Spring/Summer 16_green gold

In 2016 the two German artists Susan Pietzsch and Valentina Seidel started their new project spring/summer 16_green gold at the HOCHsitz/ Glashagen MV. For a week the two artists wrapped the HOCHsitz Atelier in golden foil.

A temporary installation and performance that challenges gold both in art and in the context of jewellery. At the same time, however, the work also questioned places for artistic productions and interprets the concept of architecture in interplay with jewellery. Nestled in a place of yearning, for a limited time, the resulting photographic work is the artistic product that is preserved.

1997 - 2017
20 years of Schmuck2

2017 marked 20 years since Schmuck2 was founded by the German artist Susan Pietzsch. Pietzsch's working practice encompasses a wide scope-comprehensive work on projects reflecting contemporary concepts of jewellery, initiated under the name of Schmuck2 since 1997. In so doing, Pietzsch's focus lies on international, artistic collaborations in which she explores the significance of jewellery and the boundaries of the concept of jewellery in our contemporary society.

With Schmuck2 the artist explores unusual and novel representations of contemporary concepts of jewellery and brings together in its interdisciplinary projects representatives from different cultural areas. The intention of this process is the multi-faceted presentation of jewellery as a phenomenon based on unconventional and experimental fine and applied art.

In addition, the artist has documented her work extensively and carefully in many publications.


Installation at the HOCHsitz by Susan Pietzsch and Valentina Seidel 2016. Photography by Valentina Seidel.
Texts by Anne Schloen, Makiko Akiyama and an interview by Benjamin Lignel in conversation with Susan Pietzsch (English and Japanese).

Design by: T.S.Wendelstein (75W)
Photography: Valentina Seidel
Translation by: Makiko Akiyama and Bailey Translations
Editorial Staff: Susan Pietzsch and Benjamin Lignel
Proofreading: Nathalie Mornu and Cathy Cox
Pre-press: Humme Leipzig

Edition of 300.
 

About the author

Susan Pietzsch is a German jewellery artist based in Germany and Japan. In addition to her own artistic work, Pietzsch’s working practice encompasses a wide scope-comprehensive work on projects reflecting contemporary concepts of jewellery, which she has initiated under the name of Schmuck2 since 1997. In so doing, Pietzsch's focus lies on international, artistic collaborations in which she explores unusual and novel representations of current concepts of jewellery.
 
With projects such as: "Wrappinghood," a project in public space for the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (2005); the poster project "Glitz and then Some - Things in the Everyday Life of Art" (2007); the "Discursive Picnic" involving audience participation parallel to the Handwerksmesse at the MaximiliansForum in Munich (2011); the workshop and exhibition "JEWELLERY HYPERREAL - How could jewellery be transferred into hyperreality?" (2012-14); and the jewellery hunt "Jewelry Hunting - Die Jagd nach dem Schmuckbild"; along with the HOCHsitz Atelier (2013), Susan Pietzsch formulates multifaceted interpretations of contemporary views of jewellery using conceptions that range between applied and fine arts. In addition, the artist has extensively and carefully documented her work in many publications.