Polina Potapova is a self-taught ceramic artist with over ten years of experience. Originally from Morshansk, Russia, she was born into a family of an aircraft engineer and a chemist, which gave her a background that naturally shaped her fascination with science. From an early age, she pursued fine art and folklore studies, later earning a diploma in economics and working in the video game industry while traveling across the world.

Her return to ceramics a decade ago became a point of convergence between precision and intuition, merging her love for scientific inquiry with artistic experimentation. A pivotal moment in her development was studying materials science with Matthew Katz (Alfred University, USA), which deepened her exploration of glaze chemistry and the alchemy of transformation.

Polina’s sculptural practice focuses on movement, material fluidity, and the expressive potential of glazes. She has lectured on glaze research in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Tbilisi. In 2022, she relocated first to Georgia and later to France. She is a member of Particles, a collective of artists in exile, with whom she participated in group exhibitions at the cultural center Auditoria and the Ortachala Art Residency in Tbilisi. Her solo exhibition “HOPE/NO HOPE” was presented at Flowers Minda art space in Tbilisi in 2024.

Education
2024 - 2025 - Color and Composition School, curator Yana Volkova
2022 - Get Art Feet School, residence “Clay”, curator Irina Razumovskaya
2017 - CMW School, course on ceramic glazes, by Matthew Katz

Exhibitions
2024 - Solo Show “Hope/no hope", Flowers Minda Space, Tbilisi, Georgia
2025 - Group Show “Utopia” Art Residency Ortachala, Tbilisi, Georgia
2024 - Group Show “Particles” Cultural Center Auditoria, Tbilisi, Georgia
2024 - Group Show “White: the beginning/the end”, TMP Spase, Batumi, Georgia
2024 - Group Show at “Human" Festival, Kera Space, Tbilisi, Georgia
2018 - "Art Ceramics" group exhibition, VDNh, Moscow, Russia

Teaching / Lectures

2022
Glaze chemistry lecture, Tbilisi, Georgia
Gloop glazes workshop, Tbilisi, Georgia

2021
Gloop glazes workshop, Moscow, Russia
Texture glazes workshop, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Lava, Snowflake and Crowling glazes workshop, Moscow, Russia

2020
Color in glazes lecture, Moscow, Russia

2019
Cycle of lectures on glaze chemistry, Moscow Russia
Technical characteristics of ceramic glazes and clays lecture, Moscow, Russia