Lucie Belle Blanche David
Lucie B. B. David (b. 1995) is a French-German artist based between Berlin and Vienna. She studied French-German Intercultural Studies (History) in Berlin and at the Sorbonne in Paris before completing her MA in Art & Science at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Angewandte), where she also specialized in ceramics.
Working primarily with ceramics, David develops sculptures and installations that investigate how bodies emerge through material transformation. Drawing on socio-political contexts, craftsmanship, and pop culture, her practice explores embodiment, material memory, and perception, where tenderness becomes a mode of critical reflection. Guided by an intuitive process of assemblage, her forms evolve organically, while layered translucent glazes extend the act of sculpting, transforming clay into mutable surfaces.
She has exhibited at institutions including Künstlerhaus Wien, contributed to the FWF PEEK project Broken Collection(Vienna) as an invited artist, collaborated with the fashion label DFM Hamburg, and has taught ceramics and glazing at Tonhalle Vienna.
Artist Portrait & Graphic Design: (c) Francesco Dipierro
PROCESS & DEVELOPMENT
Artist LBB David:
"These ceramic sculptures explore material transformation through unstable bodies that resist fixed form. Layered translucent glazes animate the clay as a mutable surface, where the tenderness and the grotesque coexist.”
WORKSHOP & ARTIST TALK
Artist talk: 03.07.2026 | 7 PM @ceramickingdom
A SELECTION OF MONSTERS
Monsterly Yours,
Bodies that never quite settle.
Created during my six-month residency at Ceramic Kingdom, Monsterly Yours brings together a new body of ceramic sculptures that investigates how bodies emerge through material transformation. Built through an intuitive process of sculpting and completed through layered translucent glazes, the works hover between tenderness and the grotesque.
Neither fully human nor animal, the sculptures remain materially unstable. Their mutable surfaces invite shifting readings, allowing each body to emerge through the encounter between clay, light, and the viewer.
Exhibition-dates: 26.06.2026–09.07.2026
WINDOW EXHIBITION
Tiny Monster sketches (5-10 cm)
