Júlia NÉMA

1973, Budapest

porcelain and ceramic designer

She graduated in 2002 from the Hungarian University of Applied Arts, where she completed her DLA in 2012. Her oeuvre is distinguished by a unique harmony struck between fine art, design and craftsmanship. She is a founder and head of one of Hungary’s best-known ceramic design studios, which was the first and has been the only ceramic studio with a high-temperature wood-fired kiln. Her restaurant plate sets made her into an innovator of table service in contemporary Hungarian gastronomy. Her book titled At High Temperatures (2013) is a seminal work on the aesthetics of woodfired ceramics published in Hungarian. She won the Noémi Ferenczy Award in 2013 and the second prize of the Hungarian Ceramics Biennial in 2021.