Intensity and Enchantment
Mirjam Hiller
The fascination of man-made constructions, the inspiration coming from the flora, with its never-ending variety and depth of detail, the boundless wealth and complexity of emotions, the enthusiasm for simplicity behind complex structures, the necessity to explore the balance between total control and coincidental incidents, the permanent longing for intensity and enchantment, the carving to see what is filling me out inside taking on a shape in my hands, all this allows my jewelry to grow.
Brooch Buttons, steel, color coating
Collier Buttons, steel, color coating
Biography
born 1974 in Stuttgart, Germany
2016 studio in Hechingen, Germany
2008–2015 studio in Potsdam, Germany
2003 –2008 studies at Pforzheim University, Faculty of Design, Pforzheim, Germany
2005–2006 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada
1999–2002 Goldschmiedeschule Pforzheim, Germany
1996–1999 Juweller Hunke, Ludwigsburg, Germany
Awards (selection)
2009 Grassi award of the Galerie Slavik Vienna, Grassi Fair, Leipzig, Germany
2009 inhorgenta europe Innovation Award, Munich, Germany
2008 Newcomer Subsidy Award for Jewelry and Everyday Objects of ”Bertha Heraeus und Kathinka Platzhoff Stiftung” and ”Gesellschaft für Goldschmiedekunst e.V.“, Hanau, Germany
2008 BKV-Prize for Young Applied Arts, Munich, Germany
2008 Subsidy Award for Young Applied Arts, “Handwerksmuseum”, Deggendorf, Germany
2008 Friends of Carlotta Jewelry and Subsidy Award, Zurich, Switzerland (honourable mention)
2008 ISSP Subsidy Award, Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Germany
2000 German Newcomer Award for Gemstone and Jewelry Design, Idar-Oberstein, Germany
Work in public collections
CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Newark Museum, Newark, USA
Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Germany
Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Germany
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima), Middlesbrough, Great Britain
Mint Museum of Art and Design, Charlotte NC, USA
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Birmingham Museum, Birmingham, Great Britain
Kolumba Museum, Cologne, Germany
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA
Brooches Atrosanea and Syspera türkis, steel, color coating
Brooch, steel, color coating
photos © Eva Jünger, Mirjam Hiller
