Gisbert Stach
The creative practices of the German artist include jewellery, installation, object, and video art. Materiality, arbitrariness of meaning, social and value-related issues, and the consumer’s relation to the world of objects are the most frequent topics in the works of Stach. The works touch upon such emotional situations as confusion and uncertainty, and the viewer observing the transformation of the art pieces is encouraged to discover new ways of perception and use of the objects. The artistic practices of Stach – the destruction of pieces of jewellery by exposing them to chemical substances, setting them in unexpected urban spaces or turning into targets for knife throwing – redefine the perception of the art of jewellery. Stach replaces the ordinary creation of jewellery by performance, where the pieces lose their decorative purpose and become conceptual, self-reflective objects. According to the artist, his works offer a commentary on the consumerist culture as well as discreetly destroying the quality of objects to serve the world of glamour or satisfy its vain needs.
Born in 1963 in Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany
Lives and works in Graefelfing and Munich, Germany
Education
1991-1996 Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany
1988-1990 University of Applied Sciences for Art and Design, Cologne, Germany
1984-1987 Professional training as silversmith at the Staatliche Berufsfachschule für Glas und Schmuck, Kaufbeuren-Neugablonz, Germany
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Galerie Putti, Riga, Latvia (with Réka Lörincz)
2014 Pearls, you are choking me!, 3stations gallery, Munich, Germany
2014 Import – Export (together with Rose Stach), Melting Point, Centro del Carmen, Museo de Bellas Artes, Valencia, Spain
2012 Transit Zone (together with Rose Stach), (AV17) Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2010 Crisis? What crisis? (together with Rose Stach), Gallery of Art, Legnica, Poland
2004 Meilensteine, Gästekasino, Versicherungskammer Bayern, Munich, Germany
2003 Embedded Jewellery, Galerie V&V, Vienna, Austria
1998 Gioielli di Gisbert Stach, Officina PD 362, Padova, Italy
Group Exhibitions
2017 Danner-Preis 2017, Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
2017 angewanzt, Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein, Munich, Germany
2017 Medusa, Bijoux et Tabous, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
2017 tog_ther! Fill in: e or a, Kunstpavillon, Munich, Germany
2016 Förderpreise 2016, Lothringer13 Halle, Munich, Germany
2016 (Illusion) Interior, Petofi Literary Museum, Budapest, Hungaria
2016 Contemporary Jewellery Permanent Collection of the Raffael Cominelli Foundation, Padua, Italy
2016 Behind the Scenes, (AV17) Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016 Schmuck 2016, IHM, Munich, Germany
2015 On the elementary power of jewellery oder Schmuck als Urgewalt, MaximiliansForum – Passage für Kunst und Design, Munich, Germany
2015 Site 3065 South East Corner, Radiant Pavilion, Melbourne, Australia
2015 Amber Chamber, Legnica, Poland
2015 Gdansk Baltic Amber Biennale, Gdansk, Poland
2014 Foerderpreise 2014, Lothriner13 Halle, Munich, Germany
2014 METALLOphone: Personally, 2nd International Biennal of Contemporary Metal Art, (AV17) Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014 Difference et repetition, Galerie Kraft, Bergen, Norway, NextLevel Galerie, Paris, France
2014 Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography, MAD Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
2013 Silvertriennale International, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau (traveling exhibition: Trondheim, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Solingen, Frankfurt, Munich)
2013/15 A Touch of Steel, Deutsches Klingelmuseum, Solingen, Germany (traveling exhibition: Hanau, Brusseles, Lège)
2013 Con-decorados, Galeria Klimt02, Barcelona, Spain
2013 Hardened Tears, Villa de Bondt, Gent (traveling exhibition: Gdansk, Legnica, Ribnitz-Damgarten, Valencia)
2012 Schmuck 2012, IHM, Munich, Germany, MuVIM, Valencia, Spain
2011 Schmuck Wander, Galerie des Slowakischen Instituts, Berlin, Germany
2011 Danner Preis 2011, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
2011 Hochdosiert, Handwerksmuseum Deggendorf, Germany / Sieradenkoorts, Steinbeisser Project, Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011 Design week 2011, Budapest, Hungary
2011 Premio per il Gioiello Contemporaneo, Fondazione Cominelli, Brescia, Italy
2011 Matters of Life and Death, Kath Libbert Jewellery Gallery, Salts Mill, Bradford, UK
2011 Recycling, Silvermuseum Sterckshof, Antwerp, Belgium
2011 Kunstherberge Birkenau, Munich, Germany
2011 Holy, 3 stations gallery, Munich, Germany
2010 Dormitory_Bauleitung_Laboratorio, Atelier Gisbert Stach, Munich, Germany
2010 Transformation, Kreuzkirche, 2nd Ecumenical Kirchentag, Munich, Germany
2008 Der katholische Faktor, Städtische Galerie Leerer Beutel, Regensburg, Germany
2008 The Fat Booty of Madness, The International Design Museum, Munich, Germany
2008 Skandal! 15th International Silverart Competition, Galeria Sztuki, Legnica, Poland
2005 Danner-Preis 2005, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum (Bavarian National Museum), Munich, Germany
2002 lovely, Kunstverein Kohlenhof, Nuremberg, Germany
2002 Mikromegas, Galerie für angewandte Kunst, Munich/American Craft Museum, New York, USA
2001 Musée de l’horlogerie et de l’émaillerie, Geneve, Switzerland
Works in public collections
Fondazione Cominelli, Brescia, Italy
Museo de Arte Moderno, Tarragona, Spain
Museum of Arts & Crafts, Itami, Japan
Gallery of Art, Legnica, Poland
Museum of Bohemian Paradise, Turnov, Czech Republic
Amber Museum, Gdansk, Poland
Awards
2017 Danner Merit Award, Munich, Germany
2017-2019 Studio Scholarship of the City of Munich, Germany
2013 1st Prize, category jewellery, III. Internationaler Bernstein-Kunstpreis der Ostseeanliegerstaaten, Ribnitz-Damgarten, Germany
2011 Amberif Design Award 2011, Grand Prix, Gdansk, Poland,
2006 15th International Silverart Competition, Grand Prix, Gallery of Art in Legnica, Poland
Workshops / teaching experience
2011 Shenkar College of Engeneering and Design, Tel Aviv, Israel
2011 Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
2010 Dar Al-Kalima College, Bethlehem, Palestine
2009 Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
