Roger Coll (Badalona, 1979) belongs to a new generation of artists who are radically rethinking ceramics—without restraint, breaking free of traditional categories and hierarchies between art and craft. Born in Badalona, near Barcelona, he developed a practice in which material research and conceptual freedom go hand in hand.
For Coll, ceramics are not a decorative medium, but an experimental field. He questions the boundaries between sculpture, object, and architectural fragment. His works sometimes resemble archaeological finds from an unknown future: rough skins, cracked surfaces, distorted volumes that appear simultaneously vulnerable and powerful. He embraces the unpredictable nature of clay—shrinkage, cracking, discoloration—and makes chance a co-player in the creative process.
His oeuvre is characterized by a distinct physical presence. The works communicate through texture and mass; they invite us to look and feel. Coll experiments with glazes, oxides, and firing techniques, giving each piece a unique, almost geological layering. The surface becomes a landscape, the object a bearer of time.
At the same time, he consciously positions himself outside the traditional ceramic canon. He breaks through the medium's functional origins and shifts it toward an autonomous sculptural language. In this sense, his work engages with contemporary trends that prioritize material, process, and imperfection.
Roger Coll thus represents a generation that no longer sees ceramics as a discipline with fixed rules, but as an open field—a space for experimentation, intuition, and redefinition.
