Schmuckstammtisch Wien: LEARNING FROM EACH OTHER. A TRANDISCIPLINARY UNDERSTANDING OF JEWELLERY

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Lecture: LEARNING FROM EACH OTHER. A TRANDISCIPLINARY UNDERSTANDING OF JEWELLERY

In our presentation we give an insight into the specific approach of Schmuckstammtisch Wien: In each of our events we discuss a specific aspect of the contemporary jewellery scene together with two guests, some of whom are based in very opposite disciplines. This allows us to jointly discover new perspectives on jewellery as a starting point of communication and on the very social relationships that can be established through jewellery. Our presentation uses selected topics that we have discussed since the founding of Schmuckstammtisch Wien in the summer of 2020 to show how fruitful this approach is – after all, it impressively testifies to how connectable contemporary jewellery is indeed for a variety of topics and disciplines and to what they can “learn” from the field of jewellery.

Schmuckstammtisch Wien / Katharina Schniebs

Schmuckstammtisch Wien is a cross-generational networking platform for the contemporary jewellery scene and all those interested in jewellery in Vienna. It was founded in 2020 by Katharina Kielmann, Ariane Reither and Katharina Schniebs, three Vienna-based jewellery enthusiasts. With their monthly-held events they strive to highlight and discuss current topics of the local as well as the international scene and enable a lively exchange about these issues.

Together with Katharina Kielmann and Ariane Reither, Katharina Schniebs is one of three founders of Schmuckstammtisch Wien

Katharina obtained a degree in cultural studies as well as communication and media studies from the University of Leipzig. At the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, she earned her master’s degree in the graduate program Cultures of the Curatorial. Focussing on press and public relations, over the past fifteen years Katharina has worked for institutions like Grassi Museum of Applied Arts Leipzig, the Saxony-Anhalt Arts Foundation, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, Vienna Secession and the Royal Society of Sculptors London. Currently she is responsible for the press and public relations of Kunsthalle Wien. Another focus of Katharina’s work that has recently developed is the (copy-)editing of artists‘ books.