CV – Born in Switzerland. Studios in Soazza and Zurich.

2001-2006: Trained as a ceramist with Mathies Schwarze
1989-1995: University of Zurich: Art History/German Philology/Philosophy (MA)
1987-1989: ETH Zurich: Architecture Department (BA)

Working as an independent artist since 1998
Member of the Swiss Ceramics Association ‘swissceramics’

WORK – Artist statement:‘I work mainly with porcelain and stoneware and make hand thrown vessels.They create a delicate atmosphere, an unsophisticated mood – sometimes an illusion: I try to give my surroundings a touch of beauty. Even if it is only for a tiny moment.

I found clay many decades ago and I made a first tea pot, when I was 17 years old. My teacher at the time, Ms Liu, showed me how. I still shapes clay into vessels: This distracts me and helps to bear many things better.

Whether as an individual piece or as a group of works – I try to find shapes, details and surfaces that irritate, awake your imagination, sometimes enchant, also make you think and burn into your memory: My vessels are border crossers and define ceramics differently

For this to hopefully succeed, I need most of my energy and time: I work slowly, destroy a lot, start all over again. Take breaks. Fractions belong to my path, as do the unexpected and the unconventional.

Anyone who can endure this is right with me.’

THREAD – Many people ask about the meaning of the thread that has been used for more than twenty years. Dr. Ronnie Watt, art historian, Canada, wrote in 2017 (s. press): .

..‘A signature decorative element which she regularly applies is a length of 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.

EXHIBITIONS (selection since 2017) 

Solo
2021 Kyoto, Japan: Gallery Essence Kyoto. Invited by and with Iron Artist Motomu Oyama.
2020 Soazza/GR, Switzerland:Covid-19 drama.
2019 Tokyo, Japan: Gallery ‘hetLaboatrium, . ‘Circle’
2018 Singapore: Brewin Design Office

Group
2022 Seoul, Korea: University of Fine Arts, 
2021 Zurich, Switzerland: Gallery Palü. Guest.
2019 Seoul, Korea: Gallery Lee Eugean, ‘Affaire de coeur 5’.
2019 Milan, Italy: Palazzo Bovara,
2019 Geneva, Switzerland: Gallery Ormond Edition,
2018 London, Greatbritain:  HOSTEM, bluemountainschool . 
2018 Hongkong, China: U11. swiss design. 
2014 Zurich, Switzerland: Museum Rietberg

PROJECTS  (selection since 2017)

2021: Privat project  – 16 bowls for A.G., private collector
2021: Work group – 12 vessels for G. S., private collector
2020: Blue hour – Last works of this edition, started 2017
2019: Gallery New Delhi, for the owner  – 30 different bowls
2018: Paper&Tea, Berlin – Porcelain teabowls 
2018: Ahista Tea – India – Tea bowls 
2018: Black and white porcelain. The give store, Hollywood
2017: Porcelain edition for HRK
2017: Pots and plants with Leopold Isidor

PRESS  (selection only)

2021: Photostory in the print only magazine ‘The Influencer’

2020: ‘Raum und Wohnen’
‘NZZ, Z Magazin ‘

2019: Video by Fredrik Haren ‘Wondering in search of energy’

2019: ‘schönerwohnen‘

2018: ‘Ideales Heim‘

2017:  Ceramics Southern Africa, 09/2017 by Dr. Ronnie Watt

TABLEWARE COLLECTIONS 

2016 ‘Blackbeauty’ – My tableware collection from hand thrown black porcelain: Cups, bowls and plates. With grooves and the black thread. Unglazed.
2012 ‘Snow’ – My tableware collection from hand thrown white porcelain: Cups, bowls and plates. Glazed inside. Outside unglazed. With the red thread. 
2008 ‘Pur’ – My tableware collection from hand thrown stoneware: Cups, bowls and plates. Coated with four different craquelé glazes.

Different tableware projects for private clients and Restaurants as Mesa, Zurich, Sushi Shin Zurich, Rechberg, Zurich, Yumi, Porrentruy etc.
Stopped accepting orders in early 2020.

INSTAGRAM

The journey on Instagram began in February 2016 and was pretty innovative at the time. Follow it via INSTAGRAM