Museum of Arts and Design presents porcelain murals bridging nature and the urban landscape by Alice Riehl

Fragile, luminous, and enduring, porcelain becomes a medium for rethinking plant life in the modern city in Alice Riehl’s Porcelain Florilegium, on view at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) from February 28 through October 12, 2026. The installation brings together four monumental wall murals—Timidité (2025), Dent-de-Lion (2024), Songe (2024), and Alter Ego (2022)—marking the first major U.S. museum presentation of Riehl’s work and underscoring MAD’s commitment to contemporary craft and material innovation. Riehl creates large-scale porcelain wall murals inspired by botanical imagery drawn from medieval and Renaissance tapestries, French decorative arts, mythology, and sustained observation of plant life. Her