Anita Monori
Anita Monori is a ceramic artist and designer. She graduated in 2009 from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design with a degree in ceramics. In 2012, she founded her own brand under the name “Design by Monori.” Her work embraces creative blends that open up exciting and novel possibilities in object-making. When creating her porcelain pieces, she combines traditional techniques with modern technological solutions. She is drawn to simple, clean forms that provide space for playful graphic patterns and decorative elements.
INTERNATIONAL APPEARANCES AND AWARDS
Major Grants And Symposia:
- 2024 “Újbuda-Mecénás” Art Scholarship / Budapest
- 2023 “ROOTS” – International Ceramic Symposium / NKS / Kecskemét
Solo Exhibitions:
- 2024 Parallels and Intersections / Solo exhibition by ceramic artist Anita Monori / B32 Gallery and Cultural Space / Budapest
- 2022 Below the Surface – SUBsurface / Solo exhibition by ceramic artist Anita Monori / NKS – Chapel Gallery / Kecskemét
Selected Group Exhibitions:
- 2025
- Paths of Hope – FISE Collection Exhibition / Collegium Hungaricum – Rome
- 2024
- 15th Westerwald Prize / Keramikmuseum Westerwald / Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany
- 26th International Biennial of Vallauris – Contemporary Creation and Ceramics / Musée Magnelli, Musée de la Céramique / Vallauris, France
- FOR REUNION – Taoxichuan Spring and Autumn Art Fair / Jingdezhen, China
- Common Language – Contemporary Hungarian Ceramics in Ljubljana / Liszt Institute – Ljubljana
ABOUT THE EXHIBITED OBJECTS
„CRANES”, “UNDER WATER” and “FLYING IN THE WIND” series (2024)
Anita Monori created the first pieces of the “CRANES” series during the “Roots” symposium at the International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemét. The aim of the symposium was to inspire new works based on the collection of the Museum of Ethnography. Following a visit to the collection, she incorporated and reinterpreted formal impressions, decorative techniques, and various motifs in the pieces she made at the time. Continuing the series with additional conceptual layers, she later created the subsequent series titled “UNDER WATER” and “FLYING IN THE WIND”.
