Curator: Jihyun Kim

2126: A Ceramic Odyssey is a curated exhibition that imagines the future of ceramics through the lens of bio-futurism. The exhibition explores how ceramic practice might evolve in the year 2126, in a world where human ingenuity, living organisms, and material intelligence are deeply intertwined.

The exhibition presents works by contemporary ceramic artists whose practices already push beyond conventional material boundaries. Their ceramic forms appear otherworldly and ethereal, provoking curiosity and wonder, inviting viewers to question how these objects are made and what materials they used. Through experimental craftsmanship and innovative material languages, the artists reinterpret nature, biological systems, and organisms in ways that align with bio-futuristic thinking.

Each artist is reimagined by both the curator and the artists themselves, as a future maker in 2126. The works speculate on how ceramic objects might be formed in a future where humans collaborate with living organisms, creating symbiotic, sustainable, and continuously evolving environments. In this imagined future, ceramics are no longer motionless objects but hybrid being that blur the boundaries between the natural, the technological, and the biological.

2126: A Ceramic Odyssey invites audiences to step inside a speculative future of ceramics. These works encourage viewers to imagine what the future might look like through the lens of clay, expanding perceptions of ceramics as a medium with limitless possibilities. The exhibition proposes ceramics as a material capable of transforming into anything, shaping worlds, ecosystems, and futures yet to be imagined.

Exhibiting artists: Jihyun Kim, Toni Losey, Uriel Caspi, Tessa Eastman, Eiair (Hassakorn Hirunsirichoke)