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Article by Isabel Maria
The New Age of Artistic Ceramics will be at Oeiras Ceramic Art 2025 from may 16 to 19 of October. Answer Call until 14 July.
Between ancestral gesture and contemporary design, Portuguese ceramics are reborn as a creative expression, sustainable and identity and connects tradition and contemporaneity. In recent years, Artistic Ceramics has gained a new centrality in the universe of visual arts, design and contemporary manual practices. We decided to explore why, In this article.
Of a know-how often associated with tradition and ancestral craft, Ceramics are reborn today and binds to a creative expression, emotional and sensory, and is part of the trends of contemporary handicraft, do authorial design and from Material sustainability.
This revaluation, which is intended to show in Another edition of Oeiras Ceramic Art, beyond heritage Portuguese ceramic is also driven by several other factors of the current that we try to dissect and enumerate.
The search for authenticity
In times marked by mass production, Artificial intelligence and growing digital dematerialization, Ceramics is imposed as a sensitive and conscious response. The public, are collectors, Curious designers or consumers - increasingly values unique objects, soulful, hand -made, with time and intention. This one returning to gesture and matter is not just an aesthetic tendency, It is a cultural choice: represents the demand for authenticity, for real stories and a more direct connection. In contemporary artistic ceramic, Each piece is an act of resistance to the ephemeral and impersonal.
Culture of well-being and presence
In a accelerated and saturated world of digital stimuli, Ceramics allows a rare break: A tactile experience, concrete and deeply human. Workshops and practical experiences become creative and therapeutic escapes, where the simple gesture of shaping the clay invites to concentration, to patience and inner silence. The ceramic practice is, for many, A form of active meditation, an exercise of full presence, where the body, Mind and Matter are at the same pace. This reunion with manual doing contributes to emotional well-being and reinforces the importance of sensory experiences in contemporary daily life.
Global aesthetic trend and quality requirement
Ceramics won a prominent place in galleries, design fairs, concept stores and digital platforms around the world. Beyond your raw aesthetics, imperfect and tactile, that seduces interior designers, chefs, collectors and luxury brands, There is a growing demand for pieces that express not only beauty, but also excellence in execution. In a global market saturated with imitations, Quality has become an unenforceable value. Ceramics is affirmed, like this, as a language of distinction and authenticity: Each piece has the responsibility of affirmation of know-how, sensitivity and commitment to time.
Creative empowerment
Increasingly young artists, designers and self -taught exploit ceramics as a means of plastic expression, crossing it with sculpture, Performance and Installation. Although there are numerous techniques, all demanding and of great technical and sensory value, The truth is that, with few tools and a simple but structured orientation, It is possible to quickly feel the genuine pleasure of shaping matter. It is in this direct contact with the clay that many discover a deep form of expression, almost meditative, where gesture becomes creation.
Positioning of ceramics in the current
Contemporary ceramic is thus positioned, today, between the Artistic field, o functional design it's at identity cultural exploitation. It is simultaneously a product and a narrative - on the territory, the materials, gestures and people. In Portugal, This movement gains strength with the work of independent ceramists, ateliers and factories that cross innovation with the legacy.
Events such as Oeiras Ceramic Art materialize this new place of ceramics: as accessible art, as a meeting platform between creators and public, and as a vital part of the cultural and economic regeneration of manual practices.
2.ª Edition of the exhibition Oeiras Ceramic Art 2025: from may 16 to 19 October in the Temple of Poetry
The 2nd edition of Oeiras Ceramic Art is held in the emblematic Poetry Temple, Cultural Space icon of the Poetas Park, nature, creativity and culture in one place. The event aims to affirm itself as one of the main contemporary ceramic exhibitions in Portugal, promoting ceramic art through exhibitions, workshops, masterclasses, talks and consulting sessions for emerging ceramists and a novelty – Thematic Talks focused on Business Consulting, especially designed for ceramists at the beginning of their career or at the stage of development, with presentation of valuable guidelines and tips to boost projects.
More than an exhibition, This initiative is a sharing platform, valorization and promotion of national and international artistic ceramics, focusing on quality, Technical rigor and aesthetic innovation.
Call Open for Ceramist Artists
It is open to Call for national and international artists - Ceramists, designers, architects and sculptors - who work ceramic as an artistic expression.
Proposals are sought with strong identity, IMPROCABLE QUALITY AND TECHNICAL RIGOR. Porcelain works are accepted, sandstone, traditional clay and other ceramic techniques, valuing both innovative and traditional methods, Focusing on design, Aesthetics and Purpose.
Registrations until 14 July | RESULTS A 24 July
Participate by loading at the link and show your work on this platform that celebrates manual art!
Oeiras ceramic art ambassadors 2025
Anna Westerlund grew between Portugal and Sweden, two cultures that influence your artistic look. After an international career as a model, exchanged marketing for ceramics, forming-se no ar.co. Em 2012, Created your own studio and brand, today recognized both in Portugal and internationally, with pieces exposed in the MoMA (new York) and at the RévéLations Fair (Paris). His work is distinguished by the combination of artisanal ceramic with unexpected and poetic details, and is available in your store in Chiado and reference stores. She is also the mother of four, reconciling family life with its continuous creative search.
Flavia Pircher He has been a ceramist two decades ago, With atelier in Vinhedo, São Paulo. He holds a master's degree in Visual Arts from USP and is part of a research group on contemporary ceramic printing at the University of Buenos Aires. With pedagogy formation, Right, VISUAL ARTS AND MYDIALOGY, built an international career, Participating in artistic homes in Japan, India, Austria, Germany and Taiwan. He exposed his work at prestigious events such as the Buenos Aires Biennial, In Galeria La Pigna No Vatican and O or Carrousel du Louvre, in Paris. Beyond artistic creation, It is also dedicated to training, With workshops and online classes.
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Joana Beirão He is an architect and Portuguese interior designer with more than 30 years of experience in rehabilitation and renewal projects that value the identity and authenticity of spaces. Founder and Responsible for Marketing and Partnerships of the Portugal Platform, combines design with storytelling and industrial tourism to promote national production. With a deeply linked course to design, the appreciation of the territory and the promotion of knowledge to do Portuguese, its presence reinforces the link between artistic ceramic, Contemporary cultural design and cultural identity, since it has been an active voice also in the dissemination of ceramics as an accessible creative practice, sustainable and transformative. With complementary training in management, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Design Thinking, It is also co-founder of Studio Easydecor, where it creates innovative interior design solutions. Your work combines creativity, strategy and technique with a contemporary and sustainable view of Portuguese design and culture.
The Temple of Poetry
Part of Park two poets, The Temple of Poetry is a multifunctional building with auditorium, Exhibition spaces, Restaurant and Balcony with panoramic views on the Tagus estuary and the Atlantic Ocean. It is the ideal place to welcome the Oeiras Ceramic Art, a show that celebrates creativity, Contemporary culture and ceramic.
The Poet Park is a unique equipment located in Oeiras and whose geographical circumstances, environmental and cultural ones make it one of the largest and most beautiful in the world. It is a large open -air metaphor, The raw material of a great poem whose verses were fabrics and written in the perfect dialogue between landscape, poetry and sculpture.
Portugal's involvement is good
PORTUGAL PLATFORM Makes Bem is a partner in the dissemination and promotion of Oeiras Ceramic Art 2025, highlighting the knowledge of Portuguese ceramics and its connection to heritage, Industry and Design. Through your mapping and content, expands the reach of the event for national and international hearings, integrating it into the cultural and industrial tourism strategy in Portugal.
It is this way, which Portugal Faz Bem Expands the scope of Oeiras Ceramic Art, making it accessible to national and international hearings and integrate it into the cultural and industrial tourism strategy of Portugal.
Oeiras Ceramic Art 2025
Dates: 16–19 October 2025
Schedule: Fifth -Sabbath 11h - 20h; Domingo 11h–19h
LOCAL: Poetry Temple, Park two poets, Oeiras
Prohibited: Book
