Agata Kutniowska
Craft Glass and Ceramics BA
Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design and Conservation
Specialisms: Ceramics / Industrial Design / Contemporary Craft
Location: Bornholm, Denmark
Agata Kutniowska
First Name: Agata
Last Name: Kutniowska
Specialisms: Ceramics / Industrial Design / Contemporary Craft
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My Location: Bornholm, Denmark
University / College: Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design and Conservation
Course / Program Title: Craft Glass and Ceramics BA
About
I'm a ceramic and design student currently based on the island of Bornholm in Denmark. I originally graduated as an interior and furniture designer and currently I'm finishing the Crafts in Glass and Ceramics programme at Royal Danish Academy.
I capture different urban compositions made by people and nature. I look for details, collect and translate them into design and art objects, like functional vases or abstract sculptures. I enjoy creating stories based on references from a daily life, things I notice or experience. The forms I make usually center around geometric shapes and clean lines run parallel throughout my work. I believe that the balance of angles and geometry lay the primal foundation of my aesthetics and by adding the imperfect human touch and infusing my experiences as surface details I archive my interests into comprehensive objects.
Through a series of ceramic forms layered with photographic decals, this project explores memory in a material way. Combining clay, colour, and personal fragments, I reflect on how moments from the past can gain new meaning in physical form. A memory once vivid becomes an abstraction, a blur, reappearing on the surface of the object. Rather than preserving memory, I reshape it, showing how absence and forgetting can also generate new meaning. When photographic transfers are applied to curved surfaces, the images begin to behave differently, no longer static but shifting with the viewer’s position, closer to how memory works: circular, layered, fragmented. Clay itself holds memory, shaped by each stage of the process.
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