From October 16 to December 4, Olivia Pils from Berlin and Sassy Park from Australia will be living and working at the Keramikkünstlerhaus.
During this time, visitors will have the opportunity to visit the studios: every Thursday to Saturday, you are invited to observe the guest artists at work and ask questions.
After six weeks of intensive work, the two artists will present their creations. At the exhibition opening on November 28 at 6 PM, Olivia Pils and Sassy Park will discuss their artistic processes in an artist talk and offer fascinating insights into their work.
Open Studio Hours:
October 16 – December 4
Thursdays and Fridays: 2 – 5 PM
Saturdays: 10 AM – 1 PM
Exhibition Hours:
Vernissage: Thursday, November 28 at 6 PM
Open Hours: November 29 – December 2, 2 – 5 PM
Olivia Pils (Berlin)
Photo: Olivia Pils
In her art, Olivia Pils tells surreal stories about the human body and technology, about attraction and discomfort. She uses materials such as porcelain, ceramics, hair, silicone, plexiglass, and stainless steel. Her works oscillate between the artificial and the natural, developing a sensual presence in the space. In Neumünster, the artist will create a series of ceramic objects that, with their grotesque corporeality, resist classical forms.
Olivia Pils has lived and worked in Berlin since 1992. She studied Ethnology at the FU of Berlin and Ceramics at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle (Saale).
www.oliviapils.de/ – www.instagram.com/oliviapils/
Sassy Park (Australia)
Photo: Sassy Park; Photographer: Otto Schwerdtfeger
The Australian artist Sassy Park is primarily interested in the history of ceramics, objects, and ideas. Her work plays with the accepted purposes of domestic ceramics and historical art genres, including ceramic vessels and figurative works. She expands on what ceramics are and what they can express in contemporary times. The medium of clay, with its embedded transformative nature of strength and fragility, becomes a metaphor for everyday themes and debates. Drawing on regional ceramic traditions and museum collections, Park intends to incorporate personal research on the local histories of the people of Neumünster.
Her strong connection to Germany, combined with an interest in linguistics, will contribute to the creation of text-based and painterly works, broadening into extensive themes of exploration.
Sassy Park studied painting at the Sydney College of the Arts as well as at the Berlin University of the Arts and ceramics at the National Art School in Sydney.
www.sassypark.com – www.instagram.com/sassypark/
