Open – Design Week Frankfurt RheinMain

Studio leramics

Among clay, porcelain, glaze, pigments, tools, potter’s wheels, shelves, and kilns, Studio leramics by Frankfurt-based artist Lena Eckerlein offers insights into ceramic production processes: from raw material to shaped, dried, and fired pieces, through to glazed and finished objects. In this way, intermediate stages become tangible that often remain invisible in the finished product.

As a workshop and laboratory for clay and glaze processes, Studio leramics brings together functional ceramics, experimental objects, and artistic material research. Ceramics is understood as a time-intensive, physical, and transformative practice in which material, technique, and design enter into relation with one another. Visitors also gain insights into workshop formats that open up different approaches to working with clay.

The studio is located in Danzig am Platz in Frankfurt’s Ostend district, an interim-use space that shows how vacant buildings can become places for production, exchange, and creative work.

Lena Eckerlein is a biologist, artist, ceramicist, and art educator. Since 2020, she has been running Studio leramics as an experimental space for exploring clay and glaze. In her practice, clay and glazes are examined not only for their haptic and transformative qualities, but also as media for social and material interaction.