Viki Nagy

Viki Nagy is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Rotterdam (NL). She focuses on ceramics and material exploration, particularly the narrative of the processes involved, off-cuts, and waste. Her work often investigates traditional craft techniques while rethinking how materials are shaped and understood today.

Viki graduated in Contemporary Art Theory and Curatorial Practice from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. Her journey shifted in 2020 when she apprenticed at a ceramic workshop in Japan. She returned to Japan in 2023 and spent over a year working as a ceramic instructor in Tokyo while developing the ‘Loofah Lab’ project — supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL experiment grant.

As a tech fellow in the ceramic workshop of the Rijksakademie, Viki will continue her work with metakaolin — an anhydrous form of fired clay — through her project, ‘Everything is Gold’.

‘Everything is Gold’ is a research project focused on exploring the potential of metakaolin as a resource for new works. Through the systematic collection of discarded ceramics at the Rijksakademie, the project investigates how this material can be transformed into new components for clay bodies, glazes, stains, and beyond. The findings will be gathered into a library of samples and methods artists, makers, and small studios can draw from in their practices. Instead of viewing unsuccessful fired ceramics as waste, the research proposes to treat them as valuable resources akin to gold, placing importance on the raw materials, and finding ways to repurpose and reintegrate them into artworks.