Marga Knaven

I live and work in the east of the Netherlands on the German border on the Rhine.
After my studies at the art academy in Den Bosch (specialization ceramics) I started working with porcelain.
The fragile and the beauty of the porcelain particularly appealed to me.
Over time, the material and its origins began to fascinate me more and more,
that is why I started looking for what the essence of this material was for me.
In addition, I developed a working method that is very similar to the way my father worked in his bakery.
I started to translate the obtained shapes into other materials aluminum, polystyrene and rubber.
Because rubber has different compositions, I started to study the
origin and history of the material.
Both materials are very valuable industrially.
Porcelain used to be referred to as 'white gold' and rubber is 'black gold'.
During the covid 19 lockdown I made porcelain works (landscapes) in exclusively white or black.
And large hanging black rubber banner objects

1984Royal Academy for Arts and Design 's-Hertogenbosch ,The Netherlands
1984 Artist in residence Keramisch werkcentrum Heusden ,The Netherlands
1984Startstipendium fonds BKVB
1986-2019 Working as a ceramics teacher at a several of centers for fine arts
1995 Artist in residence at the European Ceramics Work Centre (EKWC) 's-Hertogenbosch The Netherlands
2007 Artist in residence at the EKWC 's-Hertogenbosch ekcw

2024 Galery Franzis Engels, Amsterdam
2023 aveiro ceramic biennale 2023
2023 Netherlands-Korea invitational Ceramic Exhibition
2022 55 AUSSTEllUNGSPROJEKT Kleve Germany
2022 Galery Franzis Engels Amsterdam Netherlands
2021 Ceramic triennale CODA museum Netherlands
2020 The Monstrous bouquet, Arnhem
2020 porcelain museum Kranenburg Bergen
2021 Ceramics Triennial Coda Museum Apeldoorn