Iris Eichenberg

Iris Eichenberg, 1965, Göttingen, Germany.

Education:
1998-2000 Teacher Training Course, University of Amsterdam, NL
1988-1994 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL

Grants, Stipends, & Awards:
2005 Incentive Grant, The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB), Amsterdam, NL
2003 Harrie Tillie Prize Nominee, Stedelijk Museum, Roermond, NL
2002 Incentive Grant, Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam, NL
2001 Basic Grant, Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam, NL | Design Award Nominee, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL | Artist in Residence, European Ceramic Workcenter (EKWC) s’-Hertogenbosch, NL
2000 Artist Stimulation Award, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Amsterdam, NL
1999 Herbert Hofmann Prize, Schmuckszene' 99, Munich, D | Artist in Residence, European Ceramic Workcenter (EKWC) s’-Hertogenbosch, NL
1997 Starter Stipend, Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam, NL
1996 RA Award Nominee, Gallery Ra, Amsterdam, NL
1995 Artist Stimulation Award Nominee, Amsterdam, NL
1994 'Student of the Year' Award, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL | Starter Stipend, Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam, NL

Solo Exhibitions:
2014 Cranbrook Museum of Art, 'Bend', Bloomfield Hills, MI US
2013 Ornamentum Gallery, 'X', Hudson, NY, US
2012 Platina, 'Sense-Mapping', Stockholm, SE
2011 Ornamentum Gallery, 'Rhizome', Hudson, NY, US
2010  Galerie Spektrum, 'Flowers and Birds of Michigan', Munich, DE | Villa Bengel, 'Many Places Later', retrospective, Idar Oberstein, DE
2009 Galerie Louise Smit, 'New Rooms', Amsterdam, NL | Ornamentum Gallery at SOFA, 'Pink Years Later', Chicago, IL. USA
2007 Paul Kotula Projects, 'Elisabeth', Ferndale, MI, US | Galerie Louise Smit, 'Tenement/Timelines', Amsterdam, NL | Gallery Ornamentum at SOFA, 'Solo Exhibtion', New York, USA
2005 Gallery Metallum, 'Heimat/Systhems', Stockholm, S | Galerie Louise Smit, 'Weiß', Amsterdam, N | Galerie SO, 'Abwesenheit', Solothurn, CH
2004 Gallery Metal, 'Heimat', Kopenhagen, DK | Galerie Louise Smit, 'Heimat,’ Amsterdam, NL
2003  Huis Rechts, Amsterdam, NL
2002 Gallery Louise Smit, 'Sunen', Kunstrai 2002, Amsterdam, NL | Gallery Louise Smit, 'Sunen', Amsterdam, NL | Verzameld Werk, 'Waldeslust 2', Gent, B
2001 Gallery Tactile, Geneva, CH | Gallery Louise Smit at Art Twente, NL
2000 Gallery Louise Smit, 'Bombay Runner, Dehli Thoughts', Amsterdam, NL
1999 Verzameld Werk, 'Warmte', Ghent, BE
1998 Verzameld Werk, Ghent, BE | Gallery Louise Smit, 'Nieuw Werk', Amsterdam, NL
1997 Gallery Gundula M. Cancola, Salzburg, A | Verzameld Werk, Ghent, BE

Group Exhibitions:
2014 Stedelijk Museum, 'Collection Presentation', Amsterdam, NL | Lesley Craze Gallery, '30 Years in the Making', London, UK | Platina at Färgfabriken, '15 years with Platina', Stockholm, SE | Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'Unique by Design: Contemporary Jewelry in the Donna Schneier Collection', New York, US | Handwerkskammer Munchen und Oberbayern, Schmuck 2014, Munich, DE | Fine Arts School Hangzhou Normal University, CN | Craft Alliance, Delmar Loop/Grand Center and The Kranzberg Art Center, 'Good as Gold', St. Louis, MO, US | Ornamentum Gallery at Collective 2 Design Fair, New York, US
2013 Grunwald Gallery, 'Shift', Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, US | Paul Kotula Projects, 'Setting the Table', Ferndale, MI, US | College of Creative Studies, 'Metals 2013', Michigan Silversmiths Guild, Detroit, US | The Design Museum, 'Unexpected Pleasures: The Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery', London, GB | Z33, House for Contemporary Art, 'The Wilde Things: The contemporary jewellery collection of Mrs. Wilde', Hasselt, BE | Gardiner Museum, 'Fondation d’Enterprise Bernardaud, un peu de terre sur la peau', Toronto, CA | Objectspace, 'Handshake: A Jewelery Project', Auckland, NZ | Schmuck 2013, 'Handshake: A Jewelery Project', Munich, DE | Pont en Plas, 'Lahti', Ghent, BE
2012 Platina, 'Schmuck 2012', Munich, DE | Central Academy of Fine Arts, '10 Years—Re: Jewelry', Beijing, CN | Craft Alliance, Delmar Loop/Grand Center, The Kranzberg Art Center, 'CLASP', St. Louis, US | 'Lahti Korut' as part of the official World Design Capital Helsinki Lahti, FI | Espace Solidor, 'Mirror Mirror', Cagnes-sur-mer, FR | 'KORU4: Kindred Spirits', Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, Imatra, FI | National Gallery of Victoria, 'Unexpected Pleasures: Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery', Melbourne, AU | Galerie Louise Smit, 'OBJECT', Rotterdam, NL | Galerie Spektrum, 'Forever Young – 30 Jahre Galerie Specktrum', Munich, DE | Gallery Project, 'Creature', Ann Arbor, MI, US | CODA Museum, 'Fondation d’Enterprise Bernardaud, un peu de terre sur la peau', Apeldoorn, NL
2011 Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem (MMKA), 'Jewellery Unleashed!', Arnhem, NL | Cranbrook Museum of Art, 'No Object is an Island', Bloomfield Hills, MI, US | Galerie Louise Smit, 'Collect 2011', Saatchi Gallery, London, UK | Galerie Louise Smit , '25 year Anniversary Show', Amsterdam, NL | Gallery Ornamentum at Design Basel, CH | Galerie Louise Smit, 'Object', Rotterdam, NL | Pewabic Pottery, Wearable Ceramics: Jewelry from International Artists, Detroit, MI. USA | Anton Art Center, 'Michigan Ceramics', Mount Clemens, MI, US | Galerie Louise Smit, 'Our House: Cranbrook Academy of Art', Amsterdam, NL | PIN - Associação Portuguesa de Joalharia Contemporânea at Experimenta Design, 'Pin Anonimum: Useless', Lisbon, PT | Butter Projects, 'nude', Royal Oak, MI, US | FLUX: SNAG Seattle Conference, 'US, in flux', Lawrimore Project, Seattle, USA | SOFA, 'Monomater: Cranbrook Academy of Art', Chicago, US | Sungkok Art Museum, 'Open Mind: International Contemporary Metal Art Exhibition-  History and the New Material', Seoul, KR | Art Jewellery Forum, 'Geography', SNAG Conference, Seattle, USA | Art Jewelry Forum, 'Geography', SOFA Chicago, Chicago, US
2010  Museum Catharijneconvent, ‘Lingam,’ Utrecht, NL | Galerie SO, 'Multiples', London, UK | Galerie Louise Smit, ‘Object,’ Rotterdam, NL | Studio GR.20, 'Materia e Colore: Gioielli–Sculture–Installazioni', Padova, IT | Galerie Louise Smit, ‘Collect 2010,’ Saatchi Gallery, London, UK | Handwerkskammer Munchen und Oberbayern, ‘Schmuck 2010,’ Munchen, DE
2009  Ornamentum Gallery at Art Basel, Miami, FL. USA | Galerie Louise Smit, ‘Collect 2009,’ Saatchi Gallery, London, UK | Galerie Louise Smit at Object, Rotterdam, NL | Handwerkskammer Munchen und Oberbayern, ‘Schmuck 2009,’ Munich, DE | RMIT Gallery, ‘Schmuck 2009,’ Melbourne, AU | Gallery Platina, at Schmuck, Munich, DE | Studio GR.20, 'Maestri Olandesi' at Schmuck, Munich, DE | Nederlands Textielmuseum, 'Knitted Worlds,' Tilburg, NL | Galleria La Routa, 'Maestri Olandesi', Cortina d’Ampezzo, IT
2008 Galerie Louise Smit at Collect: The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK | Gallery Platina, 'Winter', Stockholm, SE | Villa De Bondt, 'Nederlandse Sieraden: Twintig Jaar Galerie Villa De Bondt', Ghent, BE | Ornamentum Gallery at SOFA, New York, New York, USA | Cranbrook Art Museum, 'Noun, Verb, Adjective', Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA | Museum voor Industriele Archeologie en Textiel (MIAT), Ghent, BE | Community Arts Gallery at Paramount Bank, 'Creating Velocity', Ferndale, MI, US| Gallery Noel Guyomarc’h, 'Golden Clogs, Dutch Mountains', Montreal, Canada | Galerie Louise Smit at Collect: The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, GB | Musée de Design et d’arts Appliqués Contemporains (MUDAC), 'De main à main', Lausanne, CH | Gallery Anna Leonowens, 'Golden Clogs, Dutch Mountains', Halifax, Canada | Studio GR 20, 'Dutch Masters', Padova, IT
2007  Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR, US | Ornamentum Gallery at SOFA, Chicago, US | Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, 'Art is Flowering – Floral Motifs in Jewellery and Contemporary Art', Pforzheim, DE | Velvet da Vinci, 'Golden Clogs, Dutch Mountains', San Francisco, US | Sharon Campbell Gallery, 'Golden Clogs, Dutch Mountains', Seattle, US | Galleria La Ruota, 'Plastica oro contemporaneo', Cortina d’Ampezzo, IT | Entratalibera, 'Plastica oro contemporaneo', Milan, IT | Ornamentum Gallery, 'Golden Clogs, Dutch Mountains', Hudson, NY, US
2006 Museo Tambo Quirquincho, 'Elegancia Holandesa', La Paz, BO | Galerie Louise Smit at Collect: The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, GB | Museum Het Kruithuis, 'Sterke verhalen hedendaagse sieraden uit Nederland: Cerita-cerita Besar Perhiasan masa kini dari Belanda', ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL | Erasmus Huis, 'Sterke verhalen hedendaagse sieraden uit Nederland: Cerita-cerita Besar Perhiasan masa kini dari Belanda', Jakarta, ID | Ornamentum Gallery at SOFA, Chicago, US | Ornamentum Gallery at SOFA, New York, US | Museum of Art and Design, 'Schmuck 2006', New York, US | Handwerkskammer Munchen und Oberbayern, 'Schmuck 2006', Munich, DE | Nederlands Textielmuseum, 'Geborduurd', Tilburg, NL | Studio GR.20, 'Plastica oro contemporaneo', Padua, IT | Studio GR.20, 'Natura in Bianco e Negro', Padua, IT | Entratalibera, 'Natura in Bianco e Nero', Milan, IT
2005 Galerie Louise Smit, Collect: The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, GB| Studio GR 20, 'Gli Artisti', Padua, IT | Gallery Platina, ‘Inspired by Nature?’ at Bergianska Botanical Garden, Stockholm, SE
2004 Stedelijk Bureau Amsterdam, 'Loss', Amsterdam, NL | Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 'Meeting Points', Lisbon, PT | Handwerkskammer Munchen und Oberbayern , 'Schmuck 2004', Munchen, D | Gallery Lesley Craze, 'The Eternal Body', London, GB | Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo ,'The Eternal Body', Rome, IT | Galerie Louise Smit at Collect: The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, GB | Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht, ‘The Eternal zbody’, Utrecht, NL
2003 Stedelijk Museum, ‘Blur’, Amsterdam, NL | Salon de Mobile, 'Dutch Souvenirs', Milan, IT | CaixaForum, 'Inner Luxury, Barcelona, ES | Stedelijk Museum Roermond, 'Harrie Tillieprize', Roermond, NL | Tallin Applied Art Museum, ‘Bare Boundaries’, Tallin, EE | OXOXO, '9th Anniversary Holiday Invitational', Baltimore, USA | Gallerie Binnen, 'Dutch Souvenirs', Amsterdam, NL
2002 'Beziehungen', Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, NL | Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 'Display', Municipal Acquisitions 2001, NL | Handwerkskammer Munchen und Oberbayern, 'Schmuck 2002', Munchen, D | The Dick Institute' 'Schmuck 2002', Kilmarnock, GB | Frans Hals Museum, 'SLIP: British and Dutch artists working with ceramic', Haarlem, NL | Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 'SLIP: British and Dutch artists working with ceramic', Norwich, GB | Gallery Lesley Craze, 'Dutch Diversity', London, GB | Crafts Council Gallery, 'Home Made Holland', London, GB | Maison Descartes, 'The Third Floor’, Amsterdam, NL | Gallery Yksi, Eindhoven, NL | Fanshop, ‘Frau Wilhem’, Amsterdam, NL
2001 Bayerischer Kunstgewerbe Verein, 'Mikromegas', Munchen, DE | Gallery V&V, 'Waldeslus', Vienna, AU | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 'Rotterdam Design Prize Exhibition', Rotterdam, NL | Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, ‘Schmuck lebt’, Pforzheim, DE | Beurs van Berlage, 'Rietveld naar de Beurs', Amsterdam, NL | Fashion Institute Vienna, 'Vernetzt', Vienna, AU | Designfair, ‘Designers Present’, Eindhoven, NL | Museum for Applied Art ‘Blood’, Frankfurt, DE
2000 'An Amalgam of Art, Science and Technology', at Association for Contemporary Jewelry   Conference, Birmingham, GB | Tropenmuseum Amsterdam, 'The Rhythm of the Human Size', Amsterdam, NL | Gallery Louise Smit, 'Ceramic Exhibition', Amsterdam, NL | Nederlands Textielmuseum, 'Slipstitch: New Concepts in Knitting', Tilburg, NL | Beurs van Berlage, 'Rietveld naar de Beurs', Amsterdam, NL | Studio GR.20, 'Gli Artisti', Venice, IT | Kondagaon, 'Mela Bastar', IN | The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, USA | Galeria La Ruota, 'L’Alternativa al Preziosa', Cortina d’Ampezzo, IT | Museum Waterland, 'Purmerend', NL | Braggiotti Gallery, 'The Woollen Tables', Amsterdam, NL | Beurs van Berlage, 'Oro DJ', Amsterdam, NL | Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, DE | Museum over Industrie, Arbeid en Textiel (MIAT), 'Slipstitch: New Concepts in Knitting', Ghent, BE | Gallery Louise Smit, 'KunstRai 2000', Amsterdam, NL | Koningin Fabiolazaal, 'Het Versierde Ego', Antwerpen, BE | Kunstlerhaus, ‘Kunst Hautnah’, Vienna, AU | Bayrischer Kunstgewerbe Verein, ‘Mikromegas’, Muenchen, DE
1999 Tarbekunstmuuseum, Tallinn, EST | Beurs van Berlage, 'Rietveld naar de Beurs', Amsterdam, NL | OXOXO Gallery, 'A Matter of Materials', Baltimore, USA | Villa Eksternest, ‘Blikvangers: een niewe kijk op accessoires', Roeselare-Zilverberg, BE | Koningin Fabiolazaal, 'Blikvangers: een niewe kijk op accessoires', Antwerpen, B | Handwerkskammer Munchen und Oberbayern, 'Schmuck 1999', Munich, DE (Awarded H. Hoffmann Prize) | Stedelijk Museum, 'AEX, Municipal Acquisitions Applied Arts '98', Amsterdam, NL | Bundesverband Kunsthandwerk, 'The Eye’s Delight', Erfurt, DE | Studio GR.20, 'L’Alternativa al Preziosa', Padua, IT | Beurs van Berlage, 'Rook', Amsterdam, NL
1998 Gallery Intermezzo, Dordrecht, NL | Handmade Prints, Amsterdam, NL | Beurs van Berlage, 'Rietveld naar de Beurs', Amsterdam, NL | Gallery Schmucksache, Cologne, D | Museum of Decorative Arts, 'European Jewellery: A Matter of Materials', Montreal, CA | Gallery Metallum, Stockholm, SE | Nederlands Textielmuseum, 'Blikvangers: een niewe kijk op accessoires', Tilburg, NL | Kunsthal Rotterdam, 'Positions', Rotterdam, NL | The Stones Gallery, San Francisco, USA | 'Art-tour' Monnickendam, NL
1997 Gallery Ra, '20 years RA', Amsterdam, NL |Beurs van Berlage, 'Rietveld naar de Beurs', Amsterdam, NL | KunstRAI, Galerie Louise Smit, Amsterdam, NL | South Carelia Polytechnic, 'Alchemy – The Stone of Wisdom', Lappeenranta, FI | Craft Victoria Gallery, Melbourne, AU | Stedelijk Museum, 'Scanning: Toegepaste Kunst en Fotografie in Amsterdam 1996', Amsterdam, NL
1996 Zimmerhof, Bad Rappenau, DE | Muszeum Cescueho Raje, 'Sympozium Sperk a Drahokam v Turnove', Turnov, CZ | Klessheim Castle, ‘Schmuck im Schloss’, Salzburg, AT
1995 Stichting Beeldende Kunst, Gelderland, NL | Gallery Mei Ling Knibbe, Edam, NL | Museum of Applied Arts, Ghent, BE | Schouwburg, 'Presentation Artist Stimulation Award', Amstelveen, NL | Kunstuitleen Krabbedans, Eindhoven, NL | Goldsmith Hall Department Design and Technology, 'The Class of '95', London GB
1994 Museum Aemstelle, 'Degree Show', Amstelveen, NL | Gallery Ra, 'Degree Show', Amsterdam, NL | Galerie Marzee, 'International Graduation Show 1994', Nijmegen, NL
1993 Collage Foundation, 'Sculptures for Blinds and Seeing', Kortehoef, NL

Organisation and Teaching:
2006 Head of the Metalsmithing Department, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI. USA
2000-2007 Head of the Jewellery Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL

2014 Lecture/Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin- Madison, US
2013 Lecture/Visiting Professor, Oregon College of Art and Craft/Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, US | Lecture, Bezalel, Jerusalem, IL | Lecture/Visiting Professor, Fine Arts School Hangzhou Normal University, CN
2012 Workshop, Zorefet, Galilee, IL
2011 Lecture/Visiting Professor, Savanna College of Art and Design, Savannah, US | Lecture/Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. USA
2010 Summer Workshop Instructor, Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School, Florence, IT | Lecture ‘Many Places Later,’ Idar Oberstein, Schmuck Denken ‘6, DE | Lecture/Visiting Professor, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH. USA | Lecture/Visiting Professor, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. USA | Visiting Professor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RH. USA
2009 Lecturer/Workshop, ‘Koru 3,’ Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, Imatra, FI | Lecture/Visiting Professor, University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA. USA | Lecture/Visiting Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. USA
2008 Lecturer, Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) Conference, Savannah, GA. USA | Visiting Profesor, Kendal College of Art and Desgin, Grand Rapids, MI. USA
2007 Lecturer, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA. USA | Visiting Professor, South Carelia Polytechinic, Lappeenranta, FI | Member of the Advisory Panel of the Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam, NL | Visiting Professor, Alchimia Contemporary Jewlellery School, Florence, IT | Workshop/Seminar, ‘Flags,’ Konstfack, Stockholm, SE
2006 Visiting Pfoessor, Hiko Mizuno Collge, Toyko, JP | Visiting Professor, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, ZA | Lecturer, Interactive Africa/Design Indaba, Cape Town, ZA | Visiting Professor, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY. USA | Visiting Professor, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI. USA
2005 Workshop/Seminar, ‘Identity,’ Konstfack, Stockholm, SE | Lecturer, Zeichenakademie, Hanau, DE | Lecturer, Design Institute, Honk Kong, CN | Visiting Professor, Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Training, Hong Kong, CN
2004 Workshop, ‘Science and Art,’ Minerva Academy, Groningen, NL | Lecturer ‘The Eternal Body,’ Nederlands Instituut, Rome, IT | Lecturer ‘The Eternal Body,’ Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, NL | Lecturer ‘The Eternal Body,’ Academie Beeledende Kunsten, Maastricht, NL
2003 Lecturer ‘Bare Boundaries,’ Applied Art Museum, Tallin, EE
2000 Organization Artist Stimulation Award, Committee Member, Amsterdam, NL
1997-2007 Professor, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
1997-2006 Organizer and Director of ‘Rietveld naar de Beurs’ Fair/Exhibition, Amsterdam, NL
1994 – 1997 Visiting Professor, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
1996 – 2001 Visiting Professor, South Carelia Polytechnic, Lappeenranta, FI
1995; 1997 Organizer/Director of Haldenhof Symposium, Bad Rappenau, DE

Commissions:
2003 Stichting Cultuurfonds, Den Haag, business gift
2002 EKWC, "Dutch Souvenirs", 's Hertogenbosch
2001 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Business Club
1999 Schmuckforum Deutschland, Köln, business gift 

Purchases:
EKWC, ‘s Hertogenbosch, NL | Fondation National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, FR | Francoise van der Bosch, Stichting, Amsterdam, NL | Gemeentemuseum Arnhem, NL | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US | Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, US | Museum of Arts and Design, New York, US | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, US | Muszeum Cesueho Raje, Turnov, CZ | Nederland Textielmuseum, Tilburg, NL | Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NL | The Rohsska Museum of Design and Decorative Arts, Goteborg, SE | Rotasa Foundation, Mill Valley, CA, US | Schmuck Museum Pforzheim, DE | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam NL
 

Gallery Ornamentum, Hudson, NY, USA
Studio GR 20, Milan, Padua, I
Gallery Platina, Stockholm, S
Galerie Verzameld Werk, Gent, B
Galerie SO, Solothurn, CH
Gallery Deux Poissons, Tokyo, Japan
Paul Kotula Projects, Ferndale, Mi. USA