Existential Questions
Every art, every serious design, corresponds to an existential need. The Summer 2025 issue of Art Aurea presents prime examples.
Jewelry designers from all over the world, along with their gallery owners, collectors and fans, gather in Munich every year in mid-March. Well over 100… Read on
In Competition
Is it a need or a compulsion to dominate? News about competition(s) in arts and crafts in Art Aurea, issue 56, Summer 2024.
In ancient Greece, competition in art and sport, known as agon, was a fundamental principle of culture. Legendary artist duels have been known since the… Read on
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Even her office is different. Architectural offices usually highlight minimalism and designer furniture, but Heringer’s studio has the cozy charm of a shared apartment: under… Read on
Life Work
Fortunate indeed are those who labor on their life’s work or can already look upon it with pride. The autumn 2023 issue of Art Aurea presents several grandiose examples.
An artist’s life work is often synonymous with their entire oeuvre. It includes all the works produced in the course of a lifetime, whether they… Read on
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Loewe Craft Prize – fifth edition
The next Loewe Foundation Craft Prize will take place in Seoul in spring 2022. Entries to the fifth edition will be accepted until 25 October 2021.
The 2021 edition of the prize received almost 3,000 total submissions from 107 countries across the globe; potential candidates for next year’s edition are invited… Read on
Loewe Craft Prize – fünfte Ausgabe
Der fünfte Craft Prize der Loewe Foundation wird im Frühjahr 2022 in Seoul stattfinden. Einreichungen werden bis 25. Oktober 2021 angenommen.
Für die Preisverleihung 2021 wurden insgesamt fast 3000 Arbeiten aus 107 Ländern weltweit eingereicht. Potenzielle Kandidaten für die nächstjährige Ausgabe sind eingeladen, ihre Arbeiten unter… Read on
Life is Art
Live “normally” again! That’s what many people want now. Or better to create life as a work of art? More in Art Aurea 2-2021.
You can already guess who called for lives to be lived as works of art. It was Joseph Beuys, whose 100th birthday is being celebrated… Read on
Leben ist Kunst
Wieder „normal“ leben! Das wünschen sich jetzt viele. Besser vielleicht, das Leben als Kunstwerk zu sehen? Mehr dazu in Art Aurea 2-2021.
Sie ahnen schon, wer ein Leben als Kunstwerk gefordert hat. Es war Joseph Beuys, dessen 100-jähriges Geburtsjubiläum in diesem Jahr in zahlreichen Ausstellungen gefeiert wird.… Read on
Total Artworks
Uniting different arts in one artwork can succeed on both a large and small scale. Examples can be found in Art Aurea’s new 1-2021 edition.
Almost as if by chance – or was it serendipity? – the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk as a theme for an edition of the magazine… Read on
Material Awareness
Creative craftsmanship, art and author design against corona tristesse. To the new Art Aurea – Issue 42, Winter 2020.
All crafts have in common a profound understanding of materials – or even a consciousness of the materials per se. True masters breathe life into… Read on
Art with Craftsmanship
Something is moving in the relationship between art and craft. More on this in the autumn issue of Art Aurea.
There has been talk of a renaissance in arts and crafts for quite some time. The public’s interest in this is often attributed to the… Read on
Barbara Nanning – Eternal Movement
The Kunstmuseum Den Haag recently honored her work with a retrospective. We spoke with Barbara Nanning.
Born in The Hague in 1957, Barbara Nanning studied ceramics at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam four decades ago. Since then she has developed… Read on
What Remains Important
The summer edition of Art Aurea emphasizes the importance of authentic workshops and manufactories, especially in difficult times.
The article “With Stitch and Thread” (p. 40) wasn’t originally intended. But the new coronavirus also forced us to change some of our plans. Miriam… Read on
Was wichtig bleibt
Die Sommerausgabe von Art Aurea unterstreicht die Bedeutung authentischer Werkstätten und Manufakturen besonders in schwierigen Zeiten.
Eigentlich war der Beitrag „Mit Stich und Faden“ auf Seite 40 gar nicht vorgesehen. Doch machte das neue Coronavirus auch ein Teil unserer Planung zu… Read on
Pioneer for jewelry art in Thailand
Atinuj Tantivit has run the first gallery in Bangkok for ten years.
The ATTA Gallery in Bangkok has been representing contemporary jewelry since 2010. The gallery’s owner Atinuj Tantivit – her friends call her Atty – collected… Read on
Cancellation of the Internationale Handwerksmesse 2020
The coronavirus has now also affected “Handwerk & Design.” What can we learn from the crisis?
The organising company GHM Gesellschaft für Handwerksmessen mbH has decided to cancel the 2020 edition of the Internationale Handwerksmesse, including Handwerk & Design and Garten… Read on
Internationale Handwerksmesse 2020 abgesagt.
Das Coronavirus hat nun auch die „Handwerk & Design“ getroffen. Was können wir aus der Krise lernen?
Die GHM Gesellschaft für Handwerksmessen mbH als Veranstalter muss die Internationale Handwerksmesse mit der Handwerk & Design und der Garten München für das Durchführungsjahr 2020… Read on
Mind and Matter
To the new print edition of Art Aurea.
The first edition of the year 2020 contains several articles exploring a new self-image of the applied arts that could potentially emerge from humanity’s current… Read on
Geist und Materie
Zur neuen Printausgabe von Art Aurea.
Die erste Ausgabe des Jahres 2020 befasst sich in verschiedenen Beiträgen mit einem neuen Selbstverständnis innerhalb der Angewandten Kunst, das aus der gegenwärtigen Menschheitskrise erwachsen… Read on
Florian Hufnagl – An Obituary
The longtime director of Die Neue Sammlung died in Munich at the age of 71 on December 31, 2019. By Corinna Rösner*.
It is as sensational today as it was in 2002, when the Free State of Bavaria opened a modern art museum in Munich, following in… Read on
Florian Hufnagl – Ein Nachruf
Am 31. Dezember 2019 verstarb der langjährige Direktor der Neuen Sammlung im Alter von 71 Jahren in München. Von Corinna Rösner*.
Bis heute ist es eine Sensation, dass der Freistaat Bayern 2002 in München – wie zwei Jahre zuvor in Nürnberg – ein Museum der Moderne… Read on
Gallery Schmucke celebrates a small anniversary
Can a new gallery-workshop for jewelry and glass be sucessful in a city like Berlin – and not even in a prime location?
After studying jewelery in Hanau, Düsseldorf and Amsterdam, Petra Brenner worked as a freelance jewelery designer and glass artist in Amsterdam. In 2006 she moved… Read on
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Galerie-Werkstatt für zeitgenössischen Schmuck und Glas
Petra Brenner
Goethestraße 48
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Marjan Unger died at the age of 72 years
The art of jewelery has lost a great advocate, collector and competent author.
Marjan Unger was one of the best-known experts, collectors and authors of contemporary art jewelry. At the craft fair in Munich she was a welcome… Read on
Collecting Makes People Happy
Fulfilling, meaningful and holistic – Art Aurea's new print edition considers the applied arts from a collecting perspective.
Happiness is ephemeral. And collecting, like anything else that people do in exaggeration, can be pursued neurotically and obsessively. But art and much of culture… Read on