Kitchen Table Imagery [exhibition opening]

We gather around a table — where everyday life becomes a springboard for reverie and composition. The surface acts as both stage and canvas, where objects are arranged and rearranged, traces of past activity inform new conceits, conversations reshape the scene. A constant negotiation between what to discard, keep and make transforms through presence and exchange. Both in life and in art the table becomes a site of encounter — intimate and collective.

Artists from three countries come together to open a dialogue across cultures and generations. Alongside established practitioners, the exhibition features students and doctoral candidates from the Ceramics Department at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, whose works move confidently between material experimentation and critical reflection.

By placing emerging and established voices in one space, the exhibition underscores the vitality of contemporary ceramics and its ability to address ritual, memory, futurity, vulnerability, and social interaction. Like the table itself, it remains an open invitation.

Organized by the Czech Center New York in partnership with Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, BKLYN CLAY and NYCxDESIGN

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Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, New York, United States

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