Joint performance with calligrapher Koji Kakinuma and clay master Roman Šedina in Bohemia. Connecting Japanese and European cultures through contemporary eyes.
2025 Museum of Fine Arts Liberec
Photo: Masa Hamanoi, Ondřej Holub
This type of globular porcelain jar is known as a moon jar (dal hang-ari). Its white color suggests the Confucian virtues of purity, honesty, and modesty, and the form was thought to represent the fertility and embracing, gentle qualities of women. (info from Asian Art Museum)
2022 - 2024
Photo: Libor Hošek, Ondřej Holub, Václav Kupský
Material: earthenware
Color: matte white mother of pearl
Height: 470 mm
Dia: 400 mm
(small version 100 × 100 mm)
Roman Šedina's vases celebrate emptiness. Even without flowers, they are full of life, seeming to bear their nakedness proudly. It is as if the material is both a tool and a product. "When I first encountered clay, I was fascinated. The first touch, the initial trials and setbacks led me to strongly admire it, sparking an intense desire to comprehend this material, " Šedina's processing of clay is intriguing. Touching the objects, one can't tell the era of their genesis: simple shapes coated with a grainy, sometimes glazed texture, caked knots of clay and tangible imperfections. These could come from neolith, antiquity, present or even future. Decorated with distinctive colours, the vases exhibit their earthy origin with both modesty and pride.
Roman Šedina is a master artisan: he began his career in 2000 and he started teaching in 2010.
Homo Faber, European guide to artistic professions. (Living treasures of Europe and Japan.)
Organized by MICHELANGELO FOUNDATION for creativity and craftsmanship.
Photo: Ondřej Holub (drying process and PAAR VASE from Chateu Bechyně), Karin Zadrick (project LIFE of VASE), Ivan Pinkava (project LIFE of VASE)
* Czech Grand Design 24 Nominee: Photographer of the Year Ondřej Holub (Photographs for Roman Šedina)
(Thanks all :)
SPIRIT vase, each piece is original. The touch of the hand shapes. Softness. Fragility. Inspiration by the birth of life. Perfect elliptical shapes. Deformation accentuated by the plating technique. Reflection. Mirroring the environment. Metallic. Shine and matt. Colours.
2021 until now
Photo: Jan Mahr, Ondřej Holub
(Official Video) - YouTube Roman Sedina
Material: erthenware, glaze, TiN technology
Color: metallic green, brown, blue, grey, yellow, gold, pink, magenta
Sizes: 10, 17, 24, 32 cm & maxi vase 50 cm
Invisible. A statue of a vase. Terracotta vase (height 1 meter) is sculpture author's Roman Šedina & Peter Demek. The entire object is a metal tripod 6 metre long.
A series of polaroid and large-format photographs VASE OBJECT & OBJECT VASE were created for the installation.
"Prominent photographers across generations and genders (Karin Zadrick and Alžběta Jungrová versus Robert Vano and Ondřej Holub captured my vases in their photographs at different times. For contrast, they are complemented by large-format photographs by Ivan Pinkava and Jan Mahr."
2024 ART DESIGN FESTIVAL KŘEHKÝ, Chateau Mikulov
curators Jana Zielinski & Jiří Macek and Denisa Šedivá
Human body scale. Pigment. Spraying. Structure. Wabi-sabi.
2020 Claypause, Sofia
Photo: Václav Kupský
Material: terracotta, porcelain
Color: cobalt pigment, blue glaze
Heght: 600 mm
Dia: 400 mm
Zrození nádoby/hydrie
Umělecký keramik a autor sakrálních nádob v kostele sv. Michaela Roman Šedina se při příležitosti 140. výročí Střední uměleckoprůmyslové školy v Bechyni (nejstarší keramické vzdělávací instituce v Čechách) vrátí před oltář, aby na místě před zraky přítomných vytočil poslední nádobu, která se stane součástí výzdoby a stopou dialogu umělce s Bohem. Akt zrození bude doprovázen četbou spisovatelky a kurátorky Denisy Šedivé.
2024 Bechyně
Foto: Ondřej Holub
The sound of the ceramics is special performance with musician Josef Ostřanský (from DUNAJ band - alternative rock) in Art Design Festival Křehký Mikulov. This collaboration is their fourth. The sound of ceramics is an integral part of assessing the quality of a ceramic product's firing. Together they animate inanimate objects.
2023 Chateau Mikulov
Photo: Ondřej Holub
Video: Aleš Sekera
Live Ceramic Show
The space is intended for the presentation of ceramic techniques, performances that I have been constantly improving for more than 20 years.
Since 2000 until now (Ankara, London, Prague, Sofia, …)
Photo: Martin Kopecký, Václav Kupský
Material: steel construction
Space of a cube: 220 x 220 cm
Vases KA collection. Pigments. Spraying. Structures. Wabi-sabi.
* Czech Grand Design 16 Nominee: Designer of the Year: 2nd Prize
2016
Photo: Jan Mahr
Material: earthenware
Color: black pigment and black glaze
Height: 500 - 600 mm
Dia: 250 - 350 mm
(small version 210 mm)
Special curatorial project for the RENAISSANCE 21 - exhibition in The Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague in collaboration with Karin Zadrick photographer. Magic. Untouch. Glazed. Decorated vases. Collection of vases Trsy.
* Designblok Awards 2021 nominations: The best designer installation
(Official Video) - YouTube Roman Sedina
2021 Designblok, Prague
Photo: Karin Zadrick
Bushido, the “way of the samurai” was originally the unwritten moral code of the Japanese warrior. The highest virtues were courage, a calm mind, benevolence, sincerity, devotion, respect, but also honor and glory. The warrior ’s duty was also constant study and self-improvement in his craft, but also humility or freedom from excessive ornamentation and whimsicality … Roman Sedina took this path. He had the marasmus of the middle stream, he showed devotion to the craft he studied, he had humility before the material he chose, he freed himself from false pretensions. His ceramics have become a chronicle, revealing with each glance the way they were made. Every stroke of the artist’s spatula, every touch of his hands yesterday remains imprinted on the ceramic vessel, so that today, tomorrow, a week from now, ten years from now, we can read the path that led to its creation. (curator, japanologist Filip Suchomel)
* Czech Grand Design 17 Nominee: Designer of the Year
2017 Lapidarium of the National Museum, Prague
Photo: BoysPlayNice
Graphic: OKOLO
Material: terracotta
Height: 500 - 700 mm
Dia: 300 - 450 mm
Unique and collectible vases! Roman Šedina's artistic design project tells the story of a ceramic vase not only as a container.
* Designblok Awards 2019 nominations: The best designer installation
2019 until now (Installation with support of Laufen.)
Curator & concept: Roman Šedina
Typograhpy & graphic design: Vojtěch Říha
Vase EMULSION / Special cooperation with documentary photographer Alžběta Jungrová, with support experimentalphotographer Jan Mahr, 2020 presented in Designblok Prague International Design Festival and Trafo Gallery a private exhibition hall/ Prague
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The KA vase was created at the request of the KŘEHKÝ brand for the presentation of Czech visual design. The original decoration with funny situations of old potters was created by Michal Bačák. The situation was narrated by the most prominent Czech ceramicist of the coming generation. They approximate the moments with Pottery's, where Roman Šedina started. (Bačák contributes to reputable magazines with his illustrations, or cooperates with leading Czech designers and brands. He also often applies his illustrations to the surface of used objects, including the porcelain for the Křehký brand or on the walls of some interiors.)
2021 Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Photo: Zuzana Veselá
Site-Specific installation vessels in St. Michael's Church.
6/2 from 6 p.m. / placing vases on the altar of St. Michael's Church in Bechyne (idyllic town in southern Bohemia), which was built as a cemetery church in the second half of the 17th century. It is one of the oldest early Baroque sacral buildings in the Czech lands.
2023
Photo: Ondřej Holub
Unique and collectible vases! Roman Šedina's artistic design project tells the story of a ceramic vase not only as a container.
* Designblok Awards 2019 nominations: The best designer installation
2019 until now (Installation with support of Laufen.)
Curator & concept: Roman Šedina
Typograhpy & graphic design: Vojtěch Říha
Vases POINT / Special cooperation with Jan Kaláb. Is a visual artist, whose art features vibrantly colored, abstract designs of organic shapes in various formats, including paintings, sculptures, NFTs, installations, and street mural. 2019 presented in Designblok Prague International Design Festival and in 2020 Design without borders, Kiscell Museum Budapest, 2024 - 2025 in Made By Fire, Moravian Gallery in Brno
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The story of ceramics begins in Bechyně.
Also a personal meeting with Masakazu Kusakabe at the ceramic design studio, a Japanese ceramic kiln builder.
And Satoshi Nishikawa, professor of industrial, interior and craft design at Musashino Art University, he showed me that my path is the right one.
Special collaboration on leather belts „ORGANIC SHAPE“ with Butique Klara Nademlynska.
Collection Woman A / W 2024 - 25
Limited series bisqit vases made for interior and architecture. Produced with Artiséme design store & Harper's Bazaar.
sizes small 10 cm and classic 24 cm
2024 Prague
curated by Denisa Šedivá
Photo: Ondřej Holub & Darya Rasokhina
(Official Video) - YouTube | MEET THE MAKER | Roman Šedina | Artisème x Harper's Bazaar
