ceramic brussels 2025
Image: Léonore Chastagner, Untitled, stoneware, 2023. © JcLett
CRAFT
Léonore Chastagner
jury prize
Léonore Chastagner is the winner of the jury prize at ceramic brussels 2025. After studying art history and then sculpture, she developed a vocabulary of figurative forms centred on notions of intimacy, interiority and tenderness. She leaves clay untouched and adopts a craft-based approach to address the notion of expectation linked to the feminine. "Ceramics is the material of archaeological digs, of proof, of trace, of permanence, it allows me to inscribe the everyday in the long term". The artist combines feminism with art history, artefacts and the museum setting. She also integrates personal elements, echoing the practices of diaries and miniatures historically associated with women.
Image: Galerie SCENE OUVERTE, ceramic brussels 2025.
CRAFT
Galerie SCENE OUVERTE
best stand
Galerie SCENE OUVERTE received the best stand award. The jury wished to highlight the 2025 proposals and scenography by the gallery presenting works by Vincent Dubourg, Rino Claessens, Caroline Desile, Silver Sentimenti and Saraï Delfendhal. Galerie SCENE OUVERTE, located in Saint Germain des Prés in Paris, embodies the alliance between contemporary creativity and artisanal excellence. Here, beauty, craftsmanship and the sensations generated by materials converge to create a unique collection of art furniture and ceramics, available as one-off pieces or very limited editions.
Image: Sorry We're Closed, ceramic brussels 2025.
CRAFT
Sorry We're Closed
best solo show
Sorry We're Closed received the best solo show award for the presentation of Jun Kaneko. Jun Kaneko (b. 1942) is a Japanese-American artist known for his large-scale ceramic sculptures. Based in a warehouse studio in Omaha, Nebraska, Kaneko works primarily in clay to explore the effects of repeating abstract surface patterns using ceramic glaze. Sorry We're Closed is a contemporary art gallery created by Sébastien Janssen in 2008. The focus of the gallery is upon mid-career and emerging artists from Belgium and abroad. Since 2021, the gallery is located in a four hundred meter square XIX century mansion, in the heart of the historic Sablons district.
Prix Meret Oppenheim 2025
Image: Sitterwerk Foundation, St.Gallen, Swiss, founded by Felix Lehner. Pamela Rosenkranz, Our Product, Swiss Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2015. Photo: Marc Asekhame. Daniel Studer and Miroslav Šik, Musikerwohnhaus, Zürich. Photo: Christian Kerez, archipicture.eu
ART
Felix Lehner
Pamela Rosenkranz
Miroslav Šik
Prix Meret Oppenheim
The Swiss Grand Award for Art/Prix Meret Oppenheim 2025 was awarded to the art caster and creative partner Felix Lehner, the artist Pamela Rosenkranz and the architect, architectural theorist and professor Miroslav Šik. Pamela Rosenkranz is known for using synthetic materials to produce an idealised nature. Her work reflects recent, radically transformative shifts in the philosophical and scientific understanding of humanity and nature. In 2015, she represented Switzerland at the 56th Venice Biennale with a multisensory installation entitledOur Product. A viscous liquid, pink in colour and scented, permeated the Swiss Pavilion. In 2023, she revealed an important public sculpture, Old Tree, a bright red and pink form that resembles the branching systems of human organs, at New York’s High Line.
About the Prix Meret Oppenheim
CHANEL Commission at Hamburger Bahnhof
Image: Klára Hosnedlová, Performance in Berlin, 2024 © Klára Hosnedlová
ART
Klára Hosnedlová
CHANEL Commission at Hamburger Bahnhof
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart announced a major three-year partnership with the CHANEL Culture Fund. The CHANEL Commission at Hamburger Bahnhof is an annual commission that marks a new chapter in the museum’s legacy, empowering artists to realize ambitious, large-scale projects. Known for redefining the boundaries of sculpture, Berlin-based Klára Hosnedlová will inaugurate the annual series with a profoundly evocative installation exploring themes of belonging, utopia, and the rhythms of life under shifting political systems. Hosnedlová’s installation, titled embrace, will be on view from May 1 to October 26, 2025, coinciding with Berlin Gallery Weekend.
About the CHANEL Commission at Hamburger Bahnhof
2025 Serpentine Pavilion
Image: Serpentine 2025 Pavilion A Capsule in Time, designed by Marina Tabassum, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA). Design render, exterior view. Photo: © Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA). Courtesy Serpentine.
ARCHITECTURE
Marina Tabassum
Serpentine Pavilion
Serpentine has announced the selection of Bangladeshi architect and educator Marina Tabassum and her firm, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA), to design the 2025 Pavilion, with Goldman Sachs supporting the annual project for the 11th consecutive year. Titled A Capsule in Time, the proposal takes inspiration from the ephemeral nature of architecture in the Bengal Delta, incorporating a semi-transparent structure intended to evoke a sense of community and connection. The Pavilion will open to the public on 6 June 2025, marking 25 years since the Serpentine's first commission of Zaha Hadid's inaugural structure in Hyde Park in 2000.
Cooper Hewitt
2025 National Design Awards
Image: Kim Hastreiter, STUFF: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos book design. Co-published by Amazing Unlimited and Damiani, 2025. Photo: Jeremy Liebman
DESIGN
Kim Hastreiter
Design Visionary
The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s National Design Awards has named its 2025 winners. Kim Hastreiter received the Design Visionary award. Hastreiter is an artist and a multihyphenate communicator. A cultural anthropologist, Hastreiter has made a great impact by forecasting cultural movements, talents and trends and by collaborating with the art and design community to make big ideas happen. She cofounded PAPER magazine, where she covered the fields of design, art, fashion and pop culture until the magazine was sold in 2017. Her newest book, STUFF: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos, which launches in the spring of 2025, is both a memoir and a history book that is told through the stories of her material goods.