On Wednesday, May 13 at 6 p.m., we warmly invite you to the opening of the exhibition featuring our two current guest artists, Aliki Papadimitriou from Greece and Corwyn Lund from Canada. On display are works created as part of the international Ceramic Artist Exchange – Tandem Program, developed over six weeks of intensive work and exchange. The opening will include a short introduction and an artist talk.
The exhibition will be open from Thursday, May 14 to Monday, May 18, daily from 2 to 5 p.m.
Aliki Papadimitriou: work in progress; Photo: Jantje Almstedt
Aliki Papadimitriou is a sculptor from Greece. She holds an integrated Master’s degree from the Athens School of Fine Arts and a technical degree from the Higher School of Fine Arts & Marble Craftsmanship Panormos Tinos.
Her main material is clay, which she often combines with other materials through modular connections to create non-utilitarian sculptures that emphasize materiality. Her work draws inspiration from tools, machines, toys, and everyday objects. For Aliki, crafting is a form of play, and her sculptures often resemble inventions, while their modular nature can recall children’s building toys. She maintains an ongoing interest in how everyday objects can be reimagined and reassembled.
During her stay at Keramikkünstlerhaus, she created a series of medium-scale sculptures from unglazed stoneware clay and found wood of the streets of Neumünster, titled “Grupos on the ceiling of Hauptstraße 51”. These modular sculptures, made of ceramic and processed found wood, bring together hybrid forms inspired by industrial elements encountered in Neumünster, objects found in flea markets in Athens and Germany, and machine-like constructions drawn from her sketchbook archive.
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Aliki Papadimitriou: work in progress; Photo: Jantje Almstedt
Corwyn Lund: work in progress; Photo: Jantje Almstedt
Corwyn Lund’s (Canada) installation at the Keramikkünstlerhaus, titled “Thin Premise”, presents his explorations of a unique kiln-slumping process using thin commercial tiles, which is applied to the subject of automobile forms. In this experimental work, scale models of cars – ranging from a vintage Volkswagen Beetle to the contemporary Tesla Cybertruck – are translated into materially ambiguous abstractions. The artist sees the resulting sculptural works as an extension of the long history of sculpting hard materials – such as marble – into undulating drapery. Organised into an immersive installation with other building materials, “Thin Premise” suggests a renovation of the gallery space in progress.
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Corwyn Lund: work in progress; Photo: Jantje Almstedt