TOOLS FOR DESIRE
Desire is a word describing a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen. Together we meet to wander in our stories and narratives of why we make and what it is we desire, and dream. So often when we present there is a locating of the object as the work. But what if we reposition the work as a material or a tool? Material or tool as something metaphorical, physical, and as concepts to think with. What then do these tools do? What do they make or why have they been made? Together we meet to explore broader contexts and to unpack motivations, drives and desires and what role the objects we make play on our individual paths that we could call the work.
Tools for Desire, brings together a constellation of beings connected by having practices that grapple with the relationship of body and object. Motivated by the desire to build kinship, we tend a space to share what paths we create when wandering with desire, creating faint marks on the earth of where we and others have been. Gathering together a constellation of invited presenters and an open invitation to attend a collective is formed. We have and will together cross borders of geography, histories, languages and perspectives. Meeting for a brief privileged moment we wander together. In wandering we may arrive at the same place, and together we share how we got here and where we want to go. Going beyond the formalities of lecture presentations, to speak with each other and share our paths over meals, coffee breaks and dancing. A space and time to glean from each other's stories.
Programm curators and moderation 2025: Sophie Hanagarth and matt lambert
Programm
(speaking times subject to change)
Thursday 29 May
12:30 Registration and reception
14.00 start and welcome speech
14.30–15.45 [title of the lecture] by Juhls (Sápmi)
[short description of the lecture]
BIO: “On a small hill overlooking the Kautokeino River, lies the life work of Frank and Regine Juhls. Since 1959, they have built what is today referred to as an oasis on the Finnmarksvidda. In the 1950s, Kautokeino was an isolated society where the traditional Sami way of life was strong. Regine came to Kautokeino and Finnmark to experience the hard and real life through a winter. That was not the case.She worked as a maid for a reindeer herding family and on the plateau she met the Danish adventurer Frank Juhls. This was the start of a love story of the rare…
Not long after the cabin was built, Frank undertook to repair the jewelry of the locals...The Sami came to Frank with the jewelery and with a silversmith in the village they could make jewelery to their own taste. The building itself has developed over the decades. For every decade there has been a new room… At the bottom of the gallery you will find Regine steadily and constantly in the height. Here she works with her life’s work, which is constantly getting new facets. Her husband Frank passed away in 2020, but the gallery and the art live on in the gallery on the plateau.”
links: www.juhls.no | @juhlssilvergallery
- Coffee break
16.30–17.45 [title of the lecture] by Aria Eghbal (Iran)
[short description of the lecture]
BIO: Aria Eghbal, born in 1962 in Tehran, is a prominent figure in the Iranian art scene. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in painting, launching his professional career immediately upon graduation. In 1992, Eghbal founded Aria Gallery, a landmark space that has been instrumental in promoting contemporary Iranian art. Her passion for fostering creativity led to the establishment of the Alternative School of Art in 2002, where he pioneered innovative methods of art education.
Eghbal has held four solo exhibitions and participated in over 50 group exhibitions across Iran, Europe, the United States, China, and the UAE, showcasing her unique artistic vision to international audiences. In addition to her artistic endeavors, she has authored numerous articles on modern and contemporary Iranian art and has delivered lectures on alternative art education, highlighting its role in nurturing creative expression.
A key member of the Iranian Painters Association, Eghbal also serves on the Board of Directors at the Iranian Galleries Association and is an integral part of the Organizing Committee for the Iran Art Expo. She is a founding member of the Dena Art Group, further contributing to the advancement of Iran’s dynamic art community.
links: https://ariaartc.ir/ | @ariaart.gallery | @ariaeghbal1
- Dinner
Friday 30 May
- Breakfast
10.00–11.15 [title of the lecture] by Elisabeth Fischer (Switzerland)
[short description of the lecture]
BIO: Elizabeth Fischer is associate professor HES-SO in the cultural history of dress and fashion at the University of Art and Design HEAD – Genève (Switzerland). She was dean of the Jewellery and accessory design department from 2009 to 2021, including Fashion design from 2015. She contributed to the opening of the MA in Fashion and Accessory design at HEAD as well as the Chair in Watch Design. Holder of an MA in art history, she specializes in the meaning of dress, textiles and jewellery in painting and photography. Her current research, led in partnership with Magali Le Mens, PhD (University of Rennes 2), focusses on the subversion of binary gender codes in Western dress from 1850 to today. She has collaborated with museums and universities for over 25 years in Switzerland and internationally and published numerous essays in French and English. She is a member of the scientific board of MuMode, the Swiss Fashion Museum in Yverdon.
links: www.hesge.ch/head/annuaire/elizabeth-fischer | @lizafishe
11.15–12.30 [title of the lecture] by Anders Ljungberg (Sweden)
[short description of the lecture]
BIO: Anders Ljungberg has exhibited, lectured and been a guest teacher around the world, while being based in Gustavsberg, Sweden where he both lives and has his studio. One of his main topics, which can clearly be seen in his practice, is the relationship between human, object and space in which he examines emotional, metaphorical and poetic understandings of everyday use. He is represented by Marzee in The Netherlands, Galerie Rosemarie Jäger and Ornamentum Galley in Germany and exhibits frequently in other contexts worldwide. Anders Ljungberg is represented at Marzee collection in Nijmegen, National museum in Stockholm, Röhsska in Gothenburg, National museum in Oslo, Nordiska in Stockholm and the Royal collection in Stockholm. At Konstfack, he was first a student between 1989 and 1994, returning as a Senior Lecturer between 2000 and 2010. From 2016 he is Professor at the Jewellery and Corpus CRAFT! Programme at Konstfack. Between 2014-2016 he also worked as professor at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Metal and Jewellery Art.
links: www.andersljungberg.se @aeljungberg
- Lunch
14.00 – 15.15 / short lectures from 3 students
- the first
- the second
- the third
- Coffee break
16.00–17.15 [title of the lecture] by Esther Brinkmann (Switzerland)
[short description of the lecture]
BIO: EB got a diploma as a jeweller at école des Arts décoratifs in Geneva in 1978. Soon after she started with her own studio and participated since then in numerous group exhibitions in galleries and museums. Regularly, she showed her work in solo exhibitions in Europe, China and India.
In 1987 she founded in Geneva at the University for Art and Design (HEAD) the jewellery department. She was its head till 2005 when she left Switzerland to live in China and then in India for 9 years.
EB has an extensive experience in lecturing and masterclasses, in Europe and Asia. A monograph on her work has been published in 2022 by Arnoldsche, editor in Stuttgart. Her work is to be found in private and public collections.
links: www.estherbrinkmann.com | @Esther.Brinkmann
- Dinner
- “Schmucktisch” (everyone brings a piece/ small collection of pieces to put on the table, tp create a together-exhibiton)
Saturday 31 May
- Breakfast
10.00–11.15 [title of the lecture] by Yuka Oyama (Germany)
[short description of the lecture]
BIO: Yuka Oyama’s artistic practice encompasses wearable sculptures, jewellery, public interventions and performance. Yuka explores the implications of worn personal items for the (re)construction of individual identities. She examines how things that people carry with them for years become part of their extended self, as well as tools to create an alternative, continuous home, especially for those who live nomadic lives. She employs methods of field research such as object-based interviews and experimental performances with human-thing hybrid costumes.
Oyama studied jewellery and light metals at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence (USA), Jewellery at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Prof. Otto Künzli, and Fine Art under Prof. Asta Gröting. She received her doctorate in artistic research at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Norway in 2017 with the title The Stubborn Life of Objects (2012-2017). In the artistic research, she investigated how personal objects carry imagined, active, and dynamic inner forces and how these can be made accessible through worn sculptures. Since 2003, Oyama’s work has been presented in numerous international exhibitions, including the Marta Herford Museum, The Dowse Art Museum in Wellington (New Zealand), the Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York, the SPACES Gallery in Cleveland, the Bellerive Museum in Zurich and the House of World Cultures in Berlin. She leads Jewellery and Sculpture at Burg Giebichenstein Academy of Art and Design Halle.
links: www.yukaoyama.com | @studioyukaoyama
11.15–12.30 [title of the lecture] by Janne Peltokangas (Sápmi | Finland)
BIO: Janne Peltokangas (b. 1979) is a Sámi artist and blacksmith known for combining traditional blacksmithing techniques with contemporary art forms. Since 2005, he has explored the intersection of craftsmanship and Sámi aesthetics, reflecting his heritage and paying homage to his cultural roots. For the first ten years of his career, Peltokangas worked as an architectural blacksmith before shifting his focus in 2015 to pursue art full-time. His work often investigates the Sámi spiritual connection to nature, raising questions about the presence of spirit within handmade objects and the expressive potential of materials
Peltokangas’ creations are characterized by their rough yet sensitive nature, mirroring the flora and fauna of northern Finland. His art has been exhibited across Europe, North America, and China in prominent galleries, museums, and Biennales. He has also collaborated with renowned artists like Eva Hild and Rick Smith. Over the years, his work has earned him multiple grants and awards.
Currently residing in Finland, Peltokangas continues to delve into Sámi mythology and culture through his art, creating pieces that honor his ancestry while pushing the boundaries of contemporary blacksmithing.
links: www.jannepeltokangas.com
- Lunch
14.00–15.15 [title of the lecture] by Daniel Ramos Obregón (Colombia)
[short description of the lecture]
BIO: Daniel Ramos Obregón is a Colombian artist, designer, drag performer, and educator currently based in Stockholm. His works often inquire about notions of human existence, specifically in contemporary society, such as the construction of the self in terms of identity, gender, and race, and the relation between mind and body, the spiritual and the material. His practice is rooted in thinking through making—in a wide range of media such as jewelry, ceramics, and leather—to create highly narrative objects and wearable art.
His works have been exhibited nationally and internationally in events such as Munich Jewellery Week, the Latinamerican Contemporary Jewelry Biennial, the Lisbon Jewellery Biennial, and the Venice Design Biennale, as well as in museums and galleries like Liljevalchs Konsthall (SWE), De Kerk–Museum Arnhem (NL), the Buenos Aires National Museum for Decorative Arts (ARG), Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein (GER), among others. He was a finalist in the accessory category at International Talent Support (2014) and has been nominated three times to the “Premio Lápiz de Acero” in 2015 and 2023.
Daniel graduated with a BA in Design from Universidad de los Andes in 2011—where he later worked as a professor for over 8 years—and an MA in Fashion Artefact from the London College of Fashion in 2014. He also studied in the Research Lab Craft program at Konstfack in 2024.
links: @danielramoso | https://danielramos.co
- Coffee break
16.00 – 17.30 / Neke Moa (Aotearoa)
[short description of the lecture]
BIO: Neke Moa is tākata whenua (indigenous, māori) from Aotearoa/NZ. She creates adornment and objects. She has exhibited locally and internationally, was part of the Handshake project from 2010 to 2024, most recently awarded the Herbert Hofman prize in 2023, teaches and makes from her home in Ōtaki.
Neke Moa’s practice seeks to promote Hauora (health and sustainability) by deepening connections between people, tōhunga (knowledge holders), and atua (deities). Using materials from the environment, and drawing on customary and contemporary processes, she works to make mātauranga Māori (knowledge) and pūrākau (stories) newly accessible. Her work explores our connections within the spaces of the seen and unseen, the place where wairua (spirituality) resides and creativity is sourced.
“Through collaboration, building and maintaining relationships and a constant curiosity I am able to sustain an art practice that continues to evolve.”
links: @NekeMoa
- Dinner
Sunday 1 June
- Breakfast
10.00–11.15 [title of the lecture] by Monika Brugger
[short description of the lecture]
BIO:
links: www.monikabrugger.eu | @Monika.brugger
11.15 – 12.30 [title of the lecture] by Chequita Nahar (Netherlands)
[short description of the lecture]
BIO: Chequita Nahar (Paramaribo, 1970) is a Dutch jewellery designer, lecturer and curator. Living and working in Maastricht. Former head of the design and fine art department at the Academy of Fine Art in Maastricht, where she studied jewellery design herself and then completed her studies with a Masters at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. Her work is part of museum collections such as the Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk Museum, Museum Arnhem, CODA, Textielmuseum Tilburg, Design Museum Munich and private collections. She is a prize winner of the Talente Award, Herbert Hofmann Prize and the Francoise van den Bosch award. Besides her work as a maker, she is active as a board member in several cultural foundations.
Her work stems from her bi-cultural background and is a fusion of different cultural influences. It combines Surinamese crafts and techniques with methods derived from contemporary jewellery practice.
links: @chequita_nahar | www.chequitanahar.nl
- Closing & good-byes
- Lunch
For registration scroll down
Impressions
Info, Conditions & Registration
Participation fee
Professionals: All days 320 € | Single day 110 €
Students: All days 210 € | Single day 85 €
Food, coffee, tea included
Accommodation
in your own tent, car, mobile home etc.: 5 €/person/night for camping, shower and breakfast.
NEW: Rent a Tent - up to 3 persons for 40 € for 3 nights. (first come - first serve!!)
Wi-Fi & open payments
At the out-back of the Haxthäuser Hof there is no Wi-Fi and a very poor internet connection via roaming. Therefore, it’s not possible to pay anything by card.
If you still need to pay for the tent please bring cash. As well as for the drinks at the bar or book sales.
Children
We are happy if you bring your children with you.
Untill the age of 18 there are no participation fees, but there is - if camping as mentioned above - 5 €/person/night for camping, shower and breakfast, as well as 5 €/person/day for food (lunch, dinner and cake).
Please make sure that your kids do not disturb the lectures and other events. During the symposium parents are responsible for their children and liable for any damage that may occur.
Drinking water & shower
As the tap water on location is from a well and not safe for consumption, we will provide drinking water in tanks. Please bring your own refillable water bottle!!
To cover the high cost of the ablutions trailer, we ask that everyone staying at Haxthäuser Hof - both those sleeping in their own tent/camper/car and those renting a tent - contributes 5€/person/night.
Thank you for your understanding.
Schmucktisch
Part of the programm is the famous ‘Schmucktisch’. This is an open invitation for all participants to bring some of your jewellery to put on the table: for everyone to look, touch, try on and discuss.
The weather
Consider that it is mainly an open-air event. So bring some warm & rain clothes as well.
BEFORE YOU REGISTER:
Registration and reservation
Due to the size of the haxthäuserhof, the number of participants is limited to 80 persons.
Your booking is valid when your payment has been received in full by our administration. Only then does your booking become a reservation.
Your place will be reserved for you in the order in which the participation fee is received by bank transfer in advance (no cash at the entrance) first come, first serve.
Cancellation
In case of cancellation by you:
- after the online reservation of your place, an administrative fee of 50 € will be retained,
- between 8 weeks and 4 weeks before the beginning of the symposium, 25 % of the fee will be retained,
- within 4 weeks to 1 week before the beginning of the symposium, 50 % of the fee will be retained.
- within 1 week before the beginning of the HHHo-symposium, a refund is not possible.
Cancellation by the organisation can take place:
- if the maximum number of participants has been reached,
- if the symposium cannot be offered because of force majeure.
in these cases a full refund of the participation fee will be made.
Force Majeure
Besides the above mentioned, a refund of your participation fee will be made at any time:
- in cases of force majeure for the participant (illness, accident, death in family), cancellation should be notified immediately, with written proof of the reasons for cancellation,
- in cases the sympsoium cannot take place.
Other reasons (dissatisfaction, programme changes, etc.) do not entitle to any refund.
Security Measures, Insurance and Disclaimer
Entrance to the symposium premises is restricted to participants and members of staff. The organisation is not liable for accidents, theft or any kind of damage which take place during the symposium. The participant is advised to provide personal health, travel and liability insurance. The symposium is not responsible for traveling or accommodation costs paid by the participant. Please take care of your own travel insurance.
Parents are liable for their children.
Code of Conduct
At Haxthäuser Hof Schmucksympsoium, we respect and protect the personal dignity of every individual and cultivate a culture of fairness, mutual respect and foster a friendly and professional behaviour. Any form of (psychological, verbal or physical) harassment or discrimination, e.g. based on nationality, origin, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation or similar, as well as extreme political positions are not tolerated.
Violation of this Code of Conduct will result in immediate exclusion from the Symposium (without any claim for reimbursement from the organisers) and may result in civil and, if applicable, criminal consequences.
Registration
By registering you acknowledge and agree to comply with the above.
how to get there
By car
Please make sure to insert Haxthäuser Hof Ingelheim into your navigation system. (There is another Haxthäuser Hof in Nierstein not so far away)
- From Mainz via Mainz-Finthen follow the main road to Wackernheim,
- After the first set of traffic lights in Wackernheim, turn left at the next junction and immediately turn right again onto the dirt road (from here, we will set up signs on each crossing to make finding the way more easy),
- follow it for 1.5 km in the direction of Hofgut 3 Linden,
- Turn left at the orange buildings, past the silver containers and straight on to the car park.
By public transport
Here is the schedule for the bus ride from Mainz main station to Wackernheim - get off at the stop: Wackernheim / Grosse Hohl and enjoy the 15 min walk through the fields.
see googlemaps
Team
Organisation
Ursula Woerner
Ulrike Ortwein
Theo Smeets
Jantje Fleischhut
Chef de Cuisine
Christoph Esser
Webmaster
Victor Gorelik
Venue
Anne und Eva Kessler
Haxthäuser Hof 2
D-55218 Ingelheim
Friends of the Jewellery Symposium
2024, the non-profit association "Förderkreis Schmucksymposium e.V." is being founded so that the organizing volunteers can now prevent possible problems with liability and insurance and stabilise financing somewhat.
Membership
The membership fee is 10€/year for individuals and 100€ for institutions/companies and will be debited before the annual symposium date. Individual members may receive a discount in the amount of the membership fee on the participation fee of the symposium taking place in the respective calendar year.
History of the Symposium
Haxthäuser Hof Jewellery Symposium = former Zimmerhof Jewellery Symposium = former Haldenhof Meeting
Haldenhof
The first meeting at Haus Haldenhof was held in 1967. Back then, about 20 representatives of the jewellery scene gathered in this converted farmhouse in Wissgoldingen near Schwäbisch Gmünd to talk about and discuss jewellery and related themes. What started as a modest get-together developed over the course of the past few decades into an international forum that attracts about 100 people from all over the world every year to exchange their thoughts and ideas in lectures and discussions, to present jewellery, establish contacts and generally get to know each other.
The participants include representatives of all fields related to jewellery, such as goldsmiths, trainees, university students, designers, jewellery manufacturers, gallerists, and many more. Due to the attendants’ international origins, the lectures are held in English nowadays.
The symposium could be held at its original place until Haus Haldenhof’s owner passed away in 1995. Hence, a new venue had to be found for the 1996 meeting.
Zimmerhof
Thanks to the support of Yvonne von Racknitz - a trained jeweller at the vocational school in Pforzheim - the von Racknitz family’s estate in Bad Rappenau the Zimmerhof Farm could be rented as a new meeting place. Very improvised at first, it developed under the carefull management of Ulrich Haas into a venue which proved to be an cosy setting for the three-day symposium thanks to its special atmosphere. Unfortunately Yvonne von Racknitz passed away in December 2018; the Zimmerhof estate was sold by the von Racknitz family after the 2019 Symposium.
Haxthäuser Hof
(HERE A SHORT TEXT ON THE SET-UP AT HHH)
Thriving on more than 50 years of tradition, the Jewellery Symposium is independent of any established institution, association or other type of organization and is conducted by volonteers.
At the end of each symposium, the organizing team selects the curators for the following year, who then, with a lot of commitment and dedication, put together yet another interesting programme which they will host and moderate. Beverages and meals are provided by a kitchen helpers team that is renew each year.
Previous programmes
Unfortunately there is no complete archive of all the 50+ issues of this symposium. The information we have on the previous symposia will be made available here gradually.
2024 ‘The Empathy of Objects’
In the 2024 symposium, we will explore the evolving status of material culture in society, crafts, and the arts, influenced by a "Material Turn" and "New Materialism." The study and production of objects, once overshadowed by a focus on the mind, now considers the 'agency' and 'obstinacy' of things, as well as their narratology and intrinsic 'thingness.'
In the discussion of jewelry as a body-related object, the idea of empathic engagement with material things is emphasized. Jewelry serves as a prime example of how objects and bodies interact, recognizing and relating to each other. This interaction allows for a shared experience of emotions, transforming individual suffering into a collective one. Thus, in a mutual exchange, jewelry exemplifies the possibility of objects being part of an empathic process, fostering a community of compassion through the physical connection. This approach highlights a vision where empathy extends beyond human interaction to include the material world, suggesting a broader, more inclusive ethic of shared experience.
Text: Konstantin Haensch
Concept and Programm: Melanie Isverding
Moderation: Konstantin Haensch & Melanie Isverding
With: Luján Cambariere (Berlin, Buenos Aires), matt lambert (Stockholm, Detroit), Adi Toch (London), Marion Delarue (Paris) Christina Quandt (Hochschule Wismar), Alexander Triffterer (Hochschule Düsseldorf), Dua Fatima Baig (Hochschule Trier), Hanna Hedman (Stockholm), Malte Guttek (Hanau), Ruth Schneider (Hildesheim), Dr. des.Konstantin Haensch (Berlin, Hildesheim) , Paula Repp Alvarez (Burg Giebichenstein Halle), Susie Heuberger (HAWK Hildesheim), Pouya Bakhshi (ADBK Nürnberg), Sophie Hanagarth (Paris, Strasbourg) Dr. Iris Dankemeyer (Berlin)
2023 - Eloquent Hands
by Kim Buck and Josephine Winter
The practice of making is a joy and a privilege that we have, and it gives us the ability to express our ideas, feelings and opinions through jewellery or other objects. It’s a practice of making well, repeating, improving, iterating – to find the form, material or concept that expresses precisely what we intend. We use our hands to touch the material, we hold the tools or press the keys, we handle the objects and by doing so we read the objects with our senses, and we keep working until it is just right. We are using our formal knowledge and our tacit knowledge to ´speak jewellery´. This goes for jewellery making, object making and other strands of making – we are involved in a process of working through concrete or meta material striving to find the right balance of `matters` to accomplish eloquence. The options are unlimited - decision making and the editing of material with our hands is what this symposium is about.
With Anni Nørskov Mørch, Nanna Obel, Anna Rikkinen, Jorunn Veiteberg, Reinhold Ziegler, Peter Bauhuis, Tarja Tuupanen, Rachel Chiodo, Ruth Gilmour, Julie Harboe, Elena Alvarez Lutz, Daniel Kruger, Doris Maninger
2022 - Follow Your Bliss
By Claudia Hoppe and David Huycke
For the artist and designer there is no other way than to follow one’s passion – since without passion you can’t make it anywhere. At the same time, there is also something like reality. Getting somewhere is one thing, staying there, building a career and making a living of it is another. During the symposium ‚follow your bliss‘ we will look openly into the wide scope of jewellery-, product- and object-making and discover the different positions, from the artistic expression through unique pieces as well as serial production.
Every domain has its specific tricks of the trade or unspoken rules to follow and we are eager to learn what they are and what they mean. Questions will be posed such as: Is it necessary to compromise to build a successful career in the arts/design? Or is the way to success the way of the heart? And what does being successful mean anyway? Does one have to work hard to make it or is it not work anymore if you really follow your bliss?
We are eager to hear the stories of our international speakers about conscious decisions, lucky coincidences, times of doubt and times of bliss.
With Robert Baines, Aldo Bakker, Kim Buck, Nedda El-Asmar, Mirjam Hiller, Lore Langendries, Eva Olde Monnikhof, Marc Monzo, Anneleen Swillen, Christel Trimborn, Nicole Walger, Julia Wild
2019 - We Are Family
By David Bielander and Helen Britton
For the 50th independent German Jewellery symposium we want to reflect on how our field has changed in the course of half a century with particular focus on the people that have facilitated the development of what is now a burgeoning international community. While great makers are essential, the field wouldn’t be the same big happy family (;-) without those who have chosen to help connect it. And of course one of the greatest examples of the facilitation of connection is this symposium itself, organized independently by volunteers for 50 years! Lets celebrate that amazing feat and listen to others that are not only interested in making and looking at great art, but who are also facilitating the positive growth of our strange little niche.
With Caroline Broadhead UK, Veronika Fabian UK, Brooklyn Metal Works - Erin S. Daily and Brian Weissman USA, Marian Vanhaeren BE/FR, Barbara Schmidt DE, Klimt02 ES, Dirk Allgaier Arnoldsche Publisher DE, Christoph Hefti CH/BE, Cécile Feilchenfeldt CH/FR, Yutaka Minegishi JP/DE, Barbara Paris Gifford USA, Doreen Timmers NL
2017 - Nourischment
By Rutger Emmelkamp, Merijn Bolink and Pieter Elbers
"Take your protein pills and put your helmet" what more do we need than this directive horn Ground Control to Major Tom in David Bowie 's "Space Oddity"? Carbohydrates, fat, proteins, vitamins, minerals and water are all we need to survive. Apart from sduations that Force us to look upon nutrition like that, we tend to search for better, new, different, exciting and the unknown. The kitchen is filled with cookbooks. New ingredents and combinations are explored. Popular cocking programs on TV, restaurants are booked a year ahead, the chef has become a star. Our minds want to be stimulated as much as a, taste buds do. But what feeds us as makers, designers and artists? Why do we go to our studio every day to make what we make? To draw, hammer and paint, produce, transform and shape? What are the sources we work from? Who inspires us? What fires us up and gets us going? And how does this becorne visible? A lot of information about artists can be found on Internet including images of their work.
In this year's edition of the Zimmerhof Symposium we asked the speakers therefore to not only show their work, but mainly to shed a light on their sources, their inspiration, and at feeds them in their practice. For four days we will dive into the different aspects of he meaning of "Nourishment". So there will be great food! As well for thought... This might be he last chance to experience he Zimmerhof Symposium at he fantastic location as you now it! As always the Zimmerhof Symposium will be a great opportunity to meet people, get informed, discuss and to have a good time.
Hope to meet you there.
With Sonja Bäumel, Patricia Pisters, Naomi Filmer, Miranne Theunissen, Linda Molenaar, Katja Prins, Steinbeisser, Lauren Kallmann, Sigurd Bronger, Kiko Gianocca
2016 - HD Treasure
By Florian Milker, Annika Pettersson & Adam Grinovich
The theme for Zimmerhof 2016 “HD (or High Definition) TREASURE” combines an exploration into contemporary aesthetics with a classic theme of the secret and precious. We enter this theme through the perspective of remix culture, the agreement that everything has been done. But we are not satisfied with this assumption. We strive to discover the unique in emerging forms of expression. “HD” a new term, a term present in everyday life from the smartphones that we keep in our pockets, to the advertisements we see on public transportation, as well as in fine art installations and videos. HD: the new dominant aesthetic in contemporary life. HD TREASURE assembles a group of artists both working for and against this new paradigm, attempting to see the TREASURE through the lens of a means of expression still yet to be fully defined. | Treasure represents the pursuit of the glorious and valuable, a quest for a mythic capsule of value and heritage. Jewelry is inherently related to this concept, focused precious forms that are waiting to be discovered. Makers of jewelry embark on personal abstract journeys to discover themselves in materials. Critics and thinkers can draw lines within the field, creating sublime maps that trace a history of treasure making, treasure hiding, and treasure finding.
Programmers, designers, gallerists, and artists meet on an HD platform, the world wide web of information, a platform of infinite dimensions. Slick glossy screens broadcast HD images, miniature cameras record HD videos, complex algorithms create HD sounds, networks of computational power data-mine HD currency. This is not a dream: This is our reality. HD: absolute clarity; brilliant, defined, expressing all known dimensions, layers of color suspended in liquid crystal cells. | “HD TREASURE” investigates the combination of technology (both new and old) and its impact on aesthetics. Within these new forms are new emotions, new ways of seeing and feeling arising? Is this the future or a passing trend? Are we, as makers, thinkers, as sensitive beings approaching towards the divine? Or are we burying ourselves into an entropic abyss of information?
With Richard Van Diessen, Patricia Domingues, Jantje Fleischhut, Melanie Isverding, Jiro Kamata, Göran Kling, Benjamin Lignel, Georg Lisek, Ted Noten, Kellie Riggs, Atty Tantivit, Julia Walter
2015 - What is the Future of Jewellery?
By CURRENT OBSESSION - Contemporary Jewellery Magazine & Platform
As Contemporary Jewellery builds up the awareness of its identity, we may see growth of successful cross-disciplinary collaborations. By being placed in a wider context of today’s visual culture, Contemporary Jewellery can learn new strategies. We are curious about what may begin to happen when jewellery, art, design and fashion truly start to converge.
What are Jewellery’s Icons?
Icon is an ambiguous word simultaneously connoting a religious symbol loaded with historical and spiritual content, a flickering symbol on a computer desktop distilled and reduced in meaning, or an actual person – a rock star or a celebrity. Does Contemporary Jewellery have a system of symbols and signs connecting the past and the future? And if so, where do these symbols and signs belong: in a subculture, within the mainstream, or have they lost their cultural relevance? | What are the Icons of the Future?
We are interested in new attitudes, new types of projects and new personalities to explore this idea: join us to hear talks by exhibition makers, researchers, trend forecasters, artists and jewellers who have explored the challenges and the confines of their own disciplines.
With: Beatrice Brovia & & Nicolas Cheng, Adam Grinovich, Matylda Krzykowski, Mallory Weston, Rutger Emmelkamp, Lin Cheung, Nelly Zagury, David Bielander, Zachary Androus, Elvira Golombosi, Jing He, Florian Milker, Miro Sazdic, Pravu Mazumbar
2013 - UK: Mind Your Language
By Casey Fenn, Timothy Information Limited, Laura Bradshaw-Heap
This years symposium we will be exploring, questioning, pulling apart and putting back together, some of the
many issues facing the linguistics of jewellery today. Especially focusing on our communication with one another
and our different audiences.
What is the language of contemporary jewellery? No seriously, what is the language of art jewellery? Are you
reading this in English? Is English your second language? Are you American? Are you getting the gist so far?
Or are you reading the German translation? Is it accurate? I wouldn’t know, I’m afraid I don’t speak la Deutsch. I
mean, has every nuance, colloquialism and bad pun made it over in one piece? Blahdy blahdy blah blah. That
last sentace is sentance .I only put it in to test my translating friend.
But I can hear what you are saying. Surely the work is the language or the language is the work. So hey! Let’s all
sit around “Miss Piggy” by ‘Ted Noten’ and listen to what it’s got to say. Actually I’ve never seen “Miss Piggy” by
‘Ted Noten’ in the flesh. I’ve only seen photos of “Miss Piggy” by ‘Ted Noten’. It looks quite big. Oh, and I’ve read
what that French journalist had to say about it in the English translation of that article in that Swedish magazine.
What is the language of contemporary jewellery and is anybody listening? Come along to Zimmerhof and we’ll
have a good old chat about it!
English Tea will be served at 4pm daily (the frogs legs are off!)
2009 - Full of Facets
By Herman Hermsen, Sofia Beilharz, Phylicia Gilijamse, Maryvonne Wellen
With the theme “Full of Facets“ we would like to address to jewellery in all its diversity and richness. The symposium will be characterized by lectures from renomated jewellery artists and well-known designers who are specialized in contemporary jewellery and/or serie-design. Futhermore the program will contain theoretical
controversies and reflections.
New materials, innovative concepts and techniques like 3D modelling, rapid prototyping and rapid manufacturing are going to be brought forward though presenting divers projects on this subject. Confrontations, different points of view to jewellery and new interpretations as well as definitions of the term jewellery will be discussed. We will focus on jewellery as an important, independent communication medium at the intersection with contemporary art, fashion and productdesign.
With: Peter Skubic, Liesbeth den Besten, Marc Monzó, Elisabeth Holder, Isabella van den Bos, Jan Spille, Beate Eismann, Christina Karababa, Ted Noten, Chequita Nahar, Nedda el Asmar, Bety Majernikova, Lucy McRae, Alumni: Pia Farrugia, Coco Dunmire, Ann Wanten, Patricia Solarte G, Francesca Lanzavecchia, Nicole Lehmann, Denise Reytan.
2008 - Beauty and Seduction
By Pieter Elbers and Philip Sajet
With Lucy Sarneel, Dr. Heidi Bollmann, Tabea Reulecke, Karl Fritsch, Maud Traon, Joanne Grimonprez, Silvia Rodo, Andreas Lehmann, Tanel Veenre, Pauline Held, Diana Tipoja, Prof.Dr.W. Menninghaus, Francis Willemstijn, Barbara Paganin, Elizabeth Fischer, Célio Braga, Sunny Bergman, Stefan Heuser, Wiebke Meurer, Nicole Brémond
2007 ... Jewellery stories
By Doris Betz and Helen Britton
With Cornelie Holzach, Dorothea Prühl, Leo Caballero, Eija Mustonen
Pravu Mazumdar, David Bielander, Mari Funaki, Otto Künzli, Karin Seufert, Warwick Freeman.
Student's lectures: Mirei Takeuchi, Noemie Doge, Florie Dupont, Susanne Kaube, Anne Fischer, Petra Rhinow, Berthold Schweiz
2006 ... and friends
By Peter Bauhuis & Andi Gut
With Doris Betz, Evert Nijland, Castello Hansen, Susan Pietzsch, Nina Mårtensson, Sabine Schwippel, Christoph Straube, Marie Bonfils, Love Jönsson, Johanna Dahm, Edoardo Perri & Angela Rui, Monica Gaspar, San Keller, Gebrüder Freitag, Hans Stofer.
2005 - Burning Passion
By: David Bielander & Felix Lindner
With: Wolli Lieglein, Joël Eschbach, Andi Gut, Yuka Oyama, Renée C. Hoogland, Silvia Weidenbach, Constanze Schreiber, Jiro Kamata, Cédric Champeval, Marius Pfannenstiel, Helen Britton, Volker Atrops, Miecke Oosterman & Ward Schrijver, Heiko Damm, Annette Munk, Daniel Kruger
2004 - Borax and Cream
By Theo Smeets & Thomas Dierks
With Teike Asselbergs & Elias Tieleman - Orgacom, Jivan Astfalck, Ulrike Bartels, Marc-Jens Biegel, Hilde de Decker, Marjolijn van Duyn, Christel Hofmans, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kern, Beate Klockmann, Rudolf Kocéa, Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. h.c. Siegfried Maser, Ulrich Reithofer, Inga Samii - Kunstkomm e.V.