Artes de la Tierra — Benedetta Pompili

Design, ceramics, editorials

CV & studio details

Currently working on vuur collective, Investigating a footprint, Artes de la Tierra

Hello, I am Benedetta, a social designer, artist, and material researcher based in Amsterdam. I work at the intersection of material experimentation, cultural inquiry, and environmental sensitivity. Trained in ceramics and shaped by collaborations with archaeologists, artisans, and industrial partners, I approach materials not as inert substances but as carriers of histories and forms of knowledge. Research and design become acts of learning craftsmanship, retracing tradition, and opening channels for interdisciplinary exchange.

Conversing with Matter in Artes de la Tierra

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Artes de la Tierra
Curated by Manuel Cirauqui
December 2025 - ongoing

View of the Tile house, courtesy of the designer, 2025.

Conversing with Matter, full installation with supports in biodegradable rice husk, courtesy of the designer, 2025.

Conversing with Matter represents a project of regenerative art as part of Artes de la Tierra, the new exhibition of Guggenheim Museum Bilbao about artistic practices exploring earth, ecology, and sustainability. Curated by Manuel Ciuraqui, the show proposed a cross view over the relations between art, the soil and ecosystems¹, approaching the themes as carefully as the execution of the exhibition, applying only biodegradable materials from secondary resources for the installation means.
In the context of the show, Conversing with Matter proposes a journey into clay, exploring and researching local, traditional and unconventional resources to make. The set-up of the project was redesigned in dialogue with the architecture of the museum designed by Frank Gehry, characterised by curved titanium, limestone and glass surfaces. The original cargo structures, that have been transporting and showcasing the project since its beginnings, were re-adapted to design new archival shelvings and an expositive cabinet with a biodegradable material obtained from rice husks and in use as a red thread along the rest of the show.

Conversing with Matter, still from short about the making process, 2021, copyright of Benedetta Pompili.

For information or collaborations: info@benedettapompili.com

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