The exhibition

This exhibition presents a selection of Ken Price’s sculptures from 1995 to 2011. Together, they offer insight into an artistic practice where the forms seem to come from somewhere else – an alien terrain that still carries traces of something bodily and familiar.

In works such as Miroesque, Cheeks and Kabongy Balls, the sculptures appear like small landscapes: rounded, perforated and undulating. They may recall eroded surfaces, as if shaped by wind, time or unknown geological processes. At the same time, they point towards another visual world – a sci‑fi aesthetic in which the objects could be fragments of a lunar landscape or models of planets yet to be discovered.

This duality is reinforced in Price’s treatment of the surface. Through a slow process of layering paint, sanding and polishing, he creates a saturated, almost artificially perfect finish. The surfaces take on a quality that feels synthetic or illustrated, not unlike the smooth, brightly coloured forms found in comics and popular culture, where the world appears both hyper‑real and unfamiliar. In this sense, Price’s sculptures also echo the visual universes of classic science fiction and superhero stories, where landscapes and bodies follow different rules from our own.

In later works such as Zyko, Chicton and Crypto, the forms become more complex, as if they are in motion or in the midst of transformation. The monumental bronze pieces Spider Blue and Yogi expand this universe in scale, yet retain a sense of intimacy – as though even the large grows out of something close and tactile.

Throughout his practice, Price challenges the boundary between the handmade and the imagined. Ceramics, a material with long traditions, is used here to create objects that seem to come from another reality. The result is sculpture that can be read both as inner landscapes and as unfamiliar terrains – as if we are seeing something known through a sci‑fi filter.

Alien Terrain invites you to move between these layers: from the tactile to the cosmic, from the intimate to the otherworldly. Here, the sculptures become not just objects, but places – small worlds that evoke bodies, landscapes and distant planets all at once.