Sebastian Stöhrer (b. 1968, Freiburg, Germany) creates new forms of life out of clay, which have an unusual colorfulness and vocabulary of form. Starting from an idea in his head, he begins to shape the clay. He gets, as he states himself, help from the material, which tries to form itself. In addition to the clay, he uses various natural materials such as twigs and woods, which he integrates into his sculptures on the one hand as a supporting structure, but above all a collage of materialities emerges. With these foundations and his own personal language of form, which he has developed over a long period of time, he creates ceramic sculptures that seem to come from another world or from the depths of the sea. With openings, curves and branches that transform into legs, the sculptures are vitalized and suddenly recognized as independent organisms. These new forms of life are meant to inhabit the world. The glaze of the sculptures has an extreme luminosity and colorfulness, it seems almost liquid. The artist discovered the technique through a mistake in firing and developed it further. Because the glaze is burned at an excessively high temperature, the colour receives a strong shine and seems to flow into each other. Here, too, coincidence plays a role; not everything is predictable during the firing process. For the artist, working with clay is an intuitive work, but the glaze is an experiment for him, where he tries again and again until he reaches the desired color and texture. Stöhrer studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. His works have been shown at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Freedman Gallery in London and the Avlskarl Gallery in Copenhagen.