Infill Works by Hilda Piazzolla. Contribution to The Mindcraft Exhibition 2025. Photo Credit: Benjamin Lund.

Infill Works by Hilda Piazzolla. Contribution to The Mindcraft Exhibition 2025. Video Credit: Benjamin Lund.

Loop Works no.40 by Hilda Piazzolla. Made in collaboration with Alma Bangsgaard. 3D printed porcelain. Exhibited at Peach Corner. Photo Credit: Ole Akhøj.

Loop Works no.39 by Hilda Piazzolla. Made in collaboration with Alma Bangsgaard. 3D printed porcelain. Exhibited at Peach Corner. Photo Credit: Ole Akhøj.

Differential Growth no.103 by Hilda Piazzolla. 3D printed stoneware. Exhibited at Ceramic Brussels, 2025. Photo Credit: Ole Akhøj.

Differential Growth no.104 by Hilda Piazzolla. 3D printed porcelain. Exhibited at Ceramic Brussels, 2025. Photo Credit: Ole Akhøj.

Differential Growth no.101 & no.102 by Hilda Piazzolla. 3D printed porcelain and earthenware. Photo Credit: Ole Akhøj.

Infill Works: Octet Bowl by Hilda Piazzolla. 3D printed porcelain. Exhibited at 3daysofdesign, 2025. Photo Credit: Hilda Piazzolla.

Dancing Cylinders by Hilda Piazzolla. 3D printed porcelain. Photo Credit: Ole Akhøj.

Hilda Piazzolla. Photo Credit: Benjamin Lund.

Hilda Piazzolla — Ceramist

“Even though 3D printing makes it easier to reproduce a shape, I have never had any interest in that. The 3D printing methods are a tool for me to produce unique expressions with the clay. I always try to do something with each piece that makes it singular; whether it’s mixing clay types, glazes or interfering with the print itself.”

About:

Working from a calm yet vibrant shared ceramic studio in the heart of Copenhagen, the work of Swedish/Danish ceramicist Hilda Piazzolla shifts between historical aesthetic touch-points and contemporary experimentation in craft processes. Having worked with 3D printed ceramics since her time at the Royal Danish Academy, her practice has grown and shifted with both technology and her own iterative experimentation in combining new technologies and rudimentary raw materials. While Piazzolla’s forms often spring from archetypal origins – vases, vessels and bowls, she juxtaposes this with the unique ability of additive manufacturing to distort and appropriate form, leading to work that can at times appear organic and at other times present as glitched or defective. Rather than utilising the repeated perfection allowed by computer aided design and manufacturing, Piazzolla is constantly tinkering and altering aspects of material and finish – shifting and mixing various clays and glazes – alongside technological modifications and intrusions that attribute unique characteristics and identities to each of her creations.

Part of Mindcraft:

2025

Website:

hildapiazzolla.com

Instagram:

@hildapiazzolla

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