Text and work by Ludwig Menzel. Photo credit: Briquets – 3 Brooches, 2019_Konrad Jünger. All this jewellery! All these drawers and boxes full of old chains, pendants, bracelets, rings, baptism spoons and tie pins – inherited, passed on, received as a present. Jewellery as a hoard of decades of family history. Jewellery having no emotional value; …
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Work and text by Peter Vermandere. Photo credit: Freestyle Atomics Brooch_01 by Sigrid Eggers. In 2007, as part of an artistic project, I was offered an original panel from the Atomium (the iconic Expo ’58 building in Brussels) which was at the time being restaurated. LINK: https://www.petervermandere.com
Text and work: Doerthe Fuchs. …. It was not an impressionistic illusion . At this point the seabed was indeed full of brightly colored pieces of glass … rejected from the glass blowers …more easily thrown out of the window and into the sea than retuned to the furnac.Left to the tide and slowly reverting …
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Photo: St. Barbara_Loukia Richards, 2016. Collection of Grassi Museum Leipzig. Photo credit: Christoph Ziegler. We accept no more applications for the fee free jewellery workshop in Umweltbundesamt Dessau. One place is still available for the fee free jewellery workshop on 2+3 November at Grassi Museum Leipzig. Both two-day-long workshops are chaired by Christoph Ziegler and …
Text and work by Sam Laddin. What I make is an expression of how I perceive humanity as a powerful influence over nature. My work aims to mirror this influence by using ancient casting processes in wood with metals I extract from electronic devices. My process continues to explore how materials can be combined to …
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Text by Loukia Richards. Photo credit: Christoph Ziegler Visit the international group show WERT/voll at Umweltbundesamt Dessau: 11 September – 15 October 2019! Concept, curation and show design by ZLR Betriebsimperium (Christoph Ziegler + Loukia Richards). The show is a cooperation project between Umweltbundesamt Dessau and Grassi Museum Leipzig; it is exclusively funded by Umweltbundesamt. …
at 18.00 (6.00 p.m. Central European Time) 11 September 2019.
Text and work: Zeyun Chen, China. What is value? This is a question that Zeyun is fascinated by and which forms the core of her Masters project. At first glance, you might not recognise the material she has used to create her objects. Could it be wood? Bone? Or is it a precious material such …
Text and work: Unk Kraus, Germany. My jewelry should confuse only at second glance.Admiration may belong to the first sight. Unk Kraus was born in Munich in 1949. He practiced veterinary medicine till 1985. He works as a goldsmith and independent artist (painting, sculpture, jewellery) since 1986. He lives and works in Oberkienberg, Germany. LINK: …
WERT/voll_Jewellery+Ecology 