Temporary exhibition
winning and selected works
From July 15, 2025 to January 11, 2026
Can Tinture Museum
- Free access
Visiting hours:
- Tuesday to Friday from 5pm to 8pm
- Saturdays from 10am to 2pm and from 5pm to 8pm
- Sundays from 10am to 2pm
- Closed every Monday, the month of August, December 25 and 26 and January 1 and 6.
Guided tours available for groups with prior reservation.
Since 1986, the Esplugues City Council has organized the Vila d’Esplugues Ceramics Award with the aim of vindicating ceramics as an artistic expression. In 1998, the Ceramics Biennial took the name of Angelina Alós Tormo, one of the great ceramists linked to the city of Esplugues de Llobregat.
After almost 40 years, it has become one of the oldest ceramics biennials in Spain. This year we present the 22nd edition, with such a large participation that it consolidates its international projection.
The 36 finalist pieces are exhibited in the rooms of the Can Tinturé Museum, with a wide range of styles, materials and techniques. An exhibition such as the one that can be visited in Esplugues is an opportunity to discover contemporary ceramics as a complex and dynamic creative tool. The artistic language of ceramics allows us to give or even seek answers to the unknowns and conflicts of the current world or of the history of humanity.
The organic origin of the raw material of ceramics—earth—marks the works of many artists and gives rise to pieces that dialogue about the climate crisis or the relationship of the human species with the planet.
In other cases, the finalist artists work in a more technical line that seeks the physical limits of the material. Thus, there are works with impossible shapes or balances, experiments with enamels and materials that become never-before-seen textures.
You choose the Audience Award!
We invite you to vote for your favorite piece!
You can vote online using the link below or in the exhibition rooms with your smartphone using the QR codes.
Finalist Works
Obvara Egg Vessels I
Maria Joanna Juchnowska (Polònia, 1985)
Oslo (Noruega)
Material: Porcelain
Technique: Mixed, Raku
Firing: Obvara Cooking
Obvara Egg Vessels II
Maria Joanna Juchnowska (Polònia, 1985)
Oslo (Noruega)
Material: Porcelain
Technique: Mixed, Raku
Firing: Obvara Cooking
JDZ-271024-#
Marga Knaven (Països Baixos, 1956)
Tolkamer (Països Baixos)
Material: Coloured porcelain
Technique: Cast Coloured Folded Porcelain slab
Firing: In a gas oven at 1,250 °C
JDZ-31134-#
Marga Knaven (Països Baixos, 1956)
Tolkamer (Països Baixos)
Material: Coloured porcelain
Technique: Cast Coloured Folded Porcelain slab
Firing: In a gas oven at 1,250 °C
Tol-14325-#
Marga Knaven (Països Baixos, 1956)
Tolkamer (Països Baixos)
Material: Coloured porcelain
Technique: Cast Coloured Folded Porcelain slab
Firing: In a gas oven at 1,250 °C
Dog Rhyton
Marina Kuchinski (Letònia, 1968)
Wheaton (EUA)
Material: Porcelain, underglaze decoration
Technique: Handmade and lathe-turned
Firing: Oxidation in an electric oven
Dog Rhyton with Mouth Slightly Open
Marina Kuchinski (Letònia, 1968)
Wheaton (EUA)
Material: Porcelain, underglaze decoration
Technique: Handmade and lathe-turned
Firing: Oxidation in an electric oven
Silent Erosion
Nadine Bell (França, 1961)
Montoison (França)
Material: Porcelain with liquid paper, underglaze decoration
Technique: Enameled paper, fireclay and fiberglass paper, molded in layers, with decoration under colored glazes on a porcelain base.
Firing: 1,240 °C in an electric oven
Duality
Efstratios Zargklis (Grècia, 1986)
Egaleo (Grècia)
Material: Stoneware
Technique: Coil
Firing: Electric oven
Pièces coupées
David Carlsson (Suècia, 1977)
Göteborg (Suècia)
Material: Ceramic
Technique: Handmade
Firing: Oxidation 05
Shout o cuando del campo solo quede un grito
Eva Gomore (Espanya, 1980)
Casabermeja (Espanya)
Material: Stoneware
Technique: Plates and churros. Local clay pots
Firing: Oxidizing in an electric oven. Bisque firing at 960 °C and second firing at 1,250 °C
The world of Fungi
Natalia Abramishvili (Rússia, 1974)
Londres (Regne Unit)
Material: Stoneware, enamel, oxide
Technique: Handmade
Firing: Oxidation, 1,260 ºC
Water
Anca Ion (Romania, 1971)
El Vendrell (Espanya)
Material: Refractory, porcelain, ceramic foam
Technique: Churros and modeling
Firing: Electric firing at 1,240ºC
Breast I
Ilias Christopoulos (Grècia, 1976)
Kalamata (Grècia)
Material: Porcelain, wood, wool, rubber
Technique: Lathe molding, casting
Firing: Electric oven, 1,240 ºC
Rock (Rock)
Lora Zyuzina (Rússia, 1985)
Rueil-Malmaison (França)
Material: Clay, porcelain, glaze, pigments
Technique: The piece, made of clay, is covered with porcelain and glazed in varying sequences, creating the effect of a crusted wall.
Firing: 1,200 °C
Dream Landscape (Paisatge de somni)
Daniel Brand (EUA, 1971)
Pretòria (Sud-àfrica)
Material: Porcelain
Technique: Color encrustation and porcelain encrustation with enamel and oxidation reflections
Firing: Electric oven at 1,220 °C
Friend in the Forest I
Miki Kim / Min Kyoung Kim (Corea del Sud, 1984)
Posio (Finlàndia)
Material: Clay, glazed paper, Kanthal thread
Technique: By hand
Firing: Oxidation at 1,250 °C
Friend in the Forest II
Miki Kim / Min Kyoung Kim (Corea del Sud, 1984)
Posio (Finlàndia)
Material: Clay, glazed paper, Kanthal thread
Technique: By hand
Firing: Oxidation at 1,250 °C
Friend in the Forest III
Miki Kim / Min Kyoung Kim (Corea del Sud, 1984)
Posio (Finlàndia)
Material: Clay, glazed paper, Kanthal thread
Technique: By hand
Firing: Oxidation at 1,250 °C
Matriz
Macarena Correa Bilbao (Xile, 1981)
Providència (Xile)
Material: Porcelain
Technique: Construction with porcelain spheres
Firing: Single firing at 1,260 °C
Watching the Goats
Yanping Lu (Xina, 1993)
Cergy (França)
Material: Stoneware, fiber, enamel
Technique: Modeling, flocking
Firing: 1.240 ºC
The Impact Life has
Ricus Sebes (Països Baixos, 1969)
Sankt Goar (Alemanya)
Material: Own blend of laminated, unmixed porcelain and stoneware
Technique: Mixed techniques
Firing: Oxidation at 1,280 °C with controlled cooling of the furnace
Fragile White: Chapter 1 – 2-3
Yuhui Mao (Xina, 1998)
Jingdezhen (Xina)
Material: Rims, ceramic
Technique: Firing and scraping of ceramics with filigree (textures), decoration and folds (modeling of the work)
Firing: Cooking in an electric oven at over 1,200 °C
Vacío y plenitud
Cristina Salvans Moreso (Espanya, 1965)
Cambrils (Espanya)
Material: Translucent Chinese porcelain, paperclay, found object and threads
Technique: Immersion and brush coating
Firing: High temperature at 1,260 °C
This work has been created in collaboration with Rosa Mata, embroidery artist and author of the textile part of the piece.
Growth topology
Carlos Martínez García (Espanya, 1982)
Elda (Espanya)
Material: Pisa
Technique: Mold and construction
Firing: Electric oven at 1,050 °C
Body poetry
Mariya Alipieva Lazarova (Bulgària, 1981)
Barcelona (Espanya)
Material: Stickers with high temperature pigments on porcelain
Technique: Casting and screen printing
Firing: Oxidation in a gas oven at 1,280 °C
101. Plutònic #1
David Rosell Pérez (Espanya, 1977)
Forellac (Espanya)
Material: Ceramic pastes, frits and dyes
Technique: Crucible casting
Firing: Oxidizing at 900 °C
White Noise
Maria Loram (Rússia, 1994)
Pasadena (EUA)
Material: Ceramic, enamel
Technique: Handmade shape covered with multiple glazes created in the studio
Firing: Oxidation 6
Nest of the void
Maria Loram (Rússia, 1994)
Pasadena (EUA)
Material: Ceramic, enamel
Technique: Handmade shape covered with multiple glazes created in the studio
Firing: Oxidation 6
Geminis
Alberto Vieira (Portugal, 1956)
Braga (Portugal)
Material: Clay (sandstone) and glaze
Technique: Molds and manual modeling
Firing: Electric kiln for ceramics, 1,120 °C
Rain Forest / Instrument
Maria Geszler-Garzuly (Hongria, 1941)
Budapest (Hongria)
Material: Porcelain
Technique: Screen printing and hand painting
Firing: Reduction firing at 1,330 °C
Sentinel
Vincent B. Garnier (França, 1993)
Barcelona (Espanya)
Material: White stoneware with fine chamotte
Technique: Slab construction
Firing: Oxidation in an electric furnace at 1,240 °C
Kümmel #15 (Comí #15)
Hyunjin Kim (1982, República de Corea)
Kiel (Alemanya)
Material: Porcelain and metal shavings
Technique: Slip foundation, manual construction
Firing: Oxidation cooking
Nourished by Clouds
Magdalena Maros (Polònia, 1995)
Breslau (Polònia)
Material: Porcelain, enamel with own mixtures
Technique: Casting
Firing: Reduction, 1,250 °C
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