About

For Kieft, everyday objects and the rituals we perform with them are as personal as a diary. Whether it’s a shirt, a plant or a television set, images of everyday items recur repeatedly in her work. The objects and installations can be seen as a record of memories, referencing actions and situations. 

Based on the idea that ceramics can inherently be a record of time, her more recent work takes an activist turn. TV stills and her own photography are linked to shapes and glazes through the use of various ceramic printing techniques, thus capturing them as “visual reports” based on her own reflections om them.

Biography

Education

’85 graduated  Sint Joost | School of Art & Design

’94 graduated Design Academy Eindhoven

’00 | ’04 | ´22 | ´23  Work period European Ceramic Work Centre (EKWC)

’21 BrabantC subsidy  | Project ‘China in China’

Publications

’17 Het grote K (The Big K) book 2
‘25 Vakblad Keramiek (Klei) (oct.)
’25 Volkskrant Magazine ( 11 oct)

 

Work in Collections

Ceramic Museum Tajimi City, Japan
Ceramic Museum Faenza, Italie
Stedelijk  Museum, Amsterdam
Dutch Embassy Peking, China
Noord-Brabants Museum 

Exhibitions

’17,  ’18, 21 en ´22  KunstRai Amsterdam
’20 PLAY | Gallery Nasty Alice
’20 Appèl Galleries, | Tramkade Den Bosch
’21 Wasteland | Gallery Nasty Alice
´24 Light on labs | Glasslab Den Bosch
´25 Wakker kussen | Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd
’25 See Through | Noord-Brabants Museum   
´26 Happiness is easy | Gallery Nasty Alice

Techniques

The porcelain and stoneware forms are made with casting molds | the images were transferred using decals (by different print techniques).