Ateliers d'art de France presents

Ceramics in the spotlight

Ceramics are an essential pillar of the art world today, highlighting a unique creativity and expressiveness. This medium, revitalised by such iconic figures as Picasso in Vallauris and Fernand Léger in Biot, is experiencing a real boom thanks to contemporary artists, collectors and art market professionals who are increasingly turning to this material. Under the nave of the Grand Palais, ceramics will be in the spotlight!

Révélations no longer needs to introduce the stars of the ceramics scene, who are well-known regulars at the biennial, and whom the public is delighted to meet again at each edition, such as Silver Sentimenti, Athena Jahantigh, Alistair Danhieux, Kartini Thomas...

Among them, focus on five international female talents with expertise in clay, recognised for their bold artistic vision, technical mastery and sculptural forms with vibrant colour palettes.

Lorène Cavagna (France, Metz)
New exhibitor Révélations 2025

The search for colour is at the heart of Lorène Cavagna's creative process. For over 4 years, she has created more than 250 different glazes using modified recipes from her own designs. Clay offers her an infinite range of options and realisations, and serves as a medium for creating plays of colour and light. Her stoneware and porcelain pieces reflect her exploration of transcribing the movement and elegance of the material in clay. Perfectly unique, they are instinctively worked in the positioning of the protuberances, so as not to break the creation of movement. She creates all her petals by hand, using the slab technique, to create murals that can be hung like paintings, or works that can be integrated directly into architectural projects.

Dita Cossio (Chili)
New Révélations 2025 exhibitor

While Dita Cossio is a ceramist, most of her work is done on a sewing machine, a craft that has been in her family for generations. After experimenting with different techniques and materials, she developed a unique method based on textile constructions: she sews simple lines and parametric patterns onto a padded leather textile, which is then used as a casting mould for her porcelain pieces. The mould is carefully dismantled to reveal the finished, unique piece. Each creation is an exercise in form, volume and physical tension.

 

Amande Haeghen (Portugal, Lisbonne)
New Révélations 2025 exhibitor

In her Lisbon workshop, French ceramist Amande Haeghen creates pieces imbued with softness and femininity, using glass techniques mixed with ceramics. Her work is defined by the contrasting textures of raw stoneware, soft glass and timeless porcelain, while playing on the notion of balance and giving shape to the elusive. She creates pieces such as wall sculptures, light sculptures, paintings on glass and design pieces.

After more than 2 years of research and experimentation, in 2023 she created new sculptures, abandoning enamelling in favour of reusing glass shavings to recreate a palette of infinite colours with aspects reminiscent of onyx. This ‘glass onyx’ adorns her sculptures, giving them the robust fragility that comes from combining glass and clay.

 

Juliette Vivien (France)

Juliette Vivien works mainly with porcelain, which she perforates. Other materials are also added to her pieces, such as brass, wood, leather, earthenware and stoneware. Through this singular technique, she seeks a vibration and a real movement in the regularity. Each openwork piece is a moment of both play and meditation. Each gesture has to be perfectly mastered, which requires a great deal of concentration. Juliette Vivien was the 2020 winner of the Prix de la Jeune Création Métiers d'Art awarded by Ateliers d'Art de France.

Kaori Kurihara (France)
Winner of the Prix de la Jeune Création Métiers d'Art in 2015, Kaori Kurihara has been exhibiting at Révélations ever since.

Kaori Kurihara is inspired by the vegetal world and pays particular attention to shapes and their geometric repetition. The artist has a deep desire to give concrete form to the fruits represented in her mind, and to be able to contemplate them through her own eyes. With this in mind, she creates pieces that are both realistic and dreamlike.

 

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MORE ON CERAMICS ...

Would you like to discover specialist publications on contemporary ceramics? Editions Ateliers d'Art de France will be presenting technical works such as Le livre du céramiste, le manuel du potier... as well as all issues of the magazine Ateliers d'Art and the Revue de la céramique et du verre on their stand at Révélations.

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