MADE FOR US - PASCALE ZINTZEN: DRESSING THE VESSEL

8 Holland Street is excited to present MADE FOR US - PASCAL ZINTZEN: DRESSING THE VESSEL. An exhibition of hand-built sculptural ceramic vessels, bringing together two collections, Arlequin and The Seasons. Zintzen explores the vessel as both structure and canvas, using clay, glaze and colour to create one-of-a-kind works.

Inspired by the Harlequin figure, Arlequin draws on Zintzen’s childhood memories of piano lessons with her grandmother and the illustrations in her music books. The Harlequin opened a path to colours and a certain rhythm in their distribution. In The Seasons, featuring works from Primavera and L’Estate, Zintzen turns to the natural world. The technical mastery and large scale of hand-built vessels create space for instinctive movements of colours. Upon the crafted, large clay surface, layers of glaze move freely, tracing gestures inspired by spring's light and vitality and by a suffocating 2026 summer that devastated forests and wildlife around the globe.

Each vessel is hand-built, glazed and fired in Zintzen’s Barcelona studio, where traditional ceramic techniques meet an intuitive approach to colour and gesture. Balancing technical precision with spontaneity, the exhibition explores the vessel as a site of expression, where material, memory and craftsmanship converge.

Pascale Zintzen is a Belgian multidisciplinary artist based between Barcelona and the Baix Ebre countryside in Spain. Working across sculpture, ceramics, bronze and ink on paper, her practice explores the relationship between material memory, landscape and human experience. Through process-led engagement with traditional craft techniques, she creates forms that evoke notions of permanence, transformation and repair, inviting reflection on the ways personal and collective histories become embedded within material culture.

Her work is characterised by a restrained aesthetic, where hand-built simple forms and surface decoration articulate a dialogue between fragility and endurance. Her works positions craft as both a critical and poetic means of engaging with contemporary art.

Her recent exhibitions include L’Arlequin, Sessùn x Paris Design Week (Paris, 2026), Obsessions: A Self Portrait, Openhouse Magazine, Milan Design Week (Milan, 2026), and Soul of Matière, SM Bureau Gallery, Paris Design Week (Paris, 2025).