Not Nothing - but fast. A workshop with Bettina Dittlmann

The wire___________________
The dot…...........………………....
Line and plane.
The soldering
and the flowers,
but also the metal,
thin as a breath
and with volume.
Creating islands of time and drawing,
oasis of soldering.
Letting go of ideas.
Relaxing. Tightening.
The hands going loose.
Finding ideas without searching.
Automatic working.
Making without thinking. Is that possible?
Beginning.


Workshop fees: CHF 500.–
Students are entitled to a 10 % discount.
A discount is offered if more than one workshop is booked.
 
Participants: maximum 8.
Subscription: up to two weeks before the workshop begins.
Advance payment: half of the workshop fee.
 
Tools are available.
Course material is included in the cost.
Metal is charged separately.
 
Course languages: German and English

You will receive detailed information before the workshop begins.
Modifications reserved.


“Slow, slow, we have no time,” said Georg Tabori during a radio interview.
I sat in my workshop at my bench and soldered already for weeks on one piece. Spending time. Refining time. Working to time. Reading the Times. Having time and having no time. Soldering, sawing, setting stones, enamelling, forging, alone and together, for a long time. Spent half a year making bowls. From piece to piece. From day to day. Time passes. My work takes a lot of time. I am a part of my time.

Bettina Dittlmann, born in 1964 in Passau, Germany.
1983 – 1986 Staatliche Berufsfachschule für Glas und Schmuck, Neugablonz.
1987 – 1989 Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München, Prof. Hermann Jünger.
1989 – 1991 State University of New York, New Paltz, USA.
1991 – 1993 Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München, Prof. Otto Künzli.
1996 – 1999 Assistent of Prof. Otto Künzli, Akademie der Bildenden Künste.
since 1998 Collaboration with Michael Jank.
1999 – 2000 Professor at  State University of Oregon, Eugene, USA.
2005 Bayerischer Staatspreis.
since 2008 Studio with Michael Jank in Breitenbach, Niederbayern.
2009 Bayerischer Staatspreis, Dittlmann&Jank.
2019 Le Fer Noir Trio, Hanagarth, Dittlmann & Jank, Galerie Noel Guyomarch, Montreal.
2020 Danner-Preis, Danner-Stiftung München.
2020 Die Kleider der Maria, Gartenpavillon des Klosters Beuerberg, Diözesanmuseum Freising.
2024 NICHT NICHTS – ABER VIEL, Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein, München.

Works in Museums: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, USA. Die Neue Sammlung in der Pinakothek der Moderne, München. Diözesanmuseum Freising. Dallas Museum of Art, USA. Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA. Muzeum Ceského Ráje Turnov, CZ. Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, Zürich, CH. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, USA. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, GB.