Exhibitions
(Abstract)
Women's Museum, Hittisau
Middelfart Ceramics Museum
Ceramics Museum, Barcelona
Soares dos Reis Museum, Porto
National Museum of Azulejo, Lisbon
Women's Bath, Baden/Vienna
Gallery Winter, Wiesbaden
Ziegelberg Castle, Mettlach
Looshaus, Vienna
Seibu, Tokyo
Margit Denz - Career
Margit Denz, a visual artist specializing in ceramics, sculpture, and design, was born in 1964 in Dornbirn, Austria.
From 1980 to 1984, she attended the School of Wood and Stone Sculpture in Innsbruck. The artist then studied ceramics and design under Matteo Thun at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 1984 to 1990. From 1990 to 2001, she ran her own studio in Vienna.
Today Denz lives and works in Dornbirn and Vienna.
Her artistic work combines traditional craftsmanship with contemporary design. For Villeroy & Boch, Margit developed her own coffee service landscapes that combine design and function in a new way.
In the exhibition Almrausch & Alpenglühen she explored Austrian Alpine clichés and reinterpreted them visually.
In this context, Denz designed specially designed porcelain horns for the brass ensemble Mnozil Brass .
Awards
1st Prize, Design Plus , Frankfurt
Award and prize of the Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Vienna
3rd Prize Ceramics at the Traklhaus , Salzburg
"My studio
is my retreat."
The ceramics workshop - between porcelain hearts and other sculptures
For her, the workshop is more than just a workspace: it's a laboratory, archive, and thought-provoking space all in one. Here, they design, model, cast, glaze, and fire. It's right there—with a view over Dornbirn—that the complex manufacturing process of the popular DenzHerzen and other sculptures takes place.
It's a place where ideas take shape—in the tension between craftsmanship and artistic freedom. Here, the artist and mother of three grown daughters enjoys creating and creativity—and at the same time, she finds her personal haven of peace.
Her studio is located in Dornbirn, in western Austria, nestled between nature and the city. Once a month, plaster molds and glaze pots give way to clay discs, making room for those who want to "set the tone" themselves. In two-day modeling courses, Margit guides both beginners and advanced students in sculpting their own clay figures.