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Mirit Weinstock

Untitled, 2023

TechniqueSculpture
Size15 x 27 cm
AvailabilityAvailable
Donation70%
USD 4,500
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Flowers bloom and fade in time. A leaf shifts its color in the chill breeze, evoking a love of life—fragile, finite, a moment within a ceaseless flow of time. In this work, I seek to hold that delicate presence alongside nature’s ephemeral beauty.

Inspired by dried palm leaves, I created molds to preserve their natural textures in porcelain. Hand-sculpted during an artist residency at the Shigaraki Ceramic Park in Japan, using local porcelain, the work has been exhibited in both Japan and Israel.

About Mirit Weinstock

Mirit Weinstock is an artist and designer based in Paris. Working across visual art, ceramics, Ikebana, jewelry, and craft, her practice unfolds as a poetic dialogue between material, nature, and personal experience.
Weinstock holds a BA in Fashion Design from Shenkar College (2002) and an MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2013). Early in her career, she worked with Alexander McQueen in London and Alber Elbaz at Lanvin in Paris. In 2010, she launched Mirit Weinstock Jewelry, first presented at the legendary Colette boutique in Paris, where her work was recognized for its strong craft-based language and emotional clarity. In 2012, she received the Vogue Talents Award.
Between 2019 and 2025, Weinstock lived in Japan, where a profound artistic transformation took place. Immersing herself in traditional Japanese culture, she studied Ikebana at the Ikenobo Foundation, earning a Master Instructor certification. Through Ikebana, she developed a sensitivity to restraint, movement, and the expressive power of a single gesture—an approach that became central to her artistic voice.
Parallel to this, she deepened her engagement with ceramics through residencies at Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park (2023) and Arita, Kyushu (2025), working with local porcelain, historical molds, and traditional techniques. During this period, ceramics became a core medium in her practice, translating the intimacy and temporality of Ikebana into sculptural form.
Her recent exhibitions include Ceramics (Shigaraki Ceramic Park Gallery, 2023), participation in the Ikenobo Annual Exhibition (Tokyo, 2022), her first museum solo exhibition My Life in Flowers (MUZA – Eretz Israel Museum, 2025), London Craft Week (2025), where she received the Soul Craft Award, and the solo exhibition Never Is A Long Time at Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv (2025).
Weinstock’s work reflects an exploration of femininity, fragility, memory, and the quiet spaces where nature and human emotion meet.