It's that time again! The Keramikerportrait, an all-day presentation workshop of a special kind with rarity value, is once again an exclusive program item of the "Internationalen Keramiktage Oldenburg" this year. The portrait offers interested parties the unique opportunity to experience outstanding artists of contemporary ceramics and the international ceramics world, who are rarely shown in this country, live at work - with work demonstrations and stories of their very personal artistic development.

This year, ceramicists Oliver Neu (D) and Job Heykamp (NL) will be guests.

The one-day workshop will take place from 10.00 - 16.00 hrs.
Thevenue is the Werkschule e.V. Oldenburg, Rosenstraße 41, 26122 Oldenburg.
The participation fee is 60 euros (incl. lunch).
Please register for the event by sending an e-mail to info@werkschule.de or use our course booking form at the following link and select the course "Ceramic Portrait".

Oliver Neu, born in 1992, began his ceramic work with an apprenticeship as a ceramist in Essen. He then completed further training to become a state-certified ceramic designer at the technical college in Höhr-Grenzhausen and graduated as a master craftsman in 2021. In his animal sculptures made of porcelain and building clay, which appear both naturalistic and alienated and abstract, he deliberately uses cracks, fractures and empty spaces to create a disruption to the smooth surface. Oliver Neu stages the interplay between the fragile, constructive elements of the animal's body and the broken shell in an exciting way. His sometimes dystopian-looking sculptures challenge us to rethink our image of animals and our relationship to them beyond the logic of modern exploitation.

Dutch ceramist Job Heykamp, born in 1954, came to ceramics in the 1980s after a first life as a social worker, where he completed his training at the ceramics college in Gouda. His works reflect multi-layered themes from Heykamp's surroundings - rural life and nature, mixed with his own memories and experiences. Using wood ash glazes and sgraffito techniques that he produces himself, he inscribes painterly narratives and emotional landscapes on the surfaces of his vessels. Color and movement play an essential role - the movement at work as rhythm, as well as a mental movement that expresses itself in the process. This results in condensed images and structures that are open to very different interpretations.