Ceramics Now Magazine - November 2025

Ceramics Now Magazine Issue 15 (November 2025) features the work of Johannes Nagel on the cover. In his recent exhibition at Taste Contemporary in Geneva, Nagel pushes the limits of the ceramic vessel, working with diverse casting processes to create bold, unexpected forms. Drawing on years of familiarity with his practice, Wolfgang Lösche writes about the energy and immediacy in Nagel's work.

This issue brings together essays, interviews, and profiles that trace the role of ceramics in shaping narratives of care, collection, and community. Debra Sloan examines the return of ceramics to the Vancouver Art Gallery. In Silent Earth, Japanese artist Kato Mami discusses her poetic practice, which reflects on impermanence, emotion, and rhythm. Jennifer Zwilling and Josie Bockelman reflect on Clay as Care at The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, while Susannah Israel revisits the creative spirit of The Archie Bray Foundation, capturing its magic across generations.

This issue presents the work of five ceramic artists: Florence Corbi, Danielle O'Malley, Studio FraJas, Anca Vintilă Dragu, and John Rainey.

The exhibitions section highlights Body Vessel Clay at the Ford Foundation Gallery, New York; Manu-Facture: The Ceramics of Lucio Fontana at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; What Holds: Ceramic Boxes and the Language of Containment at Vessels + Sticks, Toronto; Francesco Ardini at Limbo Contemporary, Milan; and La Première Fois – The First Time at Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal.