My artistic practice is rooted in ceramics, a medium that I see as sharing many affinities with the skin, while also carrying a long history linked to use and functionality. Drawing on this ambiguity, my early installations explored how bodies conform—or fail to conform—to the roles and functions assigned to them, both individually and collectively.
For several years, my interest in ceramics has been part of a broader reflection on the changing status of craft practices within contemporary art. Long regarded as a secondary medium associated with craftsmanship, decorative arts, domesticity, and women, ceramics is now experiencing renewed interest. This resurgence challenges traditional hierarchies between art and craft, blurring the boundaries between what is culturally valued as art and what belongs to the sphere of everyday life.
Yet everyday life is not only the framework through which we experience the world—shaping our perceptions and behaviours—but also the space where objects, environments, and routines exert a profound influence on us. It is where the material conditions of existence are produced and maintained. It is also a site from which social transformation and emancipation can emerge. As Silvia Federici writes, it is the “zero point of revolution,” where even the most ordinary gestures can carry social and political significance.
Working with ceramics means reclaiming manual and vernacular forms of knowledge. It is a way of recovering autonomy through making as a political gesture, offering an alternative to capitalist and patriarchal models of production. It involves creating objects according to one's needs rather than adapting one's needs to market-driven products, rethinking use value, reconnecting with local materials and environments, and embracing invention, improvisation, and transformation as creative possibilities.
Charlotte Dualé is based between Berlin, DE and Monoblet, FR.
She is represented by the gallery Parliament, Paris, FR.
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Selected Press
-Sept 23 Studio visit by Kemmler foundation
-Nov 22 Studio visit by Gillian N. Osborne, Berlin Art Link
-Mar 22 Impuzzibil by An Paenhuysen, Les Nouveaux Riches Magazin
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Education
2013-14 Meisterschülerin Fredericke Feldmann, Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee
2009-13 Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee, DE (MFA)
2001-06 Esag Paris, FR (MA)
Selected Awards and Fellowships
2023 NEUSTART KULTUR-Stipendium, Stiftung Kunsfonds Bonn
2021 NEUSTART KULTUR-Stipendium, Stiftung Kunsfonds Bonn
2016-18 Karl Schmidt Rottluff Stipendium
2014-15 Goldrausch Künstlerinnen art IT
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Solo presentation Paris + Art Basel, Galerie Parliament, Paris, FR
2022 Impuzzibil, Parliament gallery, Paris, FR
2021 Solo presentation Fiac, Galerie Noah Klink, Paris, FR
2021 Entre aide, Les Vitrines at Institut français, Berlin, DE
2019 TXT, Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin, DE
2017 Die Putze, Eigen + Art Lab, Berlin, DE
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 House of dreamers, Fondation Boghossian, Villa Empin, Bruxelles, BE
2022 Il était une fois, Frac Champagne Ardenne, Reims, FR
2022 Starkes Duo, Haus Kunst Mitte, Berlin, DE
2021 Eifersucht, Galerie Parliament, Paris, FR
2021 Thongues of Time, Villa Romana, Florenz, IT
2020 Drawing, Wow, Kunstsaele Berlin, DE
2019 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendium. Die Ausstellung 2019, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf,DE
2018 Ankommen, Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin, DE
2018 Further Thoughts on Earthy Materials, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, DE
2016 Unfinished Symphony, Gillmeier Rech, Berlin, DE
2015 Jahresgaben 2015, Kunstverein in Hamburg, DE
2015 The Day Will Come, 6. Triennale der Photographie, Kunstverein in Hamburg, DE