Born:
1967, Mannheim, Germany
Training / Education:
- 1988-92 technical training as a goldsmith at the Goldschmiedeschule Pforzheim and Schmuckatelier M. Mämecke, Heidelberg
- 1993-97 studies of jewellery design at the Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences
- 1996 practical term of 6 months at Venice, Italy
Work Experience:
- since 1997 working as an independent jewellery designer
- 1998-2003 assistant at the Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences, Department of Jewellery and Metalwork
- since 2002 working together with Stefan Krauß, Dipl.-Des. FH
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Exhibitions (Solo & Group Shows):
- 1997 Annual International Graduate Show of Galery Marzee, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 1999 solo exhibition at Galery Marzee, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 2000 group exhibition at Galery Lichtblick, Aachen, Germany
- solo exhibition at Galery Spandow, Berlin, Germany
- 2001 solo exhibition at Galery Hélène Porée, Paris, France
- solo exhibition at Galery Sofie Lachaert, Gent, Belgium
- group exhibition at the Designer´s Saturday, Stuttgart, Germany
- 2002 solo exhibition at Galery Marzee, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 2003 exhibition of Atelier Striffler & Krauß at Galery Helga Malten, Dortmund, Germany
- 2004 exhibition of Atelier Striffler & Krauß at Galery Tizia, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- since 1998 exhibiting every year at the international trade fair TENDENCE lifestyle, Frankfurt, Germany
- since 2000 exhibiting every year at the international jewellery fair INHORGENTA, Munich, Germany
- since 1998 represented by Galery Marzee at the art fairs KunstRAI and PAN, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Awards / Grants:
- Since 1999 distincted every year with the award FORM of the Federal Association of Applied Arts within the trade fair Tendence lifestyle, Frankfurt, Germany
Publications:
- Design report, 'Schmuckdesign heute: zwischen Geometrie und Emotion', 9/01 September 2001
- Goldschmiedezeitung GZ, 'Der Versuchung nachgeben', 9-2004, September 2004
Artist Statement:
The central theme of my work deals with the 'plain and simple' in design.
Plain and simple for me personally means to reduce the design to its necessary and essential parts and to do without any unnecessary decoration in order to develop out of this reduction a particular and individual aesthetic attraction. What attracts me most about this plain and simple style ist the seeming contradiction, that the reduction of shapes to clear, elementary and linear forms allows a surprising variety of shapes and structures by varying details and by working with contrasts. This leads to a visual tension as well as an incredible lifelyness.
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