

10/11/2016 – 7/12/2016 Exhibition in Fiskars / Finland

Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future exhibition
White Hall, Copper Smithy, Fiskars Village, Finland
10th November – 7th December 2016
Tue – Sun 11 – 17
Free entrance.

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The Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future touring exhibition opens its doors for the first time in Fiskars, Finland, in November 2016. Fiskars is a small old industrial village located about a hundred kilometres west of Helsinki. Today the old industry has made way for artists, artisans and designers as Fiskars has become a lively center of Finnish art and design. The Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future exhibition takes place in the White Hall exhibition space in Copper Smithy, Fiskars, Finland.

During the exhibition local ceramist Karin Widnäs has a ceramics pop-up shop next to the entrance of the exhibition. There is a christmas bus ride organized from Helsinki to Fiskars and back on Saturdays November 19th and 26th and on December 3rd. Read more on the Fiskars christmas bus.

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White Hall, Copper Smithy, Fiskars Village, Finland. (c) Minerva Juolahti

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