Author: nkmin

I am in residency at Slingerhaan Atelier the wonderful studio and home of Paulien Ploeger and Her Comis in Sint Jacobiparochie, in preparation for Sustainable Ceramics, curated by Wendy Gers at the Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics.

Slingerhaan Ateliers sits on the historic Oudebildtdijk, in Friesland. Working in their beautiful studio, sharing meals with Paulien and Her, taking long walks by the Wadden Sea, looking at prehistoric and historic objects in the depot of the Princessehof National Ceramics Museum, the residency was a beautiful immersion.

Many Cups in a Large Sink curated by Priyansha Jain and Inordinary opens at Subko Mary Lodge, Bandra from October 17th  to October 21st 2023.

The exhibition shows interpretations of the cup, challenging conventional boundaries of form, function and material.

Featuring work by Aarti Manik, Archana Ramaswamy, Arjun Rathi, Élodie Alexandre, Ismail Plumber, Kopal Seth, Neha Kudchadkar, Paul Michelon, & Mayuri Roychoudhury, Reyaz Badaruddin, Saraswati, SHED, Shivam Agarwal, Sukhdev Rathod, Suvajit Mondal, Tarini Sethi, Thukral & Tagra, Vinita Mungi, and Yaazd Contractor

Multiple Realities: Voices in Contemporary Indian Ceramics, curated by Kristine Micheal opens at the Clayarch Gimhae Museum on October 7th 2025!

Exhibiting artists are Aarti Vir, Adil Writer, Dipalee Daroz, Ela Mukherjee, Keshari Nandan Prasad, L.N. Tallur, Madhur Sen, Manjunath Kamath, Mudita Bhandari, Neha Kudchadkar, P.R. Daroz, Ray Meeker, Reyaz Badaruddin, Shampa Shah, Shirley Bhatnagar + Pallavi Arora, Supriya Menon Meneghetti, and Trupti Patel

Craft scholar Martina Margetts wrote about home/land in her essay The Post Craft Turn in Post-craft, E.P Vol. 3 edited by Alex Coles and Catharine Rossi. Post-craft was published in June 2022 by Sternberg Press. I have just recieved my copy.

 

Artists from the first Indian Ceramics Triennale, Breaking Ground, respond to the curatorial prompt “squaring the circle” at Arthshila, Santiniketan in a prelude to Common Ground, which opens at Arthshila, New Delhi in January 2024

I have developed a performance especially for the opening of Handle with Care at the Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics on November 26, 2022 at 12.30 pm and 2.30 pm.

Handle with Care is curated by Dr Wendy Gers.

Handle with Care opens at the Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics on November 26, 2022 and runs until September 29, 2023. This groundbreaking show curated by Dr Wendy Gers  includes work by unidentified artists from China, Peru, Suriname, Nigeria, Dagestan, Turkey and the Netherlands, and  work by Anton Reijnders, Rob Birza, Johan Creten, Marie-Josée Comello, Daniël De Bruin, Bing & Grøndahl, Satoru Hoshino, Bastienne Kramer, Neha Kudchadkar, Hanna Mobach, Charlotte Eta Mumm, Pablo Ponce, Rosenthal & co, Akio Takamori, Studio Tjep, Simone van Bakel, Hans van der Ham, Hans van Houwelingen, Couzijn van Leeuwen, Sharon van Overmeiren, Irene Vonck, Pauline Wiertz and Betty Woodman. The lion’s share of the exhibited works are from the Princessehof’s collection, but there are also pieces from the collections of the Fries Museum, the Fries Verzetsmuseum and a loan from Museum Boijmans van Beuningen.

Journeys of Clay and Fire curated by Kristine Micheal opens at the British Council in New Delhi, on September 29 and runs until November 29 2022.

Charles Wallace India Trust grantees Abhay Pandit, Ela Mukherjee, K Gukan Raj, Neha Kudchadkar, Shirley Bhatnagar, Shitanshu Maurya and Shruti Bansal feature with  projects from the British Council’s Crafting Futures programme including a collaboration between CEPT University and the British Ceramics Biennial and a collaboration between IICD, Jaipur and West Dean College of Arts and Conservation.

I am invited to be a speaker and panelist for the Clay Seminars June 23, 2022 conveyed by the Ceramics Research Centre, University of Westminster, UK and New York University

Context and Belonging: Global perspectives on the current pathways and barriers to surviving and thriving as a maker of ceramics.

The medium of clay has a particularly long global history of wide creative and cultural significance. But as low-cost, industrially produced objects have replaced many kinds of formerly hand-made ceramic objects in most people’s lives, what kinds of ceramics are now being made in different parts of the world? Who makes them and what impacts the conditions of their creation? What can we learn from sharing the experiences and examples of our individual localities?

Nia Gautama, Sam Nortey and Neha Kudchadkar invited will reflect on the issues affecting the current moment and future of ceramic art and craft in their global region. The seminar not only aims to explore some of the approaches and ambitions of a range of clay practices, but hopes to identify synergies for future cross-border exchanges.

The series of 4 Clay Seminars is:

Seminar 1: Why clay? Why now?

Date: Thursday 9th June
Time: 11 am NYC / 4 pm London

Panelists:

Dr Jareh Das – Independent curator

Susan Cross – Curator, MASS MoCA

Dr Sequoia Miller – Chief Curator & Deputy Director, Gardiner Museum

Facilitator: Clare Twomey

Seminar 2: Fragments and Dissonance

Date: Friday 10^th June

Time: 11 am NYC / 4 pm London

Kahill Irving – Artist

Ramekon O’Arwisters – Artist

Rose B Simpson – Artist

Facilitator: Linda Sormin

Seminar 3: Context and Belonging

Date: Thursday 23^rd June

Time 10 am NYC / 3 pm London

Panelists:

Nia Gautama – Artist

Neha Kudchadkar – Artist

Dr Samuel Nortey – Artist and academic

Facilitator: Tessa Peters

Seminar 4: What is the artwork?

Date: Friday 24th June
Time: 11 am NYC / 4 pm London

Panelists:

Cassils – Artist

Cath Roche – PhD researcher

Matt Smith – Artist

Facilitators:  Christie Brown & Phoebe Cummings