Mar de Dios
Mar de Dios's work is centred on ceramics and is based on the work of Japanese ceramists. Her interest in this practice was born as a reaction to an excessively academic training and a desire to return to more manual work. She considers art as an autonomous language per se that does not need to be translated because in every translation there is part of the soul of the original language that is lost, that cannot be apprehended.
Mar de Dios (Barakaldo, 1992) lives and works in Bilbao. She holds a degree in Art and a Master in Ceramics: Art and Function from the UPV/EHU and a Master in Research in Art and Creation from the Complutense University of Madrid. She has been a resident of the IDPool programme, Vista Alegre, Portugal (2018) and the Koganecho Artist Residency, Yokohama, Japan (2023).
She has won several awards, including third prize in the Ertibil Bizkaia competition, and grants from the Provincial Council of Bizkaia and the Basque Government. His most recent exhibitions include ‘Artes de la Tierra’ at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the exhibition at Filet Space London (together with Natalia Suárez), his participation in the Salone del Mobile Milano 2023 and Batzuk at Tabakalera (Donostia-San Sebastián) curated by Ana Lekuona. In 2023, Home, Casa, Hasiera was published in collaboration with Peio Aguirre and his publishing house COOP, with texts by Peio Aguirre, Pilar Blanco and Estrella de Diego. She has participated in ARCO 2025 and 2026.
