alev ebüzziya

İstanbul, 1938

Alev Ebüzziya, studied sculpture at the Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts, and ceramics at the private atelier of Füreya Koral. During the years following her education, she first worked at the Höhr-Grenzhausen, and later at the Eczacıbaşı ceramic factories. In 1963, she began making designs for the Royal Danish Porcelain. In 1964, she held her first solo show at these Royal factories; in the coming years this first exhibition was followed by others in private galleries of Paris, New York, London and Copenhagen, and by several group shows around the world. Ebüzziya founded her own atelier in Copenhagen in 1969. The Copenhagen Museum of Decorative Arts was the first museum which collected and displayed her ceramics in 1975. The same year, she became the first potter to be employed by Rosenthal Porcelain Factories.

In 1986, with her “sculptural vessels”, she was the first ceramics artist whose works were displayed at the Paris International Contemporary Art Fair, FIAC. In 1987 she moved her atelier to Paris, but she continued working as a designer for the Rosenthal Factories until 1990. For Alev Ebüzziya, whose works are represented today in several international museums, The Kunstindustrimuseet Museum in Copenhagen and The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts in Istanbul, hosted two retrospectives in 2002. The last exhibition the international followers of Ebüzziya visited was another retrospective hosted by the Museuo Nacional do Azulejo in Lizbon, in 2005. Ebüzziya lives and works in Paris.