The exhibition was curated by Dr. Christianne Weber-Stöber, who was the director of the Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus in Hanau from 2006 to 2023. The brooches were previously presented there. Before she took her well-deserved retirement in 2023, she organised the brooch exhibition as a farewell to her position. Her aim was to juxtapose classic historical jewellery with contemporary jewellery, creating an interaction between past and present. To this end, 12 alumni of Trier University of Applied Sciences each selected a brooch from an important private jewellery collection and responded to it in their own artistic style. Another historical brooch was then added to the pairs of brooches to further expand the context.
Dr. Weber-Stöber travelled to Idar-Oberstein to set up the exhibition herself and give a speech at the opening. She already had a close connection to the Hunsrück university location and the industrial monument through her teaching activities in jewellery and art history at the Idar-Oberstein campus from 2004 to 2017 and her membership of the board of the Jakob Bengel Circle of Friends.
The artists represented in the exhibition are:
Sharareh Aghaei, Catalina Brenes, Patricia C. Domingues, Natascha Frechen, Tatjana Giorgadse, Mira Kim, Felicia Mülbaier, Julia Obermaier, Sonia Pibernat, Constanza Salinas, Danni Schwaag and Edu Tarín
The exhibition can be visited until 11 October 2024 at Villa Bengel, Wilhelmstraße 44 in Idar-Oberstein.
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