About
My name is Jens Wollinger. The sculptures you see are all made from stoneware clay. On some level, all of my sculptures revolve around what it means to be human. The starting point for my work is that each sculpture tells a story that deals with this very subject. I try to give thoughts about the upcoming sculpture space to grow and be open to them changing as the clay takes its own path.
My sculptures are rarely glazed and I avoid strong colours, preferring the matte textures and colours of the material itself. A reminder of nature, from where the clay was once taken. This is mainly achieved by mixing different types of clays, engobes, sulphites and oxides.
Clay is inherently changeable and I like to see this reflected in the sculptures by mixing the concrete and detailed with the rough and abstract.