News from the Permian- International Contemporary Jewellery Art and the Petrified Forest of Chemnitz

Artist list

Beate von Appen, Beate Eismann, Heike Lau, Birgit Laken, Prof. Deganit Stern Schocken, Flora Vagi, Prof. Georg Dobler, Margit Jäschke, Mari Ishikawa, Märta Mattsson, Martin Papcun

The local geological features of the Petrified Forest Chemnitz are in the focus of the current international jewellery art project. 
The fascinating aesthetic qualities of this 291 million years old silicified wood gives the inspiration to the work process of eleven jewellery artists from seven countries.
All of them already met on the 31st of January to the 2nd of February 2013 for a joint symposium at the Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz. During this meeting, there were a lot of important, interesting and exciting moments: the main point was the selection of the stones and another one was the analysis of the materials of Chemnitz and their history.

The artists now are developing new unique jewellery pieces made from selected stones of petrified wood back home in their ateliers. First of the jewellery pieces are already finished and we looking forward to an exciting collection of very various individual works.

Ines Bruhn Promoter and Curator
ines.bruhn@web.de/
+49-371-642723

Dr. Ronny Rößler Director of Museum of Natural History Chemnitz
roessler@naturkunde-chemnitz.de
+49-371-4884550

Bernd Kippig CEO Juwelier Roller, Chemnitz
info@juwelier-roller.de
+49-371-9098410

Main partner
Chemnitz Artist Association
info@ckbev.de