Exhibition “20 MONDES. IAC TREASURE BOWL COLLECTIONS I-II”

21/05/2022 h 08/01/2023 F Add to the calendar 2022-05-21 2023-01-08 Europe/London Exhibition “20 MONDES. IAC TREASURE BOWL COLLECTIONS I-II” Keramis presents for the first time the 20 bowls constituting the 2 editions of the "Treasure Bowl Collection", initiated by the International Academy of Ceramics (AIC). Treasure Bowl Collections I-II is a very unique collection in contemporary ceramics. It is the culmination of a precious collaboration between international artists (10 for each edition) and a curator, all members of the AIC. The curation of the first edition, developed between 2016 and 2018 under the theme Native Clay , was entrusted to South Korean curator Misun Rheem. Ludovic Recchia, curator director of Keramis signed the curatorship of the second edition carried by the theme of Appropriation . Thus, to imagine the bowls on display today, the 10 artists were confronted this time with a set of 18 ceramics borrowed from the collections of 2 Belgian museums: the Royal Museum of Mariemont and Keramis. With the collaboration of the International Academy of Ceramics and the Royal Museum of Mariemont. Practical information Keramis, Place des Fours-Bouteilles 1, 7100 La Louvière Keramis

Keramis presents for the first time the 20 bowls constituting the 2 editions of the “Treasure Bowl Collection”, initiated by the International Academy of Ceramics (AIC).

Treasure Bowl Collections I-II is a very unique collection in contemporary ceramics. It is the culmination of a precious collaboration between international artists (10 for each edition) and a curator, all members of the AIC.

The curation of the first edition, developed between 2016 and 2018 under the theme Native Clay , was entrusted to South Korean curator Misun Rheem. Ludovic Recchia, curator director of Keramis signed the curatorship of the second edition carried by the theme of Appropriation . Thus, to imagine the bowls on display today, the 10 artists were confronted this time with a set of 18 ceramics borrowed from the collections of 2 Belgian museums: the Royal Museum of Mariemont and Keramis.

With the collaboration of the International Academy of Ceramics and the Royal Museum of Mariemont.

Practical information

Keramis

Museum of Ceramics

Keramis is a museum and a space of art and creation dedicated to ceramics, and is erected on the site of the old Boch pottery in La Louvière. Its architecture, contemporary and daring, includes an old listed building containing three giant bottle ovens, the last of its kind in Belgium. The museum has a remarkable collection of earthenware produced in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by the Boch manufacture, flagship of the Belgian industry. Exceptional creations, from art workshops like Charles Catteau’s vases, rub shoulders with everyday pieces. In the reserve accessible to the public, a scenographic itinerary presents the techniques of manufacturing an industrial earthenware and the life in the company.

Keramis also values an important collection of ceramics by artists representative of the second half of the 20th century. All aspects of modern and contemporary ceramics are evoked as well as design.

Each year, Keramis explores the world of ceramics through temporary exhibitions designed to promote an unknown and yet thousand-year-old discipline.In addition to the retrospectives of historical figures, the museum devotes a large part of its programming to collective or personal exhibitions of contemporary artists.

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Keramis provides guided tours, workshops about earth discovery, internships for young people and adults, activities for families, birthday parties, late-night openings, conferences, flea markets around Boch furniture, designer markets, concerts, corporate parties …

View the full activity calendar on www.keramis.be

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