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Spazio Nobile at Ceramic Art Paris
Salon Brasilia, in the Garden & in the Grand Staircase
Friday 24 October, 11-19.00 & Saturday 25 October, 11-17.00
Maison de l’Amérique Latine, 217 Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris 7e
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The new Ceramic Art Fair in Paris showcases antique, modern, and contemporary ceramics and glass. For its inaugural edition at La Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Spazio Nobile is delighted to present a curated selection of works by four acclaimed artists represented by the gallery: ceramicists Bela Silva (PT), Päivi Rintaniemi (FI), and Ann Beate Tempelhaug (NO), in dialogue with renowned glass artist Åsa Jungnelius (SE).
Swedish artist Åsa Jungnelius works across glass, sculpture, and installation to explore themes of desire, power, and material culture. In long-term collaboration with Kosta Boda, one of Sweden’s most renowned glass manufacturers, Jungnelius bridges fine art and craftsmanship with a conceptual and material sensibility. Her work has been exhibited internationally at the Nationalmuseum Stockholm, Röhsska Museum Gothenburg, the Venice Glasstress Biennale, and Svensk Form, and is currently the subject of a major solo exhibition at the Pera Museum in Istanbul, running until 18 January 2026. Her works are part of prominent public collections including the Nationalmuseum, Röhsska Museum, Kalmar Art Museum, Småland Glass Museum, and several Swedish and international private and institutional collections.
Päivi Rintaniemi, a leading figure in Finnish ceramics, sculpts clay as a meditative material for exploring form and fragility. Winner of the Premio Faenza and the Finnish State Prize for Design, she embodies an aesthetic of discipline and spirituality. Her work lies at the crossroads of sculpture and architecture, evoking the tension between void and mass, light and shadow. Through her pure, balanced forms, she seeks to express the silent strength of matter and the tension of the creative act. Rintaniemi’s sculptures — made from stoneware, porcelain, and sometimes concrete or wire — evoke primordial, expanding forms. Her 2021 solo exhibition Calix at the Halli – Kunsthalle Seinäjoki presented new works that explored the spiritual and tactile nature of clay, emphasizing its meditative and ancestral character. She has exhibited at the National Museum of Finland (Helsinki), Design Museum Helsinki, Fondazione Officine Saffi (Milan), Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, and Collect London. Her works are included in major public and private collections such as the Design Museum Helsinki, the Finnish SupremeCourt, the Museum of Ostrobothnia, and Nordea Bank Stockholm.
Bela Silva, a renowned Portuguese artist, composes imaginary landscapes inhabited by mythological figures and organic shapes, celebrating freedom, colour, and vitality. Drawing inspiration from craft traditions and folk narratives, she turns ceramics into a space of freedom and metamorphosis. Her works, both sensual and instinctive, celebrate the beauty of the living world. After her recent travels to Mexico, Brazil, Egypt and, more recently, Kenya, her sculptures suggest even more strongly this feeling of being: As far as the eye can see. The chromatic palette and the twirling dance of her brush are constantly renewed, at the source of being like a breath, a dance, a trance. It is not enough for her to visit a museum or read a book: the artist seeks experience in the field, in order to give life and form to a lived experience and a true transhumance. This new body of work is inspired by colourful striped and patterned textiles and their bold combinations, as well as the elaborate and sophisticated jewellery and headdresses of the Maasai people she encountered on her last trip to Africa.
Bela Silva studied at the School of Fine Arts in Porto and Lisbon, as well as at Ar.Co in Lisbon, before continuing her training at Norwich School of Fine Arts (UK) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA). She has exhibited at the Museu Nacional do Azulejo, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói in Brazil, as well as at the Ajuda National Palace, the Anastácio Gonçalves Museum, the Ricardo Espírito Santo Foundation, the National Museum of Ancient Art and the Museum of the Orient in Lisbon. Her work has also been shown at Villa Tamaris in La Seyne-sur-Mer and at the Palácio Cadaval in Évora, and earlier in her career at Rhona Hoffman Gallery and Ann Nathan Gallery in Chicago. Artist residencies at the Kohler Center (Wisconsin, USA) and the Fábrica Bordalo Pinheiro (Portugal) have been key in expanding her experimental approach to material. In 2026, Flammarion will publish her first monograph, co-edited with Spazio Nobile, offering an overview of her international career and creative journey.
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Out in the garden, Ann Beate Tempelhaug’s Plein Air unfolds as an art installation of five large-scale ceramic sculptures on easels
Ann Beate Tempelhaug creates works where painting becomes sculpture, fusing layers of enamel and pigment into vibrant pictorial surfaces that oscillate between lyrical abstraction and Nordic expressionism. Her Plein Air installation of five large-scale lyrical works, displayed on easels in the garden of the Maison de l’Amérique Latine, evokes the spirit of plein air painting from the Impressionist era.
Ann Beate Tempelhaug is one of Norway’s foremost contemporary ceramic artists. Trained at the Bergen School of Art and Crafts, she has, since the 1980s, redefined painterly ceramics as a language between art and craft. Her large hand-built ceramic panels operate as emotional fields where matter, colour, and light converge. Working with porcelain and stoneware fired at high temperatures, she layers pigments and glazes through successive firings, embracing a delicate balance between control and spontaneity. In 2023, Spazio Nobile presented her first solo show with the gallery, Nord, followed by her second solo exhibition in Milan at Fondazione Officine Saffi. Her works are part of major Norwegian collections, including the National Museum in
Oslo and the art museums of Bergen, Trondheim, and Kristiansand. She has been awarded significant public and private commissions for institutions such as the municipalities of Risør and Vestnes, the Universities of Kristiansand and Bergen, and several care centres across Nøtterøy, Tangvall, and Kristiansand. Over the course of her career, she has received numerous national grants, including the National Art Scholarship, support from the Art and Craft Foundation, project funds from the Norwegian Fine Art Association, and most recently, the prestigious five-year National Art Grant. Tempelhaug will hold a solo exhibition at Kunstnerforbundet in Oslo in fall 2026.
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In the Grand Staircase, Maison de l’Amérique Latine
Åsa Jungnelius, The New Prime Time, silvered hand blown glass art installation, in which she explores the notions of desire, power, and beauty through a monumental glass sculpture
Photos by Alexandre Fouquet, Courtesy of Spazio Nobile
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