NÉMA Júlia

Júlia Néma is a Ferenczy Noémi Award-winning porcelain and ceramic artist, a defining figure of the Hungarian and international ceramic art scene. Her artistic creed was shaped by significant Eastern and Western experiences: Far Eastern aesthetics, European design and Hungarian ceramic art traditions prevail simultaneously in her artistic practice, which was historically shaped by minimal art, constructivism and conceptualism. Her masters include painter and sculptor János Fajó and ceramic artist and kiln designer, Frederick L. Olsen.

Néma, also awarded with the Hungarian Design Award, always widens the boundaries of the thousands of years of traditional ceramic art, and seeks new ways in its aesthetics and technical possibilities. Her work pushes the boundaries of ceramic art: as a result of long research and experimental processes, she reveals the raw materials and physical components of her works and transforms them into her personal artistic media. Materials and their mutual influence play a central role in her oeuvre. She believes that materials drawn from nature have radiance, presence, and spirituality, in connection with the historicity of the environment from which they originate.