Elisabeth Holder: From jewellery to Contextual Art

Article / CriticalThinking Arnoldsche Monograph

Published: 09.07.2025

This article is the prologue of the book Elisabeth Holder. From Jewellery to Contextual Art, Arnoldsche, Stuttgart, pp. 8-11.

Vom Schmuck zur Kontextuellen Kunst [From Jewellery to Contextual Art] is the title of both my retrospective at the Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau and of this book: retracing my development over fifty years as an artist through making, teaching and researching.

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