Past Exhibitions at Mjölk

Mjölk x Year Anniversary
January 17–26, 2020

Celebrating a decade in the junction with new designs by Thom Fougere, Oji Masanori and Anderssen & Voll, as well equally a retrospective of our exclusive Mjölk Made line—collaborations with international designers such as Claesson Koivisto Rune, Luca Nichetto, and Hallgeir Homstvedt—locally produced in and effectually Toronto.

Ingegerd Råman
October 24, 2019

Closing out our 2019 exhibition year with Swedish blueprint matriarch Ingegerd Råman. With a cloth focus on ceramics and glass, her work is characterized past simplicity, warmth and elegance: from the glow of a beeswax candle in a minimal candleholder to yogurt and berries in a bowl, Råman'due south pieces are meant to be used.

Tetsuya Ozawa
September 19, 2019

A solo exhibition of ceramic works by Tetsuya Ozawa. Using locally-sourced clay from his hometown of Tokomame City, historically known for its ceramic product, his radical interpretation of traditional technique lends his work a unique textural quality. His vases, plates, and cups are grounded in millennia-old tradition translated into his contemporary vision.

Yumi Nakamura
July 24, 2019

Yumi Nakamura's beginning solo exhibition in North America, featuring works such as kettles, bowls and spoons in delicately manus-worked copper and silver.

Rituals and Mythology
Renaud Sauve
June twenty, 2019

Quebec artist Renaud Sauvé's third exhibition at Mjölk, showcasing a choice of his ceramics under the themes of ritual and mythology.

Kuuki no Katachi: The Shape of Air
Masanobu Ando
May 30–June 16, 2019

This is Ando-san's fourth exhibition at Mjölk, featuring a selection of ceramic wares for the home, every bit well as an exploration of the Chinese tea ceremony.

Things that were arranged
Norihiko Terayama
August 23–September 7, 2018

A solo exhibition by Japanese artist and designer Norihiko Terayama, exploring our relationship with nature.

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Non-Finito
Brian Richer

May 17–31, 2018A solo exhibition of captive rock carving past Brian Richer of Castor Design.

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Keisuke Iwata and Michiko Iwata

September 27–Oct fifteen, 2017An exhibition of ceramic piece of work and sculpture. The found nature of the ingredients speak to the creative person's contemplation of the urban environment—both its disuse and renewal.

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Template for Gardens
Yam Lau

September 17, 2017An architectural intervention that frames and re-orientates the interior of Mjölk.

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Dialogues in Silverish
Mami Hasegawa

July 12–Baronial 12, 2017Mama Hasegawa'due south start international exhibition, featuring a selection of her beautiful metallic works, from jewellery to servingware, and decorative pieces.

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Réunion
Luca Nichetto x Mjölk

February viii, 2017As a fully international project, Réunion Lamp assembles together a powder coated metal shell made in Canada and a mouth blown glass body crafted in Murano. Réunion Lamp fuses the most significant lines of Sucabaruca and Aureola and harmoniously combines them with the materials and finishings from Uki and Zen/Han. By reinventing the past, the effect is a minimalist table lamp with a potent identity.

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That Is All-time Which Works All-time
January 18–23, 2017

Equally part of Toronto Design Offsite Festival, Mjölk presents a group exhibition which sets out to examine how by craft movements have informed contemporary practice. Past looking towards the Shaker motion, many designers, artisans and craftspeople have found a distinct artful informed by a philosophical practice. For this exhibition, Mjölk combines the work of Hallgeir Homstvedt, Thom Fougere and Jason Collett, and museum-quality Shaker objects.

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Bestiary
Renaud Sauve

Oct 26–November 9, 2016An exhibition of porcelain works by Renaud Sauve of Atelier des Cent-ans, featuring animals, sculpted, engraved, or painted, existent or imaginary, strange but not estranged.

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Inspirations
Yoshinori Yano

September 24, 2016A run into-and-greet with woodworker Yoshinori Yano, including a demonstration of his practice. Yoshinori Yano'due south sculptures are both ethereal and organic; through them he communicates a quintessentially Japanese idea of beauty in nature. His technique is boring and measured, using simple hand tools to reveal each form, evoking emotions and ideas already nowadays in nature: a delicate cakewalk of wind or the melancholy drizzle of rain.

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Momogusa
Masanobu Ando & Akiko Ando
August 17–September 7, 2016

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Wrought Iron Cookware
Takayoshi Narita

July xiii–August 8, 2016Working in wrought atomic number 26, Takayoshi Narita creates perfectly balanced cookware that has been greatly considered in both use and feel. Each piece begins as a flat plate of either iron or stainless steel, repeatedly heated in a coal oven and hammered into form. Narita has been working in this medium for the by 10 years and his products are sought worldwide; this was his starting time international exhibition.

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Lunch with Seiko Tanaka and Takayoshi Narita

July 15, 2016

An intimate meal prepared past Chef Seiko Tanaka of Hibari in Tokyo, using hand-made tools by Takayoshi Narita, at our home above the Mjölk storefront. We invited a small group of guests, some via raffle, to join us in celebrating and experiencing his cookware, dishes, and serving-ware and spoons.

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Nichetto Residency at Mjölk

May 17, 2016

A domestic infinite designed by the Luca Nichetto, featuring the launch of new works expertly crafted past De La Espada.

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Oji Masanori 10 Mjölk
January 20–31, 2016

Without a doubtfulness one of Japan's near of import and internationally recognized gimmicky designers, Oji Masanori has made a career translating the qualities and emotions of traditional Japanese handcraft into relevant gimmicky industrial design objects. For our 3rd time hosting him, we present an exclusive lighting collection designed past Oji Masanori in collaboration with u.s.a., produced locally aslope Canadian artisans and pocket-sized manufacturers.

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Oji Masanori TODO Talk

January 23, 2016

A conversation with Melanie Egan (Head Craft & Design at Harbourfront Centre) and Oji Masanori about his studio practise and the recent collaboration, equally part of the 2016 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

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Selected Solo
Kaori Juzu

September 24–30, 2015

Jewellery, as a term, is non definition enough to draw the works of Kaori Juzu. She crafts experimental broaches and wearable objects, something she has come up to depict as Klenodie; a danish word for treasure, gem, jewel, a small thing. Her work transforms feeling into form, blending explorative enamelwork techniques and processes. She uses a mixture of copper, silver, and gold before carefully hammering and sculpting each piece into shape. By applying multiple layers of enamel, Juzu seeks to raise the expressive quality of an object by giving depth and texture to grade, assuasive form and surface to melt together.

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Primary
Alissa Coe

May 6–June 3, 2015

A collection of work in porcelain inspired by the power and primordial nature of geometric form.

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Anderssen & Voll 10 Mjölk
January 21–29, 2015

The first North American retrospective of the Norwegian industrial blueprint studio Anderssen & Voll, exhibiting their virtually iconic works to appointment, along with the launch of a new collection of indoor garden tools. In collaboration with The Royal Norwegian Diplomatic mission.


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Shapes and Desire of Nature
Renaud Sauvé

October ii–November 11, 2014

A solo exhibition of Quebec ceramicist Renaud Sauvé of Atelier des Cent-ans. While most recognized for his hand-thrown white porcelain work with crackling glaze, for this item exhibition, over the class of the past year, Sauvé has been exploring natural minerals found within his province to create new glazes and new expressions. The result of his experimentation is a collection of pottery that embodies not but the artist but also his surroundings.

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Totemica
Luca Nichetto, Lera Moiseeva + Mjölk at the Instituto Italiano di Cultura
June 26–September sixteen, 2014

The ritual of sharing drinks tin can be plant in cultures across the earth. Totemica, at Toronto's Istituto di Cultura Italiano in 2014, explored this tradition through 2 collaborations between Luca Nichetto and Lera Moiseeva. Inspired by the structure of the totem pole, Sucabaruca and Aura—a coffee and tea set, respectively, protect and enhance the meanings of the rituals they represent. The exhibition unveiled the processes behind the products, as well as celebrating their unique materials and handcrafted elements.

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Ryuji Mitani
June 3–Baronial 10, 2014

Considered to be the about famous contemporary woods tableware creative person in Japan, Ryuji Mitani has inspired a generation of woodworkers, setting into motion a new post=mingei art move chosen Seikatsu Kogei. He has written close to a dozen books about arts and crafts and has exhibited in countless galleries and museums all over Japan and abroad; this was his first North American exhibition.

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Chanoyu: The Style of Tea
Masanobu Ando
May 29–June 25, 2014

Our second solo exhibition with Japanese potter Masanobu Ando, featuring ceramic works on the bailiwick of tea, the highlight of which was an impromtu a tea ceremony performed in the window of our storefront.

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Spoon Carving Workshop
Ryuji Mitani
June 4, 2014

A spoon carving workshop hosted by Ryuji Mitani in our home above the Mjölk storefront, followed past lunch prepared by chef Ai Hosokawa, which was eaten with our freshly carved spoons.

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Mold All
Presented by Play Mountain and Studio Prepa
March fifteen–April 15, 2014

A collection of glass fine art by Nagano-based artists Studio Preppa, fabricated using wooden molds that exit the impression of bark and end-grain on each vase. The wood is burned away, so a new mold has to be made for every piece, resulting in a collection of unique, textured forms.

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Luca Nichetto + Mjölk
January 22–31, 2014

The showtime Canadian exhibition of Luca Nichetto's work, as part of the Toronto Design Offsite Festival 2014, featuring the debut of the Sucabaruca coffee set, designed by Nichetto for Mjölk in collaboration with Lera Moiseeva, also as a retrospective of some of Nichetto'south most iconic works. We received the festival'southward Best Exhibition prize and the Sucabaruca won the Juror's Choice Award.

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LATrE
November one–30, 2013

A conceptual collection of homewares by Brian Vu of LATrE, featuring vintage textile reworked with Indigo dye.

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Nakashima: A Retrospective
June 24–August xxx, 2013

The first Canadian retrospective of works past legendary architect and craftsman George Nakashima and his daughter, builder, designer, and head of the Nakashima Studio, Mira Nakashima. We are proud to showcase a large collection of iconic works by George Nakashima as well as new works from Mira Nakashima's Keisho (continuation) drove. The Nakashima furniture collection is complemented by a curated collection of art by some of Japan's most famous contemporary artisans, including potters Masanobu Ando and Koichi Uchida, wood artisans Ryuji Mitani and Shingo Tsukuda, and metallic artists Takejiro and Mami Hasegawa. This grouping of artists capture the spirit of the Nakashima's piece of work and carry on the mission of crafting items that go beyond their basic role and provide something cute that enriches the soul.

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Tomii Takashi
June 26–July 26, 2013

The first North American solo exhibition for Japanese wood artisan Tomii Takashi. Known equally a prodigy in Japan, Tomii Takashi is chop-chop becoming 1 of the most recognized wood workers in his field. His work exhibits very make clean modern forms that are assorted by soft tool marks which get out a connection to the maker, and reveal that such refined work can be made past the paw.

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Reclaimed Blue
Kazumi Tsuji

May 30–June 30, 2013

A solo exhibition of Kanazawa based glass creative person Kazumi Tsuji. The result of a years' worth of cleaved glass from Kazumi'due south studio, nerveless, melted downward, and diddled into new forms of a surprisingly rich blue hue.

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My Garden
Norihiko Terayama

April ix–May 9, 2013

The start solo exhibition in North America of Japanese industrial designer and conceptual artist Norihiko Terayama, featuring delicate compositions of local flowers.

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Ceremony
Claesson Koivisto Rune
January 23–31, 2013

A retrospective of Claesson Koivisto Rune's piece of furniture, design accessories, and architectural models, nosotros debut a collection of products inspired by the Japanese tea ceremony and Swedish Fika coffee civilisation, executed by local Toronto artisans.

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ISSHO
Oji Masanori and Studio Prepa
Baronial 11–31, 2012

A collaboration betwixt Oji Masanori and glass artists Mr. and Mrs. Hira of Studio Preppa.

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Kita Wou Omou Utsuwa

Masanobu Ando
February 23–March 23, 2012

A study of crockery and its human relationship to everyday life in the n: a solo exhibition of Japanese ceramicist Masanobu Ando.

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Life on the Floor
Oji Masanori

Oct 21–31, 2010

The first solo exhibition in North America of industrial designer Oji Masanori, exploring the Japanese custom of sitting on the floor. The event included the debut of two prototypes: chabudai (traditional low tables) and zabutan (floor cushion).