STATEMENT
photocredit: Maciej Bujko
Born in West Germany.
Growing up in post-socialist Poland.
Playing in rapeseed fields,
next to an abandoned collective farm.
Watching German tv-shows in the evening.
Forests and lakes.
Concrete ghosts of communism.
The shine of capitalism.
Speaking and thinking in two languages at the same time.
A colourful, absurd and incongruous world.
Growing up in post-socialist Poland.
Playing in rapeseed fields,
next to an abandoned collective farm.
Watching German tv-shows in the evening.
Forests and lakes.
Concrete ghosts of communism.
The shine of capitalism.
Speaking and thinking in two languages at the same time.
A colourful, absurd and incongruous world.
The world of cultural and material contrasts has created my personal universe.
I create sculptures, vessels and still lifes. The starting point for each work is the ceramics studio. It contains my inventory of shapes, remains and colours. I work intuitively. A game of construction, deconstruction and assembly, using turned, modelled or found elements. I bring them together to meet in one place. They are the witnesses of past events. My compositional work is dedicated to them. Another important aspect of my work is the game of balance in space between painting and sculpture. I‘m interested in contrasts, like naked clay and shiny glaze, like Warsaw and Berlin.
Anja Marschal, born 1989, Ahlen (Germany)
Exhibitions and Residencies:
07/2026 - Group show, Galerie Artbausa Crozon, France
06-09/2026 - Group show, "Forms of Meaning: Contemporary Polish Ceramics," 6th International Ceramics Triennial UNICUM, Ljubliana, Slovenia
04-06/2026 - Group show BAROCK, Centre de Céramique Contemporaine de Giroussens, France
03/2026 - Residency "Neuf kilometres" - MOLY SABATA, Sablons, France
10/2026 - Solo show "Douceur radical", Festival Sillon, France
05/2025 -09/2025- Useful Useless. 20 ans à Soisay - Une proposition signée Bernard Jordan
10/2024-02/2025 Residency Exploring Porcelain 2.0 HfG Offenbach/Hochster Porzellan Manufaktur/ Germany
10/2024- C14 PARIS, PRIX Galerie Bernard Jordan
09/2024- La Maison de la Ceramique, Dieulefit/France , Groupshow "Generation ceramique vol.14"
07/2024- Saint Quentin la Poterie/France ,Festival Européen Céramique "Terralha"
05/2024- Port de Bouc/France , Salon Art Contemporain "Hybrid Art"
05/2024- Chantemerle les Grignian /France , Terres Actuelles "Biennale de la Céramique"
03/2024- Moly Sabata, Sablons/France , Residency "La grande cuisson"11/2023- La Maison de la Ceramique, Dieulefit/France , Groupshow "KILNFEVER"
09/2022- Galerie Basia Embiricos, Paris/France, Group show „Candellight“
03/2022- Galerie Joseph, Paris/France, "1000 VASES"
07/2021-Spazio Cut, Bolzano/Italy, Duo show „Art is everyday“
06/2021- Biennale de la Ceramique Dieulefit/France, Group show „Eclectisme“
05/2019- Poznan Design Festival, Poznan/Poland, Group show „Yes scholarship“
05/2017- Porzellanwelten, Leuchtenburg/Germany, Group show „Kunst trifft Industrie“
01/2017- Staatliches Museum fur Porzellan, Selb/Germany, Group show „Kunst trifft Industrie“
09/2016-03/2017- Travel Bishkek-Berlin, along the silkroad, Reaserch project www.bishkekberlin.tumblr.com
08/2016- Eschenbach Porzellan, Triptis/Germany, Residency „Spielraum 125 “
07/2015- Bauhaus summerschool, Dessau/Germany - Residency
Education:
2022-2023 -Maison de la Céramique, Dieulefit, France, Céramiste BAC+2
2012-2016- Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany, Produkt Design, BA
2009-2012- University of Arts Poznan, Poland
Collection:
Leuchtenburg, Seltenroda, Germany
La Maison de la Céramique, Dieulefit, France