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ceramic brussels develops creative collaborations with partners committed to its organisation and to the promotion of Belgian and Brussels know-how.
These collaborations make it possible to offer unique, high-quality areas for visitors to discover and take a break, in the heart of the fair.
↘ 2025 edition
KRJST Studio - Erika Schillebeeckx and Justine de Moriamé - revealed this monumental textile installation FREE Fall.
A KRJST Debut
Erika Schillebeeckx and Justine de Moriamé (KRJST Studio) are now renowned for their extraordinary textile compositions, capable of literally transforming and enveloping space. In just over a decade, they have revitalised the art of tapestry, crafting a phantasmagorical universe rich in texture, depth, and boundless imagination.
For ceramic brussels, the duo has created an immersive work that evokes the majesty of mysterious landscapes: towering trees, cascading waterfalls, and the serene natural scenes of Japanese iconography, including rocks and streams. Their colour palette is specifically inspired by the subtle nuances of raku ceramics, featuring deep blacks, metallic sheens, and hues that shift between soft and intense.
As such, Free Fall celebrates transformation and the dialogue between mastered techniques and serendipitous outcomes, paying tribute to various Japanese traditions such as Boro, a textile art, and Kintsugi, the art of repairing ceramics to enhance their beauty and allow them to evolve into something new.
This installation was created in collaboration with La Forest Divonne gallery.
KRJST studio is a Belgian artist duo founded in 2012.
The duo began working in the fashion industry for almost 3 years after earning a master’s degree in
Cambre Mode. In 2015, they immersed themselves in the art and design sector due to key meetings and
the need to put creativity and art at the center of their practice again as creating woven art pieces, Jaquard and hand embroiderd.
KRJST studio (pc. 2015) has a triangular structure composed by Justine de Moriamé, Erika Schillebeeckx, and their Art. The whole forms a magnetic field of experimentation which attracts and digests itssurroundings. Four hands, two souls, and four eyes are tuned together toinvoke a collective memory, to alter it, and to pass it on. The weavings serve as witnesses of their era, survivors of a narrative, oscillating between past and future, embodying our roots, expanding the present. They can be apprehended with the alchemical unit of measurement : the time required to…
KRJST puts colors to express what words fail to describe ; they paint with weaving threads imaginary landscapes of a poetic, calm, and yet tormented realm, the chaos where emotions are born.
By giving itself time for creation, krjst takes an intimate awareness of time both as the place of change and a place of permanence and as a place of reconciliation between traditional and ritual technique and experimental and modern technique.
According to the alchemical principles we can only get to the end of the road if we do not know what we are looking for. The unconscious arises in the creative process and allows the artist to present himself as
the guardian of the limits of appearance and to show his / the in-visible.
ceramic brussels 2025 © Geoffrey Fritsch
ceramic brussels developed a book & coffee lounge hosting 3 Art books & publications publishers, a specialty coffee counter in a 300m2 lounge area inviting the public to meet, read and relax with a specialty coffee by MOK coffee.
The lounge by Ateliers J&J & friends: a space designed in collaboration with Ateliers J&J and a selection of Brussels-based artists.
bespoke coffeeshop and furniture designed in collaboration with Brussels-based artists.
Created in 2012 by two self-taught craftsmen, Ateliers J&J is a self-funded craft-based production unit combining joinery and metalwork.
Production takes place entirely in their workshop on the outskirts of Brussels, ensuring expertise and quality.
The different ranges, using mainly their favourite materials such as wood and metal, are aesthetically pleasing, durable and affordable.
Alongside the collections, Jean and his team are developing a range of made-to-measure products.
The J&J workshops aim to extend their offer to a new public and to promote Brussels artists and craftsmen by proposing collaborations and limited editions resulting from fortuitous and improbable encounters.
The collaboration on ceramic brussels 2025 for the lounge by Ateliers J&J & friends:
- Ateliers J&J
- Bel Albatros
- Studio Elémentaire
- JLBV Studio
- Grond Studio
- Cru Atelier Brussels
Reach out for your own collab or bespoke project!
Roasting the finest coffees since 2012. Honest, remarkable & uncompromising
MOK is about integrity and quality. Working with the same producers year after year to create long lasting relationships and source the finest coffees available.
MOK brings the coffee experience from bean to cup in all its variations to customers. Each day trying to excite everyone with coffee. Two very different bars, currently rustic and cosy in Leuven to the modern and vibrant spot on the canal side of the fashionable Dansaert district.
MOK BXL is open 7 days a week serving up homemade hand brews, filter, espresso and fermented soft drinks. Teas & infusions are sourced by tea Companion Tea. At the heart of the cafe you’ll find a seasonal vegetarian kitchen offering breakfast, lunch and freshly baked cakes & pastries with a gluten / dairy free focus. A selection of brew equipment is also available, alongside our passionately sourced beans.
ceramic brussels is committed to providing visitors with a total, immersive experience. From the multiple artistic universes to the pleasures of the mouth and Belgian and Brussels know-how:
a bar with various drinks and beers from the Brussels brewery Nanobrasserie L’Ermitage,
a food corner Fernand Obb Delicatessen, and a hidden popup restaurant Chez Loulou.
open: 11h - 19h
→ location: food corner // hall B
Belgian popular cuisine establishment: Restaurant – Delicatessen – Event
Located in Brussels, in the heart of Saint-Gilles, Fernand Obb Delicatessen propose a popular cuisine menu made from the best ingredients, an impeccable service with a dedicated team, in a warm atmosphere and always a relaxed mood.
The establishment selects carefully its products: everything is prepared in its dedicated production workshop, using ingredients from local and Belgian producers.
Fernand Obb was created in Saint-Gilles in the course of 2017 by Cédric Mosbeux, and opened in march 2018.
In October of the same year, it won the Brussels’s best grey shrimp croquetteaward, during the contest organised at Comme Chez Soi with the starred chef Pierre Wynants as the head of the jury. After a second win in 2019, this time with the jury presided by starred chef Lionel Rigolet, Fernand Obb - through Cédric Mosbeux - became an active member of the now yearly contest organisation and the jury.
Fernand Obb, since then, has open a second restaurant in Stockel and is present on many public and private events with its mobile catering service, team and foodtruck.
lunch: 12h - 17h
→ location: behind booth B4-5-6 // hall B
Passionate about gastronomy, Benjamin Schijns chose to learn from the best: he began his career at Le Pain et le Vin, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Brussels, and went on to work alongside Xavier Faber (Belgium's best sommelier in 2000), becoming his assistant and Maitre D.
He then took up a position as sommelier at the Sea Grill, chef Yves Mattagne's 2-star restaurant. There he learned the discipline and know-how of a restaurant run by the gastronomic elite.
As chef de salle at Gaudron, he managed the team.
In 2009, he launched Traiteur Benjamin, whose quality of service inspires confidence. Word of mouth is spreading, and the business is growing fast.
His wide range of experience, versatility and different hats have won him over as a sommelier, home chef, gourmet caterer and wedding planner. He likes to surprise and delight, and will propose dishes that will awaken all the senses.
A special publication dedicated to the fair provides an overview of contemporary ceramic world through interviews, opinion pieces, exchanges and conversations, available online and on paper.
Read the 2025 edition here.
The IDEAT SPECIAL PRIZE honours the talent of an artist exhibiting at ceramic brussels:
Nellie Johnson.
She showed her work at the fair with Norwegian gallery QB Gallery.
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