Work in progress: MM.Kosum and Ollie Gandul Reyes; Photo: Marilen Rauch
On Thursday, September 11th at 6 PM, the exhibition by the two current guest artists, MM. Kosum from Thailand and Ollie Gandul Reyes from Spain, will open!
The exhibition presents works created over six weeks of intensive work and exchange as part of the international °Ceramic Artist Exchange – Tandem program.
On Friday, September 12, starting at 10 p.m., the After-ArtTour Party will take place for the very first time at the Keramikkünstlerhaus! The ArtTour traditionally kicks off the annual Kunstflecken art festival in Neumünster.
We invite you to join a short guided exhibition tour at 10 p.m., offering fascinating insights into international contemporary ceramic art. Afterwards, a special highlight awaits: a DJ set by Julia Hasenpusch from the Cultural Office – outdoors in the garden if the weather is good, or cozily inside if it rains. At the same time, our bar will be open, serving refreshing alcoholic and non-alcoholic delights.
MM. Kosum: work in progress; Photo: Marilen Rauch
MM. Kosum developed the work World Without Sorrow during her residency – a fountain composed of stacked ceramic sculptures that she hand-formed and constructed. Extending her practice with clay into architectural and ritual forms, the work becomes a structure that holds water, memory, and imagination. Shaped by her interest in landscapes, buildings, beings and non-beings, and the stories that linger in memory, the fountain unfolds as a landscape where observation and emotion converge. It evokes fragments of ritual architecture where nostalgia for people and places transforms into a space.
World Without Sorrow imitates a world that exists nowhere but in her mind—sacred and silly, happy and delusional, beautiful and broken, all at once.
https://www.instagram.com/mm.kosum/
Ollie Gandul Reyes: work in progress; Photo: Marilen Rauch
The sculptural works of Ollie Gandul Reyes move along the boundary between body and object, between intimacy and confrontation. Gandul Reyes works with organic forms and fragments reminiscent of armor, prosthetics, or fetish objects. Ceramic is often used—a material that is both fragile and resistant—to explore themes such as desire, vulnerability, control, and transformation.
In a time when bodies are increasingly regulated, optimized, and categorized, Gandul Reyes understands sculpture as a subversive tool of inquiry: What does it mean to have a body, to inhabit it? The works speak of hybrid beings, of desire, of an existence that cannot be confined to categories.
Gandul Reyes seeks to open spaces for ambivalence—raw, sensual, contradictory. The sculptures are not answers, but questions: directed at ourselves, at our desires, at our social images of the body.
The work created at the Keramikkünstlerhaus in Neumünster manifests as an installation populated by glazed ceramic creatures. These beings invite viewers to enter a space of attraction and desire—a kind of “dark room” where the playful merges with the intimate. With the title Horny, a meeting with the strange and the absurd unfolds: a sensual celebration in which desire reveals itself in multiple forms, oscillating between the familiar and the uncanny, between vulnerability and ecstasy.
https://www.instagram.com/olliegandul/
The exhibition will open on Thursday, September 11, at 6:00 PM with a brief introduction by Marilen Rauch and an artist talk.
Openinghours: Friday, September 12 to Monday, September 15, from 2:00 to 5:00 PM each day.