​About the Artist

The Italian ceramic artist Barbara Raimondo was born and raised in Liguria, a crescent-shaped region of Italy nestled between the Mediterranean Sea and the Apennine mountains. Her childhood unfolded among layers: the soil and stone terraces where her grandfather cultivated olive trees and vineyards, and the layers of history embodied in her hometown, founded in the 4th century BC.

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Barbara Raimondo's practice moves between cultural identity, art, architecture, and design. Her path to clay was not linear: after graduating in Economics and Banking Sciences from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, she pursued her studies in Photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED). For years, images were her language, until in 2020 she turned to ceramics—a medium that allowed her to translate memory and experience into form and texture.

From 2015 to the end of 2024, Barbara lived in Asia—first in Singapore, then in Hong Kong, where she became a permanent resident. This long immersion into a new cultural rhythm gradually reshaped her vision. The layered architecture of Hong Kong, the traditional Chinese aesthetics, and the daily fragments of life in Asia sedimented slowly into her artistic language. Since 2025, she has been based in Zürich, where her work continues to unfold in dialogue with a new environment.

The olive tree of Liguria, her native region, remains a recurring presence- a symbol of roots, resilience, and continuity. In contrast, the geometries and rhythms of Asia introduced openness, fluidity, and a new sense of balance. Her ceramics emerge from this weaving of worlds—European heritage and Asian impressions, permanence and change.

For Barbara, clay becomes a vessel of identity in motion. Each work is not fixed but alive, carrying traces of belonging and displacement, of memory and transformation.

Her practice is a meditation on the in-between: where cultures meet, where past and present overlap, and where identity is never finished but always ongoing.