10/06/2025
SEBASTIAN STÖHRER
White Smoker
31 May - 29 June, 2025
White Smoker is Sebastian Stöhrer’s second solo exhibition at Barbara Seiler and the first to take place in the
gallery’s garden at Rämistrasse 18. The exhibition title refers both to hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor—
known as white smokers—and to the ceramic firing process, subtly linking geological phenomena with
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Stöhrer’s practice. His sculptural ceramic works, often vessel-like in form, are marked by thick glazes, textured
surfaces, and an elemental palette. They evoke natural formations shaped over time, suggesting processes of
sedimentation, erosion, and transformation. In this new outdoor context, the works engage with their
surroundings in quiet conversation—placed among trees and grass, they sit between the organic and the
constructed. As in the later stages of a hydrothermal field, where materials settle and shift, Stöhrer’s pieces
reflect a balance between energy and rest, control and chance, surface and depth.
Sebastian Stöhrer
Ceramics
2025
Fired clay, glaze
131 x 43 x 43 cm
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