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VENETIA INITIATIVES
Journal
This Journal is an evolving field book of reflections, fragments, and correspondences - drawn from projects, encounters, texts, and travels. Here, we gather what resonates: a bowl by Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye, a line from Tanizaki, the quiet of a Kyoto garden, a story from an archive, a tea vessel, a scent remembered. It is a living page - where thinking takes form through writing, and where beauty, intimacy, and inquiry are allowed to unfold. Each entry is a thread. Together, they create a tapestry of the visible and the invisible.
“Nothing is more revolutionary than a quiet room.”
— Anne Carson
Karla Black — A Lightness That Endures
Rodder Gallery, New York - May 2026
Venetia Kapernekas
May 45 min read
ALEV EBÜZZIYA SIESBYE ‘Vibrations’ with (Bijoy Jain’s Studio Mumbai) at Salon 94, Salon 94 Design, New York (May 9-August 8, 2025)
“Curator Fabienne Stephan skillfully orchestrated a harmonious dialogue between Alev and Bijoy in New York.” Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye salon 94, NY
Venetia Kapernekas
Jun 16, 20258 min read
“Die Neue Sammlung, is one of the foremost collections of the industrial world…”
Wall installation displays the range of modernist objects in Die Neue Sammlung entry, hanging piece by Luigi Colani, 1970s) said Paola Antonelli, (at an interview at the american AD, May 2006), then curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and now senior curator now at the Department...
Venetia Kapernekas
May 3, 20213 min read
Ruth Duckworth; monumental sculptures & murals & dramatic poetry in ceramics
“I think of life as a unity. This unity includes mountains, mice, rocks, trees, and women and men. It is all one lump of clay. ” Ruth Duckworth (1919-2009)
Venetia Kapernekas
Dec 6, 20194 min read
New York: Alberto Giacometti ‘Intimate Immensity’ and ‘Poetics of Space’ at Luxembourg & Dayan
Far from the immensities of sea and land, merely through memory, we can recapture, by means of meditation, the resonances of this contemplation by grandeur. But is this really memory? Isn’t imagination alone able to enlarge indefinitely the images of immensity?
Venetia Kapernekas
Jan 26, 20195 min read
Hope Atherton’s magical and mysterious “Ash Birds” in Sant’ Andrea de Scaphis
My long driving trip from Maremma/Toscana to reach Rome this past July determined to visit some masterpieces at the museums and Hope Atherton’s exhibition at the deconsecrated church in Travestere, the Oratory of Sant’ Andres de Scaphis on Via dei Vascellari (presently a Gavin Brown gallery) was more than rewarding...
Venetia Kapernekas
Nov 30, 20184 min read
Design Museum in Munich: ‘African Ceramics, a Collection of Franz, Duke of Bavaria donation and permanent loan to Die Neue Sammlung
A warm July afternoon I attended a lovely event at the Rotunda of the Die Neue Sammlung at the Pinakothek der Moderne, as Franz Duke of Bavaria generously grants a gift from his important African ceramics collection.
Venetia Kapernekas
Aug 4, 20183 min read
New York Andrew Ferentinos ‘The desk of an architect: objects of desire’
“Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.” Charles Eames
During a beautiful warm fall afternoon in New York City, I visited Andrew Ferentinos‘ studio. The sun was gloriously bright and a beautiful object was calling my attention on his desk. Indeed, was an object that was created on the architect’s desk...
Venetia Kapernekas
May 17, 20184 min read
New York Francesca DiMattio - ‘Boucherouite’ stitching histories & traditions with porcelain and stoneware & color
Upon my return from Europe, from Maremma/Toscana mid-March, I left a beautiful and lovely springtime landscape. New York has not smiled to spring; one of those rainy and cold days, I walked one of those mornings into a very special garden at 243 Bowery (salon 94), Francesca DiMattio’s ‘Boucherouite”...
Venetia Kapernekas
Apr 27, 20184 min read
‘Lightscape’ porcelain quietness creations of Ruth Gurvich
Porcelain has been made for 1,000 years, traded for 1,000 years. And it has been in Europe for 800 of these. You can trace a few shards earlier. These broken fragments of Chinese for gleam provocatively alongside the heavy earthenware pitchers they were found with an no one can work out how they got to this Kentish cemetery, the Urbino hillside...
Venetia Kapernekas
Mar 5, 20183 min read
New York: Karin Waisman’s new piece “Stem 3” silence speaks
“Space is not merely given, it too is produced; by analogy, we can evoke the space created by a musical chord, its wave-like expansion producing a tapestry of sound.” - Olivier Berggruen on Karen Waisman’s work
Venetia Kapernekas
Dec 15, 20175 min read
Thilo Westermann ‘Notes on Willem de Rooij’s ‘flower bouquets’ Or: How to deal with the ‘exotic’
Departing from Documenta 14 and Venice Biennale I came to a majestic ‘flower bouquet’ by Willem de Rooij at Kunsthalle Wien. The bouquet seemed exotic not only because of the choice of flowers used but rather by the fact that it has been staged right within an exhibition space...
Venetia Kapernekas
Aug 27, 20177 min read
Verena Hennig’s ‘Rope Light Chandelier’ unfolds Silken Threads
“Experience is never limited and is it never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider’s web of the finest silken threads, suspended in the chambers of consciousness and catching every air-borne particle in its issue. It is the very atmosphere of the mind; and when the mind is imaginative."
Venetia Kapernekas
Jul 18, 20173 min read
Munich | Ted Muelhing and ‘Tortoise’ at Porzellan Manufactur Numphenburg
With ‘Tortoise’ the New York artist has returned to the workshop of the Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg a good decade after his successful start in 1999. As with his earlier designs the artistic demands stand in the foreground: Muehling reduces, abstracts and translates the natural form of the faceted armour to the matt white porcelain...
Venetia Kapernekas
Oct 24, 20151 min read
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