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2101 – Future Ceramics: Dining Culture of the Future
Berlin University of the Arts students imagine the tableware of 2101, shown alongside historical porcelain and faience from the museum's collection.
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In Samuel Fiedler's 2101, alcohol is banned, and a hidden resistance drinks from hand-formed porcelain goblets fitted with stainless-steel parts, grape seeds burned into the clay as an offering. It is one of twelve answers that Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) students gave to one question: how will people eat and drink in 2101?
The answers are ceramic, mostly porcelain, some first imagined with AI tools: a mushroom-based drinking ritual for a warming planet, a tea set for herb foragers in a concrete megacity, plates that strangers swap and later have to tell apart by tiny pattern differences. Anyone who has lived in a Berlin WG has played that last game with the mugs. There is no room of their own: you find the pieces among the museum's historical porcelain and faience, beside the tableware of earlier centuries.
It's a small show, included in the €10 museum ticket (€5 reduced). The museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays, and a curator's tour runs on 6 November at 15:30.
Look for
Artefacts of Resistance, Samuel Fiedler
Look for drinking goblets of hand-formed porcelain joined to industrial stainless-steel parts, with grape seeds burned into the clay, made for a 2101 that bans alcohol.
Cielo, Jannes Bock
A matte bisque-porcelain plate set that stacks into a table sculpture, so diners uncover a tasting menu layer by layer from the top down.
The Open Seat, Jan Cichon
Small patterned sharing plates for a table of strangers; at the end, each guest has to find their own plate again by subtle differences in the pattern.
D'UOMO, Erik Kollmorgen and Yuval Kazes
A partially glazed porcelain singing bowl, imagined as a gift at birth fifty years after a third world war, its markings giving each owner's bowl its own tone.
Fungen, Seyoung Chon
Thin porcelain drinking bowls with a built-in structure that sends mushroom-derived oil up to the surface when water is poured in.
Good for
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Nerding Out
Skip if
You want design you can buy or use: these are student prototypes for imagined scenarios set in 2101.
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- 2101 – Future Ceramics: Dining Culture of the FuturePhoto: Jannes Bock
- Daniel Chodowiecki, 1726–1801. Images of the Enlightenment in BerlinCourtesy of Gemäldegalerie
- Portraits! Surprising Encounters from Botticelli to LempickaStaatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Jörg P. Anders | Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie / Jochen Littkemann, © Tamara de Lempicka Estate, LLC / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026
- Ruin and Rush. Berlin 1910–1930Photo: Neue Nationalgalerie – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz / David von Becker
- KunstgewerbemuseumMarsupium / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- GemäldegalerieOursana / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Neue NationalgalerieEvgenii Salganik / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Gropius BauManfred Brückels / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0