Gésine Hackenberg
Jeweller
Published: 01.04.2020
Brooch: Multiplicity Tumbling, 2019
Vintage glass, silver, remanium
8.3 x 7 c 3.1 cm
Piece part of the memo Multiplicity at the exhibition Le Stanze del Possibile at Hannah Gallery.
Unique piece
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Brooch: Falter not Fall, 2018
Vintage glass, silver, remanium
7 x 6.6 x 2.5 cm
Photo by: Gésine Hackenberg
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Brooch: Falter not Fall, 2018
Vintage glass, silver, remanium
8.2 x 8.2 x 1.4 cm
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Brooch: Falter not Fall, 2019
Vintage glass, silver, remanium
6.8 x 6.1 x 2 cm
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Brooch: Falter not Fall, 2019
Vintage glass, silver, remanium
9 x 7.6 x 2.8 cm
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Brooch: Falter not Fall, 2020
Mouth blown and vintage glass, silver, remanium
8.2 x 8 x 2.8 cm
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Necklace: Falter not Fall, 2019
Blown glass, silver, silver chain
9.5 x 10.5 x 4.5 cm
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Necklace: Lines, 2020
Silver, oxidized silver
47.5 x 11.5 x 0.4 cm
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Necklace: Lines, 2020
Oxidised silver
39 x 14.2 x .4 cm
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Brooch: Lines, 2018
Oxidized silver, remanium
9 x 10 x 9 cm
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Brooch: Lines, 2018
Oxidized silver
9.3 x 12 x 1 cm
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Brooch: Transparent/light Green Still Life, 2012
Dutch by Aldo Bakker and Austrian glasses by H.H. Rath for Lobmeyr, silver
11 x 8 x 3.3 cm
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Brooch: Grey/Blue Still Life, 2012
Finnish vintage glasses by Timo Sarpaneva, silver
6 x 5 x 2,2 cm
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Brooch: Finnish Still Life, 2010
Finnish table glass, silver
Finnish table glass by Timo Sarpaneva
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Brooch: Double Glass Still Life, 2010
Finnish glass, oxidized silver
Finnish table glass vintage by Itala.
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Necklace: Plum, 2014
Copper, electroformed copper, partly patinated; leather
Special piece designed for Klimt02 Gallery
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Necklace: Large Horn of Plenty
Silver, leather
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Necklace: Blue/white Kitchen Necklace
Plate by Socièté Ceramique Maestricht I earth ware, nylon thread.
44 pearls ø 1.7 cm, plate ca. ø 24 cm
Photo by: Corriette Schoenaerts
Gésine, Hackenberg
Necklace: Blue/white Kitchen Necklace
Plate by Société Ceramique Maestricht I earth ware, nylon thread.
44 pearls Ø 1.7 cm, plate ca. Ø 24 cm.
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Necklace: Small Makkum 'Plooischotel', 2014
Wall plate of Dutch Frisian earthenware by Koninklijke Tichelaar Makkum, nylon thread
Part of: Badisches Landesmuseum
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Ring: Fish, 2014
Earthenware, silver
Part of: Private Collection
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Earrings: Delft Blue Box II, 2014
Box with lid of Delfts Blue earthenware by De Porceleyne Fles Delft, silver, 18 ct gold.
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Necklace: Grape Necklace, 2013
Red gold plated copper
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Gésine Hackenberg, born in 1972 in Germany, lives and works as a contemporary jewellery artist in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She was trained as a goldsmith in Germany and studied jewelry design at the former Fachhochschule für Gestaltung Pforzheim in Germany. In 2001 she received her degree from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and in 2013, a Master of Arts from the MAD-faculty in Hasselt, Belgium. Hackenberg has been a tutor at the PXL-MAD School of Arts from 2011 until 2019.
Statement
One of the main themes in my work is placing ordinary utensils in the perspective of jewellery. Objects of daily use often become loved and indispensable to people. The things you keep and save often have a sentimental value apart from their practical use or monetary value. Moreover, they can be seen as a portrait of their owner. In my work, I explore how these objects relate to the body and the individual. Wearing jewellery is the most intimate and direct form of expressing this specific relationship to an object.As I like to investigate the boundaries of traditional jewellery, my work interacts with different disciplines and concepts. Traditions linked to objects or jewellery, their history, and the stories about them are a great source of inspiration to me. I like to reinterpret classical genres of art and jewellery history while translating those elements to my own contemporary world. More recently, my jewellery and objects tend to act as metaphors for mental states. Objects of everyday life and domestic materials become means to express and reflect on emotions.
I use different techniques and materials, that are telling their own stories about preciousness and adornment, like ceramics, (precious) metal, Japanese Urushi lacquer, textiles, and glass. These materials usually come from intertwined themes of domesticity, table, and food culture.
Sometimes, I use existing objects as raw material. In a way, I reuse and recycle material. But what’s more, I transform and redirect their message. By manipulating these items, I isolate various layers of meanings and associations, that are immanent to the shape, pattern, and material of an object, in order to take on these values in my work.
>> Video interview Klimt02 in conversation with Gésine Hackenberg
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