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 practice-led investigation into the hidden waste of ceramic studios, transforming abandoned and failed fired pieces into a material resource. Through finding ways of crushing, reusing, and reformulating these remnants, the project brings the making process itself into dialogue with questions about value, labour, and what we choose to consider waste. This approach explores practical possibilities for reuse and opens up a deeper understanding of how cultural, economic, and ecological conditions shape our habits of disposability and reuse.