Public Art

The world’s largest monumental porcelain vessels.

Neues Museum (New Museum), Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Museum Island, Berlin

Item 3501
Monumental porcelain vessel
H × D: 240 × 115 cm / 94.5 × 45 in
Jingdezhen porcelain, transparent glazed, 2 parts

Photos © Michal Kosakowski, Lena Herzog

“Monumental vases serve as objects of representation. They provide a narrative of the potentiality of both their producer and their owners, highlighting their respective ways of dealing with them.”

—Uli Aigner

Neues Museum (New Museum), Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Museum Island, Berlin

Item 3502
Monumental porcelain vessel
H × D: 150 × 125 cm / 59 × 49 in
Jingdezhen porcelain, transparent glazed

Photos © Michal Kosakowski

Item 3502 and 3501,
Purple Path, European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025, Lößnitz,
permanent location since 2023

Photo © Michal Kosakowski

The monumental porcelain vessels were created in collaboration with the potters in China’s Jingdezhen, the world capital of porcelain and former imperial production site of the legendary Ming Dynasty.

Production of the monumental porcelain vessels, Jingdezhen

Photos © Wang Qi

Belvedere Museum, Carlone Contemporary, Vienna

Item 2361
Monumental porcelain vessel
H × D: 230 × 125 cm / 90.5 × 49 in
Jingdezhen porcelain, glaze painting, 2 parts

Photos © Michal Kosakowski

Item 2361—Memorial against depression and suicide,
Lower Austria state hospital Scheibbs,
permanent location since 2021

Photo © Gerald Zagler

“The porcelain painting’s motif is based on a large-format coloured pencil drawing by Uli Aigner herself, which transforms experiences of loss into a material message of life. Porcelain as a storage medium that has the potential to outlast the centuries.”

—Michael Huber, journalist

Open Shape 19
Uli Aigner, 2014
180 × 270 cm
Coloured pencil on paper

© Uli Aigner

One Million—Edition Monumental Porcelain Vessels

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