Holding Space Exhibition 18 September–31 October 2025
09-09-2025
Ormond Editions presents Holding Space.
On the occasion of Geneva Art Week, Ormond Editions is pleased to present Holding Space, a new exhibition bringing together works by artists including Karin Gulbran, Kazunori Hamana, Ritsue Mishima, and Sterling Ruby.
Across cultures and geographies, each artist reclaims traditional techniques to explore personal, psychological, and spatial dimensions. The title refers not only to the physical properties of vessels and sculptural forms but also to the conceptual act of creating presence through absence, weight through lightness, gesture through restraint.
Whether in Hamana’s hand-coiled jars scarred by salt and time, Mishima’s translucent glass forms capturing light like breath, Gulbran’s painterly ceramics where surface becomes narrative, or Ruby’s raw, monolithic sculptures echoing craft vocabularies, the works reflect an intuitive relationship with material and the enduring tension between control and release.
Holding Space becomes a collective meditation on how objects hold meaning—not through monumentality, but through the intimacy of materials, the act of making, and time’s quiet imprint.
Opening: 17 September 2025, 6pm–8pm
Exhibition: 18 September–31 October 2025
Karin Gulbran
Frolicking Cat with Wild Boar
Glazed ceramic
Unique
50.8 x Ø43.2 cm
2018
Kazunori Hamana
Tsubo
Ceramic
Unique
74 x 65 x 60 cm
2019
Ritsue Mishima
Vortice
Glass
Unique
50 x 36 x 36 cm
2022
Sterling Ruby
Ashtray 603
Ceramic
Unique
7.9 x 46.4 x 34.6 cm
2021
Yoona Hur
Reservoir Plinth-Seat 3+4
Stoneware, hand-poured white matte glaze, kintsugi with bronze powder
2023
Geneva Art Week is the largest association in the canton of Geneva dedicated to promoting visual arts. It brings together 65 members: museums and institutions, art galleries, design spaces and independent art spaces. This new unifying event in the Geneva cultural scene will take place from September 17 to 21 and will bring together all of our members throughout over 50 exhibitions and numerous events. Find out more here.