CeramikFest - Ceramic Festival

Foto: Czesław Chwiszczuk

We invite you on a journey—into white and its many shades, into memories of artists, factories, and a ceramic material that is extremely demanding yet extraordinarily beautiful: porcelain.

The exhibition Porcelain, Yet Different bears witness to the creativity and talents of ceramic artists, as well as to friendship, collaboration, and the time spent in shared creative play. During the international Porcelain Differently symposia, artists from all over the world gathered to work with and experiment on porcelain. They worked in now-defunct factories of Lower Silesia: Książ, Wałbrzych, Krzysztof, Karolina, as well as in Jedlina. This was easy at the time—porcelain flowed through pipes and could be scooped up by the handful from industrial carts. The support of factory crews, continuous kiln firings, and spacious working environments formed the recipe for free artistic expression, experimentation, new projects, and realizations without limitations.

The factories themselves were not the only phenomenon of these open-air workshops—their true essence lay in the artists: the exchange of experiences among artistic personalities from different corners of the world, evening gatherings with slide shows and presentations of each artist’s work, shared labor, new acquaintances and friendships, and the opportunity to observe one another’s “tricks” and techniques. The heart and soul of the symposia was Anna Malicka-Zamorska, founder and long-time president of the symposium, whom we bid farewell with great sorrow in December 2025.

As recently as September 2025, the first edition of the exhibition was organized at Sarny Castle; the present one is already being prepared without Anna.

Unfortunately, we did not make it in time…

With her in mind, with the co-creators from the Wrocław-based group of ceramic artists “Not Only Us”, and with many wonderful creators who are no longer among us, the CeramikFest Foundation—together with artists, heirs, and collectors who have agreed to join us—invites you to a retrospective exhibition. We are all here together—with objects created during those past workshops, as well as with small works, sketches, and porcelain gifts that we have carefully preserved over all these years. Joining us are the Unikat Foundation and private collectors, whose passion reveals a deep love for ceramics and a desire to share it with the public.

The exhibition is accompanied by the promotion of the album 36 Years of MSC Porcelain Differently, published in August 2025 and edited by Anna Zamorska, who remained devoted to her treasure—porcelain—to the very end.

Exhibition dates: 01.02 – 08.03.2026

Finissage: 08.03.2026, 6:00 PM

Venue: BULVARY

ul. Księcia Witolda 11–29, unit no. 4

Wrocław