Agnes Husz | Japanese Ceramics | 2025 LOEWE CRAFT PRIZE Finalist | Ippodo Gallery TOKYO - NEW YORK

Hungarian born Agnes Husz (b. 1961) is deeply influenced by Japan—her home of three decades. The rustic, spiraling designs she styles from cut slabs of clay coil and converge in twisting abstract patterns, similar to the Japanese kimono obi-belt. Her artworks, referencing Japanese culture, invite deeper consideration of the relationship between nature and human beings.

Her tomeishi or “stop-stone,” delineates the boundary where environment and humanity crosses into the sacred.

Selected as a finalist of the 2025 LOEWE Craft Prize, Husz is an internationally recognized ceramicist. She received her Master's of Fine Art from the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design in Budapest in 1990 before developing her signature spiral technique at European Ceramic Center in the Netherlands in 1993.

Her works have shown at international symposiums, including: Kecskemét International Ceramic Studio (ICSK) 2019, Cloud Forest Collective Studio, Taipei, Taiwan 2019, Arctic International Ceramic Symposium (ACC), Posio, Finland 2016.

Her works have shown at international symposiums, including: 
Kecskemét International Ceramic Studio (ICSK) 2019,
Cloud Forest Collective Studio, Taipei, Taiwan 2019,
Arctic International Ceramic Symposium (ACC), Posio, Finland 2016.

Selected Awards:

Finalist, 2025 LOEWE Craft Prize
Ferenczy Noémi Prize, a Hungarian State Honour (2015).
As of 2013 she is an elected member of the International Ceramic Academy (IAC), Geneva, Switzerland.