Margrit Linder

Margrit Linder, 1947, Zurich, Switzerland

Education:
1963-1966 apprenticeship as window-dresser
1966-1969 Worked as window-dresser in Switzerland
1966-1970 Emigration to Australia, worked as a window-dresser in Sydney, Australia
1971-1972 Shop “Nigels Birthday” for arts and crafts in Sydney
1972-1975 Training in jewellery with Wal van Heekeren in Sydney
1976-1979 Studies in jewellery at the HGKZ, University for Art and Craft, Fachklasse für Schmuck und Gerät, Zürich
1980-2000 Family, one child
1990-2005 further formations: masterclasses by Rian de Jong, NL, Onno Boekhoudt, NL, Ilya und Emilia Kabakov, USA, Boris Groys, D/USA, Christoph Zellweger and others.

Exhibitions (selection):
works until 2012 in East Kalimantan, Indonesia
2009 “Multiplay”, Gallery Friends of Carlotta, Zürich, Switzerland“ringvormen”, Steunpunt Beeldende Kunst Zwevegem, Belgium
2008 Atelierpresentation, Bundanon Trust, NSW, Australia “Horror Vacui” Gallery Friends of Carlotta, Zürich
2006 “iris siberica”, Kutscherhaus südhang, Kirchlindach, Bern, Switzerland |  „preview“ in the Swiss National Museum, Zürich “At home”, Gallery Annick Zuffery, Carouge, Geneva
2005 „Schmuckinterventionen“ in the Swiss National Museum, Zürich
2004/2005 „Balztool“, Gallery Friends of Carlotta, Zürich, Switzerland | „200 Rings“, Travelling exhibition, Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco, | Obsidian Gallery, Tuscon, Gallery M, Cleveland, Sam Shaw Gallery, Northeast Harbor, Facere Gallery, Seattle
2004 „FLUX Design Biennale“, Luzern, Switzerland | „Im Durchzug“, lightinstallation in the projekt „Pro Fuge“, Zürich “le Sentier du Recyclage”, Gallery Annick Zufferey, Carouge, Geneva
2002/2003 „Schweizerschmuck im 20. Jahrhundert“, Genf, Zürich, Ligornetto
2003 Performances in the Swiss National Museum Schmunzelschmuck during the exhibition “Schweizerschmuck im 20. Jahrhundert”
“Si, quiero”, Gallery Forum Ferlandina, Barcelona
2002 “Broches“, Gallery Forum Ferlandina, Barcelona | „Recycling“, Gallery Contacto Directo, Lisbon | “Echt Kunst-Stoff”, Gallery V&V, Vienna
2001 „Handmirror“, Museum Villa am Aabach, Uster, Switzerland | „Kunst hautnah“ Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2000 „Im Garten und von anderswo“, Gallery V&V, Vienna | „Präsent“ Gewerbemuseum, Winterthur

Distinctions
2008 April, Artist in residence at Bundanon Trust, Australia NSW
2006 Jan. to March, Artist in residence in the clinic “Südhang”, Kirchlindach, Bern
2004+2005 Purchase jewellery, Swiss National Museum, Zürich
2003 Purchase rings, Alice und Louis Koch, Ringcollection, GB
1998 1. Price, Ikea-Foundation, for “Handmirror”, (competition)
1997 Purchase jewellery, Commission Cantonale for Arts and Crafts, Bern
1996 1. Price, Ikea-Foundation, (Competition, Coproduction with Barbara Thüler)
1994 Purchase jewellery, Commission Cantonale for Arts and Crafts, Bern
1993 Bourse from the Commission Cantonale for Arts and Crafts, Bern
1988 Purchase jewellery, Commission Cantonale for Arts and Crafts, Bern

Teachings
Since 2009 IAC intergratives Ausbildungs Zentrum, Zürich
Since 2005 Naturzentrum Sihlwald |  School for Ergotherapie
Since 2004 Migros Clubschule
Since 2000 In my studio

Friends of Carlotta, Zürich
Beatrice Lang, Bern
Annick Zufferey, Carouge
Noosphere, Basel