Exhibitions | Invited Artists 2025

'Fragility'

Paula Bastiaansen [Netherlands]

Art Nouveau Museum
18th October 2025 to 18th January 2026

“I explore movement, rhythm, fragility, and transparency through Chinese bone china, selected for its delicate texture. The process is intuitive and unfolds from sketching to detailed manual work, seeking to achieve tactile pieces with multiple layers of meaning.”

From red to red

Heitor Figueiredo [Portugal]

Former Captaincy of Aveiro's Port Gallery 18th October 2025 to 18th January 2026

“This exhibition is, in my intention, a retrospective of my work. From the first works, glazed red clay, to the large XL formats. I followed a path passing through other pastes and techniques in between, returning once again to red clay. A 360º rotation. I almost intended to tittle the exhibition “From red to red”.

Initially I used a lot of enamel and drawing, fascinated by color, drawing and working with the kiln and its results, contrasting with the latest works in which form, textures and the recording of places are the most important.”

Healers and Fire Sourcerers

Carlos Olivera [Peru]

Galeria da Pedra, Museum of Aveiro / Santa Joana
18th October 2025 to 18th January 2026

An exhibition that encompasses two disciplines: ceramics and drawing. The ceramics are a series of medium- and large-format pieces created in 2023 that speak of spiritual stages. The drawings, made in 2025, evoke ancient symbols that speak of the human being as a link in the great universal chain.

Fotografia: Mário Marnoto | Costa Nova – Grestel
Fotografia: Mário Marnoto | Costa Nova – Grestel
Fotografia: Mário Marnoto | Costa Nova – Grestel
Fotografia: Mário Marnoto | Costa Nova – Grestel

Heliotropism: from the Black center that is everything

Lisa Barbosa [Portugal]

ESTAÇÃO | Former Train Station
18th October 2025 to 18th January 2026

The extension and verticality of a black field presents the idea of ​​community and belonging through a group of flowers that cohabit. At first, feelings of security and familiarity guide attention to the collective and its inherent common characteristics – the movement in search of Light.

By contrast, on the opposite side, we notice the singular and its individual experience, a flower where, close to its roots, its infinite possibilities of transformation rest.

Attempts at growth, evolution and new forms of life are, for a moment, limited to blind devotion. With the flowers, emotions become real and more palpable.

In this exhibition, the wall that separates the domestic circle from the public is broken, exposing their disturbing oppositions and similarities, confronting them until their dilution. A message of affective reciprocity where the sculptural elements make us question the roles of all those involved in interpersonal relationships – the Self, the Other and the environment in which we are inserted and create.

Fusion of Visions

IAC – BENELUX Collective

City Museum
18th October 2025 to 18th de January 2026

25 artists from Benelux, all members of the highly reputed Internationale Academy of Ceramic (IAC), are proud to present their work in this unique travelling exhibition. Through the fusion of their diverse visions and artistic approaches, these ceramists are reinforcing the place of ceramics in contemporary art.

 

Artists – Ann Van Hoey [BE]; Beatrijs van Rheeden [NL]; Caroline Andrin [BE]; Cecil Kemperink [NL]; Deirdre McLoughlin [NL]; Doris Becker [LU]; Ellen van der Woude [LU]; Fabienne Withofs [BE]; Jean-Claude Legrand [BE]; Joëlle Swanet [BE]; Marga Knaven [NL]; Maria ten Kortenaar [NL]; Marie-Josée Comello [NL]; Marieke Pauwels [BE]; Mieke Everaet [BE]; Nathalie Doyen [BE]; Patty Wouters [BE]; Paula Bastiaansen [NL]; Piet Stockmans [BE]; Ricus Sebes [NL]; Sonja Top [NL]; Swanica Ligtenberg [NL]; Tjok Dessauvage [BE]; Willy van Bussel [NL]; Yves Malfliet [BE].

Ceramic Europe

AEuCC

Praça da República
18th October to 21st November 2025

The diversity and specificities of European ceramic production are brought to the public space, and displayed in the República Square. Organized by the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation “Cities of Ceramics”, this graphic exhibition shows the reality the represented countries. A tour that expresses the ceramic identity of each country, based on a vast cultural heritage, the fruit of a long and rich past, and which is reflected in current production, envisioning a sustainable future.

Múltiples

Escola de Arquitetura, Arte e Design da Universidade do Minho
Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa
Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo

Rossio
18th October 2025 to 18th January 2026

The old ceramics factories of Aveiro, now present only in the memory of the city’s urban space, served as the theme for the work developed by the three Portuguese academies and resulted in the Múltiplos project.

The starting point is the perception of a module as an element that repeats, overlaps and complements itself. Being present in the ceramic production process, it provides a multiplicity of forms and can result in distinct, unique compositions, where clay on its own or in dialogue with other materials, such as textiles or metal, is the dominant note.

The three installations, created by students and teachers, materialize this principle and reinterpret the landscape of the old ceramic industry in the city of Aveiro.

Poetry of Form. Dreams

Nuria Figueiredo

Atlas Aveiro
18th October 2025 to 18th January 2026

The project “The Poetry of Form” combines the written word and the ceramic creation through the hands of the artist Nuria Figueiredo. The texts about “Dreams” were transformed into works of art that evoke lullabies.

Fotografia: Nuria Figueiredo

Organism in the ornament

Charlotte Moore, John Pender Kazior, Inna Zrajaeva

Art Nouveau Museum
18th October 2025 to 18th January 2026

Ceramic tiles inspired by local Arte Nova architecture and the species living in Aveiro’s lagoon. The project, resulting from the artistic residency that took place in the framework of the Art Nouveau. A new EUtopia project, revives the facade as a site of storytelling. Telling new tales of coexistence, extinction, and our rapidly changing relationship to nature

Air CreArt 3.0

Bárbara do Rosário & Oksana Sobol

City Museum
18th October 2025 to 18th January 2026

Innovating in tile’ making, and addressing contemporary topics without losing sight of local production long tradition was the challenge launched to artists Bárbara do Rosário [Aveiro] and Oksana Sobol [Lviv, Ukraine] for the artistic residency of the CreArt 3.0 project.

The residency, carried out between May and June 2025, took place at Fábrica Aleluia Cerâmicas, combining artistic creation with an industrial context.