EXHIBITIONS
AND
ARTIST CATALOGUES

The International Ceramics Studio organise exhibitions in our Kápolna Gallery as well as touring exhibitions from our collection.  


KÁPOLNA GALÉRIA
KÁPOLNA U.13., KECSKEMÉT 6000

We produce high quality catalogues for many of our exhibitions and a series of folders each year featuring leading and upcoming Hungarian ceramists and selected international artists. The folders also feature our annual symposium exhibitions.

From 2022 we produce yearbooks featuring all of our events and exhibitions. 

Follow the links below to view and download pdf versions of our printed material. More will be added in the future.

Photos of our exhibitions are posted on our Facebook page.

Kápolna Galéria Exhibitions and events

Kápolna Galéria

A JELEN FORMÁI / FORMS OF THE PRESENT
A Selection of Works from the MMA’s Art Scholarship Program

The exhibition offers an insight into the diversity of contemporary design and applied arts, featuring a selection of creators and works from the alumni of the Hungarian Academy of Arts’ three-year artistic scholarship program. The exhibition provides a space for the convergence of various artistic fields, materials, and creative approaches.
The works of artists working in the fields of glass, textiles, ceramics, visual communication, goldsmithing, and object and design are not connected by a common style or uniform formal language, but rather by sensitivity to the material, the freedom to experiment and the need for continuous renewal. In their creations, tradition and innovation, craftsmanship and contemporary thinking are present, shaping each other. The objects are thus not only a meeting of materials and forms, but also bearers of personal thoughts, experiences and artistic reflections given to the present.
The three-year scholarship program provides an opportunity for in-depth creative work, research and the search for new paths. The exhibition gives an insight into the creative processes unfolding in this period, while showing the diversity of individual artistic paths and the possible connections between them. Some of the presented works appear as finished works, others as impressions of longer experimentation and thinking.

Exhibiting artists: Nóra Bokányi, Péter Borkovics, Barbara Fóris, Kristóf Gelley, Szilvia Háber, Annabella Hevesi, Zsanett Kalácska, Rita Koralevics, Fanni Király, Daniella Koós, Tamás Marcell, Anita Monori, Márton Nagy, Norbert Prell

Opening: Thursday 29 September, 2026, at 5 pm
Opening speech: György Verebes, Munkácsy Prize-winning painter, Head of the Kecskemét Regional Workshop of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA)
Open until: 21 November, 2026, from Tuesday to Saturday, between 14:00-18:00.


Kápolna Gallery

INNER PATHS 
Contemplative Ceramics from the International Ceramics Studio Collection

The exhibition titled “Inner Paths” features a selection of works from the International Ceramics Studio’s collection that relate to the themes of silence, contemplation, and sacredness. Sacredness is one of the ancient and universal experiences of human culture. It can manifest in ancient symbols and myths, in our relationship with nature, in a memory, or even in a quiet, contemplative moment. The exhibition does not seek a single, definable image of the SACRED, but rather explores the forms and metaphors through which it can appear in contemporary ceramic art.
In this selection, we encounter religious and mythological references, archaic forms, human figures, architectural associations, and abstract works alike. In some works, clearly recognisable symbols allude to the sacred, while others establish a connection to the transcendent through their atmosphere, materiality, or the use of absence and emptiness.
The exhibition *Inner Paths* forges connections between various sensibilities: faith and myth, ritual and memory, body and soul, nature and culture, matter and spirit.

Opening: Thursday, September 24, 2026, at 5:00 p.m.
Exhibition opened by: ZSÓFIA KARSAI, Ferenczy Noémi Prize-winning ceramic artist
Exhibition opening times: until October 17, 2026, Tuesday - Saturday, 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Kápolna Galéria

MENEDÉK / SHELTER

International Ceramics Symposium – Open Day and Exhibition Opening

Thursday, 27 August 2026

This year’s symposium is centred around the theme MENEDÉK / SHELTER, exploring the physical, emotional and social dimensions of shelter as a universal human experience. Shelter may mean a home or a place that provides safety, but it can also refer to an inner, personal space to which one can retreat. At the same time, the theme is connected to pressing contemporary issues such as migration, displacement, cultural identity, the ecological crisis and the vulnerability of our planet.

The Kecskemét Contemporary Art Workshops – International Ceramics Studio and the Foundation for Contemporary Ceramics Art warmly invite you to the Open Day of the 2026 International Ceramics Symposium and the opening of the accompanying exhibition.

As part of the 2026 International Ceramics Symposium, held from 3 to 28 August and jointly organised by the International Ceramics Studio and the Foundation for Contemporary Ceramics Art, we are once again hosting an Open Day, offering visitors the opportunity to meet the artists participating in the programme. During the event, the invited artists will present their work, artistic approaches and techniques through lectures and technical demonstrations. The Open Day offers an insight into the intensive four-week creative process in which artists from different countries and generations worked together in the workshops of the International Ceramics Studio.

The Open Day and the exhibition offer visitors an opportunity not only to encounter the works created during the symposium, but also to gain direct insight into the artists’ ideas, working methods and the technical processes through which clay is transformed into works of art. The Open Day programme will culminate at 5:00 pm at Kápolna Gallery with the opening of the exhibition featuring works created during the symposium.

During the four-week symposium, four Hungarian and four international artists worked together: Bence Boleman (HUN), Jovana Čavorović (SRB), Zsófia Karsai (HUN), Mariya Alipieva (ESP), Yuriy Musatov (UKR), Erika Rejka (HUN), SaeRi Seo (KOR) and Katalin Szávoszt (HUN).

MENEDÉK / SHELTER
Exhibition opening: Thursday, 27 August 2026, 5:00 pm
Welcome speech by: PATTY WOUTERS, ceramic artist
and UNESCO Representative of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC), and
Prof. GYÖRGY FUSZ, ceramic artist
and President of the Foundation for Contemporary Ceramics Art
Opening by: RÓBERT ALFÖLDI, Jászai Mari award-winning actor and director
Exhibition opening times: until 19 September 2026, Tuesday to Saturday, 2:00–6:00 pm.

Yearbooks and online catalogues

These catalogues are online flipbooks and can be downloaded as pdf files.

2018
LANDESCAPES Steve Mattison


2017
RAKU Exhibition catalogue
WOODFIRE NOW Exhibition catalogue

2016
QUOTES Pécs Exhibition catalogue

Exhibition leaflets

Artist leaflets

360 Virtual Exhibitions

We have been recording some of our exhibitions virtually and you can visit them here. Click on the link and the gallery will open for you to move around. We hope you enjoy them.

2021
ANIMAL FIGURES
Collection exhibition


DIPLOMA
Selected student diploma works



2020
9D - KONTOR ENIKŐ
Exhibition of new works

ROM - RUIN
Babos Pálma Exhibition


DOBÁNY SÁNDOR
New works exhibition

NEW WORKS 
Recent works added to the collection


INTERNATIONAL CERAMICS SYMPOSIUM
2020 Symposium exhibition

ÖSVÉNY - PATH
Zakar József exhibition


Articles in the Press

A SPECIAL PLACE
by Debra Sloan (Canada)

A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE
by Craig Underhill (UK)

A RESIDENT'S DIARY
by John Tuckwell (Australia)

BASEMENT OF TREASURES
byTim Martin (UK)

KECSKEMÉT SYMPOSIUM
by Beatrijs van Rheeden (Dutch language)

Kecskeméti Kortárs Művészeti Műhelyek
NEMZETKÖZI KERÁMIA STÚDIÓ

Kecskemét Contemporary Art Studios
INTERNATIONAL CERAMICS STUDIO

Address:

Kápolna u.11,
Kecskemét 6000
Hungary

Phone:
+36 76 486867

Email:

Steve Mattison: icshu@me.com 
Erika Sütő: studiovezeto@kkmm.hu
NKS Office: nks.kecskemet@gmail.com

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