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Special Exhibition of Gyeonggi Ceramic Museum 2023
Ceramic Ritual Vessls, Connecting Heaven and Earth

• Exhibition : Special Exhibition of Gyeonggi Ceramic Museum 2023
  Ceramic Ritual Vessls, Connecting Heaven and Earth
• Duration : July 17, 2023 ~ November 12, 2023
• Venue : Special Exhibition Hall, 1st Floor
• Scale : 89 pieces of Ceramic Ritual Vessls works and materials from the Goryeo Dynasty to the modern era

Kim Jong-jik (1431-1492), a Neo-Confucian scholar of the Joseon period, composed a poem about the ceramic ritual vessel in a new shape meticulously crafted by Yi Reuk-san, a potter from the early Joseon period. Reading the poem, we can imagine buncheong ritual vessels modeled on old bronze ritual vessels in which the makers assigned meaning to natural elements such as the sky, earth, elephants, cattle, and the like. These ceramic ritual vessels were used during state rituals to make offerings to Heaven and evolved into various forms reflecting the times, while opening up infinite possibilities for formative expression.

The special exhibition, Ceramic Ritual Vessels, Connecting Heaven and Earth, focuses on new shapes of ceramic vessels from the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392), when ceramics modeled on ancient bronze vessels emerged, to the Joseon dynasty, when propriety and social norms were valued. This exhibition also aspires to envision a new future for traditional ceramics through artworks inspired by ritual vessels. The exhibition has three parts – Part 1: Reorganizing the Social System, Part 2: Practicing Refined Rituals, and Part 3: A New Perspective, Rediscovering Ritual Vessels – to show how ceramic ritual vessels changed from one period to the next.

This exhibition is all the more meaningful in that it features all materials related to ceramic ritual vessels, including white porcelain ritual vessels produced in the Goryeo period, which were recently excavated from the kiln site in Seo-ri, Yongin, the representative historic site of Gyeonggi-do Province; masterpiece ceramics in the collection bequeathed by the late Chairman Lee Kun-hee, which were donated to the National Museum of Korea; buncheong ritual vessels housed at Gayajinsa Shrine, where state ancestral rites were performed; and metal ritual vessels from Dodong Seowon (Neo-Confucian Academy) inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

In addition, there are various programs to help understand ceramic history and exhibition, such as media tunnels, digital experience contents, and relics commentary for the information weak, and the exhibition-linked education program "My Own Ritual #To You Want to Remember" will be held for a month in October. This exhibition can also be seen as an online exhibition through the Gyeonggi Ceramic Museum's app.