June 24, 2025 (Berlin, Germany) | Berlin-based design brand MOONARIJ unveils its first artist collaboration with renowned Swiss artist Kaspar Müller, debuting the Space Jars collection in summer 2025. The limited-edition hand-blown glass vases bring together Müller’s conceptual approach and MOONARIJ’s contemporary design ethos. Inspired by planetary forms and cosmic landscapes, the Space Jars are sculptural and functional pieces shaped through a variety of innovative surface treatments, including acid baths, mirroring, and powder coating, that feel both otherworldly and intimately crafted. Each individual vase is unique in form and texture, engaging both as standalone art objects and as vessels designed to interact with their environment. This collection also marks MOONARIJ’s first international partnership with Brooklyn Glass, New York, reflecting a growing commitment to global, cross-disciplinary craftsmanship.
The multidisciplinary dialogue between art and design that defines the Space Jars was born from their creators’ shared fascination with the universe and its infinite array of forms, textures, and materials. Building on MOONARIJ’s signature spherical forms, first introduced with the Moonjar series earlier in 2025, each Space Jar channels cosmic inspiration through an interplay of colors, shape, and surface treatment, the visual poetry of distant planets. Rendered in elemental hues spanning all colors of the rainbow, the vases echo the rich chromatic spectrum of space, while the transformation of glass from liquid to solid mirrors the slow and natural process of planetary formation, offering a poetic metaphor for the cosmos. Through a joyful engagement with chemical processes, each surface evokes the appearance of celestial crusts and otherworldly terrains, grounding the collection in both the tactile world of craftsmanship and the imaginative expanse of outer space.
At its core, the Space Jars collection embodies the fusion of two distinct philosophies, converging into a singular language that is both meditative and purposeful. Kaspar Müller approaches glass as a conceptual medium, shaped by spatial experience and installation, while MOONARIJ founder Johanna Wichelhaus balances functionality, form, and color with refined precision. Each Space Jar stands as a sculptural object, reminiscent of distant celestial bodies, yet remains inherently grounded in purpose: designed to hold life. Whether displaying a bouquet or standing empty, each vessel speaks to a dual identity—both planetary and domestic. This quiet balance reflects the essence of Earth itself—a celestial body adrift in the vastness of space, yet vibrant with life. In this context, the Space Jar serves as a metaphor—embodying the seamless interplay between expressive form and purposeful function.
To amplify the collection’s artistic vision, Johanna Wichelhaus and Kaspar Müller collaborated with Lucas Confurius on a visual campaign that situates the vases in a cosmic setting, evoking the space where their forms and ideas first emerged.
Founded in 2022 by Johanna Wichelhaus, MOONARIJ is rooted in a deep appreciation for Germany’s glassmaking heritage and a passion for handcrafted design, developed in close collaboration with small workshops in Berlin and Dresden. With the launch of Space Jars, the brand reaches across the Atlantic for the first time, partnering with glassmaker Esteban Salazar at Brooklyn Glass in New York, who has previously collaborated with Kaspar Müller on several of his glass installations. This transatlantic collaboration reflects a shared commitment to craft, innovation, and the evolving language of glass.
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NOTES TO EDITORS:
The Space Jars are a limited-edition collection of 12 individual pieces.
Each vase is priced at 2.800 €
The collection will be available at moonarij.com
Note: Each vase is handcrafted individually – dimensions may vary minimally.
About MOONARIJ:
MOONARIJ is a Berlin-based, female-founded design brand focused on handcrafted vases. Captivated by the art of glass blowing, Johanna Wichelhaus teamed up with renowned glass artists in 2021 to develop first iterations of her sketches of striped bud vases. The designs evolved into the brand‘s first collections – the Oona, released in 2022, and the Narij, followed by the Large Bucket, Oona Baby and Zigzag collection. Voluminous in shape, iridescent in color and meticulously crafted, hand-blown and hand-sculpted Moonarij vases stand out as mesmerizing objects of beauty.
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About Kaspar Müller:
In Kaspar Müller’s practice, seemingly familiar objects somehow appear as hieroglyphs. A cast of everyday, yet nonetheless strangely hermetic motifs reappear throughout his oeuvre like vanished memories. Recoded, recalcitrant, and sometimes stubbornly mute, past works have ranged from physically tangible sculpture to shadowy reproductions of images. Often working in recursive loops, Müller creates elusive installations that stage the fluctuations and transformation of the creative process between the space of the studio and the gallery. For Müller, this process is akin to archeology, yet the things he addresses aren’t hidden; we simply don’t pay attention to them. The moment that their latent qualities suddenly emerge and seem connected and appealing is an exciting moment, which, as Müller notes, is “prone to mystification.” Müller’s works examine the residues of different systems of production and value, homing in on the formal and associative qualities of everyday objects and goods. With his lamp sculptures, Müller engages with how industrial lighting, from its inception to the current day, functions to create a mood or atmosphere through the expression of one’s aesthetic affinities. Müller’s interest in notions of craft and reproduction, and vintage and “fake vintage,” led him to bring together an exuberant yet discordant constellation of bulbs as a kind of mirror of the range of industrial production and contemporary taste.
Kaspar Müller (b. 1983, Schaffhausen) lives and works in Basel. During Art Basel Parcours 2023 he showcased a large installation in Münsterplatz. Müller has had solo exhibitions at Atelier Amden, Vleeshal, Middelburg; Kunsthalle Bern; Museum im Bellpark, Kriens; Kunsthalle Zürich; and Circuit, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Lausanne. He has participated in group exhibitions at Fondazione Prada, Venice; Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno; Swiss Institute, New York; Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome; MAMCO, Geneva; and Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, among other venues.
Kaspar Müller - Société Berlin
Image Credits:
1-6. MOONARIJ x Kaspar Müller. Space Jars Collection, 2025. Photography by Mina Aichhorn.
7. MOONARIJ x Kaspar Müller. Space Jars Collection, 2025. Photography by Lucas Confurius.
8. MOONARIJ x Kaspar Müller. Space Jars Collection, 2025. Photography by Vitali Gelwich.
