Exhibitions
Current exhibition

the eight directions of the wind

The Huntington, Los Angeles

18 October 2025–26 October 2026

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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. 

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.

 

Photography: Josh White

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Current exhibition

Useful/Beautiful

Blackwell, Bowness-on-Windermere
1 May–29 August 2026

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Useful/Beautiful marks 25 years of contemporary craft at Blackwell – The Arts & Crafts House, celebrating the makers and ideas that have shaped its collection since 2001. The exhibition includes A line around a shadow (2005) together with pieces by Magdalene Odundo, Kate Malone, and Philip Eglin, and more recent additions to the collection.

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Forthcoming exhibition

Sacred Splendor

Jewish Museum, New York

18 September 2026–7 February 2027

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Sacred Splendor: Jewish Ritual Art and Treasures from St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague opens at New York's Jewish Museum this September. The presentation builds on Fragments of Memory, a 2024 exhibition at the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau in Dresden, Germany, and its more recent 2026 iteration at the Prague Castle Riding. 

Sacred Splendor: Jewish Ritual Art and Treasures from St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague opens at New York's Jewish Museum this September. The presentation builds on Fragments of Memory, a 2024 exhibition at the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau in Dresden, Germany, and its more recent 2026 iteration at the Prague Castle Riding.

 

Photograph: Meissen plates from the von Klemperer Collection, installation view at Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau in Dresden, Germany, 2024. Photography by Martin Polàk.

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Forthcoming exhibition

Sculpture in Clay: British Ceramics 1985 to Now

V&A South Kensington, London
Opening 29 May 2027

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Focusing on the work of British artists from the mid-1980s to the present, Sculpture in Clay: British Ceramics 1985 to Now will explore how the use of clay has expanded the possibilities of sculpture, presenting the material as a potentially radical and avant-garde medium. De Waal's work will be included alongside that of other major figures. 

Focusing on the work of British artists from the mid-1980s to the present, Sculpture in Clay: British Ceramics 1985 to Now will explore how the use of clay has expanded the possibilities of sculpture, presenting the material as a potentially radical and avant-garde medium. De Waal's work will be included alongside that of other major figures.

 

Through an art historical lens, the exhibition will unfold across four chrono-thematic sections, each examining how artists have reinterpreted, subverted, and challenged conventional ceramic practice to create novel works. Each section will include key works and be supported by the voices of the artists themselves. Incorporating a number of major installations alongside discrete individual pieces, the exhibition will present the work of a number of significant artists including Jacqueline Poncelet, Antony Gormley, Edmund de Waal, Richard Deacon and Clare Twomey.

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Exhibition

Fragments of Memory

Prague Castle Riding School

27 March–26 July 2026

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Fragments of Memory: The Treasury of St. Vitus Cathedral in the Mirror of Contemporary Art was on view at Prague Castle Riding School. The exhibition, previously shown at Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden, in 2024, brought contemporary artworks including de Waal's irrkunst into dialogue with objects from the treasury of St. Vitus Cathedral. 

Fragments of Memory: The Treasury of St. Vitus Cathedral in the Mirror of Contemporary Art was on view at Prague Castle Riding School. The exhibition, previously shown at Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden, in 2024, brought contemporary artworks including de Waal's irrkunst into dialogue with objects from the treasury of St. Vitus Cathedral.

 

Photography: © Prague Castle Administration, Connor – Janďourek, 2026

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