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Stéphanie Ceska is an artist whose work explores the relationship between material, gesture and transformation. Trained at the Van der Kelen trompe-l’œil school in Brussels, she developed early on a rigorous practice grounded in precision and close attention to detail. She later worked as a decorative painter at La Monnaie Opera House, where she discovered the collective dimension of creation and came to understand art as a space of transition.
Alongside her artistic career, she spent many years supporting individuals in professional transition, an experience that sharpened her understanding of moments of rupture, identity shifts and profound transformation.
In 2024, she founded L’Atelier des Hommes Rouges, an experimental and artistic ceramics studio. There, she creates ceramic plates and lamps, conceived as unique, one-of-a-kind pieces, each carrying its own rhythm, texture and presence. These functional objects form a distinct universe, situated between use and contemplation, where the material bears the trace of gesture and time.
Her practice examines how ceramics can become a site of sensitive research, where creating means giving form to lived experience.