EXPO ‘spatialPalace’ – Lübeck Kunstverein, Lübeck (DE) – 5 Dec. 2010-23 Janv. 2011

« spatialPalace » group is a group of jewellery artists whose activities are linked to the Estonian Academy of Arts: Kadri Mälk, Tanel Veenre, Piret Hirv, Eve Margus-Villems, Kristiina Laurits and Villu Plink.
spatialPalace was formed in 1999 and has since exhibited their works jointly in Estonia, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Portugal, Hungary and China.

Kadri MALK- necklace ‘D-moll’ – Silver, gold, artificial resin, rubber, jet, ruby, sapphire, spinel, tourmaline

Tanel VEENRE – brooch ‘meltingsnow’ Druse of rock chrystal, moonstone, resin, silver, gold

 

About jewellery :
*Professor David Watkins has written about Kadri Mälk`s creations:
Her selections from the chaos of life … offer bridges of meaning between experience and memory, between the mind and the senses. Crucially, everything is fixed by the many gestures of making, in the same way that the complete composition in painting can be held together by the handling of paint on surface. The objects offer intimations of shared experience. They frame private worlds within a capricious external world.
*Tanel Veenre: a beautiful piece of jewellery is exciting. Excitement is a quality that comes into being upon collapse of the quantifiable and measurable into the inexplicable and personal. Fleeing from gold-edged emptiness binds the artist’s soul with the thing being created. It’s all somehow wordlessly conspirational. Artist and jewellery become witnesses to a crime in which they are both complicit.
* Piret Hirv’s signs of suspense mostly cause muteness. To live means to be lost (J. Ortega y Gasset). Who does not feel lost, will certainly lose his way, i.e. will never find himself. And only the brightening in the tree tops may show the way out of the forest. (Kadri Mälk)
* Especially lavish are the so-called luxury items of Kristiina Laurits. The lacy, sensuously curved, sometimes useless items and brooches are like peculiar ecstatic whim. It is unpredictable and irrational. It makes us smile.(Kadri Mälk)
* For Eve Margus, transparently glowing, dreamlike materials make the disturbance, when coming in touch with reality, physically palpable. Engraved translucent quartz and chalcedony and opal, carved silky horn and antlers, are tactile in themselves, like their treatment here. (Kadri Mälk)
* The work of Villu Plink is male and laconic, and it is different. He is picturesque and full of images. An image holds, and is not to be disputed. (Kadri Mälk) 

 

 

Lübeck Kunstverein
Köningstr 11
23552 – Lübeck
Germany
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CONCOURS – BVK-Prize 2011 (DE) – deadline : 29 Avril 2011

 

 BKV-PRIZE 2011

FOR YOUNG APPLIED ARTS

The Bavarian Crafts Council (Bayerischer Kunstgewerbe-Verein) is a professional association for the promotion of contemporary crafts with around 400 members.

BKV maintains in Munich a forum for ARTS + CRAFTS, which consists of the “Gallery for Applied Arts” (Galerie für Angewandte Kunst) and a spacious shop with a wide range of contemporary works of art.

The BKV-Prize was therefore created in 2006 and is awarded once a year to promote the younger generation of artists.

The competition is aimed specifically at young artisans who have completed their professional training and are at the beginning of their careers. The competition is international and covers all areas of applied arts.

The prize is awarded to works that show excellent design based on fine craftsmanship.

Awards

•  First Prize:  € 3,000.00 + Catalogue (german/english)

•  2nd Prize:  € 2,000.00

•  3rd Prize:  € 1,000.00

Entry deadline: April 29, 2011

 

Contact BKV-Prize:
Dr. Monika Fahn

Pacellistraße 6-8
80333 München/Munich
Germany
T. 0049 (0)89 29 01 47-0
F. 0049 (0)89 29 62 77
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COUP de COEUR ! Michaela BINDER : une femme de poi…l !

Bijoux de feutre ou bijoux en fourrure, ou « le poil » domestiqué

bagues argent et feutre

In 1997 Michaela Binder presented a variable jewelry system with a collection crafted from silver and exchangeable colored felt elements. While gemstones provide the color in other designer’s creations, these pieces are lit up by brightly colored felt: soft and supple, saucy and easily exchangeable. In another collection of hers, fluffy mink on rings or silver bangles makes for an unusual visual and haptic experience. All her works are dominated by minimalist shapes such as squares, rectangles and circles made of brushed silver, recently also complemented by floral elements. Michaela Binder, who also creates impressive metal vessels, loves to overcome traditional notions associated with jewelry. Samples of her oeuvre can be admired in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, among others. (ArtAurea)

 

1963	Born in Stuttgart, Germany
1984–1988	Hanau State Academy
1992–1997	Studied metal design at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hildesheim
1997	Founded the “Tagebau” atelier and gallery collective in Berlin in collaboration with various designers
2004	Founded her own atelier and gallery in Berlin’s Gipsstrasse

bagues argent et feutre

collier – argent et feutre 

collier – argent et feutre  

bague fourrure & perle – Nerz ring mit Perle – goldplated

bague fourrure & argent -Ringe – Silber, Nerz

bracelets- Nerz armreifen – innen-aussen

 

COUP de COEUR ! « SchmuckVIRUS » by Su KROKER

 Su Kroker

« All the works created by Su Kroker are characterized by their textile nature as well as gently flowing, vividly structured shapes thanks to being finely crocheted. Visiting us from the world of fairy-tales these “dream webs” invite us to withdraw from everything cruel and loud. Handcrafted from silver or gold, each piece is a one-of-a-kind creation, even if some of them are crafted as part of a small series. Su Kroker got the idea for her “jewelry viruses” during a walk in the summer when she saw burrs sticking to her children’s clothes. Inspired by this concept of Mother Nature Su Kroker started distributing her “jewelry viruses” at all the trade shows so as to “infect” other people and thus spread her rather “quiet” pieces all over the world. Her Schmuckvirus, she says, is “a virus that spreads fun and makes you happy!” » (ArtAurea)

Su Kroker- ‘Fleur necklace’ -  950 silver, hematites, freshwater pearls -
Individual jewelry viruses combined to form a necklace. The Fleur line also includes rings, brooches and earrings.

Su Kroker- ‘Fleur necklace’ – detail

Su Kroker- ‘Fleur’ ring

Su Kroker- « The sea » line

Su Kroker- « Vive la femme » line

Su Kroker- « baroque » line – ‘Eternity‘ necklace – silver

Su Kroker- « Little pies » line 

Su Kroker-   necklace – tendre, kitsch et délicat …j’ai attrapé le virus !

Su Kroker-  rings

 

1966	Su Kroker was born in Stuttgart, Germany
1988-1991	Trained as a silversmith
1994-1998	Studied metal design at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hildesheim, graduation
1997	Leonardo da Vinci scholarship and internship in Delft, Netherlands
2004	Established her atelier in Blokzijl, Netherlands, and founded Su-Design
2008	Introduced the “Schmuckvirus by Su-Design” concept

 

Grassimesse 2010 – Leipzig (DE) – 29-31 Oct 2010

Trade fair GRASSIMESSE

The GRASSIMESSE is organized by the GRASSI museum of Applied Art (Leipzig) and takes place in the reconstructed Grassimuseum, an important building of the Art Decó period. Three exhibition rooms with a total of 1200 sqm provide space for 85 exhibitors.

The GRASSIMESSE is an international forum and a fair for applied art and product design from all fields. It stands in the tradition of the historical GRASSIMESSE, founded in 1920 and famous as “Meeting Place of Modernity.” Since the reestablishment in 1997, the fair has been held once each year on the last weekend of October.

The GRASSIMESSE forum and sales exhibition in equal measure, reflects the world of ideas and the variety of contemporary creative design, promotes developments and sharpens the awareness for design quality. Unique products, limited editions and sample industrial products of jewellery, ceramics, glass, textile, clothing, furniture, metal, leather, toys etc. display a fascinating variety of creative design which allures to see and buy as well. This selection and international orientation enables to gain a comprehensive overview of recent innovations and trends, as well as timeless modern design.

Subject and concern of the GRASSIMESSE is the selection and promotion of quality. Therefore a jury of experts decides on the selection of the exhibitors and will award the four prizes on the occasion of the GRASSIMESSE.

A catalogue of the GRASSIMESSE will be released, it will be feature one example of every exhibitor.

Mirjam Hiller  – “Tulema” brooch, 2010. Stainless steel, created from a single piece, sawn.
Thanh-Truc Nguyen – Brooch, 2010. Silver, blackened, textile, plastic, assembled, wound, sewn.

 

Exhibitors 2010 (jewelry) : 

Aliki Apoussidou — Alexandra Bahlmann — Nicole Bauer — Maria Cristina Bellucci — Reinhard Berkes — Vera-Marie von Claer — Babette von Dohnanyi — Marianne Eggimann — Beate Eismann — Nora Fiege –  Jan Exnar — Miki Gamzou — Angela Wandelt –  Barbara Hast –  Mirjam Hiller — Margit Jäschke — Michaela Kirchner — Ulrike Kleine-Behnke –  Unk Kraus – Thanh-Truc Nguyen –Nicolay Sardamov – Beatrix Schmah — Angela Simone — Silke Spitzer — Silke Trekel — Jasmin Winter — Susanne Wolbers — Arek Wolski — Alchimia Jewellery School — Burg Giebichenstein HS für Kunst und Design Halle – Studienrichtung: Schmuck –  Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst Hildesheim Fakultät Gestaltung/Metallgestaltung — Hochschule Wismar, Fachbereich Schmuck

Nicolay Sardamov – Brooch, 2010. Silver, shaped (wax model), cast.
Silke Spitzer -“Ein-Astkette” neck jewellery,2010. Wood, silver, blackened

Silke Trekel – “Kaktus” brooch,2010. Iron, engraved, enamelled
Jasmin Winter – “Two sides” reversible neck jewellery, 2009. Silver, enamel, artificial resin, silk, assembled, enamelled, knotted

Arek Wolski – “Ludzie” brooch, 2008. Aluminium, anodised

Nicole Bauer Neck jewellery, 2009. German silver, silver, etched, assembled

Beate Eismann – « Mass and Weight » works

Ulrike Kleine-Behnke – Brooch, 2010. Silver, wood, assembled, sawn

 

 

 

 

GRASSI Museum of Applied Art
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COUP de … ROUGE avec Isabell Schaupp …. again !

Isabell SCHAUPP  new work
« Due to their partly technical partly organic appearing shapes my new jewelery works seem to belong to a yet unknown flora and fauna. Photos of satellite, funnel and tentacle like wire structures talk an emblematic sort of language. Time and again these delicate wire structures emerge from the surface, appearing to stretch out towards the observer.
The objects become minute amulets and catalysts, attempting to establish direct contact with the environment« 

Erfurter Schmucksymposium – Schmuckfrage Gallery, Berlin (Germany) – 18 Sept.-16 Oct. 2010

Since 1984 The Erfurter Schmucksymposium takes place every two years for two weeks. The Schmucksymposium aims to establish and foster national and international contacts, facilitate the creative work of jewelry artists through the exchange of experience, the exploration of possibilities in the design and execution of jewelry, and expand the understanding of jewelry.
The invited participants and the “Stadtgoldschmied” Volker Atrops who stayed as jeweller in residence at Erfurt in 2009 worked in July 2010 together at the Erfurter Künstlerwerkstätten.

According to the cultural double years focus in Erfurt the theme of the SYMPOSIUM was Martin Luthers journey to Italy in 15150/1511 and his thereby setting out in a new direction.

 

Participating artists: 
Volker Atrops (Germany), Iris Bodemer (Germany), Daniela Boieri (Italy), Heike Gruber (Germany), Federica Pallaver (Italy), Mandy Rasch (Germany),Philip Sajet (Netherlands), Dana Seachuga (Israel/ Netherlands), Beate Klockmann (Germany), Fabrizio Tridenti (Italy).

Fabrizio Tridenti, neckpiece black, rubber, magnet, recycled plastic, brass, glass, epoxyresin, wood, alpaca ca. 50cm length 

Heike Gruber, necklace, alpaca painted, felt

Iris Bodemer, brooch, silver

Volker Atrops, ring, iron

Dana Seachuga – ‘Games Kings Play’ necklace – ebony, silver, copper, and paint

 

more information about the Erfurter Schmucksymposium
http://www.erfurter-schmucksymposium.de

The organizer of the Erfurter Schmucksymposium is the VBKTh (Verband Bildender Künstler Thüringen e.V. – Association of the Thuringian artists)
http://www.vbkth.de

 

Schmuckfrage
Brunnenstraße 187
10119 – Berlin
Germany
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EXPO ‘Mirjam Hiller – The Graphics to her Jewellery’ – Galerie Pilartz, Cologne (DE) – Sept. 2010

Mirjam Hiller : The Graphics to her Jewellery

As of now the gallery shows not only jewellery by Mirjam Hiller, but also her graphics that go along with it. These prints show the patterns from which her jewellery arises. They document quite impressively that the artist shapes her jewellery from one piece as foreseen in her “construction plan”.

Mirjam Hiller – Drumonia – brooch – stainless steel powdercoating, titanium

Mirjam Hiller on her creative process: “At first there is a thought, a very vivid, three-dimensional thought of a form, a room that I can go into. I explore it and let it enchant me. I would like to grasp and experience it over and over again.
The form is very complex, built of different colours, structures, shapes and scents and depending from where I look, everything changes.
I have to make decisions, reduce it to the essentials and find a way for a logical realization in order to give the construct of my thoughts, which is by no means logical, a place in this world of tangible things. I focus myself on one kind of material, one colour; everything else distracts me and redirects my thoughts. I capture the three-dimensional form that spreads out in front of my inner eye, unfold it to the second dimension, sketch it and cut it out with the awareness that every cut is a final one.”

Mirjam Hiller – Mavalis (1/5), 2010, digital pigment printing, 25x32cm

“The cut out drawing lies in front of me,
one flat piece,
my unfolded thought.
I bend and fold it to the third dimension.
I’m excited to see if it really grows the way that I’ve imagined.
I enter the room again,
half in thoughts, half in reality.”

Mirjam Hiller – Pyremina (1/5), 2010, digital pigment printing, 25x32cm

Mirjam Hiller – Phytenia – brooch – stainless steel powdercoating, titanium

The juxtaposition of graphics and jewellery creates an extraordinary tension. Even if seen independently from the jewellery pieces that grow from them, the graphics emanate something autonomous, mysterious and leave a lot of room for the imagination.
Its viewers come up with very different and intuitive associations: Are they motifs of Australian Aborigines? Are they drawings used to classify plants? Medical illustrations? Machinery construction plans? A city in a bird’s eye view?
The graphics, from which her jewellery results, show very nicely how Mirjam Hiller’s thoughts on jewellery “unfold”.

Mirjam Hiller – brooch - Xynema - 2009, stainless steel, powdercoating

 

Mirjam Hiller – Wynepha (1/5), 2010, digital pigment printing, 25x32cm

 Mirjam Hiller – Wynepha (1/5), 2010, digital pigment printing, 25x32cm

Mirjam Hiller - Catopsia – brooch – stainless steel powdercoating, titanium

 

 

Galerie Pilartz
Zeughausstraße 10
D-50667 Cologne
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EXPO ‘Volker Atrops – Hello Goodbye’ – Galerie Pilartz, Cologne (DE) – 12 Sept.-23 Oct. 2010

« As of now Volker Atrops has occupied himself with jewellery for 25 years. What started with picked to pieces rosaries and fishhooks was imperceptibly transformed by a classic goldsmith and art academy education. Along with sketches, photos and books we show the often very simple jewellery works and are looking forward to your curiosity.
A pleasurable voyage into the surprising world of art of Volker Atrops. »

Necklace, green and red plastic materials, 1996

“I love jewellery, it’s like the plague.
Since I’ve been 16 I live with this malady, it’s embarrassing. I try to keep away from other invalids and keep on going as if nothing ever happened. A lot of sputum has been emitted in the meantime.” (Volker Atrops)

 Volker Atrops – Anarchain – silver – 1995 (diameter ~ 40 cm)

 

 

 

Gallery Pilartz
Zeughausstrasse 10
D-50667 – Cologne
Germany
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EXPO ‘Herman Hermsen – Inner Nomad’ – Galerie für Angewandte Kunst, Munich (DE) – 30 juill.-12 Sept. 2010

Herman Hermsen graduated from the Arnhem Academy of Fine Art 30 years ago and since 1992 is professor in the product and design department of the University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf. Commuting between various places of work and interchanging professional duties can be unsettling, but it is also inspirational and puts things into perspective. Herman Hermsen’s designs are in keeping with a minimalist and conceptual tradition. The quest for innovative interpretations and a balanced relationship between the decorative and the constructive inform all his work. But he is also no stranger to irony and playfulness. Diversity, clarity and serial production make his work appealing and accessible in equal measure.

 

Herman Hermsen – collier « slice of jewellery » – améthyste – 2004

Herman Hermsen – Rohrkette

Herman Hermsen – ‘upon reflection’ ring

Die Ausstellungen in der Galerie für Angewandte Kunst werden gefördert vom
Bayerischen Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft, Infrastruktur, Verkehr und Technologie.
www.stmwivt.bayern.de

 

 

Galerie für Angewandte Kunst – Bayerischer Kunstgewerbe-Verein e.V.
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