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Iris Eichenberg

Jeweller  /  MunichSchmuckFair2025
Published: 27.08.2020

Statement

On making
Assuming that making is a traceable process, I try to trick myself and take an objective look at my working procedure. Well, that feels like telling a joke to yourself: it is not funny and it does not work.

So how do I work? I collect things, pile them up, listen to them talk to one another, striking up conversations. I introduce strangers to each other, urge them to meet, giving them a space in which to get to know each other. I rearrange them, and change the direction of their conversations. I collect and order, trying to find the key to what is hidden in objects and materials. I surround myself with things that trigger and provoke me.

I sense a narrative and I make it up while working. I could say that I try to sharpen a blurry picture; I work my way towards something that only comes into being because I sense its existence. I am not loyal to my hidden stories: they serve me as crutches, but as soon as I can walk I leave them behind, and I observe the battle of my narrative and the materials I wove into it.

Fusing and melting the ugly and the beautiful, merging the seductive and the repulsive, just to reach the moment of what is, after all, a form of beauty. A beauty that challenges, that may not be pleasing, but that offers the comfort of an ongoing endeavor.

/ Iris Eichenberg, 2010

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2025:
Workshop  13 Jun 2025 - 22 Jun 2025  Cranbrook Bronze Casting Workshop.
Exhibition  06 Apr 2025 - 04 May 2025  2025 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Fair  12 Mar 2025 - 16 Mar 2025  SCHMUCK München 2025.
Lectures  16 Jan 2025 - 16 Jan 2025  Public Lecture: Phong Bui at Cranbrook Academy of Art.
2024:
Meeting  08 Dec 2024 - 08 Dec 2024  Turkey International Portfolio Day in Istanbul.
Meeting  07 Dec 2024 - 07 Dec 2024  France International Portfolio Day in Paris.
Lectures  05 Dec 2024 - 05 Dec 2024  Public Lecture: Jomo Tariku at Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Meeting  17 Nov 2024 - 17 Nov 2024  Online Graduate National Portfolio Day.
Meeting  15 Nov 2024 - 15 Nov 2024  Virtual International Graduate Open House.
Meeting  09 Nov 2024 - 09 Nov 2024  Graduate Open House.
Lectures  16 Oct 2024 - 16 Oct 2024  Online Conversation: Financial Aid, Scholarships, Fellowships.
Lectures  03 Oct 2024 - 03 Oct 2024  Public Lecture: Charisse Weston.
Lectures  02 Oct 2024 - 02 Oct 2024  Online Conversation: Educational Experience.
Meeting  28 Sep 2024 - 28 Sep 2024  International Portfolio Day in Seoul, South Korea.
Meeting  28 Sep 2024 - 28 Sep 2024  Online Graduate National Portfolio Day September 2024.
Lectures  18 Sep 2024 - 18 Sep 2024  Online Conversation: Application Process and Submitting.
2023:
Lectures  28 Apr 2023 - 29 Apr 2023  Conferences at Melting Point Valencia 2023.
Exhibition  08 Apr 2023 - 14 May 2023  Cranbrook Academy of Art. Degree Show 2023.
2022:
Exhibition  25 Jun 2022 - 30 Oct 2022  Where Words Fail by Iris Eichenberg.
Exhibition  22 Jan 2022 - 12 Mar 2022  Rings ! at Houston.
2021:
Exhibition  30 Oct 2021 - 13 Mar 2022  Koru 7 International contemporary jewellery exhibition.
Exhibition  15 Sep 2021 - 16 Oct 2021  Vade Retro.
Exhibition  05 Jun 2021 - 17 Jul 2021  Rings !.
2020:
Fair  10 Nov 2020 - 15 Nov 2020  Athens Jewelry Week 2020.
Exhibition  29 Feb 2020 - 09 Mar 2020  Surface Levels / Cranbrook.
2019:
Exhibition  01 Nov 2019 - 26 Jan 2019  Body Control: Jewelry and Fashion at the Boundaries of the Human Body.
Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, NL.
Exhibition  13 Oct 2019 - 12 Jan 2020  21 Grams in Apeldoorn.
Fair  21 Sep 2019 - 22 Sep 2019  Brazil Jewelry Weekend.
Casa de Pedra, Sao Paulo, BR.
Meeting  21 Sep 2019 - 22 Sep 2019  Brazil Jewelry Weekend 2019.
Exhibition  13 Sep 2019 - 05 Oct 2019  Field Work.
Buckham Gallery, Flint, USA.
Exhibition  06 Sep 2019 - 10 Oct 2019  Emergence Property.
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center.
Exhibition  31 Aug 2019 - 17 Nov 2019  I Do Not Wish within True is What Has Been Made / Verdadero es lo Hecho.
Museo de Arte Popular José Hernández, Buenos Aires, AR.
Exhibition  22 Jun 2019 - 08 Sep 2019  21 Grams in Mons.
Exhibition  08 Jun 2019 - 04 Aug 2019  Meeting Point.
Exhibition  13 Apr 2019 - 12 May 2019  Cranbrook Academy of Art. Degree Show 2019.
Exhibition  16 Mar 2019 - 16 Jun 2019  Schmuckismus.
Exhibition  14 Mar 2019 - 13 Apr 2019  21 Grams in Munich.
Meeting  01 Feb 2019 - 02 Feb 2019  On Mentorship: Cranbrook Academy of Art Craft Symposium.
2018:
Exhibition  05 Aug 2018 - 28 Oct 2018  Rough & Raw: A selection from the Coda Museum.
Exhibition  20 Jul 2018 - 15 Sep 2018  Iris Eichenberg and Marta Costa Reis.
Meeting  26 Apr 2018 - 29 Apr 2018  Melting Point 2018.
Exhibition  22 Apr 2018 - 13 May 2018  Cranbrook Academy of Art. Degree Show 2018.
Lectures  30 Mar 2018 - 30 Mar 2018  Visiting Artist Lecture: Iris Eichenberg.
Fair  07 Mar 2018 - 13 Mar 2018  Schmuck 2018.
Exhibition  07 Mar 2018 - 13 Mar 2018  Gallery Spektrum at Frame 2018.
Exhibition  07 Mar 2018 - 13 Mar 2018  Galerie Platina at Frame 2018.
Exhibition  26 Jan 2018 - 02 Feb 2018  A Line of Beauty: Cranbrook House Inhabitation.
2017:
Meeting  17 Nov 2017 - 17 Nov 2017  Jewelry of Ideas Symposium.
Exhibition  17 Nov 2017 - 28 May 2018  Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection..
Exhibition  07 Oct 2017 - 28 Oct 2017  I Do Not Wish by Iris Eichenberg.
Exhibition  23 Apr 2017 - 14 May 2017  Cranbrook Academy of Art. Degree Show 2017.
Fair  08 Mar 2017 - 14 Mar 2017  Schmuck 2017.
Exhibition  08 Mar 2017 - 14 Mar 2017  Galerie Spektrum. The Munich Times & Frame Exhibition at IHM.
2016:
Open call  20 Jul 2016 - 16 Jan 2017  Susan Beech Mid-Career Grant 2016.
Exhibition  30 Jun 2016 - 31 Jul 2016  Jewelry with Glass.
Workshop  27 May 2016 - 30 May 2016  Obsesión y Ritual en los Objetos by Iris Eichenberg.
Lectures  24 May 2016 - 24 May 2016  The Shy Ones by Iris Eichenberg.
Exhibition  16 Apr 2016 - 15 May 2016  Cranbrook Academy of Art. Graduation Degree Show 2016.
Exhibition  11 Mar 2016 - 15 May 2016  Open Space, Mind Maps. Positions in Contemporary Jewellery.
Exhibition  25 Feb 2016 - 28 Feb 2016  New Work from the New World.
2015:
2014:
Exhibition  23 Nov 2014 - 25 Jan 2015  Bend by Iris Eichenberg.
Exhibition  06 Nov 2014 - 24 Dec 2014  Nachgefragt.
Exhibition  03 Oct 2014 - 03 Oct 2015  Body Language?.
Exhibition  11 Sep 2014 - 14 Aug 2014  Platina: 15 Years Of Jewellery Art.
Exhibition  05 Jun 2014 - 31 Jul 2014  Form and Color - Color and Form.
Fair  12 Mar 2014 - 18 Mar 2014  Schmuck 2014.
Exhibition  30 Jan 2014 - 30 Mar 2014  Chain Reactions: Claartje Keur’s jewellery and portrait.
2013:
Exhibition  06 Dec 2013 - 25 Jan 2014  Gabentisch.
Exhibition  29 Nov 2013 - 09 Jan 2014  1913-2013: Inediti Accostamenti.
Exhibition  04 Nov 2013 - 15 Nov 2013  Pushing Boundaries & Chasing Challenges.
Exhibition  21 Sep 2013 - 21 Oct 2013  Iris Eichenberg: X.
Exhibition  15 Jun 2013 - 20 Jul 2013  HANDSHAKE project.
Exhibition  08 Mar 2013 - 10 Mar 2013  Lahti Schmuck.
Exhibition  07 Jan 2013 - 28 Jan 2013  Suspend.ed in Pink.
2012:
Exhibition  05 Nov 2012 - 08 Dec 2012  Koru 4 Kindred Spirits.
Meeting  29 Oct 2012 - 08 Dec 2012  KORU4 International Jewellery Event.
Exhibition  24 Oct 2012 - 25 Nov 2012  Mirror Mirror: An Exhibition in Homage to Suzy Solidor.
Exhibition  29 Sep 2012 - 24 Mar 2013  Un peu de terre sur la peau.
Exhibition  23 Jun 2012 - 23 Sep 2012  Mirror Mirror: an exhibition in hommage to Suzy Solidor.
Exhibition  01 Jun 2012 - 18 Aug 2012  Iris Eichenberg: Sense - mapping.
Exhibition  11 May 2012 - 14 May 2012  Galerie Louise Smit at Collect 2012.
Fair  14 Mar 2012 - 20 Mar 2012  Schmuck 2012.
2011:
Exhibition  27 Aug 2011 - 24 Sep 2011  Iris Eichenberg: Rhizome.
Exhibition  09 Aug 2011 - 19 Feb 2012  HandSHAKE – Prentice and prodigy.
Workshop  04 Jul 2011 - 16 Jul 2011  Iris Eichenberg: Summer Workshop.
Exhibition  20 May 2011 - 04 Jul 2011  Wearable Ceramics: Jewelry from International Artists.
Exhibition  05 May 2011 - 09 May 2011  Galerie Louise Smit at Collect.
Exhibition  15 Jan 2011 - 24 Feb 2011  Our House.
2010:
Exhibition  04 Nov 2010 - 16 Jan 2011  Multiples at Gallery S O.
Meeting  18 May 2010 - 19 May 2010  SchmuckDenken 6 - Thinking Jewellery.
Fair  14 May 2010 - 17 May 2010  Collect 2010.
Exhibition  08 May 2010 - 22 Aug 2010  Lingam - 121 symbols of fertility.
Exhibition  16 Apr 2010 - 15 May 2010  Material and Colour.
Exhibition  20 Mar 2010 - 22 Apr 2010  Iris Eichenberg: Pink years later.
Exhibition  05 Mar 2010 - 24 Apr 2010  Iris Eichenberg: Birds and flowers of Michigan.
Fair  03 Mar 2010 - 09 Mar 2010  Schmuck 2010.
Exhibition  17 Jan 2010 - 14 Mar 2010  Lingam.
2009:
Exhibition  05 Dec 2009 - 16 Jan 2010  For Long And Faithful Duty - 10 Years Of Beauty.
Exhibition  03 Dec 2009 - 19 Dec 2009  OP VOORRAAD.
Meeting  06 Nov 2009 - 07 Nov 2009  Koru 3 Symposium.
Workshop  02 Nov 2009 - 05 Nov 2009  Koru 3 Workshops.
Exhibition  07 Sep 2009 - 12 Sep 2009  Lingam.
Exhibition  13 Mar 2009 - 16 Mar 2009  Auf Vorrat.
Exhibition  20 Feb 2009 - 06 Apr 2009  Cranbrook Department of metalsmithing February 2009- News.
Exhibition  10 Jan 2009 - 19 Feb 2009  Iris Eichenberg: New Rooms.
2008:
Exhibition  27 Nov 2008 - 31 Jan 2009  Winter: a quietly whispering jewellery and corpus exhibition.
Exhibition  07 Nov 2008 - 23 Dec 2008  Dutch masters.

Publications      View / hide publications

Book:  Iris Eichenberg: Where Words Fail. Museum of Craft and Design:  San Francisco,  2022
Book:  Narrative Jewelry. Fenn, MarkSchiffer Publishing:  New York,  2017
Book:  Shows and Tales - On Jewelry Exhibition Making. Art Jewelry Forum:  Mill Valley,  2015
Book:  Jewellery 1970–2015. Bollmann Collection. Arnoldsche Art Publishers:  Stuttgart,  2015
Book:  Best of Interviews. Art Jewelry Forum:  Mill Valley, California,  2014
Book:  The Core & the Shell. Guiding methods for independent jewellery makers. Sàez Vilanova, EstelaOtro Diseño Foundation & Estela Sàez Vilanova:  Hilversum,  2014
Book:  Dutch Masters. Folchini Grassetto, GraziellaStudio Gr.20:  Padova,  2008
Book:  Iris Eichenberg: Heimat. Galerie Louise Smit:  Netherlands,  2008
Book:  Iris Eichenberg: Weiß. Galerie Louise Smit:  Amsterdam,  2008
Book:  Het Nederlandse Sieraad in de 20ste eeuw. Unger, MarjanCentral Museum:  Bussum,  2004
Book:  LOSS: Iris Eichenberg, Suska Mackert, Célio Braga. Hammer, Melle; C. Hoogland, Renée; van Kester, PeterStedelijk Bureau Amsterdam:  Amsterdam,  2004
Book:  LOSS: Iris Eichenberg, Suska Mackert, Célio Braga. Hammer, Melle; C. Hoogland, Renée; van Kester, PeterStedelijk Bureau Amsterdam:  Amsterdam,  2004
Magazine:  Vernetzt: Textile Techniken unter der Lupe. Charlotte BlauensteinerKunsthandwerk & Design:  2003
No. 1 (January), Page: 30–35.
Magazine:  Gioie Protestanti. Roberto ChilleriArteIn 16:  2003
No. 84, Page: 78–79.
Catalogue:  Vormgeving in het voetspoor van Pierre Cuypers. Ridsert Hoekstra, Harrie TillieprijsStedelijk Museum:  Roermond,  2003
Catalogue:  Luxe Interior: Joieria Contemorània Internacional. Monica Gaspar Mallolfundacio la caixa:  Barcelona,  2003
Magazine:  Dutch Diversity: contemporary jewellery. Ralph TurnerCrafts:  2003
No. 181, Page: 64–65.
Book:  Iris Eichenberg: Sunen. Eichenberg, IrisGalerie Louise Smit:  Amsterdam,  2002
Catalogue:  Display Gemeentelijke Kunstaankopen 2002. Liesbeth den BestenStedelijk Museum:  Amsterdam,  2002
Catalogue:  Dutch Diversity. Marjan BootLesley Craze Gallery:  London,  2002
Catalogue:  Sunen. Iris EichenbergGalerie Louise Smit:  Amsterdam,  2002
Magazine:  Iris is at Home. Home and Room 2:  2002
No.1, Page: 14–19.
Magazine:  review of Home Made Holland: How Crafts and Design Mix exhibition at Crafts Council Gallery. Jeremy MyersonCrafts:  2002
No. 176, Page: 50.
Magazine:  A Little Riddle of the Universe at the End of a Thin Piece of Wire. American Craft 62:  2002
No. 2 (April) Page: 68–71.
Magazine:  Denken Door Je Vingers. Chis ReinewaldTableau 24:  2002
No. 6 (December), Page: 70–73.
Catalogue:  Schmuck 2002. Handwerkskammer Munchen und Oberbayern:  Munich,  2002
Catalogue:  SLIP: British and Dutch artists working with ceramic. De Hallen:  Haarlem,  2002
2nd Edited at Norwich, the Publisher is Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.
Magazine:  ‘Slip’: holländische und britische Künstler arbeiten mit Keramik - eine Ausstellung zum 10-jährigen Bestehen des EKWC. Keramik Magazin 24:  2002
No. 5 (October), Page: 34–37,
Magazine:  review of Mikromegas exhibition at American Craft Museum. Marjorie SimonMetalsmith 22:  2002
No. 3, Page: 40.
Catalogue:  Home Made Holland: How Crafts and Design Mix. Bernadine WaltrechtCrafts Council:  London,  2002
Magazine:  Waldeslust. Rondo:  2001
No. 125.
Newspaper:  Tricote des Bijoux Fous. Tribune De Genève:  2001
September 15th
Newspaper:  Des Bijoux Hybrides, ni Toc ni Chic. Le Courrier:  2001
September 22nd.
Catalogue:  Schmuck Lebt. Schmuckmuseum:  Pforzheim,  2001
Magazine:  Il Neonaturalismo nei Gioielli. Graziella Folchini GrassettoEyewear & Fashion:  2001
No. 9, Page: 92–94.
Book:  Iris Eichenberg: Bombay Rubber. Eichenberg, IrisGalerie Louise Smit:  Amsterdam,  2000
Magazine:  Van Kachelpijp tot Lieveheersbeestje, Het Sieraad als Beeldende Kunst. Anne BerkVitrine:  2000
May, Page: 34–39.
Catalogue:  Gioielli Contemporanei: L’Alternativa al Preziosa, trans. Gus Barker. Graziella Folchini GrassettoStudio GR.20:  Padua,  2000
Catalogue:  Het versierde ego: het kunstjuweel in de 20ste eeuw. Jan WalgraveProvincie Antwerpen:  Antwerp,  2000
Catalogue:  AEX Amsterdam Expose. Stedelijk Museum:  Amsterdam,  1999
Catalogue:  Bilkvangers: Een niewe kijk op accessoires. Caroline BootNederlands Textielmuseum:  Tilburg,  1999
Magazine:  Hollantiantilianen Koru Vuosituhannen Vaihteesa. Auria:  1999
No. 1
Newspaper:  Mode, macht en aanzien karakteriseren vormgeving. Jeroen Juntede Volkskrant:  1999
April 10, 1999.
Magazine:  Breipatronen. Rianne LandstraElegance 56:  1999
No. 1 (January), Page: 64–69.
Magazine:  Internationale Handwerksmesse Munchen: ganz neuim XXL- format. Karl-Gunter NicolaKunsthandwerk & Design:  1999
No. 3 (May), Page: 44–45.
Catalogue:  Schmuck 1999. Handwerkskammer Munchen und Oberbayern:  Munich,  1999
Catalogue:  Rietveld naar de Beurs. Frederick van der PloegBeurs van Berlage:  Amsterdam,  1999
Book:  Iris Eichenberg: Nieuw werk 1998. Galerie Louise Smit:  Amsterdam,  1998
Catalogue:  Blikvangers: een niewe kijk op accessoires. Caroline BootNederlands Textielmuseum:  Tilburg,  1998
Book:  Iris Eichenberg: Nieuw werk 1998. Galerie Louise Smit:  Amsterdam,  1998
Newspaper:  Adorn yourself with attitude Blister packs, fishing weights, toe splints as jewelry? Try it on.. Blake GopnikThe Globe and Mail:  1998
July 22nd
Magazine:  Pioniers in de textielkunst. Riet van der LindenOpzij 26:  1998
No. 12 (December), Page: 119.
Magazine:  Heart Disc. Ingrid WalschotsBlvd.:  1998
No. 50 (November), Page: 33.
Newspaper:  Menselijk Lichaam als Bron voor Sieraden. Liesbeth den BestenHet Parool:  1997
July 4th
Magazine:  Gezellig Grenen in een Grijs Jasje...!. Hilde de DeckerItems:  1997
No. 8, Page 7.
Magazine:  Kunst en de Knikkers. Tom KellerhuisHP/DE Tijd:  1997
May 16th
Catalogue:  Alchemy–The Stone of Wisdom. Eija Mustonen, Tuula LampinenSouth Carelia Polytechnic:  Lappeenranta,  1997
Magazine:  De Grenzen van het Sieraad. Liesbeth den BestenRuimte 13:  1996
Issue: April, Page: 10–14.
Magazine:  Sieraadvormgeving & design: Voorgoed van elkaar vervreemd. Items:  1996
No. 7/8 (December), Page: 66–73.
Catalogue:  Scanning: Toegepaste Kunst en Fotografie in Amsterdam 1996. Leontine CoelewijStedelijk Museum:  Amsterdam,  1996
Page: 67–70.
Catalogue:  Passion and profession: sieraden toen, nu, straks: twintig jaar. Paul DerrezGalerie Ra:  Amsterdam,  1996
Catalogue:  Tentokrát. Miroslav CoganSpolečnost Kyvadla with Sympozium Sperk a Drahokam v Turnove:  Prague,  1995
Catalogue:  Een cirkel van licht: zes jaar pinhole fotografie in het basisjaar van de Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Rob SlootenDe Balie, in samenwerking met de Gerrit Rietveld Academie:  Amsterdam,  1995
Catalogue:  “Netherlands: Gerrit Rietveld Academy” in Class of ‘95: A Goldsmiths’ Company Exhibition. Chris WaltonGoldsmiths’ Company:  London,  1995
Book:  Au Clair de la Lune: glas en zilver in dialoog. Hanneke BesselingThe Hauge: De Twee Pauwen:  The Hauge,  1994
Magazine:  Ziel en Zaligheid. Liesbeth den BestenAmsterdam,  1994
No. 3: 14–15