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Galerie MARZEE,
Nijmegen (NL)
30.03.–04.06.2025
The Department of Metal Design & Jewellery from the University of Applied Science and Art in Hildesheim exhibits at the renowned Galerie MARZEE in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Galerie Marzee is known as the world’s largest gallery of its kind in the field of “Contemporary Jewellery and Object”. Under the leadership of Prof. Melanie Isverding, 26 students exhibit their latest works.
This year’s exhibition is characterized by an equally creative and sustainable exhibition display, developed from materials of the preceding second exhibition in 2024 at Galerie MARZEE. The future repurposing of the materials had already been anticipated with the creation of the scenography titled “hang out—for a quiet moment” back then.
For the presentation of the university, the gallery owner is offering the most prominent space: a glass house nearly nine meters tall, which can be fully viewed from the outside on two sides. Inspired by the idea of a summer house, a complete house with a typical cross-section and a height of four meters will be set up slightly askew within this glass house. Light fabric panels will form both walls and roof fragments, creating an outer shell that shapes the silhouette of the house. To create platforms for the exhibition displays, cubes have been made that are looped and tensioned within these fabric panels, forming cabinets that resemble rooms. “Mehrbettzimmer” (dormitory) has become the title of the exhibition. The interlocking surface landscape of the walls can now foster very friendly, dialogue-rich, and reflective neighborhoods among the objects in the exhibition. Wall passages allow visitors to navigate through. Flooded with light and featuring an optical movement on the house walls, it brings to mind associations with a paternoster. A symbolic house emerges—a permeable house, a house of collaboration, a house with surprising niches and stages. Spatial hideouts and spatial insights will leave the objects residing within with their presence one way or another.
The exhibition features spatial and body-related objects, as well as jewellery, where individual themes and approaches led to the development of specific work processes and innovative material transformations. In their semester projects for 2024 and 2025, 26 students contributed various positions in the exhibition, developing and exploring material as a means of expression for their narratives. A forward-thinking and intuitive understanding of meaning, context, and the relationship between material and form was fundamental to these projects. “Material is rarely understood universally; the integration of social, individual, and cultural embedded meanings influences its application and interpretation. Here, material is treated very personally in its semantic storytelling capability, serving as a resource, image carrier, and communicator, resulting in independent objects. These are sociocultural objects that maintain their distinctiveness, impact individuals, and exist through their intra-activity, performativity, and integrity,” explains Prof. Melanie Isverding.
Sommersemester 25
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Material is rarely understood universally; the integration of social, individual, and cultural embedded meanings influences its application and interpretation.
