Ceramic Brussels

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Ceramic Brussels will dialogue with the artists, challenge the visitor's certainties, involve the galleries and foster exchange with its different audiences. The fair will aim to enhance the experience and the encounter between content while creating an international market and networking platform.

Ceramic Brussels will present the diversity of artistic approaches to ceramics through a selection of galleries and input from leading institutions and players from around the world.

The fair has three distinct objectives:
- To develop a reference event for collectors and art lovers and to encourage the acquisition and presentation of works within collections.
- To concentrate a program of meetings and networking at a high European level. The fair will also pave the way for the publication of an annual book focused on the current links and perspectives between ceramics and contemporary creation.
- To encourage and support young creation by awarding a prize, the contours of which will be shaped by the members of an international jury

For its first edition from 25 to 28 January 2024 on the Tour & Taxis site, the fair will bring together nearly 60 Belgian and international galleries. Remarkably, 19 galleries will be showcasing a single artist in a solo show specially designed for the event. Presented mainly on the initiative of Belgian and French galleries, these solo show exhibitions will explore the specific world views of artists from a wide range of disciplines and nationalities

Organised for Thursday 25 January 2024, the first day the exhibition is open to the public, the meeting and conference sessions will be held at the exhibition centre.

The sessions are dedicated to reflection on the various issues that run through the practice of ceramics today, and will expand the vision, developed by the founding duo, of an 'activist' fair.

In collaboration with MAD Brussels, Centre de la Mode et du Design, Ceramic Brussels has launched a call for projects to give a designer, an architect and/or a studio the opportunity to demonstrate the expertise and inventiveness of Brussels designers to the public at the fair, by developing and implementing an installation at the heart of its entrance areas.
The project was awarded to Rond Carré Studio, a design duo from Brussels, whose monumental work will be on display at the entrance to the show.

FOCUS SOLO SHOW – Ceramic Brussels
arsenicgalerie: a solo show by Michel Gouéry
Romero Paprocki: a solo show by Leo Luccioni
ZWART HUIS: a solo show by Robin Vermeersch
GALERIE BERNARD JORDAN: a solo show by Elmar Trenkwalder
And more