About
The artist and ceramic designer Felicithas Arndt presents Nitu Porcelain, an exclusive ceramic brand that specializes in the design of fine tableware for upscale restaurants and 5-star hotels.
Biography Felicithas Arndt
Born in 1992 in Offenbach aM, Germany. After graduating from high school, she spent several months abroad in China and Malaysia, then studied Sinology and Southeast Asian Studies at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In 2014 she moved to the Offenbach University of Art and Design, studying ceramics, printmaking and painting with Merja Herzog-Hellstén, Prof. Klaus Hesse and Prof. Gunter Reski. In 2017 she took part in an excursion and exhibition with Prof. Klaus Hesse in the porcelain capital of Jingdezhen/China, where she began working with porcelain for the first time. As a scholarship holder, she studied the nature-related imagery of traditional Chinese painting at the renowned Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing/China. Since 2021 she has been working as a freelance artist and has worked for the well-known Höchster Porzellan-Manufaktur, Frankfurt and the Majolika Manufaktur Karlsruhe, among others. In 2023, she was a finalist in the prestigious international Faenza Prize for contemporary art ceramics with her work "Madrepora" (Fig. sr). The focus of her artistic work is the confrontation between nature and artistic nature, organic-looking drawings and ceramics, attempts to dissolve the Anthropocene.
Born in 1992 in Offenbach aM, Germany. After graduating from high school, she spent several months abroad in China and Malaysia, then studied Sinology and Southeast Asian Studies at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In 2014 she moved to the Offenbach University of Art and Design, studying ceramics, printmaking and painting with Merja Herzog-Hellstén, Prof. Klaus Hesse and Prof. Gunter Reski. In 2017 she took part in an excursion and exhibition with Prof. Klaus Hesse in the porcelain capital of Jingdezhen/China, where she began working with porcelain for the first time. As a scholarship holder, she studied the nature-related imagery of traditional Chinese painting at the renowned Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing/China. Since 2021 she has been working as a freelance artist and has worked for the well-known Höchster Porzellan-Manufaktur, Frankfurt and the Majolika Manufaktur Karlsruhe, among others. In 2023, she was a finalist in the prestigious international Faenza Prize for contemporary art ceramics with her work "Madrepora" (Fig. sr). The focus of her artistic work is the confrontation between nature and artistic nature, organic-looking drawings and ceramics, attempts to dissolve the Anthropocene.
CV
2024 Artist Residency Jingdezhen Ceramic University, China
2024 Diploma with honors University of Art and Design Offenbach, Department of Art
2024 Project Management Intercontinental Gardens, Diamant Offenbach, Offenbach University of Art and Design
Since 2024, ceramic workshop master at the Offenbach University of Art and Design, Department of Art
2022 Artist residency "X-Keramika", Majolika Karlsruhe
since 2021 Freelance artist, working for Hoechster Porzellan-Manufaktur Frankfurt and Majolika Karlsruhe, among others
2021-2022 Student assistant in the ceramics workshop, Offenbach University of Art and Design
06.2021 - 12.2021 Internship in Porcelain Design, Hoechster Porcelain Manufactory Frankfurt
02.2018 - 07.2018 DAAD scholarship semester abroad at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Department of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China
Since 10.2014 Offenbach University of Art and Design, Department of Art
10.2012 - 03.2014 Study of Southeast Asian Studies and Sinology, Goethe University Frankfurt
09.2011 - 05.2012 Language course in China and Malaysia