Beppe Kessler

Beppe Kessler (1952, Amsterdam) is a contemporary jewellery maker and painter who lives and works in the Netherlands. Kessler graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 1979, with a degree in textile art and industrial textile design.

‘My inspiration lies in huge concepts you cannot describe into words. Like time, nothing, the violence of the elements. Or in small things I encounter, thoughts that amaze me, making me realize that vulnerability gives life to things’.

‘Little treasures’, that is how she describes her jewellery; miniature sculptures composed of age-old and contemporary, often worthless materials, brazenly combined and not bound to the traditions of jewellery making. They express her feelings and thoughts about life. They invite touching and they tell a story, summarized in titles justifying their existence.

Her paintings are subtle but they possess a silent power. For Kessler, the carrier of the paint, the canvas, is equally as important as the paint itself.

Whether it is wood, stone, paint, or linen, Kessler stretches her material to their limits, constantly breaking and re-making to create something new, while also inventing her own techniques.

Material is the vehicle of her thoughts. All her work – paintings, objects and jewellery – is inextricably linked and informs each other.

Iris Bodemer

1970                Paderborn (DE)

1989 – 1992     Berufskolleg für Design, Schmuck und Gerät, Pforzheim (DE)

1992 – 1996     Hochschule für Gestaltung, Pforzheim (DE)

1997 – 1998     Sandberg Insitute, Amsterdam, (NL)

since 1996       Studio in Pforzheim (DE)

since 2014       Teaching at the Berufskolleg für Design, Schmuck und Gerät,

Goldschmiedeschule mit Uhrmacherschule, Pforzheim (DE)

International exhibitions,workshops and lectures

Works in private and public collections

Representing galleries:

Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen (NL)

Jewelers’werk, Washington D.C. (US)

Galerie Annick Zufferey (CH)

www.irisbodemer.de

Instagram: @iris.bodemer

Katharina Dettar

Born in Fürth, raised in Catalonia, living in London.

Katharina holds an MA from the Royal College of Art, and previously studied in Idar-Oberstein, Lappeenranta and Barcelona. Her practice explores the notions of jewellery and object through materials. Having an interest and awareness in the origin of these, part of her outcomes investigates themes such as waste, sustainability, and nature.
Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in Europe, North America and Asia. Her pieces are part of public collections in Museum Arnhem, CODA Museum Apeldoorn, Muzeum Cesueho Raje Turnov, the International Collection of Contemporary Jewellery Legnica and the Royal College of Art Collection London.
The Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes supported her throughout her studies in Germany and UK. Winner of the Talente Prize in Munich and the Förderpreis des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz in 2010.
Currently a permanent senior lecturer at Central Saint Martins, visiting lecturer at University of Herfordshire, Guest lecturer at the Royal College of Art. Katharina worked as a gallery manager at Gallery S O London from 2017 to its closure in 2020.