Emerging Creative Award
This award spotlights young ceramic artists with forward-looking vision and experimental spirit. Open to artists aged 35 and below worldwide, it encourages breaking conventions and exploring new material and conceptual possibilities, prompting young artists to reimagine traditional crafts through innovation and future-oriented expression in a contemporary context.
Awarded Artwork
Polychrome Loutrophoros Gesture of Revealing in Blue and Red
Artist
Ebony Russell (Australia)
Committee's Comment
Drawing on exquisite craftsmanship, the artist reconstructs the classical form of the ceramic vase, creatively transforming and applying the piped clay technique. Through the fluid interplay of colors and the tension of form, the artwork not only reveals the ceramic medium’s potential for modern expression but also constructs a visual narrative of body, history, and emotion, radiant in tone, yet profoundly thought-provoking.
Awarded Artwork
Passage
Artist
Xindi TONG, Ting SHEN (China)
Committee's Comment
The artists deftly merge technology and art, translating mathematical waveforms into a visual rhythm across the glazed ceramic surface. Precise calculation and materials intertwine in dialogue upon the ceramic panel, creating a "passage" that is both orderly and ever-changing. The work explores the philosophical relationship between order and chaos, control and chance, reflecting the artists' contemporary contemplation of traditional craftsmanship.
Interdisciplinary Experiment Award
This award encourages experimental artworks that transcend the boundaries of ceramics and integrate cross-disciplinary thinking. Open to artists, designers, and creative teams worldwide, it seeks artworks that center on ceramics while incorporating new materials and concepts, fostering dialogue between and integration of craft, technology, and the humanities.
Awarded Artwork
WHAT REMAINS
Artist
Verónica Moar (Spain)
Committee's Comment
With both ingenuity and boldness, the artist applies insights from cross-disciplinary research in chemistry and biology to material innovation in ceramics. Porcelain, glaze, and polymer substances extracted from seaweed engage in dialogue on the same plane, culminating in a work of profound poetic resonance that invites reflection on our relationship with the environment.
Awarded Artwork
Beyond Words
Artist
Yening LIU (China)
Committee's Comment
Through the multidimensional integration of sound, image, body, language, and text upon ceramic materials, the artist realizes a creative vision that transcends the inherent limits of the medium, breaking away from the traditional linear mode of ceramic art.
Creative Design Award
For industrial design
Recognizing creative designs that integrate cultural expression and market communication through ceramics. Encouraging creators to explore the potential of combining traditional symbols with contemporary expressions, developing ceramic cultural and creative products that possess cultural narrative, aesthetic trends, and market conversion capabilities, and promoting craftsmanship into public life and cultural consumption scenarios.
Awarded Artwork
Tassel
Artist
Sheng LUO (China)
Committee's Comment
The artwork transforms the inherent rigidity of ceramics into an experience of visual and tactile softness. Its distinctive texture evokes the lightness and fluidity of fabric tassels, while simultaneously presenting a modular system solution. It reflects a deep and systematic exploration of application scenarios for ceramic decorative materials, highlighting the practical value of industrial design in contemporary spaces.
For cultural and creative design
Focusing on the functionality and aesthetic innovation of everyday ceramics, this award encourages industrial designers to integrate ceramics into modern lifestyles. It emphasizes sustainable design, technical advancement, and market adaptability, supporting the creation of ceramic products with refined aesthetics and mass-production potential, so as to enhance the relevance and practical value of ceramics in daily life.
Awarded Artwork
FU (happiness) Light
Artist
Xiangfei RAN (China)
Committee's Comment
The artist applies the translucent qualities of linglong porcelain to lighting design. With its clean and refined form, the piece resonates with contemporary aesthetics, while the gentle luster of ceramics imparts a distinctive elegance. It preserves the cultural warmth of the material yet, through innovative design language, endows it with modern functionality and aesthetic value.
Tradition & Innovation Award
This award honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the preservation and modern evolution of traditional ceramic crafts. Winners are expected to systematically preserve and innovate endangered ceramic crafts, staying true to traditional essence while driving contemporary development. Their contributions should encompass craft restoration, talent cultivation, and cross-cultural dissemination, with the goal of facilitating the internationalization of traditional craftsmanship.
Awarded Artwork
The Ding Reimagined
Artist
Kaibo XIONG (China)
Committee's Comment
The artwork boldly draws inspiration from the powerful forms of the Ding, a type of ancient Chinese bronze vessels. It evokes a mythic aura of ancient civilizations. The complexity of its surface textures and hues recalls a reawakening of humankind’s primal yearning for ritual—an echo inscribed deep within our collective memory since the age of bronze and stone. Within this folded dimension of time, the artwork resonates with a poetic harmony that celebrates the enduring beauty of tradition.
Awarded Artwork
Faint White Porcelain
Artist
Seri Yu (Republic of Korea)
Committee's Comment
The artwork employs a minimalist yet nuanced artistic approach, with materials applied with precision. Through an exploratory contrast of two different clays in the wheel-throwing process, it thoughtfully reflects the subtle relationship between craft and material. The refined and restrained surface textures, combined with a balanced and understated overall aesthetic, reveal the rigorous, experimental spirit underpinning the creation.
Jingdezhen Prize
This is the highest honor of the competition. It recognizes groundbreaking ceramic-based creations that integrate material experimentation, craft innovation, and cultural expression, while embodying an international perspective and Eastern aesthetics. Open to ceramic artists and interdisciplinary creators worldwide, the award encourages pushing the boundaries of ceramic language while engaging with the spirit of our time in a contemporary context.
Awarded Artwork
From Calanchi to Kaolin
Artist
Wei BAO, Jiahui HU (China)
Committee's Comment
Through refined technique and a broadly contemporary, integrative approach, the artwork abstracts traditional motifs alongside the dynamic rhythm of the potter's wheel. The skillful fusion of Italian terracotta and Jingdezhen kaolin evokes a dialogue that resonates both materially and culturally. Architectural curves flow through the work, interspersed with subtle interruptions and distortions. This nuanced formal language reveals the artists' deep understanding of spatial relationships, while creating a visual tension that invites multilayered aesthetic experience and interpretation.