Margit Jäschke: Kairos

Book / Arnoldsche Monograph

Published: 08.07.2022

Susanne Altmann
Karl Bollmann

Text by:: Susanne Altmann, Karl Bollmann, Olga Zobel Biró, Patti Bleicher, Margit Jäschke

Edited by:: Arnoldsche Art Publishers

Edited on:: 2022

Technical data:: 160 pages 20 x 28 cm, 132 ills. Brochure with stiff cover. English / German

ISBN / ISSN:: 978-3-89790-658-7

Price:: from 38 €

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Margit Jäschke
Necklace: Untitled, 2019
Gold, silver gold plated, epoxy.
Photo by: Mattias Ritzmann

Pages from book, Margit Jäschke: Kairos

The artist does by no means aim to simply contrast exuberant pomp with modest elements. Rather, she addresses issues of affluence, overabundance, and resource exploitation in a contemporary stance. When she elevates supposedly inferior, broken, or discarded, she acts allegorically in terms of a new aesthetic quality of recycling that can be accompanied by ethical and economic impulses. It might come as a surprise to invoke the field of discourse of the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe here, who has repeatedly spoken of the concept of “care & repair”: attention to everyday objects and the common course of their repair.

Quote from Susanne Altmann from the Silver on a paper tray. A twelve-linked chain of thoughts on the artistic program of Margit Jäschke. Published in the book, titled Margit Jäschke: Kairos, published by Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2022.

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Margit Jäschke delights her audience with her very unique “poetry of things.” The title of her publication is thus also symbolic of her oeuvre: Kairos is the Greek god of the fortuitous moment, who can only be caught fleetingly by his forelock.

Margit Jäschke (1962) lives and works as an independent artist in Halle (Saale). It was here in the 1980s that she studied jewelry at the art school at Burg Giebichenstein. Her works—jewelry, drawings, and objects—celebrate the special moment of inspiration, the origin of all creativity.

It is this precious moment that Margit Jäschke seizes and inspires her to create impressive works. Discover this renowned artist’s multifaceted oeuvre, which transcends the demarcations between jewelry, painting, and sculpture in her subtle characteristic style.

With further contributions by Patti Bleicher and Olga Zobel.

Exhibition venues:
GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst Leipzig (DE), 5.5.–25.9.2022;
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim (DE), 9.12.2022–16.4.2023;
Galerie Biró. Munich (DE), March–April 2023;
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (DE), November 2023 – April 2024