63rd Faenza Prize Opening

The 63rd Premio Faenza (Faenza Prize), an international competition for contemporary ceramic art, has its opening day on June 27, 2025, with the exhibition running from June 28th to November 30th at the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Italy. The award ceremony is scheduled for June 27th at 6 p.m., with an exhibition opening at 4 p.m. featuring a chance to meet the artists.

From June 28 to Nov. 30, the exhibition of the 63rd Faenza Prize, the historic Biennale Internazionale della Ceramica d’Arte Contemporanea (International Biennial of Contemporary Ceramic Art), among the world’s most important and recognized in the field, can be visited at MIC Faenza.

In Faenza it will be possible to have an up-to-date mirror of the international contemporary art scene related to ceramics, a plastic material that has been receiving great attention in recent years. A unique opportunity to admire works that come from all over the world: from China and Korea to South America.

More than one hundred artists were selected by the international jury consisting of Claudia Casali (MIC Faenza Director), Hyeyoung Cho (Korea Association of Art & Design), Valentins Petjko (Latvian Ceramic Biennale) and Marco Maria Polloniato (curator) from all over the world who chose ceramics as the main medium to express their poetics.

The artists addressed recurring themes with unique stylistic and expressive approaches. The uncertainty of our time underlies so many reflections, conveyed by the very choice of materials, as well as the sustainability of our social system, the tragic nature of wars, the environment and food for the mind and body, inequalities, and human frailty in the face of so many difficulties.

The Faenza Prize, with more than 80 years of history, has from the very beginning been an important moment in the enhancement, renewal, and promotion of ceramics in both the artistic and decorative aspects, as well as in the functional and furniture aspects, but also and above all a way to map the state of the art of contemporary ceramics.

On June 27, 2025, the opening day of the Biennale exhibition, awards will be presented to the winners.

For the third consecutive edition, the 63rd Faenza Prize had the honor of receiving the Medal of the President of the Republic.

List of artists in the exhibition

Over 35

Victor Agius, Marc Alberghina, Francesco Ardini, Olivia Barisano, Simone Cassini, Daniel Joseph Cavey, David Clarke, Juliette Clovis, Mirco Denicolò, Karima Duchamp, Claude Dumas, Eglė Einikytė-Narkevičienė, Evandro Gabrieli, Sapana Gandharb, Sophie Giet, Kenji Gomi, Mark Goudy, Anna and Paola Marinuzzi (group), Mattia Vernocchi and Francesco Bocchini (group), Yulia Batyrova and Marat Mukhametov (group), Monika Grycko, Una Gura, Malene Hartmann Rasmussen, Heidi Hentze, Douglas Herren, Chiau Chi Hsu, Miglė Janušaitė, Nathalie Kehrli, Eveline Kieskamp, Iosifina Kosma, Valdas Kurklietis, Dainis Lesins, Claire Lindner, Icaro Maiterena, Jennifer McCurdy, Sibylle Meier, Hanna Miadzvedzeva, Aya Murata, Paula Murray, Makiko Nagai, Simone Negri, Bahareh Nehjiri, Sayaka Oishi, Marta Palmieri, Fiorenza Pancino, Yana Payusova Farbrook, Rafael Pérez Fernández, Paolo Porelli, Ielizaveta Portnova, Lana Rakanovic, Marina Rodriguez, Ilona Romule, Ines Rother, Giovanni Ruggiero, Antonia Salmon, Aline Schmitt, Laura Scopa, Agnė Šemberaitė, Todd Shanafelt, Liu Shi Cai, José Sierra, Rūta Šipalytė, Martin Smith, Terenzio Sonda, Pim Sudhikam, Hajnalka Tarr, Heidi Tarver, Andreas Tesch, Elina Titane, Alice Walton, Shiyuan Xu, Qiao Yunyun

Under 35

Jiwon Byun, Li Caiwen, Yeong Cho Hye, Martina Cioffi, Wang Deng, Lin Dong, June Fischer, Julia Haumont, Gu Jinkang, Jiho Kim, Aliona Kryshtofik, Kiti Kurarova, Ambra Lorito, Sandra Majecka, Li Mingshu, David Morrison, Maxwell Mustardo, Wiktoria Nędza, Kristina Okan, Silvia Piani, Yaerin Pyun, Ani Qananyan, Irina Razumovskaya, Léa Renard, Edoardo Sessa, Hori Takaharu, Yangkun Wang, Yuzhe Wang, Zhaojing Wang, Su Yen Ying, Kai Zhang, Zhangningning Zhang

All the winners of the Faenza Prize.

Opening program June 27.

From 4 p.m. opening of the exhibition with a chance to meet the artists in the room.

6 p.m., official award ceremony.

From July 2 to 22, every Tuesday at 6 p.m., free guided aperitif tour. As part of Summer Tuesdays 2025.

The Faenza Prize is made possible thanks to the support of the General Directorate for Research Education and Cultural Institutes, the Emilia-Romagna Region, the Municipality of Faenza, Unione della Romagna Faentina, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna, Cersaie, and Hera.