Studio
MK Pottery Studio is a working ceramic workshop at Can Brull, in the Montseny Natural Park near Barcelona.
A place of clay, fire, teaching, and exchange. A wide, bright space that opens to the landscape, prepared for groups, intensive workshops, and quiet individual work.
Inside the studio
Courses usually run in English and Spanish, often both at once.
Wheels and the table
Seven wheels for group practice, and a common table that seats fourteen. The table is the heart of the studio: demonstrations, handbuilding, tests, glazes, and conversation around the work.
Machines
A slab roller for even slabs of any thickness, and a pug mill that mixes, compacts, and reclaims clay.
Electric kilns
Three electric kilns, from 60 to 280 litres, sized to each batch: tests, bisque firings, and small and medium work. They carry much of the studio's research.
Clays and glazes
A variety of industrial and natural clays and glazes to experiment with during the workshops.
Clay recovery
Sinks with a recovery trap collect clay scraps before they reach the drain. Reclaimed clay goes through the pug mill and back into work: less waste, longer-lived material.
Wood-fired kilns
The fast-fire wood kiln sits beside the studio, and Kujiragama a few metres away. Studio, kilns, and territory work as one system.
The deck
A large outdoor deck extends the studio toward the forest: meals, rest, conversation, and the sunset after a day of work. In summer, the wheels can move outside to work closer to nature.
The space
Can Brull has a life of its own: land, food, fire, and shared meals. The studio is one part of it.
Visit canbrull.comArticles
Writing by and about MK Pottery Studio, Bizen, and the construction of Kujiragama.
Kujiragama: lo que construimos alrededor de un horno
Magali Kivatinetz writes about the people, decisions, and shared work behind the construction of Kujiragama at Can Brull.
Read article ↗Fuego, Arcilla y Comunidad: Construyendo un Anagama Japonés en Barcelona
Magali Kivatinetz introduces the project to build a Japanese anagama at Can Brull.
Read article ↗La alfarería de Bizen reimaginada
Magali's account of her time in Bizen, working through two wood-firing cycles with Taiga Mori and the local ceramic community.
Read article ↗Bizen Pottery Reimagined: The Changing Face of Japan's Ancient Craft
The English edition of Magali's essay on tradition, collaboration, and contemporary ceramic life in Bizen.
Read article ↗Milestones
The short version of how the studio got here. The newsletters that told the story as it happened are now summarised in these few lines.
- 2024
Five weeks in Bizen
Magali works through two wood-firing cycles with Taiga Mori. The idea of an anagama at Can Brull is born around his kiln.
- 2025
Bizen trips and chawan masterclasses
Wheel throwing and wood-firing weeks in Bizen, and chawan experiences with Taiga Mori in Denmark and London. The kiln design takes shape between Bizen and Barcelona.
- Winter 2025–26
The studio is renovated
New windows in the barn, a large wooden deck toward the forest, seven wheels, a slab roller and a pug mill. Local builders prepare the kiln foundations.
- February 2026
First fire: the fast-fire kiln
Wladimir Vivas builds and fires a small wood kiln with the first group. It still sits beside the studio.
Read more - March 2026
Kujiragama is built
Two weeks with Taiga Mori, Eito Shinozaki, Fumiyo Inai, Frank Richter and more than 15 ceramicists from around the world.
Read more - October 2026
First firing and Aki Matsuri
84 hours of continuous fire, the opening a week later with the community, and the first pieces shown at Musubu in Barcelona.
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