Photography Copyright © 2025 Julien Cott
Saeam Kwon, a Korean ceramist based in Berlin.
I began working with clay in 2009 in South Korea and have since focused on creating refined stoneware that merges minimalist design with traditional influences. I run an independent ceramic brand and also teach pottery as a freelance instructor.
Today
Ceramic Artist / Berlin DE
- Freelance wheel throwing instructor @Peace Out Paradise
Stockist
(Berlin) RYOKO
(Seoul) Portrait & People
to be released ...
Stockist
(Flensburg, Germany) Haptik
(The Netherlands) LATEEF
Exhibition
(Liaoning, China) Chenfei Gallery
2025
Featured: 월간디자인 디자인시티트랩 Acid Backery
Pop-up Tea house & Market at OUKAN
2024
Photo project with photographer Kristina Schwarzwald
Photo project with photographer Julien Cott
Tea Ceremony in Collaboration with Tea by Yuan
Interview: Goetheinstitut Korea (주한독일문화원)
2023
Exhibition : 企画展：韓国若手作家展 한국젊은작가전 @ Aelu Tokyo 17. 03. - 26. 03. 23
Food Installation : Caique Tizzi
RYOKO Berlin (exclusive collaboration)
2022
RYOKO Berlin (exclusively designed & produced )
Exhibition : NONFICTION Paris “Language of Light" 16. 09 - 8.10.22
Exhibition: NONFICTION Seoul “Language of Light" 26. 09. - 17. 11. 22
2021
Group exhibition: Duft der Zeit 27.11.2021- 12.12.2021 @ Project Space KIMGO
Muji Community Market 20.12.2021 - 24. 12. 2021
2020
Featured: Zeit Magazin MANN 2/20
2019
2019-2020
Ceramic Kingdom / Collective Workspace and Art Center, Berlin DE
- Freelance pottery instructor
2016 Nov- 2017 Jan
Residency Potter/ Korean master potter Jungki MIN, Muju KR
2016
Atelier <Et La Terre> / Ceramic Art Studio, Paris FR
- Pottery instructor
2014-2015
Haja Center / Alternative Learning Community and Municipal Art, Seoul KR
- Clay art therapy assistant
- Pottery workshop assistant
- Head of a youth project
2012-2013
AA Ceramics Design / HYWU, Seoul KR
- Majored in Ceramic art
2009-2011
Apprentice / Purunkum Alternative High School, Muju KR
- Apprenticed to a Korean master potter Jungki MIN