Dafne Kleiman

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1971.

She graduated from FADU-UBA in Graphic Design (1997) and Ceramic Design (2020), and from FADU-UNL in Museography (2021).

Dafne attended the Cerámica Constructiva workshop at CEDARTES and studied at the Escuela de Artes Visuales María Tonelli in Maldonado, Uruguay, where she trained in painting and sculpture (2017–2020). She completed the Continuing Education Program at the Fundación de Arte Contemporáneo FAC/Zoco (2021–2023), undertook a conceptual strategy clinic with Fernando López Lage (2024–2025), and participated in a sculpture seminar with Desiree De Ridder in Pueblo Garzón (2026).

For a decade, she lived in the Uruguayan countryside, an experience that transformed her relationship with her surroundings and led her to focus her practice exclusively on ceramics. Clay and its processes are integrated not only as a technique but as a field of material thinking. This choice reaffirms the strength of the medium as a contemporary visual language, in dialogue with natural cycles and with a perception attentive to their rhythms. Her work is constructed from a horizontal, non-hierarchical perspective, where ceramic sculpture operates as a record of slow processes and interwoven temporalities within cycles that exceed human and individual experience.