contemporary ceramic art
Born in Taipei, Taiwan. Based in Brussels, Belgium.
STATEMENT
Ko's practice explores the fluidity between corporeality and meaning-making, moving towards a non-dualistic approach that blurs the boundaries between binary notions of gendered bodies and objects, human and non-human entities, sexuality and reproduction. Her creative process emerges from the entangled relationships between the natural and the artificial, the biological and the cultural, questioning processes of sexualisation, objectification, and dehumanisation within an anthropocentric worldview. The attention to bodily forms and intimate details in her work can also be traced to her background in contemporary jewellery.
In her practice, Ko draws upon and reconfigures similarities, metaphors, symbols, forms, and associations found in nature, everyday life, and the human body. Through these transformations, she reinterprets themes of gender fluidity, genesis, erotic energy, sensuality, and vulnerability, creating hybrid forms in transformation that exist in states of continual becoming. Her work invites viewers to reflect on the interconnectedness of human and non-human bodies, evoking assemblages of life in which multiple vital cycles coexist and intertwine.
Working primarily with porcelain, Ko creates uncanny and often surreal symbiotic forms that embody both fragility and resilience. Through these delicate material constructions, she explores the body's unstable condition between being and becoming, inviting curiosity, wonder, and contemplation.
EDUCATION
• Master of Fine Arts (Ceramic Art) | 2018–2021
PXL-MAD School of Arts, Hasselt, Belgium
• Master of Culture & Arts (Contemporary Jewellery & Cultural Studies) | 2016–2018
Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, Imatra, Finland
• Bachelor of Fine Arts (Craft & Design) | 2011–2013
National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA), New Taipei City, Taiwan
• Jewellery Making Training & Certified Technician License | 2011–2012
Bureau of Employment & Vocational Training Institution, Keelung, Taiwan
• Bachelor of Science (Geography Department) | 2007–2009
National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei City, Taiwan
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
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2024 — Frank Steyaert Museum, Ghent, Belgium
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2023 — Museum of Aveiro / Santa Joana, Aveiro, Portugal (Acquired following the 3rd Prize Award at the XVI International Ceramics Biennial)
AWARDS & HONOURS
• 2025 — Merit Mention, Reborn Clay Project, Museo Carlo Zauli & Strada Europea della Ceramica, Italy
• 2025 — Finalist, CERCO 2025: XIX International Prize for Contemporary Ceramics, Aragon Crafts Center, Zaragoza, Spain
• 2025 — Finalist, Thematic Exhibition, Ceramic Art Andenne, Centre Culturel d’Andenne, Belgium
• 2025 — Finalist, Prix de la Résidence de Jeune Création Céramique 2025, Keramis Museum, La Louvière, Belgium
• 2024 — Art Prize Laureate, Ceramic Brussels Art Fair, Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium
• 2023 — 3rd Prize, XVI International Ceramics Biennial, Museum of Aveiro/Santa Joana, Portugal
• 2023 — Finalist, La Biennale de la Jeune Céramique Européenne, Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, France
• 2023 — Kunstenaar van de Maand (Artist of the Month, January), Zebrastraat, Ghent, Belgium
• 2022 — Jury Mention Prize, Prix Ceramic Art Andenne, Andenne, Belgium
• 2021 — Finalist, Majolika Award for Contemporary Ceramic Art, Staatliche Majolika Manufaktur, Karlsruhe, Germany
• 2021 — De 25 Beste Afstudeerprojecten (The 25 Best Graduation Projects of 2021), Selected by Flanders DC, Belgium
• 2021 — Nominated for the Wanatoe Prize (Wanatoeprijs), Limburg, Belgium
• 2015 — 1st Prize, Jewellery Design Final Competition, Northern Training Center, Keelung, Taiwan
ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES & SYMPOSIUMS
• 2025 — Selected Artist, Workspace at CERCCO (The Experimentation and Research Centre for Contemporary Ceramics), Geneva University of Art and Design, Switzerland
• 2025 — Invited Artist, 21st Intonation International Clay Symposium, Deidesheim, Germany
• 2024 — Invited Artist, “Figures” International Ceramics Symposium, International Ceramics Studio (ICS), Kecskemét, Hungary
• 2022 — Invited Artist, XXI International Bone China Symposium, Vilnius Academy of Arts (Kaunas Faculty), Kaunas, Lithuania
ARTISTIC RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
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2022 — Gender & Sustainability: Introducing Feminist Environmental Humanities, PhD Online Course, Provided by the KTH School of Architecture and the Built Environment & The Posthumanities Hub, Linköping University, Sweden
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & FEATURES
• 2025 — Curiosa, Galerie Vallois, Paris, France
• 2026 — Devenir (Solo Feature), Centre Céramique Contemporaine La Borne, France
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
• 2024 — Porcelāna Identitāte (Porcelain Identity), Ogre History and Art Museum, Ogre, Latvia
• 2024 — Figures International Ceramics Symposium Exhibition, Kápolna Galéria, Kecskemét, Hungary
• 2024 — Symbiosis, (Dual Exhibition with Hugo Meert), Valcke Art Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
• 2023 — Métamorphose de la Vigne, Galerie L’Inventaire, Liège, Belgium
• 2023 — La Biennale de la Jeune Céramique Européenne, Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, France
• 2022 — Porceliano Miestas (Porcelain City), Panevėžys Civic Art Gallery, Lithuania
• 2022 — Visions: Thematic Exhibition, Ceramic Art Andenne, Centre Culturel d’Andenne, Belgium
• 2021–2022 — KORU 7: The 7th International Finnish Contemporary Jewellery Triennial, South Karelia Museum, Lappeenranta, Finland
ART FAIRS & GALLERY REPRESENTATION
• 2026 — PAN Amsterdam, represented by Jonathan F. Kugel Cabinet de Curiosités Contemporain, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 2026 — C14 PARIS, Annexe de la Mairie du 14e, Paris, France
• 2026 — Belgian Art & Design Affair (BAD), represented by Valcke Art Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
• 2024 — Ceramic Brussels Art Fair, Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium
• 2023 — Belgian Art & Design Fair (BAD), represented by Valcke Art Gallery & Zebrastraat, Ghent, Belgium
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