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
untitled (brightness falls from the air), 2024, is now on view at Galerie Max Hetzler's Window Gallery at Goethestraße 2/3, Berlin.
untitled (brightness falls from the air), 2024, is now on view at Galerie Max Hetzler's Window Gallery at Goethestraße 2/3, Berlin.
Photography: def image
Edmund de Waal is part of a new international group exhibition at Kunstmuseum Appenzell, Switzerland, exploring the role of ceramics in contemporary art. The exhibition includes works from his 2023 series elegie; the largest vessels he has ever made.
Edmund de Waal is part of a new international group exhibition at Kunstmuseum Appenzell, Switzerland, exploring the role of ceramics in contemporary art. The exhibition includes works from his 2023 series elegie; the largest vessels he has ever made.
Curated by Stefanie Gschwend and Felicity Lunn, the show brings together artists for whom ceramics is central to their practice, investigating the sculptural potential of the medium and its relationship to painting, sculpture and craft.
Photography: Exhibition view, Sound of the Earth. Ceramic in Contemporary Art, 25.5.-14.9.2025, Kunstmuseum Appenzell, photo: Sebastien Verdon
Galerie Max Hetzler presents Potential Colour, a group exhibition in their gallery at 41 Dover Street London. Edmund de Waal's 2023 piece a house full of music, II, features in the exhibition alongside works by Darren Almond, Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Günther Förg, Hans Josephsohn, KAWS, Albert Oehlen, Rebecca Warren and Grace Weaver.
A selection of works by Edmund de Waal from the V&A collection are included in this exhibition which explores the museum's collecting and exhibiting of studio pottery from the movement's beginnings to the present day.
A selection of works by Edmund de Waal from the V&A collection are included in this exhibition which explores the museum's collecting and exhibiting of studio pottery from the movement's beginnings to the present day.
Installation photography: © Victoria and Albert Museum
Edmund de Waal’s 2025 piece Arcanum will be 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 will be 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 brings 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 offers a sensory meditation on balance, perception and embodiment. De Waal’s Arcanum appears alongside works by artists including Adrian Ghenie, Cornelia Parker, Salman Toor and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. A specially commissioned soundscape by Zsela acts as a connective thread, highlighting the exhibition’s immersive and reflective tone.
Photography: Alzbeta Jaresova
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