Lucie Belle Blanche David (DE/FR)
is a French-German artist based between Berlin and Vienna. She studied French-German Intercultural Studies in Berlin and at the Sorbonne in Paris before completing an MA in Art & Science at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Working primarily with ceramics, David’s practice explores the body through material transformation, developing sculptural forms that move between the organic, the familiar and the strange. In 2026, she completed a six-month residency at The Ceramic Kingdom in Berlin, where she presented the solo exhibition Monsterly Yours. Her work has also been shown at Künstlerhaus Wien, Villa Beer and Loosdorf Castle, and she has collaborated with the Hamburg-based fashion label DFM.
She works intuitively with clay, exploring how bodies emerge through material transformation. Her sculptures take the form of organic beings that resist fixed definitions, shifting between the familiar and the strange.
Layered translucent glazes and carved textures extend the sculptural process, transforming the clay into changing surfaces where tenderness and the grotesque meet. Often referred to as monsters, these beings approach otherness through humor, intimacy and playfulness.
Rather than representing existing bodies, David creates forms with their own physical logic, inviting a sense of curiosity and encounter.
Her sculptural process, closely aligned with the notion of assemblage, allows the works to evolve organically and is informed by research methods from the historical sciences.
is a French-German artist based between Berlin and Vienna. She studied French-German Intercultural Studies in Berlin and at the Sorbonne in Paris before completing an MA in Art & Science at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Working primarily with ceramics, David’s practice explores the body through material transformation, developing sculptural forms that move between the organic, the familiar and the strange. In 2026, she completed a six-month residency at The Ceramic Kingdom in Berlin, where she presented the solo exhibition Monsterly Yours. Her work has also been shown at Künstlerhaus Wien, Villa Beer and Loosdorf Castle, and she has collaborated with the Hamburg-based fashion label DFM.
She works intuitively with clay, exploring how bodies emerge through material transformation. Her sculptures take the form of organic beings that resist fixed definitions, shifting between the familiar and the strange.
Layered translucent glazes and carved textures extend the sculptural process, transforming the clay into changing surfaces where tenderness and the grotesque meet. Often referred to as monsters, these beings approach otherness through humor, intimacy and playfulness.
Rather than representing existing bodies, David creates forms with their own physical logic, inviting a sense of curiosity and encounter.
Her sculptural process, closely aligned with the notion of assemblage, allows the works to evolve organically and is informed by research methods from the historical sciences.
CV
RESIDENCYS
Coming up:
2027
Taoxichuan Tongchuan International Studio Residency, Jingdezhen, China.
January – July 2026
Ceramic Kingdom, Berlin, Germany
ARTISTIC RESEARCH
2021 – 2026
Invited artist for FWF PEEK project, artistic research “Broken Collection”, Vienna, Austria.
EXHIBITIONS
2026 - House of Unsettled Beeings
Hosted by the Rigo Saitta Collection.
Solo show, Lehderstraße 64, Berlin.
2026 - Monsterly Yours
Ceramic Kingdom Berlin, solo show.
2026 - Completed X Contemporary. Resonances to the Broken Collection
Loosdorf Castle, groupshow, Lower Austria. Curated by Cristina Stadelbauer (AT).
2025 - micro object resonance
"Kunstaltonale" at DFM HAMBURG, June-July 2025.
2024 - EMPTY MEMORY
AAA-days, Master-exhibition, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
2023 – Inter/rocks
Licking Structures, Groupshow, Künstlerhaus Wien, Austria
2023 –Villanelle
Elementare Gefäße. Zwischen Gebrauch und Kontemplation: eine andere Erzählung der Moderne | Elemental Vessels. Between use and contemplation: another narrative of modernity, Villa Beer, Vienna, Austria
2022 - Minuscule sculptures Garden
Femgarage, Highbrow-Institute - Garage Grande, Vienna, Austria
2022 - „Hey Whats up“
Say something, Galery Paulusplatz, Vienna, Austria
2022 – The Nails doesn‘t Grow Apart from the Body
From there trough here, Künstlerhaus Wien, Austria
WORKSHOPS
2026
Decoding Clay – How do we begin a sculpture without knowing its final form?
Ceramic hand-building workshop, CK, Berlin
2024
Inner Mini-Monster | Ceramic workshop on how to sculpt a monster collection
Tonhalle Wien, Austria
2022
Minuscule encounters away from space and time | Nail-Painting Workshop
From there through here, Künstlerhaus Wien, Austria
EDUCATION
2021-2024
Master of Arts with Honors in Art & Science
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
2016-2021
Bachelor of Arts in German-French Literature and Cultural Studies
Double Diploma Program from the Franco-German University (DFH)
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris3), France
PUBLICATION
“Entangled Shards: Between Artistic Remembrance and the Movement of Historical Narratives,” in Contemporary x Completed: Resonances to the Broken Collection, ed. Gabriela Krist, Paul Schubert & Christina Stadlbauer, FWF PEEK Project Broken Collection (AR 703), Schloss Loosdorf, Austria (2026).
Villanelle, Ceramic-chain in Elementare Gefäße, Rainald Franz, Albert Kirchengast, Wita Noak (Edd.), Schriftenreihe Mies van der Rohe Haus Bd. 9. Berlin: Form + Zweck (2023).
„The Nails Don‘t Grow Apart from the Body“ in FemGarage Exhibition Catalogue, Marlene G. Prinz (Ed.), Vienna, Austria (2023).