Ursula Gnaedinger



Born:

1966 born in RADOLFZELL on Lake CONSTANCE, GERMANY

Training / Education:

  • 1982 - 86 goldsmithing apprenticeship under the master goldsmith Bazak in Constance Germany
  • 1986 studied at FREIBURG College of Arts Germany
  • 1987-89 worked as a goldsmith in Constance, Freiburg, Hamburg Berlin Germany
  • 1989 participated in „Pentiment", Hamburg Germany Pentiment prizewinner 1989
  • 1990 "high potential" scholarship in sculpture at Pentiment Hamburg Germany
  • 1991 studied jewelry design at the College of Design in Pforzheim Germany

Work Experience:

  • 1993-present self-employed jewelry designer in BERLIN GERMANY with continual European and international exhibitions and participations in trade fairs

Exhibitions (Solo & Group Shows):

  • 1990 Graft Shop New York USA Lalique Berlin Germany
  • 1991 Goldader Hamburg Germany Goetz Basel Swiss
  • 1992 Decus Nürnberg Germany Feinschmiede Berlin Germany
  • Städtisches Museum Engen Switzerland
  • 1993 Inflagranti Tübingen Germany
  • Acud Berlin Germany
  • Fairchild & Company Santa Fé USA
  • 1994 Greuter Singen Switzerland
  • Schmolling Hannover Germany
  • Gallery Mengello Munich Germany
  • Landes Preis Berlin Germany
  • 1995 Grewenig Sauerborn Trier Germany
  • Int.Gift Fair New York USA
  • Gallery Götz Basel Swtzerland
  • Burggalerie Fehmarn Germany
  • Gallery Holicky Klagenfurt Austria
  • Gallery Q 14 Oderberg Germany
  • 1996 Gallery 88 Bensheim Germany
  • Gallery Cebra Düsseldorf Germany
  • Gallery Ritter St.Gallen Germany
  • Industriemuseum für Porzellan Selb Germany
  • 1997 Hilde Leiss Hamburg Germany
  • Gallery Meink Bad Kissingen Germany
  • Machwerk Frankfurt Germany
  • Gallery Scohy Antwerp Belgium
  • Gallery Expo Arte Oslo Norway
  • 1998 Gallery Scohy Brussels Belgium
  • Gallery Rosenhauer Göttingen Germany
  • Gallery Industria Wuppertal Germany
  • Fachwerkhof Witten Germany
  • Gallery Jutta Graf Biberach Germany
  • Gallery Vayhinger Bodensee Germany
  • 1999 Gallery Hölhe Bad Soden Germany
  • Annette Petermann Berlin Germany
  • Gallery Barbara Schmidt Frankfurt Germany
  • IDZ Internationales Design Berlin Germany
  • Zentrum
  • Schloss Göden Göden Germany
  • Zoltan Gioelli Locarno Switzerland
  • Gallery Glowania Ulm Germany
  • 2000 Stilwerk Berlin Germany
  • Villa Oppenheim Berlin Germany
  • Gallery Rosenhauer Göttingen Germany
  • Stilwerk Berlin Germany
  • Jörg & Inge Mayer Munich Germany
  • Gallery am Wannsee Berlin Germany
  • 2001 Stuart Moore San Francisco USA
  • "LebensArt " Hamburg Germany
  • Gallery Vayhinger Bodensee Germany
  • Michael Zobel Konstanz Germany
  • Schmuckstücke 2001 Munich Germany Gallery Poree Paris France
  • Gallery Rosenhauer Göttingen Germany
  • 2002 Gallery Perspektive Hameln Germany
  • Gallery D`Or auf
  • Schloss Göden Göden Germany
  • Gallery Cebra Düsseldorf Germany
  • Königsgalerie Kassel Germany
  • Gallery Bernd Regensburg Germany
  • Schmuckstücke 2002 Munich Germany
  • 2003 Mutter Fourage Berlin-Wanmsee Germany
  • "ECHT" Berlin Germany
  • 125 Jahre Kunsthandwerk
  • Stadt Museum Berlin
  • CAFE MOSKAU "NO DERSS" Berlin Germany
  • Gallery Genthiner 11 Berlin Germany
  • SCHMUCKSTÜCKE 2003 Munich Germany
  • Gallery Zauner Leonding Germany
  • MUSEUM für Angewandte Frankfurt Germany
  • KUNST, (Teil der Sammlung: Staatspreisträger )
  • Berlin artists San Francisco USA
  • Gallery DeNovo Palo Alto USA,curated by Charon Kransen Arts
  • Gallery Materia Scottsdale USA,curated by Charon Kransen Arts
  • 2004 INHORGENTA 2004 Munich Germany
  • Mutter Fourage Berlin Germany
  • "LEBENS-ART" Hamburg Germany
  • BILLCLIFFE GALLERY Glasgow UK
  • "SCHUTZ-RAUM" No3 Munich Germany
  • HETJENS-MUSEUM Duesseldorf Germany
  • KERAMIK AM KÖRPER OSLO Norway

Awards / Grants:

  • 1989 Pentiment prizewinner 1989 Cologne Germany
  • 1990 "high potential" scholarship in sculpture at Pentiment Hamburg Germany
  • 2003 State Prize for the German Craft, Hessen Germany

Collections (Private & Museum):

  • MUSEUM für Angewandte KUNST, Frankfurt , Germany
  • HETJENS MUSEUM, Deutsches Keramik Museum, Duesseldorf, Germany

Publications:

  • ZEITFORM, 20 Years of Ursula Gnaedinger Jewelry Berlin, Feb 2003
  • KUNSTHANDWERK "STARKE GEFÜHLE" Oktober 2003
  • SCHMUCKMAGAZIN „STAATSPREIS 2003 für Ursula Gnaedinger" Nov. 2003

Artist Statement:

"Form as space"

…form quality alters space and creates an new beyond geometrical-phiysical limitations. My ideal and "free space"! A clear "emotional value" instead of aesthetic speculation. Possibility and potentiality of the form, "space in space", that arises solely out of the presence and intensity and quality of a "jewelry body" in connection with its wearer, as a new, fascinating possibility of experience and level of encounter…