Gyeonggi Ceramics Biennale 2026: Earth Makes
Submit ceramic artworks or experimental material research for consideration in an international biennale exploring the relationship between human intention, material agency, and planetary imagination.
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- Location
- Icheon, Gwangju, and Yeoju, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
- Exhibition window
- Sep 18, 2026 → Nov 1, 2026
About
Overview
The 13th edition of the Gyeonggi Ceramics Biennale unfolds across Gyeonggi Province, South Korea's historic heartland of ceramics. Under the artistic direction of Daehyung Lee, the 2026 edition proposes a shift in how ceramics is understood: not simply as an object made by human hands, but as the result of an ongoing collaboration between human intention, material agency, environmental conditions, and planetary time.
Exhibition Concept
Earth Makes functions as both proposition and provocation, asking what changes when clay is no longer understood as a passive material awaiting artistic control, but as an active collaborator in the making of form, meaning, and memory. The main exhibition brings together artists working across sculpture, installation, moving image, sound, participatory projects, and experimental material research.
Exhibition Structure
The exhibition unfolds through three chapters—Made from Earth, Made by Earth, and Made in Earth—which move from the elemental behaviour of matter to the social and historical life of land, and onward to planetary futures, technology, and intergenerational responsibility.
Key Dates
- Exhibition: September 18 to November 1, 2026
Venues
- Main exhibition: Gyeonggi Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Icheon
- Satellite venues: Icheon, Gwangju, and Yeoju
- Theme
- The biennale explores ceramics as an active collaboration between human intention, material agency, environmental conditions, and planetary time—treating clay not as a passive material but as a co-producer of form, meaning, and memory, and engaging with questions of labour, ecology, migration, and intergenerational responsibility.
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