Exhibitions
Current exhibition

Playing with Fire: Edmund de Waal and Axel Salto

Kunstsilo, Kristiansand, Norway

27 September 2024–2 March 2025

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Playing with Fire, a collaboration between Edmund de Waal, CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark and Kunstsilo in Norway, is now open at the Kunstsilo before its final stop at The Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in 2025.


Playing with Fire, a collaboration between Edmund de Waal, CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark and Kunstsilo in Norway, is now open at the Kunstsilo before its final stop at The Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in 2025.

This exhibition brings 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 are being 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: Tor Simen Ulstein

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Current exhibition

British Studio Pottery and the V&A

Victoria & Albert Museum, London

28 October 2024–28 September 2025

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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.

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Current exhibition

Memory & Migration

The Warburg Institute, London

2 October–20 December 2024

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To mark the completion of the Warburg Renaissance project and the opening of the Institute’s new gallery space, Memory & Migration presents a selection of objects from the collection that explore its interwoven histories of movement and survival. Included in the exhibition is Edmund de Waal's library of exile, which has been donated to the institute.

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Current exhibition

Golds

Ordovas, London

4 October–13 December 2024

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Opening soon at Ordovas, London, is Golds, an exhibition exploring one of the most symbolic colours in the history of art, and how it has been used and represented in the work of significant artists from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. De Waal's 2022 piece, K. 314, will be a part of the show.

Opening soon at Ordovas, London, is Golds, an exhibition exploring one of the most symbolic colours in the history of art, and how it has been used and represented in the work of significant artists from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. De Waal's 2022 piece, K. 314, will be a part of the show.

Installation photography: Stuart Burford

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Current exhibition

Mind the Gap: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Georgia Museum of Art

21 September–1 December 2024

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De Waal's 2023 piece Letters to Amherst, II, is currently on view at the Georgia Museum of Art as part of their current exhibition highlighting recent acquisitions to the permanent collection.

De Waal's 2023 piece Letters to Amherst, II, is currently on view at the Georgia Museum of Art as part of their current exhibition highlighting recent acquisitions to the permanent collection.

Photography: Alzbeta Jaresova

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Featured exhibition

The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain

Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

11 May–20 October 2024

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The Shape of Things, at Pallant House Gallery, questioned the idea that still life is a lesser genre, showing how important it is to artists and society.

The Shape of Things, at Pallant House Gallery, questioned the idea that still life is a lesser genre, showing how important it is to artists and society.

De Waal's 2021 piece September Song, II, was on display alongside works by Hurvin Anderson, Vanessa Bell, Edward Burra, Patrick Caulfield, Lucian Freud, Gluck, Duncan Grant, Richard Hamilton, Mona Hatoum, Jann Haworth, David Hockney, Lee Miller, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, William Nicholson, Eric Ravilious, Anwar Jalal Shemza, William Scott, Walter Sickert, Stanley Spencer, Rachel Whiteread and Clare Woods. The exhibition looked at how these artists have used traditional art history to express the complexities of the human condition.

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Featured exhibition

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Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
14 June–10 August 2024

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This exhibition included both the largest free-standing clay vessels that Edmund de Waal has ever created, and a large-scale pavilion titled there are still songs to sing beyond mankind, 2024.

This exhibition included both the largest free-standing clay vessels that Edmund de Waal has ever created, and a large-scale pavilion titled there are still songs to sing beyond mankind, 2024.

Photography: def image

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Featured exhibition

Fragments of Memory

Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden

16 March–8 September 2024

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Fragments of Memory. The Treasury of St Vitus Cathedral in Prague in Dialogue with Edmund de Waal, Josef Koudelka and Julian Rosefeld was on show at Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden. The exhibition included de Waal's 2016 large-scale installation irrkunst.

Fragments of Memory. The Treasury of St Vitus Cathedral in Prague in Dialogue with Edmund de Waal, Josef Koudelka and Julian Rosefeld was on show at Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden. The exhibition included de Waal's 2016 large-scale installation irrkunst.

Photography: Martin Polák

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