
De Waal's piece some dreams of speaking is on view as part of the Museum Voorlinden's current exhibition The Life of Things. This exhibition examines what the objects around us convey, about our relationships, systems, and the meanings we create through them.
De Waal's piece some dreams of speaking is on view as part of the Museum Voorlinden's current exhibition The Life of Things. This exhibition examines what the objects around us convey, about our relationships, systems, and the meanings we create through them.
Photography: Collection Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands / Photographer: Antoine van Kaam

This year-long exhibition unfolds across three locations at The Huntington: the Art Gallery, the Chinese Garden and the Japanese Garden. De Waal presents a series of new site-specific installations exploring memory, cultural exchange and the movement of ideas through porcelain and place.

The Hepworth Wakefield is the final stop for this touring exhibition, curated by Edmund de Waal and bringing together his own work and that of acclaimed Danish ceramicist, Axel Salto.
The Hepworth Wakefield is the final stop for this touring exhibition, curated by Edmund de Waal and bringing together his own work and that of acclaimed Danish ceramicist, Axel Salto.
The exhibition was the result of a collaboration between Edmund de Waal, CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark and Kunstsilo in Norway. Starting at CLAY in Middelfart, Denmark, it toured to the Kunstsilo in September 2024.
This exhibition brought together a significant number of Salto’s ceramic works from the CLAY Museum and The Tangen Collection at Kunstsilo, the world’s largest collection of Nordic modernist art. Salto’s ceramics were shown alongside his lesser-known and unseen works on paper, illustrations, writings and textiles, and a major new installation by de Waal which reflects on Salto’s enduring influence.
“Axel Salto is one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. He created a unique body of ceramic work that continues to fascinate me. His sculptures seem to be on the point of change: glazes are caught in flux. Vases swell as if to burst. He cared about the ways that patterns change course, shift energies, how an animal becomes a person, a man metamorphoses into a stag. Ovid ran powerfully through his life. That moment of change, transformation, is the moment when poetry occurs.”
- Edmund de Waal
Photography: Photo by Peter Leth-Larsen © Axel Salto/VISDA

Edmund de Waal’s 2025 piece Arcanum was featured in Seven Heavenly Senses, the first contemporary art exhibition drawn from The Al Thani Collection, on view at the Hôtel de la Marine, Paris.
Edmund de Waal’s 2025 piece Arcanum was featured in Seven Heavenly Senses, the first contemporary art exhibition drawn from The Al Thani Collection, on view at the Hôtel de la Marine, Paris.
Curated by Olivier Berggruen, the exhibition brought together approximately forty works from antiquity to the present day inviting visitors to consider how figuration, craft and memory resonate across cultures and time. Structured around the theme of the seven senses, including lesser-known vestibular and proprioceptive senses, the exhibition offered a sensory meditation on balance, perception and embodiment. De Waal’s Arcanum appeared alongside works by artists including Adrian Ghenie, Cornelia Parker, Salman Toor and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. A specially commissioned soundscape by Zsela acted as a connective thread, highlighting the exhibition’s immersive and reflective tone.
Photography: Marc Domage