Monika Patuszynska, explorer of abandoned spaces and untried paths, member of the International Academy of Ceramics (AIC/IAC). In 1999 she graduated from the Faculty of Ceramics and Glass at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. She was the last designer at the Zakłady Porcelitu Stołowego Pruszków (Pruszków Table China Factory) and the last president of the International Ceramics Symposium “Porcelain Another Way”. Between 2014 and 2016 she held the position of the Artistic Director at the Institute of Design in Kielce. Thanks to cooperation with the New York office of the architect Peter Marino, her works can be found in the Maison Guerlain salon in Paris, the Chanel in Singapore or the famous Tiffany’s boutique in New York
Addicted to porcelain. Fascinated by the passage of time and everything that comes with it.
Patuszynska is internationally recognised for her radical approach to porcelain. Her practice involves smashing and reassembling discarded moulds, intentionally preserving cracks and seams to create dynamic, thought-provoking forms. In this intimate conversation, she shares how these broken moulds become bold statements of existence.
photo : Basia Szafrańska
Study of Deformation series (2025)
From the artist: "A study in searching for a form’s inner tensions or perhaps its personal confession, an admission of strain. I don’t know if materials have a need to emancipate themselves.
If they do, I don’t see myself as a creator but as a companion to that material independence.
Beauty? Only if we agree to see it as a by-product of transformation".
Bastards’ series (2024/2025)
From the artist: "What if porcelain didn’t want to be a vessel anymore?
If it wanted to be a material event, to resist utility, to refuse perfection, to speak of memory rather than function. The result is not an object but a record of a negotiation.
This work belongs to an ongoing series exploring what happens when the artist and the porcelain stop trying to control each other and start listening instead".
