As part of the °CAET program, six international artists will once again be spending seven weeks each at the Keramikkünstlerhaus this year: Corwyn Lund from Canada, Aliki Papadimitriou from Greece, Justina Moncevičiūtė from Lithuania, Lina Wiedwald from Germany, Julia Schuster from Austria, and Sarban Chowdhury from India. In addition to the exhibition openings, other events such as the Open Studio, showings, and workshops will take place.
1. Tandem: Corwyn Lund and Aliki Papadimitriou; Opening: May 13
Corwyn Lund (Canada) develops a series of cast ceramic sculptures during his residency. The starting point is iconic automobile body shapes. Reduced to toy-like models, the vehicles are coated with a thick, glossy layer of glaze. Details blur, and the sculptures mutate into aerodynamic bodies reminiscent of cheap vacuum-formed plastic packaging. The work parodies the car as an ecologically questionable extravagance and critically questions the enduring fetish of automobile culture.
https://www.instagram.com/corwynlund/
Aliki Papadimitriou (Greece) creates a group of modular sculptures at the Keramikkünstlerhaus. By variably assembling the modules, ever new sculptural constellations emerge. The starting point of her work is the immediate tactile potential of unglazed ceramics. She explores, with a sense of tension, the relationship between clay and other materials. The forms are drawn from the artist’s sketchbooks—an archive of industrial-looking objects, biomorphic structures, and animal-inspired motifs.
https://www.instagram.com/aliki_liki/
2.Tandem: Lina Wiedwald and Justina Moncevičiūtė; Opening: July 9
Lina Wiedwald (Germany) explores the boundary between vessel and sculpture during her residency. In her works, she combines relief-like surfaces with drawn underglaze motifs that appear like enchanted visual worlds on the ceramic. Through layering, partial concealment, and transparent glazes, ambiguous compositions emerge. In this way, the processes of becoming and concealment become visible, opening new perspectives on the interplay of material, form, and memory.
https://www.instagram.com/linawiedwald/
Justina Moncevičiūtė (Lithuania) explores the relationship between text, textile structures, and ceramics at the Keramikkünstlerhaus. The starting point of her work is historical carmina figurata – double-readable text-image forms in which visual and linguistic structures intertwine. Using ceramic segments, the artist develops object-like compositions that function like woven texts. Based on feminist writings, spatial “pattern poems” emerge that interconnect language, material, and structure.
https://www.instagram.com/justinamonceviciute/
3.Tandem: Sarban Chowdhury and Julia Schuster ; Opening: September 24
Sarban Chowdhury (India) engages with social and ecological contexts at the Keramikkünstlerhaus. In his work, he combines ceramics with textual and visual metaphors to reflect on power structures, social taboos, and geopolitical influences. Irony and satirical narratives serve as tools to make human behavior and societal contradictions visible while offering a critical perspective on the state of the environment and society.
https://www.instagram.com/sarban_ceramic/
Julia Schuster (Austria) focuses on the navel at the Keramikkünstlerhaus as a multifaceted symbol of connection, separation, and transformation. In sculptural and performative works, she explores parallels between body and material. Using raw clay, fired ceramics, and text, she develops a site-specific installation that makes the material’s duality – fragile and resistant, concave and convex – tangible and invites a contemplative encounter with body, memory, and change.
https://www.instagram.com/juliaschuster_art/
