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Craft Hub Exhibition – Investigating Craft Practices Across Europe
05 – 19 May 2023 at Glasmalerei Peters Studios, Germany
Local theme: glass art and its technical possibilities
The Glasmalerei Peters Studios are a touring exhibition partner of Craft Hub. As its second stop, the exhibition could be visited from 9 to 15 May at the Gallery of the Glasmalerei Peters Studios. Visitors were able to explore different kinds of contents including craft processes and showcase pieces.
Craft Hub selected a showcase piece by Belgium glass artist Christine Vanoppen especially for the exhibition in Germany, as it was too fragile to travel to all exhibitions. It is a woven complex construction made in borosilicate glass with flameworking that evokes reminiscences of a sketch in space. Through a play of light, shadow and transparency, the visitors are invited to reflect on the fragility and complexity of life.
Local craft practitioners were also represented. Glass art pieces by these 14 German artists were chosen: Undine Bandelin, Tobias Eder, Christoph Ganter, Norman Gebauer, Günter Grohs, Karsten Habighorst, Mario Haunhorst, Marlet Heckhoff, Ursula Huth, Dana Meyer, Wolfgang Nickel, Annegrete Riebesel, Petra Stöppel and Angela Willeke.
They were inspired by a single theme, “Searching for the Light of the World”. The artists created panels in a standard format.
The result is a completely original collection that shows their artistic interpretation of the topic and a wide variety of glass design techniques. This allowed the visitors of the exhibition in Paderborn to immerse themselves even more fully in the pictorial world of these contemporary artists and in the vast universe of glass art and light that serves the pursuit of artistic creativity.
Visitors were also able to tour the facilities of Glasmalerei Peters and see craftsmen in their element. The creation of stained glass has a long-standing history in Germany. At the exhibition event “Craft Heritage and Social Inclusion“, participants were invited to discuss how crafts can become a tool for the inclusion of different generations and on how the heritage of crafts can be passed down to the next generation.
With this collection of glass artworks and the glass workshop tours the local theme of glass art and its technical possibilities were showcased in the exhibition in Paderborn, Germany.