Ceramic Kingdom

Currently on display 5.12.2024 - 16.02 2025

(liminal LUXATION)

Iulia Oana Toacaci (b.1982) is an interdisciplinary artist who employs a variety of materials and processes in an attempt to map transitional states. In movements between nations, time zones, cultural landscapes, customs and languages, belonging
lost its borders. Belonging belongs to the transitional. Iulia’s creative practice explores seemingly contradictory concepts of presence and absence, otherness and belonging, location and dislocation. These concepts are explored not in opposition but in relation to each other by focusing on a connective distance.

A luxation, or dislocation, as explored in this installation, emphasizes the distance between parts, the space that opens up as a result of a partition and the possibility of new connections. Iulia’s ceramic objects are conceived as active tools for ritual and as such generative of a ‘localized’ space, albeit temporary and mobile. Her drawings embody the process of displacement by relocating spaces from within, on paper.

Say hi, ask her questions or inquire about prices @ [email protected] or look through more/other work and events on Instagram .

Let’s celebrate the magical holiday season together! ✨️🏺❄️

The artists of Ceramic Kingdom are bringing their wonderful work to showcase at a new venue this year: Hase Studio (.22) in vibrant Schillerkiez, Neukölln.

You can enjoy the unique pieces, from sculpture to pottery, in a proper gallery space and purchase the ones you like all weekend. Our staple homemade glühwein and cookies will be waiting for you as usual.

🗓 Mark Your Calendars:

Friday, December 13th | 12:00-21:00
Saturday, December 14th | 12:00-21:00
Sunday, December 15th | 12:00-21:00

📍Hase Studio, Weisestraße 22, 12049 Berlin

We can't wait to welcome all of you to this celebration of our art community at Ceramic Kingdom!

Participants:

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Let’s celebrate the magical holiday season together! ✨️🏺❄️

The artists of Ceramic Kingdom are bringing their wonderful work to showcase at a new venue this year: Hase Studio (.22) in vibrant Schillerkiez, Neukölln.

You can enjoy the unique pieces, from sculpture to pottery, in a proper gallery space and purchase the ones you like all weekend. Our staple homemade glühwein and cookies will be waiting for you as usual.

🗓 Mark Your Calendars:

Friday, December 13th | 12:00-21:00
Saturday, December 14th | 12:00-21:00
Sunday, December 15th | 12:00-21:00

📍Hase Studio, Weisestraße 22, 12049 Berlin

We can't wait to welcome all of you to this celebration of our art
community at Ceramic Kingdom!

Participants:

pasewald














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Let’s celebrate the magical Holiday season together!

This time Ceramic Kingdom artists have been working hard to show you the wonderful works at the new venue: Hase Studio (.22) in vibrant Schillerkiez, Neukölln.

This time you can enjoy the unique pieces in a proper gallery space and purchase the ones you like all weekend long.
The staple homemade glühwein and cookies will be waiting for you as usual.

Mark Your Calendars:

Friday, December 13th | 12:00-21:00
Saturday, December 14th | 12:00-21:00
Sunday, December 15th | 12:00-21:00

Hase Studio, Weisestraße 22, 12049 Berlin

We can't wait to welcome all of you to this celebration of our art community at Ceramic Kingdom!

Participants:

pasewald












And Lena Roth

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Winter season is group class season! We’re excited to welcome the festive spirit with plenty of private group sessions and corporate events. In this corporate event, our talented teachers, and , led an engaging 2-in-1 taster class with amazing results!

Planning a team event and want to get creative? Let’s make it happen—reach out to book a group course with us!

The days are getting shorter and colder. What does that mean? Christmas is getting closer and closer. If you want to make your own clay gifts this year and finish them in time, then you should start now 🙌 We are open on Wednesdays (12-21pm) + Saturday & Sundays (12-19pm) up to and including 22.12.

Here is some great inspiration from

Artist statement for our last window exhibition:

Hi, my name is Drury Brennan and these are some recent works I completed during my two month artist’s residency at Ceramic Kingdom Berlin from August - September 2024.

I hadn’t touched clay in any seriousness since 2012, when I was unceremoniously kicked out of my ceramics graduate program at Indiana University, but sometimes in my wistful moments, the potter’s wheel and I missed each other long-distance. Something I’ve always been obsessed with in ceramics is making vessels that people can cherish somehow- maybe “fall in love with” is a better term. Through my work, I seek to recombine all of my disparate interests: kawaii and mascot culture of Japan, Japanese ceramics, mid-century American industrial
glassware and ceramics, 9th-10th century Eastern ceramics, modern, pop and low-brow culture, calligraphy, sign painting, food and drink, graffiti
and [music / beats].

I want people to vibe with my work like they would a Pokémon, or like a little puppy that is their best friend. I try to make my stuff dirty enough to be funky, but not clean enough to be sterile. I like my ceramics to ping like little friendly bells when you flick them with your fingers. I’m secretly hoping that you will find, in this window, a little cup of mine that you would like to adopt and take with you on your journeys. Something that I think is super [hilarious? interesting?] about ceramics is that you can take a very simple / banal object and imbue it with poetry, making it precious +timeless. The best art contains things like fragility and personal connection, and when we make something beautiful that another person
can enjoy without having to explain ourselves, then we have succeeded in giving a gift that contains what cannot rightfully be said. We reach through our mutual darknesses to entwine each other in the
gossamer filaments of truth and beauty for eternity.

Fall is course time! 🍂✨ Here are some snapshots from the hand-building course with .rosas last weekend. Such a beautiful atmosphere and stunning results!

The work presented here is a direct extension of Charlotte’s thesis in Expressive Arts Therapy.

During her research, she had a strange experience of something whose presence was felt but could neither be seen nor witnessed—something other, yet familiar. She named this phenomenon "the elephant in the room." Charlotte decided to create her own elephant as a way to connect and respond to that felt experience.

Vibrant and bold with its exuberant colors, it’s impossible to ignore the elephant in the room now.

Maurice, the elephant, was born from a self-initiated session where Charlotte set herself a simple instruction: create an elephant in 45 minutes. By the end of the time, she had four giant elephant legs on her worktable. It was still work to do. 

For the body, Charlotte learned a technique from a CK “artist in residence”  how to make a potato from clay. Using this same idea on a larger scale, she shaped the body of her elephant. She then joined the body and legs, forming a vibrant, unified piece.

For the head, Charlotte observed that a baby elephant's head resembles the shape of a jar, so she naturally turned to the pottery wheel to make the form. She crafted the head in three parts, which she then joined and reshaped while still pliable to achieve the desired form.

Lastly, for the ears, she ventured out of her comfort zone, incorporating mixed techniques. She used polystyrene, LED lights, and foam to create a glowing effect.

What an thrilling adventure!

Charlotte's journey with the potter’s wheel began in Paris in 2013. After endlessly repeating the same shape, she grew bored and let her hands slip off-center. In that moment, the wheel transformed from a rotating tool into her canvas. She began experimenting with different types of clay, using them like paint, and felt in that moment a form of freedom and joy that was quite unique. That’s the moment she fell into the pot ! 

This search for creative flow led her to meet her mentor, Sandy Brown, who taught her to work playfully and accept her art as an expression of herself. Empowered by those experiences, Charlotte has developed a distinctive style and feels she can now fly with her own wings.

"THE ELEPHANT IS IN THE ROOM"

An installation by Charlotte Rouot - on display 20.09.-18.10.2024

Charlotte Rouot’s creative practice is a sensuous dialog with matter, a discovering and a learning through feeling, which started in Paris in 2013.

The artist engages with the clay’s qualities (texture, elasticity, weight) and its response to her hands but she also allows herself to be shaped by it, to be surprised by what might emerge. The relationship between the graspable and the ungraspable is being explored with the wish to make visible the unknown. Charlotte freely and playfully engages with the material, allowing herself to be surprised by what she might encounter in the process.

Maurice, the baby elephant, was born from a continuous desire to engage with a presence that is felt but unknown. Something that might look a certain way but feels different. Something that embodies “another” presence, something mysterious perceived "in the air" but not really grasped, an elephant in the room. In response to this, Maurice is like no other, he dares to make his bold and singular presence visible.

Are you an expert at the wheel? We have the perfect course for you: Intermediate Wheel Plates & Bottles! You can find the direct booking link in the current story! Or on our website > Wheel Throwing > Intermediate Plates and Bottles. 🤗

We continue with our September classes!
Today: Intro to Handbuilding on 01. & 08.09. as a special summer offer!

You can book this course via our website or in the current story - Use the discount code SUMMER2024 and get 30% off when booking! Only valid for the date stated above

Little shadow play - ceramics look simply beautiful in any processing stage. Like the tiny vases made by

The first glimpse into the wonderful internal workshop of our current resident artist Ben Orkin . What a wonderful atmosphere and results. Thank you Ben! 🫶

This Thursday at 4 pm, part of our Exhibitions & Talks Program, Jamin London Tinsel will be sharing her work and process with us. Jamin is a studio artist and art educator working in Portland, Oregon, USA. She received her MFA in Ceramics from The University of The Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2007. In her artwork, Jamin seeks answers to life's questions, attempting to understand the things that haunt, taunt, and trouble her. As memories churn inside and seek release, Jamin taps into the universal human experience to achieve a sense of resolution, acceptance and integration of these issues through her artistic process. Find more about Jamin on Instagram or on her website www.jaminlondontinsel.com

"Searching For Home"

Lately I’ve been teasing apart deeply ingrained parental influences while searching to find my own way as an individual/human/parent in the world. I come from split households, raised by a boundaryless, mentally ill mother and a stable, yet stern & conservative father.

As I explored my parents' houses, certain forms began bubbling up. I loved going to my dad’s house as a kid where large fluffy towels matched, smelled good, and were found stacked neatly in the hall closet. Inside these neatly folded towels, however, lurked a stifling feeling and a sense that I would never truly belong there. My mom’s house was wild and creative, full of art, music, and abounding love.  Her love was complicated and also suffocating. I was eager to flee her house, and often did through a rickety fire escape ladder out my bedroom window as a teen.

My inner “house” often feels like riding a teeter totter, see-sawing from an authoritative control freak to a boundaryless wild child. As the search for home continues, I invite viewers to pop in and visit this unfinished house remodel.

Cecília's Pim () ceramic pieces are a vibrant blend of Pop Art and Dadaism, reflecting her thoughts, feelings, and unique way of being. Each work is a visual language, characterized by acidic and pop colors that serve as a means of communication and intervention. Through sarcasm, humor, and nonsense, Cecília exposes ideas and human flaws, advocating for their acceptance as integral parts of our existence.

Her sculptures are disruptive objects that challenge conventional order, creating a new organization within their intended disarray with their different scales for different perspectives and perceptions. They coexist in a space, redefining it with their presence and arrangement. Cecília's art invites viewers to engage with the chaos, finding meaning and beauty in the unexpected, and celebrating the vibrant complexity of human experience.

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