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

NEMZETKÖZI KERÁMIAMŰVÉSZETI SZIMPÓZIUM KIÁLLÍTÁSA
INTERNATIONAL CERAMIC ART SYMPOSIUM EXHIBITION

Paolo Porelli (IT), Sunbin Lim (KR), Ming-Miao Ko (TW), Natasha Mayo (UK), Gergo Ammer (HU), Szantó Tamás (HU), Zsigó András (HU).

The International Ceramics Studio will hold its Open Day again this year, where the public will have the opportunity to meet the artists participating in the International Symposium. During the event, the artists will present their artworks, their work and the unique techniques they use through lectures and demonstrations.
At the closing event of the programme, an exhibition of the works created during the Symposium will open at 5pm in the Kápolna Gallery.
Exhibiting artists: Paolo Porelli (IT), Sunbin Lim (KR), Ming-Miao Ko (TW), Natasha Mayo (UK),
Gergo Ammer (HU), Szantó Tamás (HU), Zsigó András (HU).

Exhibition opening: Thursday, 29th of August 2024 at 5pm
Opening by: Lori-Ann Touchette (USA) art historian, Director of the C.R.E.T.A. ROME Ceramics Centre
Exhibition opening times: between 2pm-6pm, from Tuesday to Saturday until 28 September

OPEN DAY PROGRAMME
Presentations:
10.00: ANDRÁS ZSIGÓ (HU)
10.30: DR. NATASHA MAYO (UK)
11.00: GERGŐ ÁMMER (HU)
11.30: PAOLO PORELLI (IT)
12.00 – 13.00: Lunch break
13.00: MING-MIAO KO (TW)
13.30: TAMÁS SZÁNTÓ (HU)
14.00: SUNBIN LIM (KR)

Demonstrations:
15.00 – 15.30: DR. NATASHA MAYO (UK)
15.30 – 16.00: PAOLO PORELLI (IT)
16.00 – 16.30: ANDRÁS ZSIGÓ (HU)
16.00 – 16.30: MING-MIAO KO (TW)
17.00 EXHIBITION OPENING

F. Orosz Sára 

EFOROSZ 60 Feketén – fehéren

Sára F. Orosz graduated as a ceramist at the Hungarian University of Applied Arts in 1990. Her teachers were Árpád Csekovszky, Katalin Orbán, Mária Minya, János Probstner. She is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Art’s Art Theory Section. Since 2020 she has been a frequent author of the Hungarian Applied Art magazine, since 2024 she has been a docent at the Department of Language, Literature and Art at the University of Tokaj-Hegyalja. Her work is diverse, designing and making unique art projects, participating in international symposia, master classes and exhibitions. Her favourite ceramic techniques are: lithofane, porcelain, neriage, china painting, relief, sculpture, hand building ceramics.

Exhibition opening: Thursday, 8th of August 2024 at 5pm
Opening by: Tibor Wehner writer, art historian
Contributed by: Gaudium Carminis female concert choir
Exhibition opening times: Tuesday to Saturday, from 14.00 to 18.00 until 24th August 2024

László Domonkos 

HAGYOMÁNYOK ÚTJAIN KÉT KERÉKEN
TRADITIONS ON TWO WHEELS

László Domonkos, as an authentic and outstanding representative of contemporary Hungarian folk pottery, creates his cooking, baking and serving vessels, which can be used in today's kitchen, based on the pottery traditions of Magyarszombatfa. He is an authentic master, a continuator of the traditions of a millennia-old craft, and knows everything about the pottery of his beloved Őrség. He began his career as a student of ceramicist Mária Geszler, and his work was greatly influenced by the dance-house movement that became popular in the 1970s, in which he took an active part through his research in his own region. His coffee and tea pots carry on the character of the last century with their rustic design and strong plasticity. The simplicity of his drinking cups and pitchers, the beauty of their proportions, the perfection of their function, the novelty of their glazes, are successful examples of a modern search for a new way.

Exhibition opening: Thursday, 20th of June 2024 at 5pm
Opening by: Enikő Kontor ceramicist
Exhibition opening times: Tuesday to Saturday, from 14.00 to 18.00 until 6th July 2024.

NÖK A GYÁRBAN
WOMEN IN THE FACTORY

The exhibition will present the works of female Hungarian factory designers whose designs and products have been commercially available in small, medium or large-scale production. In addition to the products of the three leading Hungarian-owned porcelain manufactories - Herendi Porcelain Manufactory, Zsolnay Porcelain Manufactory and Hollóházi Porcelain Manufactory - the French-owned Degrenne Group, which operates the Alföld Porcelain Factory, and two world-famous foreign porcelain factories - Vista Alegre from Portugal and Lladró from Spain - will be on display.
Demonstrating the versatility of porcelain, we exhibit home furnishings (vases, lamps, ornaments), tableware and porcelain jewellery.

We have invited contemporary, progressive artists to the exhibition, who can be rightly described as "Hungarian ingenuity", whose creativity and innovative spirit has found its way beyond the limits of serial production and factory design. The DNA in the objects is not only characteristic of the individual manufacturers, but also the personalities of the creators.

Exhibiting artists: Pálma Babos, Erika Éles-Varga, Ágnes Hegedűs, Katalin Herter, Eszter Imre, Regina Kaintz, Etelka Meixner-Hegyi, Judit Savanyú, Erika Sütő

Exhibition opening: Thursday, 30th of May 2024 at 5pm
Opening by: Rita Mária Halasi design specialist, research and innovation manager
Exhibition opening times: Tuesday to Saturday, from 14.00 to 18.00 until 15th June 2024.

Antal Pázmándi

HÓDOLAT A STÚDIÓNAK
TRIBUTE TO THE STUDIO

"Pázmándi's works are not to be explained, but to be seen and to wander in them mindfully. For me, this is the magic of his works. But it could also be that his ancestors forgot to tell something and now he wants to make up for it, with his constant work, his enigmatic ceramic sculptures."
/János Probstner/

Exhibition opening: Thursday, 9th of May 2024 at 17.00
Opening by: Dr. Gábor Farkas DLA, Ybl - and Prima Primissima - award-winning architect
Exhibition opening: until 25th May 2024.

Yearbooks and online catalogs

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: icshu@t-online.hu

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