*06/08/1978 Rostock, Germany | born

lives and works in Berlin, Germany
-> Atelier + Showroom, Sredzkistr. 46, 10435 Berlin

since 12/2024 Member of Berufsverband Bildender KünstlerInnen (BBK)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

10 Sep – 14 Sep 2025 Silent Traces I Stille Spuren, Anke Buchmann with Yev Kazannik, HANDFUL, Berlin, Germany 

12 Nov 2024 Ceramic Salon, Atelier + Showroom, Berlin, Germany 

25 Oct – 21 Dec 2024 Elusive Memories, Anke Buchmann with James McKinnon, Atelier+Showroom, Berlin, Germany 

26 April – 28 April 2024 Anke Buchmann, One Year Atelier + Showroom, Berlin Gallery Weekend, Berlin, Germany 

15 Sep 2023 Performance: A Still Mind, during Berlin Art Week 2023, Anke Buchmann Atelier & Showroom, Berlin, Germany

28 April – 17 Sep 2023 This moment will never come back, Anke Buchmann Atelier & Showroom, Berlin, Germany

8 May – 12 May 2019 ‘Out of breath’, Sculpture Garden of William Benington Gallery, Fulmer, UK

19 Nov – 25 Nov 2018 ‘Breathing with clay’, 20SQUARE7 Gallery Space, Berlin, Germany 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025
Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, Brandneu – brandnew, Germany
Affordable Art Fair Berlin, New & Abstract, Germany

2024
Group Show #4, New & Abstract, Berlin, Germany 
Sommermünze, Alte Münze, Berlin, Germany 
Celebrating Berlin Craftsmanship, VOOSTORE, Berlin, Germany

2023
Celebrating Berlin Craftsmanship, VOOSTORE, Berlin, Germany
Shaping Ceramics, Bock, Berlin, Germany
Private Place, during Berlinale 2023, hell & karrer, Berlin Germany

2019
Brockley Open Studios, London UK
Free Range Exhibition ‘Art Week’, Made in Arts London at Truman Brewery, London UK
Affordable Art Fair London, MiAL, London UK
Invitation for Material Earth, Performance “Noting Absence III”,  Messums Wiltshire, Wiltshire UK (festival was cancelled)

2018 
London Design Festival 2018, Lethaby Gallery, London UK
Pangolin Gallery, London UK – Window Group Show 
Lethaby Gallery, Makers – Performance, London UK
New Designers, Week 1 –  CERAMICS & GLASS, London UK
CSM Degree Show 2: Design, London, UK
XHIBIT 2018 – championing future creatives, Art Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
Ceramic Art London 2018 – Future Experts, London, UK
The Hub, Wellcome Collection with StudioSenses & CreatedOutOfMind, London, UK
Tranoi 2018 with Riachi Studios, Louvre, Paris, France
Ambiente 2018 with Nachtmann, Frankfurt, Germany
Standing Blocks, Performance Group Exhibition with Lincoln Projects, London, UK

2017
Clay Meditations, Performance & Participation, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
British Ceramic Biennial 2017, Wedgwood Museum, Stoke on Trent, UK
Creative Union, London Design Festival, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK
Ol-Factory, Lead Artists: Studio Glithero, Domaine de Boisbuchet, France
XHIBIT 2017 – 20 years of championing future creatives, Art Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
Ceramic Art London 2017, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
Craftsmanship alone is not enough, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK
Ambiente 2017 with Nachtmann, Frankfurt, Germany

2016
Material Matters Past and Present, Pangolin Gallery, London, UK
Lost and Found, Ceramic Art London 2016, London, UK
Transcription, Ceramic Art London 2016, London, UK
Sculptures for the outside, Pangolin Gallery, London, UK
Part of Us, Central Saint Martins, London, UK

2015
It takes more than one, Lead Artists: Mixer’ Traxler, Domaine de Boisbuchet, France

2011
Open Design City, DMY Designfestival, coop. with Le Van Bo, Beta House Berlin, Germany

AWARDS, PRIZES & SCHOLARSHIPS

2021
UAL Award – Creative Business Accelerator 2021 | Scholarship

2019
Cockpit Arts – Clear Insurance Award | Shortlisted

2018  
UAL Mentor: Steph Buttle| Selected
MiAL & Metro Imaging Mentor | Shortlisted
XHIBIT selection | Conversation with Tate Modern Director, Frances Morris
XHIBIT – best emerging creatives from University of Arts London | Nominated

2017
Good Design Awards 2017 for ‘Punk’ in collaboration with Nachtmann | Winner
MEAD scholarships| Shortlisted
XHIBIT – best emerging creatives from University of Arts London | Nominated

2016
NextGen Design Competition, presented by Nachtmann & CSM, solo work | 1st Price

2015, ongoing
Domain de Boisbuchet, Design & Architecture Workshops, France | Fellow

RESIDENCIES

09/2018 Collective Matter, London, UK

08/2015 Domain de Boisbuchet, Lessac, France

08/2014 Student of East German Masterpotter Joachim Jung, Glashagen, Germany

TALKS & WORKSHOPS

2025  
Thinking through clay, Institute of Technology, Tokyo Japan 

2023 – ongoing
Ceramic Workshops, Clay Meditations and Contemporary Ceramics Masterclass at Anke Buchmann Atelier + Showroom, Berlin 

2019 
Talk “Pricing & Selling your art work”, Xhibit professional development day organised by SU of University of the Arts, London
Tactile Clay Meditation at the House of Togetherness

2018
Clay Meditation with architecture studio Tophat at their studio
Clay Meditation with architecture studio Assemble at Sugarhouse studios
2 Clay Meditation workshops during London Design Festival at Sugarhouse studios

2017
Talk at Wellcome Collection, The HUB, London – The making of ‘A ceramic diary’
Workshop at Skip Garden London – ‘Senses: Touch’
Workshop at Central Saint Martins, London – Ignition ‘Produce’, Meet & Make

2016
Investigation into possibilities of experience design in ceramics, ArtsLav, London, 2016
Insights into Lost and Found, Ceramic Art London 2016

PUBLICATIONS / MENTIONINGS

19/12/2024 Keramik Atlas 

30/10/2024 Ceramics Now Weekly, What’s on View, by Vasi Hîrdo

09/2021 PAGE – Keramikstudio, by Sabine Danek 

09/2021 HANDELSBLATT, Zukunft Deutschland Beilage – Mit neuen Ideen in die Zukunft, by Mirko Heinemann

06/2021 VOGUE Germany, Collectors item – Vogue Favoriten, Handgemacht, by Lea  Egerer

04/2021 Demoi official – Conscious Entrepreneurship: May I introduce Anke Buchmann, by Demee Koch

11/2018 REFINERY29 – 5 Young Female Artists That Are Going To Be Big

11/2018 Vanity Fair – New Opening: The UAL Xhibit 2018

11/2018 1340 Art Magazine 2018//Q4, p.33 – This moment will never come back – Performance

07/2016 What can we learn from Ariane Prin’s Rust Collection?, Curating the Contemporary (CtC), Whitechapel Gallery and London Metropolitan University | Research Paper | by Anke Buchmann

03/2011 Hochwertig. Design made in Germany. DMIG Nr. 6, designmadeingermany.de magazin/6/ | Interview   

07/2012 Build more, buy less! Konstruieren statt konsumieren. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2012, Community Chapter | Recognition

10/2005 Interactive Storytelling in Experience Design, Page Magazin, Young Talents | Recognition 

IN COLLECTIONS

Frances Morris, Director for Tate Modern, London UK

MiAL, UAL Collection, madeinartslondon.com, London UK

The Hub, Wellcome Collection, London UK

Domain de Boisbuchet, Lessac France

Lethaby Gallery, London UK

Private Collections, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Den Haag, Karlsruhe, London, München, Rostock

ENGAGEMENTS & WORK EXPERIENCE

11/2020 – now HANDFUL, http://www.handfulceramics.com | Founder, Artist & Tutor

09/2020 – now Volkshochschule, Berlin | Tutor & Workshop Facilitator

10/2017 Assisting Clare Twomey at Tate Exchange, London for ‘Factory: The seen and unseen’

2015 – now Claystudies: Ceramic Art, Design & Craftsmanship, claystudies.com | Editor in Chief

2015 – now Domain de Boisbuchet, Design & Architecture Workshops, France | Fellow Berlin & London

2015-2016 Made in Arts London, UK | Creative Ambassador

12/2015 Craft Council, Hey Clay! – BBC Arts’ get creative, UK | Assistant of artist Duncan Hooson

12/2015 Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, Memory Makers, UK | Assistant of artist Clare Twomey

2012 Miami Ad School, Berlin, Germany | Lecturer

2005 – 2014 Anke Buchmann User Experience Design, Germany & Sweden | Freelance & Full-time

EDUCATION

2015 – 2018 Central Saint Martins, London | BA (Hons) Ceramic Design

2001 – 2005 University of the Arts, Berlin | MA Digital Communication

2003 – 2004 University of Applied Arts, Vienna | Erasmus Graphics & Advertisement

1998 – 2001 Berufsakademie, Berlin | Degree Business Administration