WORKSHOP INVENTURE

European porcelain was invented three hundred years ago in Meissen. Fifty years later, master glass makers from Thuringia independently succeeded in manufacturing the first Thuringian porcelain. For KAHLA/Thüringen Porzellan GmbH, Thuringia's largest porcelain manufacturer, developing new products is inextricably linked with experimenting - on the technical, artistic and design level. To keep redefining porcelain in today’s world KAHLA also promotes projects by talented young designers and the free artistic exploration of porcelain as a material. The exhibition has three parts. Each of them reflects a different approach to interacting with porcelain at KAHLA.

On 25th February 2010, the jury selected four German and eight foreign participants from a total of 150 applications for the 12 coveting places on the 5th KAHLA Kreativ workshop between 14th June and 9th July 2010.

GOAL
In an interdisciplinary co-operation, designers, ceramists and fine artists with different cultural backgrounds seek creative and innovative possibilities to use porcelain and to give new impetus for working with it, also and especially in combination with other materials. Over the course of 4 weeks, they develop design-oriented or free artistic pieces of work. Working directly within the production facilities will stimulate the creative process.

LOCATION
Kahla has a tradition of more than 160 years in porcelain production. Today, KAHLA/Thüringen Porzellan GmbH is one of the most modern and most innovative porcelain producing companies in Europe. With new, award-winning product concepts, KAHLA is successful all over the world. Regularly, young designers get the chance to turn their ideas into reality, for instance in the biennial KAHLA design competitions or in the traditional workshop KAHLA Kreativ taking place for the 5th time in 2010. Participants will have their studio within the highly productive industrial plant, in direct contact with the employees and with access to the production facilities.