Alice Reina is an Italian porcelain artist whose work explores fragility, perception, and the emotional potential of form.
Working between design and sculpture, she creates objects that exist in a delicate balance
between material presence and immaterial sensation.
""Every object carries a story, a quiet dialogue between material and memory, crafted with intention and soul."
Alice Reina is an Italian contemporary artist based in Turin, working primarily with porcelain to create sculptural and functional objects. Trained as an architect at the Politecnico di Torino, she began her career in architecture before gradually shifting towards a material-based practice, establishing her own studio in 2015.
Her work develops along two parallel directions: a more rational approach linked to design and functional porcelain, and a more intuitive and experimental practice focused on artistic research. Across both, Reina maintains a consistent language grounded in sensitivity to material, form, and perception. Porcelain plays a central role in her work, both for its technical demands and its expressive qualities. Reina approaches it as a material capable of embodying fragility—not as weakness, but as a dynamic condition that reflects transformation, impermanence, and tension.
Her creative process often originates from words, readings, and fragments of thought that sediment over time before taking form. Her works invite both visual and tactile engagement, sometimes incorporating performative or interactive elements that activate the relationship between object and viewer.
Through her work, Reina creates objects that function as emotional and perceptual devices—forms that reflect the viewer’s own memories and se
