Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye

While her oeuvre is definitely marked by a Scandinavian influence, the purity of her forms is mainly inspired by Anatolian art from the 6th millennium BCE to the 13th century CE, particularly in terms of Hellenistic and Roman glass and metal vessels, and Byzantine thimbles. Her ceramics are part of the permanent collections of over thirty-four museums throughout the world, including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Fondation Cartier. She has also received many awards, notably the French Chevalier (Knight) of the Order of Arts and Letters and a Knight of the Danish Order of the Dannebrog.

In 2022, the Fondation Cartier invited her to participate in Mondo Reale as part of the 23rd International Triennale in Milan, Italy, and highlighted her sculptural practice, marked by repetitive gestural movements, which artist Ali Kazma was able to capture in the art video Studio Ceramist (2007). Her work, presented in Bijoy Jain's exhibition Le Souffle de l’Architecte at the Fondation Cartier in 2023–2024, consecrated her place as an artist engaged in the dialogue between architecture, object and material.