Every year, ceramic brussels takes the initiative to invite an artist who will enrich the programme with their experience and perspective on contemporary ceramics.
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Marion Verboom is the guest of honour of ceramic brussels 2027.
Born in 1983, Marion Verboom lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris in 2009 and continued her training at De Ateliers in Amsterdam between 2009 and 2011.
Since then, she has developed a distinctive body of work that occupies a singular position within contemporary sculpture, at the intersection of architecture, ornament and the history of forms. Her practice is rooted in a sustained engagement with cultural references across time and geography, as well as in a precise attention to processes of construction and material transformation.
Her work has been widely presented in institutional contexts in France and internationally, including solo exhibitions at La Verrière – Fondation d’entreprise Hermès in Brussels, Le Voyage à Nantes and the Frac Île-de-France, as well as numerous group exhibitions in major institutions.
Alongside these exhibitions, she has developed projects and collaborations that extend her research into different contexts, reflecting the hybrid and evolving nature of her practice. Her work is also held in several public collections, including the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), MAC VAL and the Musée d’Arts de Nantes, attesting to its recognition within contemporary art institutions.
Through a practice that continuously reactivates historical vocabularies while remaining deeply anchored in the present, Marion Verboom contributes to redefining the place of sculpture today, articulating a language that is both informed and open-ended.
sculptural practice
Marion Verboom’s work is based on a principle of iteration, assembling fragments into modular structures that can be combined, repeated and reorganised. These compositions operate through the stacking of elements, forming systems that remain open and in transformation.
Since 2015, she has been developing the ongoing series Achronies, a group of totemic sculptures that revisit the traditional architectural column. Through this series, she reinterprets a canonical form by combining motifs drawn from a wide range of cultural repertoires, from ancient civilisations to modernist vocabularies.
Working across a wide variety of materials — including concrete, wood, plaster, bronze, clay and resin — she develops sculptures that unfold through a process combining technical precision and experimentation. The repetition of modules and their variations generate compositions that are both structured and dynamic.
At the core of her practice lies a constant dialogue between different histories of art and aesthetics. Forms circulate, transform and hybridise, creating connections across time and geography. This approach results in a sculptural language that is both rigorous and open, where references are layered rather than fixed, and where each work becomes a site of construction and interpretation.
