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Kati Jünger

  • Ceramicist
  • Laufen, Germany
  • Master Artisan
Kati Jünger Ceramicist
Contact
German, English
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+49 8682956678
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Capturing the transience of life

  • • Kati collects all sorts of objects in order to re-use them
  • • Her works attempt to capture the transience of life
  • • She likes to combine different materials with ceramics

At the young age of 16, Kati Jünger found her way into crafts. “Being raised in a family of artists, there was no alternative but to focus on my creative potential,” she says. Ceramics provided a fertile ground for expression, and she has always taken inspiration from nature "and the transience of life and things”. So you might meet her wandering along a riverbank or at a flea market, searching for objects whose primary life has come to an end, but whose second life is waiting. Embedded in the aesthetics of ancient Asian ceramics, Kati's guiding principle is to attempt to capture and overcome the transience of life through replication and rearrangement.

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Works

  • © Volker Schütz
  • © Volker Schütz
  • © Volker Schütz
  • © Kati Jünger
  • © Kati Jünger
Photo: © Volker Schütz
Vase

This classically shaped vase is made of stoneware turned on a potter’s wheel. Ornaments depicting animals such as a stag, dogs and fish, as well as human figures, including the Virgin Mary and farmers, were then applied to the surface and painted before being fired.

Height 55 cm
Diameter 23 cm

Photo: © Volker Schütz
Vase II

Pieces of multicoloured clay were applied to the classical stoneware vase shaped on a potter’s wheel. The result is a surface effect resembling that of a mosaic.

Height 60 cm
Diameter 25 cm

Photo: © Volker Schütz
Teapot

Kati moulded this yellow ceramic teapot from stoneware. She decorated the surface with different coloured glazes then set a ceramic object on the side, encasing it in epoxy resin.

Height 9.5 cm
Width 13 cm

Photo: © Kati Jünger
Cup

Kati shaped this cup on a potter’s wheel, then decorated the surface with images evoking the designs on classical Chinese porcelain, such as an orange stork-like bird.

Height 10 cm
Diameter 8.5 cm

Photo: © Kati Jünger
Bowl

This porcelain bowl was turned on a potter’s wheel then decorated with an abstract landscape inspired by patterns found on classical Chinese ceramics.

Height 8 cm
Diameter 18 cm

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