Born in Poland and based in New York, Karolina Ciecholewska is a multidisciplinary designer working between art and design, with a particular focus on porcelain and collectible objects. She developed her porcelain practice as an artist in residence at Cerámica Suro in Guadalajara, Mexico, where she presented her first solo exhibition, Where Light Does Not Reach. Her work has since been shown at Material Art Fair and Unique x Design in Mexico City, at Craft Days in Warsaw, and in group exhibitions in Guadalajara.
Her practice explores power, place and identity through objects that draw on treasured possessions and traditional craft techniques. She takes familiar forms, from the decorative lighting of palaces to the toy soldier, and gives them new meanings. In her hands, the porcelain she favours carries both prestige and fragility. She won the Visteria Foundation Portfolio Talent Review, and her work has been featured in Vogue Poland Living, Dezeen, AD Mexico and Surface Magazine. She has also spoken at the Dysarium Conference in Lviv and at Southwark Untold at Tate Modern in London.
Between craft and critique, Ciecholewska makes objects of refinement that question the structures of power they come from.
