STUDIO ZURICH
Minervastrasse 9
8032 Zurich
Contact for galleries and private customers about products and purchase:
ritsch@helga-ritsch.com
We ship worldwide
Studio visits by appointment!
Open studio evening:
Every Thursday, 17-20 h
STUDIO SOAZZA
by appointment
Upcoming Events:
MILANO, Italy
Palazzo Bovara
February 19 – 24, 2019
TOKYO, Japan
Solo Exhibition
gallery hetlaboatrium
March 16th – April 9th 2019
Opening March 16th:
I will be there
You will find my work:
In Berlin at paper&tea
In London at bluemountainschool
In Hollywood at thegivestore
In India at ahistatea
You will eat and drink from my bowls and cups:
In Porrentruy at yumicafe
I offer neither classes
nor internship!
Projects ‚TOGETHER‘ (Selection)
December 2018: Paper&Tea, Berlin – Porcelain teabowls for their shop in Berlin
December 2018: A party of seven – Tableware, private order edition ‚black beauty‘
November 2018: A party of sixteen – Tableware, private order edition ‚PUR‘
October 2018: Coup de foudre – Porcelain bowls in collaboration with annemarie fischer
September 2018: A party of twelve – Tableware, private order edition ‚black beauty‘
August 2018: Ahista Tea – India: Tea bowls for a new tea brand in Gujarat/India
July/August 2018: Ginger for you – an installation with leopold isidor
June 2018: Black and white porcelain – sets for The give store, Hollywood
May 2018: White porcelain – tea bowls and bowls for HOSTEM, London
April 2018: Matte white stoneware bowls for a private household in Zurich
March 2018: Black porcelain – tableware for mxprivé, Berlin
February 2018: Dishes for YUMI, Switzerland
January 2018: Stoneware pots for Brewin Design Office, Singapore
December 2017: Porcelain edition for HRK
November 2017: Selection of coffeecups for 90SQM
September 2017: Series of vases for the photoexhibition with Manuel Ritter
June 2017: Tableware for foodphotographer Giulia Marthaler
May 2017: Plates for chef Valention Cairati
April 2017: Pots and plants with Leopold Isidor
Blog
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Press
Ideales Heim
July/August 2018
Meter Magazin
June/2018
Ronnie Watt
Ceramics Southern Africa/09/17-spring
Das Beste aus Zürichs Läden
Tages Anzeiger Zurich/Züritipp 11/17
Exhibitons (Selection)
2011 Hotel Greulich CH-Zürich
2013 Museum Rietberg CHZürich
2014 Museum Rietberg CH-Zürich
2014 Eunique D-Karlsruhe
2015 Neue Räume CH-Oerlikon
2017, U11, Hongkong
MY WORK – The main focus of my work in porcelain and stoneware is the visual search for space in my vessels by means such as simplicity, serenity and beauty. I am looking carefully for small details to give something unexpected to every of my pieces – like our daily life brings unexpected things to us always and always. Before I started my education as a ceramic artist, I built a solid background in Architecture, Art History and Philosophy and made then the bridge to craft. I am a quality worker not a quantity one: So please understand that my work needs its time, sometimes a lot.
My porcelain work is often without any glaze – I sand the surface fine and matte. My stoneware work is often coated with a small palette wonderful glazes as celadons or dark iron ones.
THE THREAD – Many people ask about the meaning of the thread. Ronnie Watt, art historian, living in Canada, wrote the following (s. press): ….‚A signature decorative element which she (me) regularly applies is a length of red cotton thread which is looped through a fine hole and over the rim. The red thread is a reference to the German expression ‚der rote Faden des Erzählens‘ which can be translated as ‚following your destiny‘. With this leitmotiv, explains Ritsch, she ‚brings things together‘ and that ‚my works are different, but the red thread holds them together‘. At the same time it ’stitches‘ her works to her personal life experiences and philosophy. As a powerful albeit fragile decorative element, the thread is a visual and intellectual accent for a work but is simultaneously integral to that form because it is anchored in it. It is also a statement that the work was hand-crafted.
MY WAY – Born in Switzerland: I started my work as an independent ceramic artist in 1998.
2001-2006: Apprenticeship for ceramist (wheelthrowing)
1989-1995: Course of studies at the University of Zurich . Art History/German Philology/Philosophy (today M.A.)
1987-1989: Basic studies at ETH Zurich . Architecture Department (today B.A.)
THE STUDIO with SHOWROOM in Zurich is a lovely bright space near to the Kunsthaus Zurich.
In my showroom you will always find a fine selection of my work: Please pass by to feel the surfaces of my works and to hold them in your hands. I create my works in the heart of Zurich and all is made by my hands, I only have a potter wheel and a kiln – nothing else.
Every step of my ceramic work is made in my urban studio and this hand made process is evident in every piece.All pieces are unique: If you love this exclusive kind of work, you are in the right place in my workshop.
THE STUDIO in the heart of Soazza is an old stone house from the 16th century with various fascinating rooms: It was once the home for two Capuchin monks and you still feel and breathe the spirit.
Soazza is a wonderful and original village, probably the most beautiful one in the South of Grisons: Surrounded by woods and mountains and spoiled with a fantastic southern climate – exactly what I need for my inspiration. Reading, thinking, sketching and creating prototypes is what I am doing there.
There is are also space for guests, exhibitions and more.
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