Porcelain Biennale
The Porcelain Biennale (in its own spelling also porzellanbiennale / meissen ) is an exhibition of contemporary porcelain art in the Albrechtsburg in Meißen . The biennale took place for the first time in 2016 and will continue to take place every two years.
Place of exhibition and organizer
In the Albrechtsburg in Meißen, seven rooms are available for the exhibition in the special exhibition area with a total area of almost 400 m². In rooms with late Gothic vaulted ceilings and arched curtain windows, the works of art find a place at the historical location of the first production facility for European porcelain.
The organizers are the “Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Porcelain Art” and the Albrechtsburg Castle in Meissen.
Artistic orientation and artist selection
The aim of the Biennale is to put porcelain as a plastic material and means of expression in art more in the public eye. Contemporary porcelain art from Saxony , Germany and Europe will be exhibited. The aim is to showcase contemporary porcelain art in order to reassess, maintain and further develop porcelain as a cultural asset in the context of international influences.
Visual artists from Germany and abroad who experiment with porcelain are invited to the exhibition. The exhibition should be open to all artistic forms of expression in porcelain, with the exception of serially produced art. In the exhibition a maximum of three works will be at least one, from the body of work presented to the artist. A jury decides on invitations and the composition of the exhibited works .
Exhibiting artists
2016
The first porcelain biennale took place from July 17 to September 18, 2016. 25 artists took part. The curator was Olaf Fieber.
Participating artists were Arnold Annen (CH), Claudia Biehne (D), Evelyn Bracklow (D), Andreas Ehret (D), Karien Evers (B), Olaf Fieber (D), Else Gold (D), Sabine Hagedorn (D) , Tina Hopperdietzel-Creuz (D), Kirsten Jäschke (D), Silvia Klöde (D), Weronika Lucinska (PL), Janina Myronowa (PL), Heide Nonnenmacher (D), Susanne Petzold (D), Paolo Porelli (I) , Sarah Pschorn (D), Laurin Schaub (CH), Maude Schneider (CH), Olaf Stoy (D), Hannes Uhlenhaut (D), Lidia Valenta (D, RUS), Maria Volokhova (D, UA), Sabine Wachs ( D) and Marianne Wesolowska-Eggimann (CH, D)
2018
31 artists took part in the second Porcelain Biennale from August 12 to November 4, 2018. The exhibition was curated by Claudia Zachow and Olaf Fieber. The exhibition was carried out in cooperation with Porzellanikon , a porcelain museum from Upper Franconia .
Participating artists were Roland Beier (D), Katharina Bertzbach (D), Angelika Brüheim-Köhler (D), Angela Burkhardt-Guallini (CH), Rolf Büttner (D), Gisella Codara (I), Marie-Josèe Comello (NL) , Silke Decker (D), Galina Dulkina (RUS), Tineke van Gils (NL), Nela Havlicková (CZ), Rona Kobel (D), Katarzyna Koczynska-Kielan (PL), Maria ten Kortenaar (NL), Ludwig Laser ( D), Sangkyoung Lee (ROK), Jong-Min Lee (ROK), Guy Van Leemput (NL), Beate Pfefferkorn (D), Paolo Porelli (I), Karin Putsch-Grassi (D), Detlef Reinemer (D), Catherine Sanke (D, UA), Andrea Sigl (A), Olga Simonova (UA), Hasan Numan Sucaglar (TR), Christiane Toewe (D), Amei Unrath-Ruof (D), Carolin Wachter (D), Lotte Westphael ( DK) and Dawid Zynda (PL).
2020
The Porcelain Biennale should take place from July 25th to November 1st, 2020. 100 artists from Serbia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Denmark, Belgium, Ukraine, the USA, the Netherlands, Italy, Japan, Germany and India had applied for it. The event had to be canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
Web links
- Website of the Porcelain Biennale
- Porcelain Biennale on the website of the Albrechtsburg gatehouse
- Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Porcelain Art V.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Contemporary porcelain art in Meißen. In: Dresdner Latest News from July 21, 2016.
- ↑ 25 artists at the first porcelain biennale in Meißen. In: Freie Presse from May 26, 2016.
- ↑ dpa: ++ 31 artists at the 2nd Meißen Porcelain Biennale. Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 9, 2018, accessed on August 14, 2020 . .
- ↑ Grit Krause: Meißen shows porcelain art apart from plates and cups. In: MDR Kultur from August 11, 2018.
- ↑ Porcelain Biennale shows something brilliant. In: Sächsische Zeitung of July 9, 2018.