Award
The Officine Saffi Award is an international prize dedicated to contemporary ceramics, established to support artistic research and highlight the evolving role of clay across contemporary art, craft, and collectible design.
For its sixth edition, titled Forms of Belonging, the Award brings together 28 finalists selected from more than 1,000 applications submitted from 41 countries across five continents. Their works will be evaluated by an international jury and presented in the finalist exhibition at Fondazione Officine Saffi in Milan, on view from September 30 to November 13, 2026.
Responding to the theme of the open call, the shortlisted artists explore the human need to belong and the ways in which the material world can create spaces of recognition, connection, and shared experience. Against an increasingly divided and hostile social and political landscape, their works consider how objects, gestures, rituals, and memories can foster proximity and contribute to a renewed sense of community. Each work transforms matter into a place where personal and collective experiences can accumulate, be transmitted, and endure over time. Bringing together contemporary artistic research, craft-based practices, and collectible design, the selection moves fluidly across the boundaries between disciplines, reflecting the richness and diversity of ceramics today.
For its sixth edition, titled Forms of Belonging, the Award brings together 28 finalists selected from more than 1,000 applications submitted from 41 countries across five continents. Their works will be evaluated by an international jury and presented in the finalist exhibition at Fondazione Officine Saffi in Milan, on view from September 30 to November 13, 2026.
Responding to the theme of the open call, the shortlisted artists explore the human need to belong and the ways in which the material world can create spaces of recognition, connection, and shared experience. Against an increasingly divided and hostile social and political landscape, their works consider how objects, gestures, rituals, and memories can foster proximity and contribute to a renewed sense of community. Each work transforms matter into a place where personal and collective experiences can accumulate, be transmitted, and endure over time. Bringing together contemporary artistic research, craft-based practices, and collectible design, the selection moves fluidly across the boundaries between disciplines, reflecting the richness and diversity of ceramics today.
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