Little Berlin is proud to present the International exhibition group SCENE, curated by Jennifer Woodin, in conjunction with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, NCECA, which is holding it’s 44th annual conference in Philadelphia March 31-April 3rd, 2010.

Please notice the extended open gallery days during the NCECA conference. (We will be open Wednesday, March 31-Saturday, April 3 from 10-5 each day. We will then resume our regular Saturday-only gallery hours for the remainder of the month). Little Berlin is on the NCECA Bus route #4. Anyone can register to participate in the bus tours, not only conference participants! Please go here to sign up for the bus tour.

You can also show up at the Convention Center on Tuesday, March 30 or early Wednesday, March 31 (before 9am) to register for the bus tour on-site. This is a great way to get to some unique spaces in Philadelphia that are off the beaten path. More information about the bus tours and the NCECA conference at theclaystudio.org.

Exhibition dates: March 31 – April 30, 2010.

March 31 to April 3 open 10 am – 5 pm

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, March 2, 6 – 10 pm

Special event at the opening:

Performance by percussionist Mike McCurdy (US)

SCENE is an exhibition of International artists working with the performative aspects of the ceramic object. The artists employ alternative devices such as video, architecture, photography and performance to activate the typically static ceramic art object. The main focus of the show is to change the audience’s awareness of and interaction with the gallery as public space. Our perceptions are challenged as we consider the transition of private to public, actor to audience or author to reader.

Mike McCurdy (US) is a New York based percussionist who is invited to make a performance at the opening by using traditional / untraditional instruments and the gallery space as a stage for his experimental performance.

Artists Exhibiting:

Ane Fabricius Christiansen (DK)

Christiansen´s images relate more to the story-telling concept of stage rather than an actual spatial context. The photographs are documenting a process where the ceramic object is being directed, it’s story staged and performed. They express a collision between reality and fiction and at the same time create an unexpected setting to the ongoing cycle of rise and decay.

Henny Linn Kjellberg (SE)

Kjellberg´s airy large-scale pieces form a stage like feeling when activated by audience, movement and light, a space where the lines between the human physical existence and the infrastructure that surround us are blurred. The tall, grid like constructions reminds us of floating architecture, skeletons of buildings or 3-dimensional maps.

Jennifer Woodin (US)

Woodin´s sanitary wear confronts the realities of public hygiene. She examines how architecture and the simple plumbing system function as an extension of our own bodies, as we rely on plumbing for everything from sustenance to hygiene. The porcelain objects act as a stand in for the body, rousing thoughts of awkwardness and vulnerability as we consider their function.