Pierre Marie Giraud is pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by Belgian artist Jos Devriendt, on view at the gallery from Saturday, 6 December 2025, to Saturday, 10 January, 2026. Bringing together a selection of recent lamps, the exhibition offers an insight into Devriendt’s ongoing exploration of light, time, and functional sculpture.

Born in Ostend in 1964, Devriendt lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. Trained in ceramics at the LUCA School of Arts and in sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, he moves fluidly between art and design, describing himself as a low-tech designer whose work is grounded in simple, carefully considered forms.

Devriendt’s practice centres on hand-built ceramic pieces that are at once modest in scale and precise in their construction. Conceived as unique works, his lamps and vessels adopt elementary volumes: domes, cylinders, and stems, that act as quiet armatures for light and colour. Influenced by natural cycles such as day and night, the tides, and the passing of the seasons, he develops glazes whose gradients and tones echo changing skies and horizons, allowing atmospheric shifts to enter the work.

Devriendt is particularly known for his long-running Night & Day series, in which mushroom-like silhouettes function as sculptures during the day and, when illuminated from within, transform into light objects after dark. In these works, the visible ceramic form and the immaterial glow alternate in emphasis, so that light redraws contours and casts shifting shadows across surrounding space. The lamps thus occupy a dual role, oscillating calmly between object and source of illumination over the course of a day.

Over the past three decades, Devriendt’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions in Belgium and abroad. His ceramics and lighting have been the subject of the monograph I am I: Jos Devriendt Ceramics, which surveys his production from 1991 to 2017 across series such as Night & Day, Squeeze, and Space Horizon.

Exhibition T.S. will present a new group of Night & Day lamps alongside recent vertical lamps and sculptural vessels, reflecting Devriendt’s ongoing interest in how a single object can hold multiple readings over time: as sculpture, as a source of light, and as a quiet marker of changing atmospheres. Together, the works on view trace a practice that remains firmly anchored in the materiality of ceramics while opening onto questions of perception, temporality, and the everyday presence of objects in space.

We invite you to join us for the opening on Saturday, 6 December, from 2 - 6 PM.

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