Nemzetközi Kerámia Stúdió

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The International Ceramic Studio and Museum Nemzetközi Kerámia Stúdió is located in the Hungarian city ​​of Kecskemét and works in the field of modern ceramics . The artists' colony organizes courses at the University of Sopron and holds seminars with international participation. Because of its enclosed location in the old town of Kecskemét, with several spacious inner courtyards, it is also known as the "Monastery of Tons" (Hungarian: "Az agyag kolostara").

history

Thanks to state control of the Department of Fine Arts ( Képző- és Iparművészeti Lektorátuson ) and freedom for small private entrepreneurship after the Hungarian popular uprising of 1956, a local economic center for handicraft and industrial ceramics developed based on the local tradition and whose core is the ceramic factory Finomkerámia-ipari Művek formed. Artisans' cooperatives emerged, the members of which supplied the design for the series production and in return received material and studios at their own disposal. Since the ceramics were not suspected of being political, the state control over the work of the artists was small, so that they could establish contacts with Eastern and Western European colleagues. This was definitely intended by the then Minister of Culture György Aczél . The low level of political surveillance made ceramics in Eastern Europe an attractive art form compared to the West, which was able to absorb current ideas and avant-garde concepts and, at least in the perception of the artists, to dissolve the separation between art and handicrafts . The ceramists - in the sense of the Paragone - claimed a middle position between sculpture and painting .

In 1970, the ceramicist János Probstner , supported by his colleague Imre Schrammel , proposed the establishment of the ceramic studio . This was well received by István Gajdócsi, the chairman of Bács-Kiskun county , and Ádám Habuda, the director of the ceramic works. In 1973 the Hungarian Institute for Folk Culture was won over for the project. Between 1973 and 1977, according to plans by the architect Józef Kerényi, a first part of a connected group of houses in the old town of Kecskemét was converted for this purpose. These received a technical infrastructure at industrial level, which included kilns for porcelain , earthenware , fiberglass and raku firing .

The founding contract was signed on September 1, 1977, and the ceramic studio went into operation the following year. While the artists continued to honor their industry commitments, they also developed the ceramics studio into a venue for meetings and workshop courses. In 1969 such a symposium took place for the first time in Siklós , whereby a permanent collaboration was established with the local ceramists. From 1980 these symposia had international participation. Between 1978 and 2012 there were 499 artists from 44 countries selected on application or request, with most of the artists donating their works from Kecskemét to the local collection.

After the industrial ceramics works had ceased operations in 1980, the ceramics studio began to set up its own clay preparation and silicate paint and glaze production facilities in 1986. This was called Interkerám from 1987 and was privatized in the early 1990s, against the will of the ceramic studio . From 1985 the ceramic studio was officially called the International Ceramic Studio. It is integrated into the system of Hungarian universities and offers courses from the University of Sopron. 2006 opened a showroom in the district Ferencváros in Budapest , the Museion No. 1 , on Üllői Street. Parts of the extensive collection have already been shown in the Hungarian Museum of Applied Arts and abroad. A permanent exhibition is located at 11 Kápolna Street in Kecskemét.

Since 2001, now legally and non-profit organization created, the ceramic studio is today together with the Forras Publishing and the International Center for Email -Kunst , part of the urban Kecskemét studios for Contemporary Art , led by László Füzi. After being further developed by János Probstner until 2011, it is now under the direction of Steve Matison and Márton Strohner. Funding is partly provided by Erasmus + from the European Union .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ János Probstner, Éva Csenkey: Art from the cloister of clay - Exhibition from the collection of the Kecskemét Contemporary Art Studios - International Ceramics Studios (catalog) . Ed .: János Probstner. Hungarian Museum of Decorative Arts, Budapest 2013, ISBN 978-6-15521708-1 , p. 6-23 .