Exhibition “Porcelain Identity”
On October 4, 2024, the Ogres History and Art Museum opened the exhibition “Porcelain Identity,” introducing visitors to a selection of works from recent years of the Kaunas Bone China Symposium. The Ogre History and Art Museum, in cooperation with the Kaunas Faculty of Vilnius Academy of Arts, presented a unique exhibition featuring works from […]
On October 4, 2024, the Ogres History and Art Museum opened the exhibition “Porcelain Identity,” introducing visitors to a selection of works from recent years of the Kaunas Bone China Symposium.
The Ogre History and Art Museum, in cooperation with the Kaunas Faculty of Vilnius Academy of Arts, presented a unique exhibition featuring works from the last three Kaunas Bone Porcelain symposia. The exhibition included 21 artists, among them four Latvian artists – Una Mjurka, Elīna Titāne, Verners Lazdāns, and Jānis Kupčs.
Visitors were introduced to the diverse applications of bone porcelain in traditional pottery, as well as its potential in interdisciplinary contexts: installations, jewelry art, and more. Unique transformations of contemporary ceramics were showcased, combining technological experiments with conceptual ideas.
The symposium, held every two years in Kaunas, brings together not only internationally renowned ceramists but also other artists interested in the application of porcelain in contemporary art. The symposium promotes the use of intellectual and technological innovation in the creation of contemporary art objects, without forgetting the traditions of porcelain (bone porcelain). The creative process utilizes both 3D modeling and printing with a 3D ceramic printer, as well as other new artistic expression possibilities seemingly unrelated to ceramics.
Symposium working group: Assoc. Prof. Remigijus Sederevičus, Dr. Rokas Dovidenas, Giedre Petkevičiūte, Māris Grosbahs, Dr. Ieva Bertašiūte.
Curator of the exhibition “Porcelain Identity”: Māris Grosbahs.
