Polish Ceramics at the London Design Festival

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Thu, 09/24/2015 - 02:00 - Sun, 09/27/2015 - 02:00

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The latest achievements by Polish ceramic designers will be on view at one of the most prestigious events dedicated to design. The exhibition is organised by Culture.pl.

Karina Marusińska, plates from her Weeds series, photo: Justyna Fedec

The exhibition What goes behind… Contemporary Polish ceramic design was first presented in Hong Kong. At the end of 2014 it was showed during the Inno Design Tech Expo, where it received glowing reviews from both the audience and critics. The exhibition, complemented with new works and new designers, will open at the London Design Festival at the end of September 2015.

There will be projects on display bound to a certain philosophy of production. Artists invited to the project represent various approaches to design. They have different starting points, different drivers for action. Some of them, e.g. Bartek Mejor and Natasza Grześkiewicz, lead experiments focused on their materials and connecting new technologies with traditional techniques of production.

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Others take interdisciplinarity as a basis of thinking about a project. Examining culture, namely observation of an ever-changing world, makes the objects gain symbolic meanings. From time to time, they become a socially-engaged carrier of value, like the work of Karina Marusińskia and Alicja Patanowska. All of the works presented at the exhibition share a common feature – these are examples of good Polish design.

What goes behind… includes the results of collaborations between two well-known Polish porcelain factories, Ćmielów and Kristoff, and three young designers: Kaja Kusztra, Magda Pilaczyńska and Tymek Jezierski. The layout of the exhibition will be designed by a team of architects, engineers, and technologists, Zieta Prozessdesign, led by one of the most famous Polish designers, Oskar Zięta. Prozessdesigne will use its newest furniture collection made of plywood and steel called PAKIET to create the exhibition space.

Designers: Karolina Bednorz, Marta Dachowska, Natasza Grześkiewicz, Maria Jeglińska, Tymek Jezierski, Kabo-Pydo, Malwina Konopacka, Bogdan Kosak, Kaja Kusztra, Magdalena Łapińska, Karina Marusińska, Bartek Mejor, Modus Design, Alicja Patanowska, Magdalena Pilaczyńska and Agnieszka Tomalczyk

Porcelain factories: Kristoff Porcelain, and Polskie Fabryki Porcelany “Ćmielów” i “Chodzież” S.A.

The exhibition was organised by Culture.pl, a flagship brand of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.

What Goes Behind… Contemporary Polish Ceramic Design
24^th to 27^th September 2015
Tent London
London Design Festival
Source: londondesignfestival.com, culture.pl, edited by AS & AZ, translated by ND, 4.09.2015

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Tent London