MALCHAU CERAMICS
… is a Danish-owned and locally produced ceramics studio in Vesterbro, Copenhagen - carrying both porcelain and stoneware products. Owner and founder Lena Malchau aims to play with the various faces of clay. Sand from Tisvildeleje Beach in Northern Copenhagen is combined with porcelain clay and featured in the snack bowls and Ikebana vases. Pieces from the collection will also have areas that are not glazed, producing a tactile experience that celebrates clay’s raw beauty.
Welcome to my universe. My name is Lena Malchau and I am the ceramicist and owner of MALCHAU CERAMICS.
My interest for clay started early. In elementary school I was placed in an internship with a potter and I had the opportunity to wheelthrow on a potter’s wheel. In that moment, I was immediately hooked. Though it actually took me a long time before I returned to ceramics. I pursued an education in sports and have since worked within the world of athletics and movement. Ceramics was something I did in my spare time: I was an intern at Pottehuset on Djursland , digged into glazes at Orø and did a lot of wheelthrowing whenever I could. Then after the birth of my son Atle, I knew that I needed to pursue ceramics full-time.
Today, that is what I do. My journey to working with clay continues officially at Malchau Ceramics. You can find me at Let’s Clay Ceramics Studio where I spend full-time getting my hands full of clay.
About Lena Malchau
Why MALCHAU CERAMICS
Ceramics is fascinating. What you can create from a lump of clay is endless - and the possibilities excite me. I work to incorporate intuition, playfulness and curiosity in the development of new products - so no two pieces are exactly alike.
It is especially important to me that whoever buys my ceramics, can feel that there was a real person who had them in mind. Sometimes I leave my fingers on the glazing ring and when I turn on target, the most important thing is that the “pot” has a real movement in it rather than being right on the target. For me, ceramics have energy and therefore the ceramics should not be too uniform. In both symmetry and asymmetry, something exciting happens.