Kádasi, Éva (1953 - 2022)

Ceramic and porcelain artist, associate professor. She was born in Baja in 1953. In 1979, she graduated in ceramics, winning the Géza Gorka Prize, from the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts (today: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design), where she studied under Árpád Csekovszky. After graduation, she established a workshop in Göd, where she designed and produced limited series of ceramics sets and participated in research in technology and art forms. In the autumn of 1979, she began teaching at the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts in the ceramics department as a lecturer, assistant lecturer (1985), adjunct professor (1987) and then associate professor (2000). In 2002 she received her habilitation. From 1999 to 2006 she served as head of the Department of Silicate Design and the Ceramics Programme until her retirement (2017). From 1989 to 1996, she was advisor to the International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemét and was its acting director from 1990 to 1992. She was a founding member of the DeForma Group in 1993 and since has worked with porcelain. From 1998 to 2001, she was a contract designer for the Zsolnay Porcelain Manufactory, and from 2001 to 2007 she was a member of the factory’s Art Council. In 2002, she was elected a member of the International Academy of Ceramics (AIC-IAC, Geneva). From 2007 to 2012, she was a member of the Art Committee of the Hungarian Higher Education Accreditation Commission. Between 2009 and 2010, she researched the history of the Department of Silicate Design at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design and published her findings in 2011: 100/50: 100 years of ceramics education; 50 years of glass education (Budapest, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, 2010). A related exhibition was held in the university’s Ponton Gallery in November 2011. In the summer of 2013, she guided her students in building a two-chamber, high-temperature, wood-fired kiln and an experimental, mobile kiln using no binding material in the courtyard of the Gorka Museum in Verőce. In the autumn of 2022, with the members of the art group Criminal Craft, she built a similar kiln in Zebegény. Her chief professional distinctions include the István Gádor (1997) and Noémi Ferenczy Prizes (2001) and awards at the National Ceramics Biennial, Pécs, Hungary (1982, 1984, 1998). Her works can be found in several public collections in Hungary and abroad.