Claire Lindner

With higher education in visual arts acquired in France at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg and Great Britain, at the Camberwell College of Arts in London, Claire Lindner has established herself today as an essential figure in contemporary artistic ceramics.
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Her sculptures, constructed by assembling, knotting and twisting coil-shaped elements of soft clay, feature pastel colors and wavy curves that give the impression of being in motion. Living forms, whether animal, plant, micro-particle or human, are omnipresent in Claire Lindner's work.

In the design of her ceramics, Claire Lindner exploits oppositions to create visual confusion in the viewer. Her sculptures integrate tension between aesthetics and textures, between soft and hard, light and heavy.

Her creative process begins with defining the movement, flow and colors of the sculpture. Each piece, made from glazed stoneware, is the result of attention to tensions, folds and the plasticity of the material, thus creating a form linked to the notion of life.

Claire Lindner has benefited from individual and group exhibitions, notably at the Théodore Deck Museum (2023), as part of the "Toucher Terre" exhibition at the Villa Datris Foundation for Contemporary Sculpture in Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (2022), at the MO.CO Museum in Montpellier (2022) as part of a major exhibition bringing together contemporary works around the theme Counter-Nature, then at the Adrien Dubouché Museum (2020), at the Maison des Arts de Châtillon (2019), at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris (2011), and at the Grand Palais in Paris as part of the Salon Révélations (2015).

Her works are included in public collections in France, at the Musée de Sèvres-Dubouché and the Musée de Châteauroux, but also abroad, at the Fuping International Ceramic Museums (CH) and the Icheon World Ceramic Center (KR).
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Solo Exhibitions 

2024   “Les Arbres ont des Ailes” – Daguet-Bresson Gallery, Paris, FR

2023   “Still Motion” – Museum Théodore Deck, Guebwiller, FR

2022   “In Limbo” – Maab Gallery, Milan, IT 

2021   “Landscape Within” – Cultural Center Espace Grandjean, Vallauris, FR

2021   “Florescence” – 12WYK Gallery, Antwerp, BE

2018   “L’air est une Racine” – Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Toucy, FR

2018   “Terramovere” – Castle Château de St Fargeau, FR

2014   “Measuring Clouds” – Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Toucy, FR

2008   “Mouvances” – Galerie Hélène Porée, Paris, FR

Group Exhibitions 

2024   “Opening” – Daguet-Bresson Gallery, Paris, FR

2024   “Dragon is my Middle Name” – Loy Contemporary Art Gallery, SG

2024   “Push and Pull” – Andrew Reed Gallery, Miami, FL

2024   “Végétal” – Cultural Center Jacques Brel, Thionville, FR

2024   “PAD International Art and Design Fair” – Daguet Bresson Gallery, Paris and London

2024   “ARCO Madrid” – International Contemporary Art fair, Maab Gallery, Madrid, ES

2024    “Art Brussels” – International Contemporary Art fair with Repetto Gallery, Brussels, BE

2023   “Finalists exhibition” – Loewe Foundation Competition, Noguchi Museum, New York, US

2023   “Formes vivantes” – Museum Manufacture de Sèvres, Paris, FR 

2023   “Toucher Terre” – Private Collection of Villa Datris at Espace Monte Christo, Paris, FR

2023   “Within + Without” – Unit Gallery, London, UK

2023   “PAD International Art and Design Fair” – Daguet  Bresson Art, Paris and London

2023   “MIART” – International Contemporary Art Fair with Maab Gallery, Milan, IT

2023   “Super Nature” – Galerie Valérie Delaunay at Manifesta, Lyon, FR

2022   “Toucher Terre” – Foundation Villa Datris for Contemporary Sculpture, L’Isle sur-la-Sorgue, FR

2022   “Contre-Nature” – Museum MO.CO La Panacée, Montpellier, FR

2022   “Materia Prima” – Festival ‘Parcours Céramique Carouge’, CH

2022   “Ceramics Now” – Galerie Italienne, Paris, FR 

2022   “Volcanesque” – Nendo Galerie, Marseille, FR

2021   “Natures Mortes” –  Galerie Valérie Delaunay, Paris, FR

2021   “Faber” – Maab Gallery, Milan, IT

2021   “Open to Art” – Galerie Officine Saffi, Milan, IT

2020   “Formes Vivantes” – Museum National Adrien Dubouché, Limoges, FR

2020   “Céramique Contemporaine” – Maison des Arts de Châtillon Cultural Center, Paris, FR

2020   “Ensemble / Together” – Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Toucy, FR

2019   “Korean International Ceramic Biennale” – Icheon, Republic of South Korea

2019   “Open to Art” – Galerie Officine Saffi, Milan, IT

2019   “COLLECT” –  Saatchi Gallery, International Art Fair for Modern Craft and Design, avec Galerie Collection, London, UK

2016   “Nuage (Clouds)” – Centres de Céramique Contemporaine CCG Giroussens, FR and World Craft Center WCC-BF Mons, BE

2015   “le Banquet” – Grand Palais Révélations Fair for Arts and Crafts, Paris, FR

2013   “Tendre Porcelaine” – Centre céramique Giroussens, FR.

2013   “Triennale de céramique et du verre” – WCC Mons, BE

2011   “Scène française contemporaine”- MAD Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris, FR

2011   “Mondes Céramique” – Art Center, Aubagne, FR

2010   “COLLECT fair” – Gallery Collection, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK PULS Gallery, Brussels, BE, Galerie Hélène Porée, Paris, FR

2009   “Galerie Hélène Porée” – Paris, FR

2009   “Anima, Animalia” – International Biennale for Contemporary Ceramics Châteauroux, commissariat Yves Sabourin, Couvent des cordeliers, Châteauroux, FR

2009   “Westerwald Preis Competition” – Keramik Europas, KeramikMuseum, Höhr Grenzhausen, DE

2008   “First Triennale for Contemporary Ceramic and Glass” – WCC, Mons, BE

2006    “Film in competition” – 5th Festival of Film on Ceramic and Glass, Montpellier, FR

2006   “Porcelaines” – Galerie Hélène Porée, Paris, FR

Residences / Workshops 

2023   Artist in Residence, European Institut of Ceramic Art, Guebwiller, FR

2023    Invited Artist, Workshop with the students of ENSA (National School of Art and Design), Limoges, FR 

2021    Artist in Residence / Master classes, Ceramic Art School, Vallauris, FR

2016    Masterclass, Maison des grands champs, Saguenay, Québec, CA

2009    Artist in Residence, Fuping Pottery Art Village, CN

Distinctions 

2023    Finalist LOEWE International Craft Prize 

2021    Finalist Open to Art Competition, Milan, IT 

2019    Finalist Korean International Ceramic Competition, Icheon, Republic of South Korea 

2019    Finalist Open to Art Competition, Milan, IT

2007    Golden Prize for Ceramic as Expression, International Competition, The 4th World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, Republic of South Korea 

2006    Ritleng Special Prize, Strasbourg, FR

2004    First Prize, Young European Ceramic Competition, Festival Terralha, St Quentin la  Poterie, FR 

Education 

2007    Post Diploma Grant / Research year, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK

2001 – 2005    Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg, FR

2004    National Diploma in Fine Arts 

2006    Superior Diploma in Fine Arts 

2001    Foundation course, BTEC Diploma, Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich, UK

Museums and Foundations Acquisitions 

Loewe Foundation New York, USA 

Théodore Deck Museum, Guebwiller, FR 

Foundation Villa Datris for Contemporary Sculpture 

National Museum Sèvres / Adrien Dubouché Limoges, Paris, FR 

Magnelli Museum, Vallauris, FR 

Ateliers d’Art de France 

FLICAM, Fuping International Ceramic Art Museum, CN 

Beaux Arts de Châteauroux Museum, FR 

World Ceramic Exposition foundation, Icheon, Republic of South Korea