Mette Klahn

With my ceramic works, I want to reclaim, aestheticize and add new value to these expressions.

I am Mette Klahn and I am a trained ceramist from the Seminariet for Kunst og Håndværk in Kerteminde.

But clay was played with much earlier. At Hillerød Lilleskole, the thesis was that if only the children played with clay, then the tables would come by themselves. I never learned the tables, but I became good at it with clay. In my childhood in the 70s, the Women’s Camp on Femø was part of a fixed cycle and here I experienced the female anatomy freely unfolding and exploring.

Clay and femininity are part of my DNA. The studies of female anatomy were intensified during my training as a nurse. Here my fascination with the infinite variations and beauty of the female body became vague. The female anatomy is often described with clinical, ridiculous or downright derogatory terms.

My works are meant to be conversation pieces. This means that we can take the “forbidden” words out into the open and talk about them. Preferably with a smile, but with respect.

We need to lift the Hanging Nipple to new heights and have the Pussy Magnet sitting on the fridge in a kissing mood, if I may say so.