15–20 June 2027
ceramic basel

tribute

Tribute pays homage to a landmark artistic figure whose work has shaped the practice of ceramics and glass.

Visitors in front of a large white ceramic altarpiece.
1/3Elmar Trenkwalder’s solo show, ceramic brussels 2026 © Geoffrey Fritsch
A visitor in front of a large panel painted with reeds and black birds, on a blue wall.
2/3Elizabeth Jaeger’s solo show, ceramic brussels 2025 © Geoffrey Fritsch
Visitors around a red and yellow ceramic sculpture on a yellow plinth.
3/3Johan Creten’s solo show, ceramic brussels 2024 © Geoffrey Fritsch

Each edition, tribute pauses on a single artist whose contribution to the history of art, through fire and material, has been monumental. The section also follows the resonance of that work across other media — sculpture, painting, drawing — so that a whole artistic practice comes into view.

Each year we honour a “dialogue with material”: work that is daring, at times revolutionary, at times nonconformist, and always strikingly free.