‘Ceramics - Second Edition by Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery x TGDD’ will open on the 15th of April 2026 in Milan and is hosted by The Great Design Disaster. The exhibition follows ‘Ceramics’ presented at Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery in Athens in 2018 and belongs to a series of exhibitions organized by the Athens based gallery with focus on exploring the various media involved in the artistic production. Other editions in the same series include ‘The Video Project’ and ‘The Library Show’, and most recently ‘The Library Project’, Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery’s first collaboration with Joy Herro and The Great Design Disaster, presented during Alcova 2025 at the historic Villa Borsani in Milan.

Pottery, a most significant part of the history of art, is ever present in the artistic production of every civilization, continuously and in the contemporary practices of our times. The alchemical, magical character of pottery is a constant that manifests in the fact that while pottery reinvents itself through the depths of time, it does so with the use of the exact same primal materials, that have seized to become antiquated. Whether we are looking at the ancient times, when everything we know about painting from the classical greek era even, comes often from texts and most certainly from pottery- utilitarian objects that were made, and also at times painted by often eponymous artists- or coming to today, when pottery seems to not be restricted to utilitarian forms only anymore but claims its autonomy in what is defined as a work of art, it is the very same ingredients that make the artistic production possible and enchanting.

This exhibition in its Second Edition traces and discusses ceramics, their history and their associations, this time however, with a wider focus that expands beyond specific borders.

The exhibition presents works by Antonakis, Vanessa Anastasopoulou, Leila Babirye, Ana Botezatu, Jean Cocteau, Maria Efstathiou, Vassilis Gerodimos, George Hadjimichalis, Dionysis Kavallieratos, Rhea Khalo, Ilias Koen, Panagiotis Koulouras, Atalanti Martinou, Marisa Merz, Marianna Papageorgiou, Rena Papaspyrou, Pablo Picasso, Brian Rochefort, David Sampethai, Theodora Chorafa, Natalia Tsoukala, Rinus Van de Velde and Vasilis Zografos.