ABOUT
Susan Pietzsch is a German artist whose work focuses on a complex examination of the contemporary concept of jewellery. After being trained as a gold- and silversmith and earning a degree in jewellery design, she furthered her development through residencies and study visits in France, India, the Netherlands and the US. Pietzsch pursues a wide-ranging artistic practice that includes not only her solo work but also her long-term collaboration with the photographer Valentina Seidel and her activity under the name of Schmuck2, which encompasses a wide scope of comprehensive work on projects reflecting contemporary concepts of jewellery.
Pietzsch’s work has been showcased within major exhibitions in the field of jewellery art worldwide. She has lectured at various institutes including the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg/ AUT, the Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch/ NL and the Röhsska Museum in Göteborg/ SE. Pietzsch initiated projects for mima (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art/ UK), the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam/ NL and the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum/ JP, among others.
1969 born in Freiberg, Saxonia/DE
1986-91 trained as silversmith and goldsmith
1991-96 study at the university of applied sience Wismar/ the jewellery department in Heiligendamm (FAK Heiligendamm) with professor Heidemarie Neumayer
1993-94 study visits at Kim Bass (USA)and Mecky van den Brink (NL)
since 1996 freelance as an artist
1997 founded Schmuck2
HONOURS
2020
project grant of the Stiftung Kunstfonds (NEUSTART KULTUR)
2017
working grant of the county of Mecklenburg–Vorpommern/DE
2012
workshop grant Künstlerhaus Lukas Ahrenshoop/DE
2003
working grant of the county of Mecklenburg–Vorpommern/DE
innovation award of the Triennale des norddeutschen Kunsthandwerks, Staatliches Museum Schwerin/DE
2001
New Exhibitor Award, Chelsea Crafts Fair London, London/UK
Working scholarship of the city of Rostock, Rostock/DE
2000
travel grant of the German-French Cultural Council Paris, Paris/F
travel grant of the Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus Schloß Plüschow, New Delhi/IN
1999
working grant of the county of Mecklenburg–Vorpommern/DE
1996
promotion award of the Kunsthaus Guttenberg (now Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop), Ahrenshoop/DE
COLLECTIONS
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris/FR
UCLA (Universitiy of California), Clark Library, Los Angeles/USA
Stanford University, Green Library, Stanford/USA
University of California Berkley, Bancroft Library, Berkeley/USA
Carleton College, Gould Library, Minnesota/USA
Smith College, Massachusetts/USA
MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art), Middlesbrough/UK
National Museum for Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo/NO
Ministry for education, science and culture Mecklenburg–Vorpommern/DE
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg/DE
Cleveland Contemporary International Jewellery Collection/UK
City Museum Bad Doberan /DE
private collections
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
2016
“yes or no” with Miho Shimizu, Gallery studio J, Osaka/JP
2011
»playing your f(l)avour« Gallery studio J, Osaka/JP
2007
»eine Kette – keine Kette« Gallery OONA, Berlin/DE
»EVERGLAZE« Gallery studio J, Osaka/JP
2006
»Camp Garden« with Miron Schmückle, Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop, Ahrenshoop/DE
2005
»Kostbarkeiten – Kakegae no nai mono« Gallery ef, Tokyo/JP, Gallery studio J, Osaka/JP
2002
»picocell« Gallery OONA, Berlin/DE
»Adorn« Crafts Council Shop Gallery, London/UK
2000
»Zarte Linien«, Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop, Ahrenshoop/DE
»La vie en blanc« Gallery OONA Berlin, Berlin/DE
1997
»candies«, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel/DE
EXHIBITIONS
2021
»PLAY MUSEUM« Exhibition project in the Old Manor Park Glashagen, Retschow/DE
2020
»SOLITUDE« artistic book production in collaboration with Veronika Schäpers Karlsruhe/DE & Tokyo/JP
2020
»本気のＴシャツ展« MAC Itami, Itami/JP
2018-19
Think Bauhaus. Building jewellery in architecture, Kunststiftung Sachsen Anhalt, Halle/DE
2018
»reJuvenation« Gallery studio J, Osaka/JP
2017
»Schmuck2_the praxis differs« at TAG/ Tamagawa Art Gallery Projects Tokyo, Tokyo/JP
2015
»After Wearing: Gestures, Actions and Jewelry« installation of an SCHMUCK2
ARCHIVE in collaboration with T.S. Wendelstein/ The Simple Society, Pratt
Manhattan Gallery, New York/US
»Play Jewellery – wearing, making, thinking«, direction and production of a
Satellite Program for Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo/JP
»Play Jewellery – Wear Architecture« seeing jewellery through architecture,
interviews, public seminar, public talk and exhibition, (PLACE)by method, Tokyo/JP
2014
»JEWELLERY HYPERREAL – How jewellery could be transferred into hyperreality«, (PLACE) by method, Tokyo/JP, Gallery studio J, Osaka/JP
2013
»fine – Neuer Schmuck und Experimente« Kunststiftung Sachsen Anhalt, Halle/DE
2012
»Jewelry Unleashed« Museum for Modern Art Arnhem/NL
»Unexpected Pleasures: the art and design of contemporary jewellery«
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne/AU, Design Museum, London/UK
»JEWELLERY HYPERREAL – How jewellery could be transferred into hyper
reality« workshop with public presentation, Künstlerhaus Lukas
Ahrenshoop/DE
2011
» A possible dimension«, Gallery PANTALOON, Osaka/JP
»Lago I Verden«, National Museum for Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo/NO
»Discursive Picnic« in collaboration with artist group
UNWETTER on the occasion of the Internationale Handwerksmesse
München, MaximiliansForum München, München/DE
2010
»HOCHsitzen«, installation of the HOCHsitz Atelier for Schmuck2,
series of interviews in cooperation with Anne Schloen and Ulrike Solbrig,
HOCHsitz Glashagen/DE
2009
»Koru 3«, Imatra Art Museum, Imatra/FI
2008
»reloaded«, exhibition in public space of Heiligendamm and
Bad Doberan/DE
»Glitz and then some« in collaboration with the Japanese fashion label MinäPerhonen, showroom ybbd, Berlin/DE
2007
»Rituals« Chi ha paura . . . , Salone del Mobile del Milan/Labo Art, Mailand/IT
»Schmuck in Keramik und Mixed Media«, Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Westerwald/DE
»glitz and then some« workshop in collaboration with Suska Mackert, Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus Schloß Plüschow, Plüschow/DE
(publishing of a series of posters)
»XS – extra small« SFT Gallery – The National Art Center
of Tokyo, Tokio/JP
2006
»Urban Craft in Gallery« Craft in Dialogue/IASPIS, Stockholm/SE
2005
»Wrappinghood« mima/Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Arts,
Middlesbrough/UK
»Maker, Wearer, Viewer« Gallery Marzee/NL, Mackintosh Museum, The Glasgow School of Art/UK
»picnic for two, table for two« Gallery Sofie Lachaert, Tielrode/BE
»Jewellery art Video« Röda Sten, Arthall Göteborg/SE
2004
»Gold« Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam/NL
Sonderschau Schmuck, IHM München/DE
»Keramik am Körper –Schmuck« Hetjens Museum Düsseldorf/DE and Oslo/NO
»Brilliant(e)« Kunst Meran, Meran/IT
»Jewels of the 3d Millennium – Immaterial Jewellery« Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus Schloß Plüschow/DE and Stadtgalerie Kiel/DE
2003
»Sculpture to Wear« Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica/US
»Simple Beads and Cultured Seeds« Kyoto Art Center/JP, Hiko Mizuno College, Tokyo/ JP, Rantapaja Gallery Lappeenranta/FI, Galerie Roter Pavillon Bad Doberan/DE
2002
»artgenda 2002« Biennale for young art in Baltics, Hamburg/GER
»Fünf Gramm Gold«, Gallery Aurum in Kooperation mit dem Museum für angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main/DE
»Simple Beads and Cultured Seeds«, Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus Schloß Plüschow/DE, Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Schloß Güstrow/DE
2001
Art Vienna Wien – in collaboration with Gallery Spektrum München, Vienna/Ö
»plus-minus, oder die Irritation der Schönheit«, Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop, Ahrenshoop/DE
»Kontakträume – Junger Schmuck«, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock/DE
2000
»Obsessions«, Gallery Spektrum München, München/DE
»Was tragen Sie? – Schmuck!« exhibition and project in public space,
Heiligendamm/DE
1999
»Juwelen untersagt«, Kunstverein Erfurt, Erfurt/DE
»Anprobe – Schmuck im Tausch und auf Probe« Arts Festival Weimar, Weimar/DE
1998
»Sommersalon« Schloß Wiligrad, Wiligrad/DE
»Anprobe – Schmuck im Tausch und auf Probe«, Euroscene – Schauspielhaus Leipzig, Leipzig/DE
1997
»Auf der Suche nach dem Genius Loci in Heiligendamm« public space in Heiligendamm,Heiligendamm/ DE
teaching assignments/
workshops /
symposia/
lectures /
curatorial work
2021
»From zero to onehundred – How I outline of the scope of jewellery« lecture at JJDA (Japan Jewellery Design Association), Tokyo/JPN
2019
»Bauhaus – Open End« Public discussion at the Goethe-Institut Tokyo, Tokyo/JPN
2017
Workshop series within the ICHIHARA ARTxMIX Triennale on invitation of Yoshiaki Kaihatsu, Chiba/JPN
(2017 series of workshops at Ichihara ArtXMix Triennale, Ichihara/JP)
2015
Susan Pietzsch x Koichi Suzuno x Yoshikazu Yamagata public symposium at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo/JP
2014
»Schmuck2 – a project based jewellery practice« – lecture at the International Summer Academy Salzburg/Ö
»Faceted Playground« lecture at the international seminar »New
Adventures in Jewelry« Göteborg/SE
2012
»Schmuck2 publications – excerpt from the practice« lecture,
Schmucksymposium Zimmerhof/DE
2011/12
workshop project at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, department »het sieraad«, Amsterdam/NL
2011
»Schmuck2 – adding to, subtracting from, and multiplying jewellery« lecture at
MAC Itami, Museum for Arts and Crafts/JP
»access new jewellery – accessories«, catalog essay, Nippon Vision – D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT, Tokyo/JP
2008
»Schmuck2 – adding to, subtracting from, and multiplying jewellery« lecture at symposia »Out of the box« SM-s/Stedelijk Museum’s Hertogenbosch,Hertogenbosch /NL
2007
»Schmuck2 – adding to, subtracting from, and multiplying jewellery« lecture at the symposia »hnoss dependend« Göteborg/SE
2006
»Gummizucht« (Maik Strauch & Andre Tempel)exhibition production, Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop, Ahrenshoop/DE (curatorial work)
»Area N.N.« (Adrian Sauer & Heike Geissler) exhibition production, Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop, Ahrenshoop/DE
»Schmuck2 – adding to, subtracting from, and multiplying jewellery« lecture, at Zimmerhof Schmucksymposium, Zimmerhof/DE, Designers Open, Leipzig/DE
2005
»views from abroad« Young Japanese Art, Stadtgalerie Kiel/DE (curatorial work)
2002
teaching assignment at South Carelic Polytechnic Lappeenranta/FI
lecture at Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn/EE
Bibliography (selection)
2018
„spring/summer16 green gold“ (including essays by Makiko Akiyama and Anne Schloen as well as and interview with Benjamin Lignel)
2015
ものづくり×コンテンポラリージュエリー
Nobuko Aiso for slash_m/Magazine/ JP
2012
„Jewelbook – International Annual of Contemporary Jewellery Art“
Stichting Kunstboek Publishers, Oostkamp/BE
2011
„access new jewellery – accessories“ Nippon Vision –
D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT, Tokyo/JP
„ON JEWELLERY“ a COMPENDIUM of international contemporary art
jewellery, Liesbeth den Besten, Stuttgart/DE
2010
Mathias Weiss, Kunstjahr (Lindinger + Schmid) 2010/DE
Marta Serrats, JEWELRY DESIGN HANDBOOK/ES
2008
Päivi Ernkvist, Konstperspektiv/SE
Helena Lambert, GZ Art + Design International/CH
Lou Savoir, Bijoux Illustration et Design/F
2007
Yan Zhang, VISION Magazine/CN
Fumie Tsuji, SO-EN Magazine/JP
Fumie Tsuji, SPUR Magazine/JP
2006
James Beighton, Crafts Magazine/UK
Jorunn Veiteberg, Kunsthandverk/DK
Marthe Fischer „Katalog der Triennale des norddeutschen Kunsthandwerks“/DE
2005
„Kostbarkeiten – Kakegae no nai mono“ Anne Schloen, Grit Thönnissen,
James Beighton/ JP
Takeshi Yamaguchi, MONO Magazine/JP
Takeshi Yamaguchi, four seasons of jewellery/JP
Roser Vendrell, casa viva/ES
2004
„Vom Handwerk zum Kunstwerk“ Prof. Barbara Mundt/DE
„brilliant(e)“ Anne Schloen/IT
„Zuckerschnute“ Barbara Maas, Kunsthandwerk und Design/DE
2003
„Schmuck als Auseinandersetzung“ Antje Marthe Fischer, Katalog der
Triennale des norddeutschen Kunsthandwerks, Staatliches Museum Schwerin/DE
„No.4 – Gaststipendiaten aus Mecklenburg–Vorpommern und Schleswig Holstein“ Anna Schetelich, Hansestadt Rotsock/ DE
2002
„5 Gramm Gold“ Sabine Runde, Gallery Aurum, Frankfurt am Main/GER
Julia Pitts, Ceramic Reviews/UK
Journal for northeast issues/SE
„Kunst von Frauen – Frauenkunst? Ausgewählte Positionen von Künstlerinnen in Mecklenburg–Vorpommern“ _ „GenusArtis“ Kornelia Röder, Symposiumsdokumentation/DE
2000
„Zarte Linien“ Brigitte Mendes, Anna Schetelich, Michael Strauß, Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop/DE
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