About Margit Denz & Atelier

Exhibitions

(Abstract)

Women's Museum, Hittisau, AUT

Ceramics Museum Middelfart, DK

Museum of Ceramics, Barcelona, ES

Museu Soares dos Reis, Porto, P

National Museum of Azulejo, Lisbon, P

Women's Bath, Baden/Vienna, AUT

Galerie Winter, Wiesbaden, Germany

Ziegelberg Castle, Mettlach, DE

Looshaus, Vienna, AUT

Seibu in Tokyo, JP

Margit Denz - Career

The visual artist, specializing in ceramics, sculpture, and design, was born in Dornbirn, Austria, in 1964. From 1980 to 1984, she attended the School of Wood and Stone Sculpture in Innsbruck.

She then studied ceramics and design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna under Matteo Thun from 1984 to 1990. From 1990 to 2001, she ran her own studio in Vienna.

Today she lives and works in Dornbirn and Vienna.

Her artistic work combines traditional craftsmanship with contemporary design. For Villeroy & Boch, she developed her own coffee service landscapes that combine design and function in a new way.

In the exhibition "Alpine Rose & Alpine Glow," she explored Austrian Alpine clichés and reinterpreted them visually. In this context, she designed custom-made porcelain horns for the brass ensemble Mnozil Brass.

Awards

Exhibitions (excerpt)

Women's Museum, Hittisau, AUT

Ceramics Museum Middelfart, DK

Museum of Ceramics, Barcelona, ES

Museu Soares dos Reis, Porto, P

National Museum of Azulejo, Lisbon, P

Women's Bath, Baden/Vienna, AUT

Galerie Winter, Wiesbaden, Germany

Ziegelberg Castle, Mettlach, DE

Looshaus, Vienna, AUT

Seibu in Tokyo, JP

Awards

1st Prize, Design Plus , Frankfurt, Germany

Award and prize of the Federal Ministry of Science and Research , Vienna, AUT

3rd Prize Ceramics at the Traklhaus , Salzburg, AUT

The exhibition "Intim," which was shown in leading ceramics museums across Europe—including Denmark, Germany, France, and Portugal—dedicated itself to fundamental questions of human existence: birth, nutrition, love, and death. It combined these themes with elements of Greek mythology.

Since 1996, the heart has been a central symbol in her work. It represents universal human emotions—love, longing, vulnerability, but also strength and contradiction. In a wide variety of forms, it serves as a creative and thematic instrument—sometimes raw and direct, sometimes sophisticated and ambiguous.

Her latest project, "Abundance," explores the themes of abundance, wealth, and the conscious use of resources—both in terms of content and form. Parallel to this, she created her book, "356 Heart Days," a perpetual calendar featuring a selection of her heart objects and inviting daily reflection on these questions.

Her work has received numerous awards, been exhibited internationally, and documented in specialist publications.

Anyone interested in high-quality, well-founded, and technically precise art is invited to engage in dialogue with her.

"My studio
is my retreat."

The ceramics workshop - between hearts and other objects

In her studio, overlooking Dornbirn, processes emerge that often remain hidden in the finished work of art. It's a place where ideas take shape – in the tension between craftsmanship and artistic freedom. Here, her joy in design, her creativity, thrives – and at the same time, she finds her personal sanctuary.

For her, the workshop is more than just a workspace: it's a laboratory, archive, and thought-provoking space all in one. Here, design, model, cast, glaze, and fire. Every step is part of a precisely coordinated process in which material, concept, and form form a unified whole. Whether a single piece or a series, each object is created with great care and attention to detail.

Her studio is located in Dornbirn, nestled between nature and the city.