Aleksandra Landsberg

Aleksandra Landsberg is a ceramic artist born in Poland and based in Los Angeles since 2006. She holds a Master’s degree in Film Production and Television from The Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School at the University of Silesia in Poland. She continued her studies in Set Design and Art Direction at Santa Monica College, where in 2009 she was selected to participate in the Santa Monica Mentors Program under the guidance of Ron Davis. Her work was selected for a blind juried exhibition at Barrett Art Gallery.

She comes from a background in film and television production, working in art direction and set design, where objects and space supported narrative, movement, and atmosphere. This experience continues to inform her sensitivity to form, scale, and spatial presence.

In 2023, during the film and television strikes, when production came to a sudden halt, Landsberg turned fully toward ceramics — a practice she had long carried but never had the space to fully pursue. Her current work reflects a return to the hands, to material, and to a slower rhythm of making.

Working primarily with porcelain, she uses nerikomi and neriage techniques to construct layered forms that translate landscapes and geological time into ceramic objects. Her vessels often exist between sculpture and use, reading like artifacts from an alternative timeline — contemporary excavations whose origins feel uncertain, as if they could belong equally to the present or to a distant past.

ERODED EXOFORM

Alongside her functional work, Landsberg developed ERODED EXOFORM, a series conceived as fully sculptural. These works abandon function entirely, presenting porcelain as a site shaped by erosion, extraction, and intrusion. Across both bodies of work, her practice explores material memory, pressure, and transformation, emphasizing process, time, and the physical presence of the object.