Ceramics workshops
From the first lump of clay to a fired piece you take home. For kindergartens, schools, associations and adult beginners.
Clay, fire and the Drava.
Art Centar Ješkovo is an art centre on Lake Ješkovo near Gola. Groups, schools and teams come here to make their own ceramics, guided by artists and surrounded by the unspoilt nature of the Drava.
Silent drone footage: Lake Ješkovo in an old channel of the Drava, the centre’s houses under willows by the water, the row of wooden sculptures in the Eco park and the fields around the centre.
What you can do in Ješkovo
Team building in nature
A day by the lake: working with your hands together, raku firing over an open fire and good company. We put the programme together around your group.
International ceramics symposium
For 18 years artists from across Europe have come to work in Ješkovo every summer. See the pieces and the atmosphere.
- 18
ceramics symposia
- 10+
countries our artists come from
- 100
people fit in the hall
- The lake and the Drava
a step away from the work table
The pieces come out of the kiln glowing.
Firing on site is the most exciting part of a workshop. Fire, smoke and colour appear in front of the group, and you take your pieces home the same day.
- Raku
- Naked raku
- Horse hair raku
- Obvara
- Pit firing
- Saggar firing
A place where hands, clay and nature meet.
Art Centar Ješkovo grew out of one idea: that art does not need a gallery in town. It stands on Lake Ješkovo, an old channel of the Drava near Gola, right on the Hungarian border. It has been open since 1999.
Today the centre is led by Dragutin Ciglar and Marko Lončar.
Every summer Ješkovo becomes an artists’ workshop.
The symposium has been held since 2009. The artists go through the whole journey of ceramics, all the way to raku firing over an open fire.
From Ješkovo
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Latest events
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30. Susret osoba s invaliditetom i 18. likovna kolonija Ješkovo
On 4 September 2026 Ješkovo hosted the 30th Meeting of Persons with Disabilities and the 18th Ješkovo Art Colony of the Association of Persons with Disabilities of Koprivnica-Križevci County.
18. međunarodni simpozij umjetničke keramike
The 18th International Symposium of Art Ceramics took place in Ješkovo from 1 to 8 August 2026, led by Dragutin Ciglar. The theme was “Earth, Drava, Motacilla alba”.
Rafting hrvatskom Amazonom – Drava 2026.
On 20 June 2026 Ješkovo was one of the stops of the “Rafting the Croatian Amazon – Drava 2026” trip. The participants stopped at the centre for lunch.
Tell us how many you are and when you would like to come.
For a group, all we need is the number of people, a rough date and what you are interested in. We will come back to you with a suggested programme.