Posts By: Christina Busch
Shaping the Change
Sophisticated (art) works move us and hold the potential for change. This is shown in the new Art Aurea, Issue No. 51, Spring 2023.
Around 50 to 60 years ago, fundamental changes took place in all areas of arts and crafts, which are often referred to as “applied arts.”… Read on
Jewelry Design 2023
What characterizes well-designed jewelry in small series.
Buzzwords tend to be misused. For example, long before the turn of the millennium, the word “design” was overused and devalued to denote any kind… Read on
“Fangfrisch” in Wismar
New trade fair for applied arts in Wismar. Applications until February 28, 2023.
The “Fangfrisch” [Freshly Caught] trade fair will be held for the first time in the northeast of Germany from October 6 to 8, 2023. Organized… Read on
Inspiring Living Spaces
About workshops, studios and living spaces, where work and life unite in an inspiring way. Art Aurea, Issue 50, Winter 2022.
In the past, workshops and studios produced many of the masterpieces of art and craft that have endured for centuries and that we still admire… Read on
Assistant or Associate Professor, Jewelry + Metalsmithing
Rhode Island School of Design is hiring a full-time faculty position in the Jewelry + Metalsmithing Department.
The Rhode Island School of Design is an American college for art and design in Providence, the capital of the US state of Rhode Island.… Read on
Grassimesse 2022 Leipzig
Approximately 150 designers from Europe, Asia and the USA
This year’s Grassimesse, which takes place from Oct. 21 to Oct. 23, 2022, focuses on jewelry and ceramics, as well as textiles, glass, furniture, metal… Read on
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GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts
Johannisplatz 5-11
D-04103 Leipzig - Opening: Thursday, Oct. 20, 7 to 9:30 p.m., free guided tour
Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. - Link
Thomas Pildner – Metamorphoses in Wood
Solo exhibition in Burg Kronberg, Kronberg im Taunus.
Every ambitious woodturner strives to make the beauty and liveliness of the natural material wood visible. In his “La Vida” series and the object “Seaside”,… Read on
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Burg Kronberg
Schloßstraße 10
D-61476 Kronberg im Taunus
www.burgkronberg.de - Opening: Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022, 2 p.m.
Opening hours:
Wed., Thu. + Fri. 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Sat. + Sun. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. - Link
Fertile Ground for Art
How does interest or even love for art develop? The autumn 2022 edition of Art Aurea shows that craft can be a favorable breeding ground.
Some people are totally indifferent to art. For others, art means a lot, or even everything, in one form or another. The similarities and differences… Read on
Fallen Out of Time
Eva Maisch presents work by eight artists at her summer exhibition in Lindelbach, Franconia.
With the “Hofstall” in Lindelbach, Eva Maisch and her husband Walter Jäckl have created a remarkable venue. With gallery space in a former stable, a… Read on
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Eva Maisch
Im Hofstall
Wäldleinstrasse 1
97236 Randersacker/Lindelbach
Germany - July 1, 2022 – starting at 7 p.m.
July 2, 2022 – 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.
July 3, 2022 – 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Time Travels
Art Aurea’s summer edition 2-2022 is not about science fiction, but it is about expanding consciousness.
What are the roles of art and craft? In the summer 2022 print edition, we take a look at an aspect that typically preoccupies science-fiction… Read on
All Hands On: Plaiting
Plaiting exemplifies the fascination of the handmade at the Museum of European Cultures in Berlin-Dahlem.
Plaiting, a cultural technique that has been practiced for thousands of years, has become rare. The state vocational school for plaiting design in Lichtenfels, Upper… Read on
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Museum of European Cultures
Arnimallee 25
14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Germany - Begins May 24, 2022 and continues indefinitely
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10 am to 5 pm; Saturday and Sunday, 11 am to 6 pm - Link
Flying Lessons at CRAFTkontor
From FLIEWATüüT to Tante JU – an exhibition about the dream of flying.
The dream of flying: who hasn’t dreamt it? Imaginative, small-format automata by the Hamburg-based artist, goldsmith and tinkerer Birgit Borstelmann continue the tradition of Pegasus,… Read on
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CRAFTkontor
Gallery for crafts and design
Koblenzer Strasse 35 / entrance on Bürgerstrasse
53173 Bonn - Bad Godesberg, Germany - Link
Jewelry Design 2022
Before Corona, numerous designers exhibited at Inhorgenta Munich. The change in jewelry culture began long before.
Until the 1980s, Germany’s jewelry industry was very nearly the world’s largest, second only to Italy as the global leader. Nowadays most jewelry is made… Read on
Art Jewelry in Munich
The craft fair does not take place until July. But already in March 2022 something is happening in the capital of jewelry art.
For years, Galerie Handwerk has been organizing a jewelry exhibition in the gallery’s rooms parallel to the International Crafts Fair Munich and the special show… Read on
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About Borders
The new Art Aurea 1-2022 is also about the unity of art, craft and life.
Before the year’s first issue of Art Aurea (Spring 2022) went to press, we too could not have imagined that Putin would invade all of… Read on
Made in Germany – Ceramics from Germany
Outstanding studio ceramics at Brutto Gusto Gallery in Berlin from March 25 to 28, 2022.
Such an imaginative and high-quality juxtaposition of art and flowers is rare and perhaps even globally unique. After twelve years of enhancing the image of… Read on
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Made in Germany –
Ceramics from Germany
Gross Gusto
Wielandstrasse 34
10629 Berlin Charlottenburg
Germany
Inhorgenta and IHM [International Crafts Fair] postponed
Due to Corona, Inhorgenta will now take place from April 8 to 11. New date for the IHM: July 6 to 10, 2022.
New dates for the two Munich industry trade shows Inhorgenta Munich and Internationale Handwerksmesse were announced on January 11, 2022. Justifying the postponement of Inhorgenta,… Read on
Rays of Hope
Anyone who looks at our world today and into its future needs rays of hope. Art Aurea’s winter edition 4-2021 presents some beautiful examples.
In a catalogue text for documenta 7 in 1982, the painter Gerhard Richter wrote that “art is the highest form of hope.” This was the… Read on
New Edition of the MK&G Fair
The comprehensively rejuvenated fair begins at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg on November 23, 2021.
Seventy-two exhibitors, selected by a jury of experts, will present objects embodying a wide variety of materials, techniques and designs that offer fresh perspectives on… Read on
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MK&G Fair
Museum of Arts and Crafts Hamburg
Steintorplatz 1
20099 Hamburg
Germany - 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Thursday: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. - Link
Erfurt City Goldsmith 2022
Since 1994, the state capital city of Erfurt has invited tenders for the honorary office of Erfurt City Goldsmith. Here is the new invitation to tender.
Artists like Helen Britton (Munich/Australia/Germany, 2007), Volker Atrops (Rheurd, Germany, 2009), Nora Rochel (Karlsruhe/Germany, 2013), Eunmi Chun (Munich/Germany/Korea, 2016) and Alexandra Bahlmann (Munich, 2020) have… Read on
Rudolf Bott and Johannes Nagel
“Asymptote” is the name that Rosemarie Jäger has given to her outstanding exhibition on the subject of the vessel.
“Asymptote”: the Rosemarie Jäger Gallery has chosen an unusual title for its presentation of works by two artists who could hardly be more different from… Read on
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Rudolf Bott and Johannes Nagel:
“Asymptote.”
Galerie Rosemarie Jäger
Wintergasse 13
65239 Hochheim
Germany - The exhibition runs until October 16, 2021, at the Galerie Rosemarie Jäger,
The gallery will be represented at Cologne Fine Art & Design in Cologne from November 17 to 21. - Link
Rudolf Bott und Johannes Nagel
„Asymptote“ nennt Rosemarie Jäger ihre Ausstellung der Spitzenklasse zum Thema Gefäß.
„Asymptote“ – Unter diesem ungewöhnlichen Titel präsentiert die Galerie Rosemarie Jäger die Werke zweier Künstler, wie sie unterschiedlicher kaum sein könnten. Eine Asymptote ist in… Read on
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Galerie Rosemarie Jäger
Wintergasse 13
65239 Hochheim
Deutschland - Die Ausstellung ist bis 16.10.2021 in der Galerie Rosemarie Jäger zu sehen.
Vom 17. bis 21.11. wird die Galerie auf der Cologne Fine Art & Design in Köln vertreten sein. - Link
Freedom and Resposibility
The coronavirus and the climate crisis have made this theme more topical than it has been for a long time. But art and creative crafts are also affected. Read more in Art Aurea’s autumn issue 3-2021.
Wildfires are burning and floodwaters are claiming lives around the globe –also in Germany and elsewhere in Europe with increasing frequency. Nonetheless, many people still… Read on
Freiheit und Verantwortung
Durch Corona und die Klimakrise ist das Thema aktuell wie lange nicht. Doch auch Kunst und gestaltendes Handwerk sind betroffen. Mehr in der Herbstausgabe 3-2021.
Während weltweit Wälder brennen und Flutkatastrophen Menschenleben fordern, vermehrt auch in Europa und hierzulande, pochen immer noch viele auf ihre persönliche Freiheit – die Freiheit,… Read on