About
Karolina Bednorz is an awarded Polish designer and ceramist working in Modena, Italy.
In her works she connects knowledge of ceramic materials, traditional hand craft and modern spirit to find contemporary solutions in ceramic material.
Karolina is a MA graduate from Academy of Art and Design, Wrocław, Poland in speciality “Art and Design in Ceramic” (2010/15). She studied within a scholarship programme at Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche, Faenza, Italy (2012/13).
Karolina Bednorz took part in several internships and projects like Art Food (2014) with Ćmielów Design Studio and International Symposium of Ceramic Trends at Porcelain Factory Sargadelos, Spain (2013). She collaborated with the oldest European porcelain factory Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen GmbH, Germany (2017) and she works as designer in residency with Portuguese porcelain factory Vista Alegre (2019).
She won the prize at “Cevisama Lab Ceramic Design” International Tile Award in Valencia, Spain (2013). In 2017 she won a competition for young designers, researchers, makers and artists “Future Lights in Ceramics” held within European Programme “Ceramics and its Dimensions”.
Her works were exhibited on shows, like “London Design Week” (2014, 2015), “Ambiente Show” (2017, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and in touring exhibition “Shaping the Future” (2017-18) which was presented in Germany, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Northern Ireland, UK and Finland.
AWARDS
2016/2017 Future Lights in Ceramics, EU Programme “Ceramics and its Dimensions”, Fiskars, Finland
2014/2015 Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education Scholarship, Warsaw, Poland
2013 Cevisama Lab Ceramic Design, Valencia, Spain
RESIDENCIES
2022 KEEP IN TOUCH International Porcelain Symposium, Dubí, Czech Republic
2019 ID POOL Residency at Vista Alegre, Aveiro, Portugal
2017 Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen GmbH, Meissen, Germany
2014 ART FOOD Ćmielów Design Studio, Ćmielów, Poland
2013 International Symposium of Ceramic Trends, Porcelain Factory Sargadelos, Cervo, Spain
SPEAKER AT THE CONFERENCES
2021 The future of ceramics between tradition and innovation, MIC, Faenza, Italy
2019 ECerS Conference, Turin, Italy
2017 Ceramic Values "Can ceramics make a differenc?, Ulster Univeristy, Stoke-On-Trent-, UK
EXHIBITIONS
2022
"Talking Flowers", The Regional Museum, Teplice, Czech Republic
Blue House, Dubí, Czech Republic
Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
2019
Blogs and Crafts, ARTIGIANATO e PALAZZO, Firenze, Italy link
Future Lights in Ceramics, Porzellanikon, Selb, Germany link
British Ceramics Biennial, Stoke-on-Trent, UK link
Future Lights in Ceramics, HFF Munchen, Munich Creative Business Week, Germany link link
2018
Art Food, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, USA Press Release link
Daily Sculpture Award, Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy link link2
Solimene Art, Cava de' Tirreni, Italy
Shaping the Future: link link2
Brohan-Museum, Landesmuseum fur Jugendstil, Art Deco and Funktionalismus, Berlin, Germany link
National Museum of Slovenia, Presernova, Ljubljana, Slovenia link
Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, Czech Republic link
2017
Shaping the Future: link link2
Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadow, Northern Ireland link
British Ceramics Biennial, Stoke-on-Trent, UK link
Future Lights in Ceramics 2016/2017, Selb, Germany link
Ambiente Show, Frankfurcie am Main, Germany
2016
Future Lights in Ceramics, Fiskars, Finland
2015
Abundance of Life, BioArt Seoul, Seoul, South Korea link
What goes behind… Contemporary Polish Ceramic Design, Tent London, The London Design Festival, UK
Situations, Craft Arts Center, Innovation Center, Academy of Art and Design Wrocław link
Interior Gallery Domar, Wrocław, Poland link
One Design Week, City Art Gallery, Płovdiv, Bulgaria
2014
Sweet season, Wrocław, Poland link
Gmunden, Seeschloss Ort, Palas, Gmunden, Austria
Art Food 2014, Neon Gallery, Wrocław, Poland link
Art Food 2014, Roundhouse, The London Design Festival, London, UK link
Art Food 2014, Pratt Institute, New Jork, USA
SCHRON SZTUKI 7: Out of, Opole, Poland
DYFUSIONS, Galeria Lipowa 3, Instytut Ceramiki i Materiałów Budowlanych, Kraków, Poland
Sublocators, Pracownia Duży Pokój, Warszawa, Poland
Fairy tale ends – summary of Sargadelos Symposium, Rozrusznik, Wrocław, Poland
2013
International Symposium of Ceramic Trends 2013, Porcelain Factory Sargadelos, Cervo, Spain
TRANSLOKACJA, Schloß Trebnitz Bildungs und Begegnungszentrum e.V., Trebnitz, Germany
3 Światy, Gallery BOK-MCC, The 49. International Ceramics – Sculpture Metting, Bolesławiec, Poland
Arena Design, Poznań, Poland
Cevisama Lab Ceramic Design, Valencia, Spain
2012
PleinAir, Schloß Trebnitz Bildungs und Begegnungszentrum e.V., Trebnitz, Germany
Desing Connect, Kielce Desing Center, Poland
VI Karkonowski Festiwal Światła, Jelenia Góra, Poland