New African Ceramics III
About the Exhibition
New African Ceramics 3
A collection from Duke Franz of Bavaria
The exhibition is open
from 17 June 2025 to 19 October 2025.
The ceramics in this exhibition were made by:
Eugene Ofori Agyei.
Eugene Ofori Agyei was born in Ghana, Africa.
He now lives in the USA as an artist and teacher.
His artwork is called: Bond.
It is an installation from 2021.
An installation is an art project used
to design a room or a place.
Eugene Ofori Agyei first studied
at the University of Kwame Nkrumah.
This is a university for science and technology.
The university is in the city of Kumasi in Ghana.
Eugene Ofori Agyei studied industrial design.
He specialised in ceramics.
Industrial design means:
Designing things that are used in everyday life.
For example: furniture, devices or cars.
From 2018, Eugene Ofori Agyei studied at
the University of Florida in the USA.
He specialised in arts there.
He finished his ceramics studies in 2023.
The installation Bond is about dislocation.
Dislocation here means:
Someone lives in a new place in another country.
Sometimes people do not feel at home in a new place.
Or: Sometimes people feel at home in both places.
Eugene Ofori Agyei feels at home in Ghana and in the USA.
He can best express his experiences in
these 2 countries with ceramics.
You can mould ceramics very well.
Eugene Ofori Agyei asks these questions with his installation:
• Who am I if I know 2 cultures?
• Where is my home?
• How important are rituals?
Rituals are actions that you repeat a lot.
For example: celebrations or prayers.
• How important is a country’s history?
Eugene Ofori Agyei combines his ceramic objects
with yarns and batik fabrics.
Batik fabrics are colourful and have special patterns.
The technique to make batik comes from Indonesia.
The fabrics for the installation are also from Indonesia.
But they were printed in Ghana.
The yarns are from China.
For the artist, these materials are not only beautiful.
They also have a political meaning:
The materials come from many different places.
This connects the people and cultures from all these places.
Eugene Ofori Agyei’s art also shows:
It can be difficult when people
experience different cultures.
It can be difficult in everyday life,
but also for people’s feelings.
The ceramic objects belong to Duke Franz of Bavaria.
He loaned them to the museum for the exhibition.
Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum
thanks him for his great support.
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