Agnes Duerrschnabel

I am a ceramics designer and trainer.

 In 2013 I opened my own studio in Como, in the building of the ancient monastery Santa Margherita.

I love my work, my family and friends, arts, books, the wild side of nature, people’s stories, travelling, music, fine food. Most of all, I love life. The older I get, the more I love it.

As a curious person I am interested in many things; I studied different items, lived in different places and did different jobs.

I was born in Göppingen, Germany and brought up near Ulm. In 1987 I moved to Como, with my Italian husband and our little daughter. Since 2007 we live in Faggeto Lario, a small village on the Lake, in a special place you cannot reach by car, which makes life less easy but much more romantic!

Having always been fond of languages and literature, after my arrival in Italy I took a Foreign Literature Course at the Università degli Studi of Milan. For more than 30 years I’ve been working as an interpreter and sworn translator of the Court of Como.

Since 1985 I am also really passionate about design and arts, so once my grown up daughter had left home, from 2007 to 2012 I went back to Germany to take a degree course at the National Institute for Ceramics Design of Höhr-Grenzhausen, achieving the qualification of a ceramics designer and trainer.

2025

“Beyond Borders” – Italian/Turkish group exhibition, Didart Gallery, I-Milan; 07-15.032025

2024

Matres International Festival of Women’s Ceramics (Matres Festival Internazionale della Ceramica Femminile) 21-25.08.24, I-Cava de’ Tirreni/Vietri sul Mare (SA), several exhibitions:
- “PRIMITIVISM” – group exhibition, Cava de’ Tirreni
- “InTerra” Funeral Art – group exhibition, Cava de’ Tirreni
- “InTerra” Funeral Art – group exhibition, Faenza

2023

Borderline Festival, I-Varallo 1-3.09.23

2nd International Biennial of Ceramic Art Award Fratelli Melis, I-Bosa, Sardinia 29.07.– 08.08.23

2022

“Fatti ad Arte”, Palazzo Ferrero, I-Biella, 7-9.10.22 (exhibition of artistic craftsmanship)

“Convivium – Ceramiche Bestiali / Beastly Ceramics”, I-Appignano (Mc), 8 – 9.10.22

“Ceramics in Love”, I-Castellamonte, 20.08.-11.09.22

Matres International Festival of Women’s Ceramics, 25-28.08.22, I-Cava de’ Tirreni/Vietri sul Mare (SA):
- Solo exhibition at the Congrega Letteraria, Via San Giovanni, Vietri sul Mare
- Participation in the group exhibition “Naturantis” and in the Design exhibition, Cava de’ Tirreni

2021

Selected by the indipendent Iranian art group Bon Art Project to partecipate in their virtual exhibition “Transformation”. Award winner with the work “OUT!”.

Participation in the exhibition organized on the occasion of the Festival of Contemporary Bulgarian Ceramics, by the Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia, Bulgaria

“Linguaggi d’autore” (“Author languages”) – A Journey between arts and crafts in the city of colors, Fratelli Melis 2021 Ceramic Art Award, I-Bosa, Sardinia

“Matres Week Earth”:

- “Pandemos. Viral Women”. Virtual exhibition organized by the Pandora Artiste Ceramiste Association.

“Matres Terrae”, Museo Provinciale Campano, I-Capua, 25.11.-5.01.2022

2020

Participation in the Project for Contemporary Ceramics, (AICC and Carlo Zauli Museum, I-Faenza)

Matres International Festival of Women’s Ceramics. Matres Experience – (online exhibition)
Artè.- Le forme del tè (online - exhibition)

“Fatti ad Arte” (exhibition of artistic craftsmanship), I-Biella

2019

“Ergasteria. L’Arte di Venela”, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, I-Pontecagnano (SA)

“Terra degli Dei”, I-Avigliana, Ex Chiesa di Santa Croce, Galleria “Porta Ferrata” ,Gallery “Arte per Voi”

“Buongiorno Ceramica – Matres Week”, group exhibition, Museo Nazionale della Cerarmica Duca di Martina, I-Naples

Exhibition during the International Festival of Women’s Ceramic Art – selected with Honorable Mention in the contest promoted by Matres Week Cro, for the exhibition at the Muzej Prigorja Sesvete, HR-Zagreb, Croatia

2018

“Kore” – exhibition during the Matres International Festival of Women’s Ceramic Art , I-Cava de’ Tirreni (SA)

“Il sapere delle Mani”, Art Contest, Nazzano (RM)

2017-18

“Fictilia- La Ceramica a Tavola”: exhibition at DIMA Design Art Space, I-Vimercate (MI).

2016

“Creative Emptiness”: A Tea House – Ceramic Contest (3rd award winner), DIMA Design, I-Vimercate (MI)

“Palanzo in Arte”, group exhibition, I-Palanzo (CO)

“Gartenwerke”: group exhibition, Benedictine monastery „Vom Heiligen Kreuz“, D-Herstelle, Beverungen

 2013

“Die Zehn”: group exhibition, Ceramics Museum Mettlach, Germany, Villeroy and Boch-Collection

“Mendrisio in Arte”: CH-Mendrisio

2012

“Exponate”: group exhibition, Ceramics Museum Westerwald, D-Höhr-Grenzhausen

“Exponate”: group exhibition, Benedictine Monastery „Vom Heiligen Kreuz“, D-Herstelle, Beverungen

from 2003 :Participation in various exhibitions in Lombardy and Canton Ticino (Switzerland)