Free opening

Saturday 22 November 2025: Sustainable Ceramics #2: Investigating a footprint & EKWC@Princessehof: Linda Swanson

On Saturday 22 November 2025, the Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics will open two exhibitions: Sustainable Ceramics #2: Investigating a footprint and EKWC@Princessehof: Linda Swanson - Mineral Bloom. Admission to the museum will be free on this festive opening day. The artists will be present to talk about their work. At 3 p.m., there will be an opening ceremony during which curator Dr. Wendy Gers will briefly talk to Iris de Kievith and Annemarie Piscaer from Lab AIR and Linda Swanson about their work and sustainable ceramics.

Date: Saturday 22 November 2025
Time: 11.00 - 17.00h (the opening ceremony will start at 15.00h)
Price: free
Reserve your free admission in advance via our ticket page (select 22 November 2025).

Dr. Wendy Gers - Photo by Aron Weidenaar

Benedetta Pompili at work in Sustainable Ceramics #1 - Photo by Ruben van Vliet

Sustainable Ceramics #2: Investigating a footprint

22.11.2025 - 25.10.2026

What does a coffee cup tell us about air pollution, raw materials and social inequality? Ceramics are one of the most sustainable materials in existence: as long as they don't break, they can last for thousands of years. At the same time, their production is anything but sustainable. The firing process releases large amounts of CO₂, and raw materials and glazes are harmful to people and the environment or are becoming depleted. The Princessehof and Lab AIR in Rotterdam are investigating this paradox in Sustainable Ceramics #2: Investigating a footprint.

Featuring work by, among others: Alternative Ceramics Supply (Australia); Hannah Rose Whittle and Benedetta Pompili from the Rijksakademie Tech Fellowship Programme, Amsterdam; Studio Lotte Douwes, Rotterdam; and Fabrikaat, Nijmegen. Click here for more information.

Smogware Rotterdam, Lab AIR Roel van Tour

EKWC@Princessehof: Linda Swanson - Mineral Bloom

22.11.2025 - 14.06.2026

Linda Swanson (USA, 1967) focuses on natural processes. Swanson's art practice explores the interplay between earth, water and fire. Light materials become dark, soft materials become hard, solid materials begin to flow. Rather than explaining the processes, Swanson invites us to observe and experience. In this way, she reminds us that the universe is an astonishing place.

Her works have been exhibited in the US, Canada and Europe, with recent exhibitions at the Musée National de Sèvres in Paris, Galateea Contemporary Art in Bucharest, Art Paris with Galerie Maria Lund, the DePaul Museum in Chicago and the Milwaukee Art Museum. EKWC@Princessehof: Linda Swanson - Mineral Bloom is her first solo exhibition on Dutch soil.

Linda Swanson, one of the Spectres, 2020 | Collection Princessehof, acquired with support of the Mondriaan Fund