Magdalena Gerber is an artist and Professor at the Geneva University of Art and Design,
HEAD — Genève, where she is leading the CERCCO, Center of contemporary ceramics. She
holds a BA Ceramic, Geneva University of Art and Design and a MA Art | Design and
Innovation, University of Art and Design Basel. In 2013 she had the lead of the Research
project GraphicCeram.
Her artistic research moves in a force-field between art and design. Through objects and
installations, she examines the tradition of the applied arts (the arts of the ‘in-betweenness’
per excellence) in order to establish a dialogue across disciplines, short-circuiting the
ordinary into the extra-ordinary. The recent works interests span the deindustrialization of
Swiss ceramic industry and the disappearing of knowledge and cultural heritage.