I am not a ceramicist in the conventional sense. My work is not about making vessels; it is about an intimate dialogue with living matter. For me, the potter’s wheel is not a craftsman's tool, but a medium of transformation – a space where rotation, gravity, and the force of human hands collide in a struggle for form. I celebrate deliberate imperfection, raw textures, and the raw energy of the moment when formless clay escalates into a monumental sculptural presence.
The geologic memory of Bechyně stripped to its absolute, vulnerable core. The heart of the vessel is formed by raw, unfired chamotte clay—the fragile genesis of a monumental amphora form. A radical choice driven by pure instinct, standing on the edge of structural collapse. Created as the final, crucial fragment for the solo exhibition Life of Vessel at GALALI | Museum of Fine Arts Liberec, this work rejects physical permanence to preserve the raw, endangered essence of the material.
SPECIFICATIONS
Context: Solo exhibition Life of Vessel at GALALI | Museum of Fine Arts Liberec
Curator: Vendula Fremlová
Material: Unfired chamotte clay core, raw earth elements
Dimensions: H 100 cm × Ø 70 cm (in raw state)
Status: Unique piece / One of eight monolithic fragments from the GALALI installation
Production: Mobile Ceramic Studio (MCSTUDIO)
Photography: Matěj Kania
The weight of silence and absolute discipline. Positioned face-to-face with historical stone monuments, these vessels serve as a living code—Bushido. No decorative noise, no glazes. The surface is formed by an intense, layered spraying of satured earth pigments under varied air pressures. Every raw texture is a record of a single, decisive moment, transforming high-fired earth into silent, monumental warriors of space.
SPECIFICATIONS
Context: Solo installation at the Lapidarium of the National Museum, Prague
Technology: Unique "KA" methodology – structural layering of earth pigments under high pressure
Material: Hand-thrown terracotta, raw earth elements, satured mineral pigments
Firing Temperature: 1180 °C
Dimensions (Series Range): H 460 – 700 mm × Ø 300 – 450 mm
Curator: Filip Suchomel
Status: Limited series / Unique monolithic archetypes
Photography: BoysPlayNice
A synthesis of elemental sculpture and the photographic medium. The brutal baseline of the vessel becomes a canvas for an experimental photographic emulsion—capturing frozen cinematic motifs. These works do not wear decoration; they hold an embedded visual memory, fusing the permanence of high-fired clay with the fleeting, dramatic fragments of a lens.
SPECIFICATIONS
Material: High-fired clay elements, experimental photographic emulsion, metallic oxides
Emulsion Technology & Master Printer: Jan Mahr
Dimensions & Art Collaborations: The Sinking Girl (Vessel) — Art collaboration with Alžběta Jungrová: H 60 cm × Ø 35 cm
The Ear of Wheat (Vase) — Art collaboration with Jan Mahr: H 95 cm × Ø 27 cm
The Blade of Grass (Bowl) — Art collaboration with Jan Mahr: H 28 cm]× Ø 63 cm
Status: Limited cinematic series / Unique art collaborations
Photography (Web context): Matěj Kania
Born from clay is divine. Sea foam is for little ones, great men grow from clay. A radical re-evaluation of the supreme prehistoric archetype—the Venus of Dolní Věstonice. This work serves as the opening monument of an ongoing geographic research, where the iconic female form is stripped to its raw essence. Created as the first piece of the series, captured in the dark, cinematic atmosphere of the newly established INtheSHADOW studio.
SPECIFICATIONS
Context: Summer exhibition 2025 at Chateau Mikulov & Chateau Bechyně
Concept: Earth Archetypes / European Clay Research (Part I)
Material: Dark manganese clay, mineral oxide wash
Dimensions: H 73 cm × Ø 44 cm
Status: Unique piece / First edition of the Venus series
Creative Production: INtheSHADOW studio
Photography: Václav Peták
The architecture of a vessel remains the absolute foundation of my artistic vision. Following the raw terracotta monoliths of LAPIDARIUM and the process-driven alchemies of the KA series, CABINET represents a radical evolution of form. Stripped of all decorative narrative, the traditional archetype is subjected to controlled physical deformation under intense heat.
Emerging from deep, brutalist chiaroscuro, these objects function as a site-specific installation—a cluster of mass exploring the permanent tension between heavy raw clay and fluid metallic flows. Viewed from above, it maps out an organic blueprint; from the front, a monumental horizon of silent silhouettes. It is a space where the structural roots of craft are broken down to birth a new, intentional mutation.
Visual Interpretation: Karin Zadrick
Museum Collections: The Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague (UPM)
Awards & Nominations: Nominated for the Designblok Awards (Category: Best Designer Installation)
The ultimate turning point. KA stands as a radical artistic manifesto—a deliberate subversion of traditional glass glazing in pursuit of raw, architectural weight. Hand-thrown on the wheel, each monolith references the ancient, forgotten ceramic obsession of early Japanese master potters, recontextualized into a contemporary landscape of poetic brutalism.
Rejecting decorative noise, the surface is formed by an intense, meditative methodology of repeating cycles: high-pressure layering and spraying of saturated mineral pigments and liquid porcelain slips directly onto the stoneware core. The color ceases to be an external garment; it becomes a physical, three-dimensional crust, permanently fused and petrified through multiple firings. KA is a heavy, timeless study of mass, volume, and elegant distortion—capturing the volatile friction between order and structural collapse.
SPECIFICATIONS
Context: The definitive milestone in the artist’s practice — introducing the concept of “New Vedutas for the 21st Century” to contemporary collectible design.
Location of Origin: Ostrava, Czechia (Industrial heritage & heavy architectural research)
Accolades: Winner of EDIDA (Elle Decor International Design Awards) / Nominated for Czech Grand Design (Designer of the Year)
Performance: Site-specific steel cage installation exploring object-to-environment live interaction.
Technology: Signature "KA" methodology – high-pressure mineral crust accumulation and multi-firing subversion.
Material: Hand-thrown heavy stoneware, raw mineral oxides, porcelain slip sediment.
Firing Temperature: 1240 °C
Dimensions (Series Range): H 40 – 65 cm × Ø 25 – 45 cm
Status: Masterpieces / Highly limited series of unique monolithic archetypes
Production: MCSTUDIO / INtheSHADOW studio
Photography: Jan Mahr (Introductory image) / Artist’s Archive
A liquid illusion frozen in time. The SPIRIT series represents a radical intersection of organic genesis and futuristic alchemy, where the traditional clay body is deceptively transformed into a metallic state. Inspired by the very essence of life and the perfection of the elliptic form, each vessel undergoes subtle human intervention on the wheel, disrupting absolute symmetry to breathe a distinct soul into the mass.
Beneath the highly reflective mirror skin, achieved through a specialized vacuum titanium nitride (TiN) metallization process, the raw essence of the material deliberately breaks through. Small fragments and loose bits of clay are intentionally left on the surface. These elements serve as an authentic record of the making—evoking the fleeting moment just before completion, capturing the raw energy of the realization process itself. It is an exploration of deceptive materiality, where heavy, high-fired earth confesses its own birth beneath a fluid metal coat, reflecting the contemporary space as a futuristic talisman.
SPECIFICATIONS
Context: Cross-disciplinary research in collectible design / Formats of contemporary interior archetypes
Technology: Precision wheel-throwing with preserved processual material fragments & advanced vacuum titanium nitride (TiN) metallization
Material: Hand-thrown stoneware, organic clay fragments, multi-layered reflective coatings
Firing Temperature: 1180 °C – 1240 °C (followed by specialized low-temperature vacuum firing)
Dimensions (Series Range): XS (H 10 cm) to Maxi / Tall Monoliths (H 55 cm)
Art Collaborations:KNRS Collection — Exclusive fashion-meets-object capsule series in collaboration with fashion designer Klára Nademlýnská
Status: Open series of unique works / Each piece carries an unrepeatable surface topography
Photography: Ivan Pinkava / Ondřej Holub / Matěj Kania
A raw deconstruction of the traditional vase archetype that denies absolute symmetry through deliberate mechanical deformation, stepping into the sacred and chateau spaces of Bechyně and Mikulov as a heavy, brutalist solitaire to engage in a silent dialogue with memory—a threshold where the primal monumentality of mass collides with the fluid alchemy of iridescent surfaces and the fragile poetry of a human gesture confronting aging architecture.
