Pottergeist Brings Ceramic and Terracotta Research to Salerno Design Week 2026

Key facts

• "Pottergeist. Archetipi, Simboli, Forme, Immagini" runs from 16 September to 30 November 2026 at the Pinacoteca Provinciale di Palazzo Pinto in Salerno.
• The exhibition is presented by HoperAperta within the second edition of Salerno Design Week.
• It is curated by Patrizia Catalano and Maurizio Barberis, with collaboration by Martina Barberis Casagrande.
• The title combines the English word "potter" and the German word "Geist" to evoke an immaterial dimension surviving in matter and form.
• The project frames ceramics and terracotta as a field where memory, form, craft, and contemporaneity meet without hierarchy.
• Participating artists and designers include Baldessari e Baldessari, Armando Bruno and Alberto Torres, Denny Candotto, Alfonso Femia, Marillina Fortuna, Duccio Grassi, Maria Christina Hamel, Gianfranco Marabese, Daniele Menichini and Nicolas Turchi, Millim Studio, Doriano Modenini, NùeVù, Aldo Parisotto, Maurizio Peregalli, Achille Perilli, Maria Antonietta Sbordone, Spagnulo & Partners, Dace Suna, Carmelo Zappulla, Davide Valoppi, Maurizio Barberi, and Mimmo Paladino.
• Salerno Design Week 2026 is promoted and organized primarily by Confindustria Salerno under the theme "Alchimie del Design."
• The Salerno Design Week program includes eight meetings and conferences, six presentations and exhibitions, six educational sessions, and thirty "In Vetrina" appointments.
• The program features a tribute to Giorgetto Giugiaro, the Award Young Factory Design, and sections by ADI Campania, the Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli," the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, Associazione Tempi Moderni, Associazione Myricae Cultura, and the Ordine degli Architetti PPC di Salerno.
• The exhibition venue is at via dei Mercanti 63, Salerno.