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Since I started as a designer the main chalenge and item in my work is looking for new concepts and new technical solutions within a contemporary interpretation of traditional values and crafts in combination with expressive and innovative design.
I concipate my jewellery as unique piece, as multiple or for serial manufacturing. Concept is always an important starting point and can go into different fields: New interpretations of the meaning of the jewellery; a technical or constructive approach; critical about materialistic values, or concepts from an associative, annecdotic or humoristic point of view.
General information
Born
Nijmegen (NL) 1953.
Education
Academie Beeldende Kunsten, Arnhem (NL) 1974-1979.
Professional practice
Since 1979 independent designer of jewellery and products.
Teaching
– 1985/1990 teacher for product design at the HKU, Utrecht (NL).
– 1990/1992 teacher for product design at ARTEZ, Arnhem (NL).
– 1992/2019 professor for product and jewellery design at the University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf (DE).
Lecturer
– Lecturer at different schools, institutes and symposiums in: NL, DE, UK, BE, SK, FIN, PL, PT, ES, JP, USA.
– Jury member for several design contests in: NL, BE, DE, FIN, JP, PL.
– External examiner at Universities in: London (UK), Antwerp (BE), Hasselt (BE), Edinburg (UK), Luzern (CH).
– Programmer of jewellery symposium Haldenhof (DE) 1988 +1993 / Symposium Zimmerhof (DE) 2000 + 2009.
Exhibitions
– Solo/group exhibitions for jewellery in: NL, DE, AT, AUS, BE, CH, ES, IT, UK , JP, USA, FR, PL, IRL, PT, CAN, CZE, LT, THA.
– Solo/group exhibitions for product design in: NL, DE, A, USA, JP, IT, B, GB, PL, PT.
Museum collections
Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem (NL), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL), Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst, Den Haag (NL), Coda Museum, Apeldoorn (NL), Museum Booymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL), Haags Gemeente Museum, Den Haag (NL), Glasmuseum, Leerdam (NL), Museum Moderne Kunst, ’s Hertogenbosch (NL), Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL). Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim (DE), Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Köln (DE), Bauhaus Archiv, Berlin (DE), Neue Sammlung, Münich (DE), Pinakotek der Moderne, Münich (DE), Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Hamburg (DE), Angermuseum, Erfurt (DE), Museum for Kunsthandverk, Oslo (NO), Museum, Trondheim (NO), MIMA, Middlesbrough (UK), Victoria and Albert Museum, London (UK), Museum des Arts Decoratifs, Montreal (CAN), Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York (USA).
Galleries
Gallery Marzee
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Gallery Ra
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Gallery Agnes Raben
Vorden, The Netherlands
Gallery V&V
Vienna, Austria
Spektrum Gallery
Karlsruhe, Germany
Gallery Reverso
Lisbon, Portugal
Atta Gallery
Bangkok, Thailand
Gallery Deux Poissons
Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Vice Versa
Lausanne, Switserland
Jewellerswerk Gallery
Washington DC, USA