Buianova Andriana

Ceramics by Andriana Buyanova

Existential Ceramics by Andriana Buyanova
about ceramics and personality

From the Author

Hello! My name is Andriana Buianova, I am a ceramic artist and an existential analyst.

I create vessels as metaphors for the human being. In their structure, I use imperfection and cracks not as defects, but as sources of authenticity and depth.

It is precisely the ability to embrace mismatch that allows me to find joy in discovering myself and those close to me. This theme is inseparably connected to my many years of research in existential philosophy and my work as a psychoanalyst.

My process begins with an initially “perfect” form on the potter’s wheel. Then I intervene: integrating and creating new elements. I deliberately overload the glazes, allowing chance to reveal what is hidden.

Thus, the form becomes a dialogue between system and individuality, creating a special space for imperfection and vulnerability.

Today, we are held captive by countless demands; my task is to expose them and show that beauty is born not from conformity, but where mismatch, fracture, and openness to uncertainty manifest.

Gallery

«Where illusions crumble, the Man is revealed»

«Pulsation», 2025
A work from the "Presence" series, exploring the human capacity for "breakthrough" and rebirth.
"Pulsation" — a vase with a heart inside.

2025

H 29 cm, d 14 cm

Material: white stoneware, glaze

«Connection», 2025
Two vases from the "Presence" series, height 24 cm.
White stoneware clay, glaze. Elements of black stoneware clay.
The work "Connection" explores the fragile dynamics of human relationships.
Two partially destroyed forms stand side by side; their cracks and breaches become places where the black clay mass bursts from the inside out.
This substance connects the vases but does not bind them fast: the contact remains fluid, unreliable, much like the very possibility of mutual understanding.

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«We Were Stars»
A 2025 series about the search for humanity's place in time and the universe.

We Were Stars

Video

«Homesickness»
A series of art-artifacts that stand as silent witnesses. They provoke an awareness of the self as continuous in time, highlighting how the past permeates our present gaze.

«About the Phenomenon»
a series of works in 2024 about the manifestation of man in the world

«Inside»

Falling is a collective image of how a person goes through difficult periods in their life. An endless fall into the abyss, into the well of "despair". But where and from where does a Person actually fall?

«Burnout»

A person is constantly faced with inconsistencies and misunderstandings. Each such encounter leaves imprints and crushing fragments on the body of his "self-image". But should a Person coincide with the world?

«Dasein»

A world that doesn't match our imagination is incredible, it allows us to be surprised every time, to see the difference between ourselves and others. To withstand this openness and misunderstanding, and to continue to be freely presented in it, is amazing!

Works available

Utilitarian objects alluding to conceptual works.

Breath

Presence Collection, 2025.
Height 30 cm, diameter 16 cm.
White stoneware, glaze.

Reverie

Presence Collection, 2025.
Height 23 cm, diameter 22 cm.
White stoneware, glaze.

The Seven Veils

Presence Collection, 2025.
Height 25 cm, diameter 12 cm.
White stoneware, glaze.

Shadow

"We Were Stars" Collection, 2025.
Height 23 cm, diameter 14 cm.
White stoneware, glaze.

Space

White Stoneware, glaze 25 cm. Collection "About the phenomenon", 2024.