BIO
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
"I portray strong people actively engaging with and improving the worlds they inhabit"
Karima Duchamp’s practise is intuitive: with clay, on paper or free canvas, the artist manipulates, cowardly grip, gets rid of an academic practice of sculpture and drawing. She deploys landscapes, intertwined with primitive architectures and ghostly bodies, so light that they seem ready to fly, to disappear.
The last directions taken by the artist: frontality, chromatic intensification, post-expressionist power confirm the jamming of the tracks, an aesthetic experience of materials and forms that overlap or hybridize themselves.
"My work as an artist and art educator has resulted in a strong belief in the importance and the power of art, as a vehicle for expanding the possibilities of knowledge by encouraging participants to self-explore and reflect, to be curious, contemplative, critical and responsive, to understand different points of view. Open opportunities to share experiences with others to learn from each other, helping to strengthen and improve the communities in which we live and to have an impact on the life of future generations. I carry out specific projects in schools, in training places (professionals, disability environment ...). "
LIVES AND WORKS
HONORS AND AWARDS
2017 Member of the International Academy of Ceramics
2017 Selected to International Biennal of Ceramics El Vendrell, Spain
2014 1st Prize International Keramiktage Contest, Oldenburg, Germany
2013 Selected to International Competition «The Figure/Sculpture in Ceramics», Keramikmseum Westerwald, Germany
2010 1st Prize Biennal of Ceramics of Andenne (market), Belgium
2009 2nd Prize European Ceramic Competition, European Festival of Ceramic Art, St Quentin la Poterie, France
2000 Jury Prize, painting contest, Salon des 40,Saint-Louis, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 « what you see, you don’t see », Séries Rares Gallery, Geneva
2016 « traumbilder », Ceramic Museum, Staufen, Germany
2015 « the visible and the invisible », Art and History Museum, Oldenburg, Germany
2013 « nue » AccroTerre Gallery, Paris
2012 « carte blanche », Contemporary Ceramic Centre La Borne, France
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
STAR'T Contemporay Art Fair, Strasbourg, with JustBee Gallery
Katapult Gallery "#ME - The Artist", Basel, Switzerland
Valcke Art Gallery, Gand, Belgium
Les Tupiniers du Vieux Lyon, France
International Biennal of contemporary art, porte de France, France
International Biennal of artistic ceramics of Aveiro, Museum of Aveiro / Santa Joana, Portugal
2020
COLLECTIBLE Fair with Spazio Nobile Gallery, Brussels
Collection Gallery, Paris
Art Zone 42 Gallery, collective exhibition of drawings, Athens, Greece
PARIS DESIGN WEEK with Collection Gallery, Collective exhibition "jeux géométriques"
International Biennal of Contemporary Ceramics, Sèvres, France
Séries Rares Gallery “Les Femmes 100 têtes”, collective exhibition of drawings, Carouge, Switzerland
2019
Faces, residency show at Neumunster Kunstlerhaus, Germany
Le Grand Anniversaire, volet II, collective exhibition, Terra Viva Gallery, St Quentin la Poterie
Emergences 1, collective exhibition, Robet Dantec gallery, Belfort
Les journées de la Céramique in Freiburg, Germany
2018
International Biennale of Ceramics, Sèvres
Collective show "faire surface", Maison de la Céramique, Dieulefit
Artist In Residence Programme and exhibition, Studio Kura, Kyushu, Japan
Collective show, International Academy of Ceramics, Yingge Museum, Taipei City, Taiwan
Salon Résonances, Strasbourg
The SALON ART+DESIGN, with Moderne Gallery, Park Avenue Armory, New York
DESIGN MIAMI, with Moderne Gallery, Miami, USA
2017
Contemporary Art Space, Gowiller, France
The SALON ART+DESIGN, with Moderne Gallery, Park Avenue Armory, New York
DESIGN MIAMI, with Moderne Gallery, Miami
2016
“Imago”, Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Germany
DESIGN MIAMI/BASEL, Moderne Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
« Les Journées de la Céramique », Saint Sulpice, Paris
The SALON ART + DESIGN, with Moderne Gallery, Park Avenue Armory, New York
DESIGN MIAMI, with Moderne Gallery, Miami
2015
Handwerk Gallery, Munich, Germany
« Paysages », Galerie du Don, Le Fel, France
« Ashes to ashes », The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, USA
Révélations, Grand Palais, Paris
2014
Collection Gallery, Paris
« Fragile », Heubar Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Tao Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
2013
Accro Terre Gallery, Paris
Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Germany
Terra Viva Gallery, Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, France
2012
« Les Journées de la Céramique », Paris
Contemporary Art Space Chanot, Clamart, Paris
2011
« Les Journées de la Céramique », Paris
Triennale of Ceramics, Spiez, Switzerland
2010
Biennale of Andenne, Belgium
International Ceramic Festival, St Quentin la Poterie, France
Circuits céramiques, Goutte de terre Gallery, Paris
Keramisto, International Ceramics Fair, Milsbeek, Netherlands
Céramique 14, Paris
Médiart Gallery, Paris
2009
European young Ceramics, St. Quentin la Poterie, France
Céramique 14, Paris
COLLECTIONS
2018 Yingge Ceramic Museum, Taipei, Taïwan
2017 Musée Ariana Collection, Genève
2016 Four drawings in the collection « Fonds dess(e)ins », Les Traces Habiles, Paris
2016 Moderne Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2016 Giroussens Town collection, France
2015 The Clay Studio collection, Philadelphia, USA
2013 Shigaraki Museum of Ceramic Art, Japan
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts with Honors, (DNSEP), Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts, Besançon, France
One year study in Ceramics, Maison de la Céramique, Mulhouse, France
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCIES
May 2019 Ceramic Artist exchange, Neumünster, Germany
July 2018 Artist In Residence Programme, Studio Kura, Kyushu, Japan
May 2015 Guest Artist invited at the Clay Studio, Philadelphia, USA
2014 Study visits in ceramics, Madrid, Spain
November 2013 Artistic residency, Shigaraki, Japan
2013 Master class in ceramics, Kilkenny, Ireland