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Silke Fleischer                                   Art Skills

°1975       BE/AT                                  jewellery
                                 ceramic
                                                            curating
silke@silkefleischer.com                   scenography
www.silkefleischer.com gallery
                                                            research
                      art direction
              education
                                                            

Language

Dutch       native
English     expert
German    expert

Most days you can find Silke in the forest or heather fields around her studio. Shortly after her Master degree in jewellery, in addition to her own studio, she organized a show space for contemporary jewellery, first in Antwerp and later on abroad. In her work, Silke is concerned with finding a language, aspects of life, whilst her approach is reaching beyond mere technique, convention or routine. It is characterized by an open attitude and the will to explore boundaries in the field, in her own practice and in the content she develops with her students as towards concepts or events. Currently she is developing her jewellery research together with commissioned work.

WORK

2024 — 2023     Active member Brussels Jewellery Week (BE)
2024 — 2015     Teacher Jewellery design, Teacher Project, Academie beeld Berchem (BE)
2015 — 2014     Visiting tutor, Object & Jewellery, Mad-Faculty, PXL University College, Hasselt (BE)
2014 — 2012     Founder Jewellery Sessions
2005 — 2010     Founder Silke & THE GALLERY, Antwerp (BE)
2009     Lecture Sint Lucas University College of Art & Design, Antwerp KDG (BE)
2005     Workshop Design Museum Ghent (BE)
2024 — 2005     Teacher Jewellery design, d’Academie beeld, Sint-Niklaas (BE)
2024 — 2002     Independent Art Professional

EDUCATION

1999 — 2002     MA Jewellery / Silversmithing, Campus St Lucas, KdG University of Applied Science and Arts, Antwerp (BE)
1995 — 1999     MA Ceramics, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, AP University College, Antwerp (BE)
1993 — 1995     Dramatic Art, De Kleine Academie, Brussels (BE)

WORKSHOPS

2016         CHADO (the way of thee) class, Staf Daems, Japanese Center Berlaar (BE) 
2014         Masterclass Rosas, Cynthia Loemij, Vormingscentrum Destelheide, Brussels (BE)
2014         Workshop ‘Suomussalmi’, Markku Hakuri (FI), Aalto University, Department of Art & Design, Suomussalmi (FI)
2014 — 2013     Film and video, Academy of Fine Arts, Sint Niklaas (BE)
2013         Dance class Isabelle Soupart (FR/BE) ‘Focus sur la présence et l’intelligence corporelle’, Brussels (BE)
2013         Workshop Ultima Vez,  Iñaki Azpillaga (ES) ‘Partnering & floor work’, Antwerp (BE)
2013         Workshop Helen Carnac (UK) and Laila Diallo (UK), ‘sharing moving making, Independent Dance/Siobhan Davies Dance, London (UK)
2013         Workshop Isabella Soupart (FR/BE) ‘from dance to performance’, Studio Joji Inc, Brussels (BE)
2013         Research European Ceramic Workcentre, ’porcelain digital fabrication’, fablab noord brabant, sundaymorning@ekwc ’s-Hertogenbosch (NL)
2013         Workshop Benjamin Lignel (FR) ‘You are now leaving Switzerland – or a crash course on how to occupy the public space’, St Lucas University College of Art & Design, Antwerp KDG (BE) 
2011         Workshop Christophe Zellweger (CH) ‘Points of no return’, St Lucas University College of Art & Design, Antwerp KDG(BE) 
2011         Workshop Hanna Hedman (SE) ‘Within’, Jewellery Sessions 01I11, St. Lucas Antwerp (BE)
2011         Workshop Karen Whitens (BE) ’3D printed jewellery’, i.materialise, Brussels (BE)
2011 — 2010     Open Edelsmeed – Atelier, Siegfried De Buck (BE), St Lucas University College of Art & Design, Antwerp KDG (BE) 
2010         Workshop Anita Evenepoel (BE), Vormingscentrum Destelheide, Brussels (BE) 
2002 — 1999    Workshop Hilde De Decker (BE) Cristina Filipe (PT) St Lucas University College of Art & Design, Antwerp KDG (BE) 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 OBSESSED! Jewellery Festival, Current Obsession, cabinet valerie_traan gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2023 Budapest Jewellery Week, Hybridart Space Gallery, Re:Action, Budapest (HU)
2023 Artificial Intelligems, Ornamisms (WEB)
2022 Brussels Jewellery Week, Mad House of Creators, InFieri, Brussels (BE)
2022 — 2021 Gallery Alliages, Until death do us part, Lille (Fr), Munich Jewellery Week (DE), Gallery Lalabeyou, Madrid (ES)
2021 Obsessed! Jewellery Festival, Current Obsession, Loop & Loupe, Galerie Daisy Verheyden, Antwerp (BE)
2021 Current Obsession, environment Rendez-Vous, Munich Jewellery Week (PUBLICATION)
2021 Artificial Intelligems, Dreaming Session, Showcase #1 Munich Jewellery Week (WEB)
2018        valerie_traan gallery Antwerp, From Walter to Valerie. A corporation between the Jewellery Design department St Lucas School of Arts Antwerp, Walter Fischer GmbH Co. KG and Veerle Wenes (BE)
From Walter to DIVA Museum Antwerp (BE), From Walter to Sieraad Amsterdam (NL)
2018        Current Obsession, week long festival, Doing the No No, Munich Jewellery Week (DE)
2018 — 2017 European Triënnale for Contemporary Jewellery, Open Source Jewellery, selected by A5 Sweden, WCC-BF, Mons (BE), Stockholm's Län (SE), Atelier de Paris (FR)
2017       Kunsthal Extra City,  Inter City, Berchem (BE)
2016       Munich Jewellery Week,  (IM)PRINT, Gallery Easy-up Stream (DE) with Hanna Hedman, Liesbet Bussche, Lin Cheung, David Clarke, Beatrice Brovia, Nicolas Cheng, Yuka Oyama, Nils Hint, Göran Kling, Niels V D Wouwer
2015        Villa Bengel,  “Belgisch bei Bengel”, Idar-Oberstein (DE), Munich Jewellery Week (DE), with Peter Vermandere, Arnaud Sprimont, Carine Van Landeghem
2014         European Triënnale for Contemporary Jewellery, WCC-BF, Mons (BE)
2014         Goldschmiedehaus Hanau (DE), Klingenmuseum (DE), A touch of steel, a corporation between the Jewellery Design department Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Artesis Plantijn University College, Carl Mertens Solingen
2013         Z33, House for Contemporary Art, The Wilde Things - The so contemporary jewellery collection of Mrs. Wilde, Hasselt (BE)
2013         Gallery blås&knåda “Like a pale spring…”, Stockholm (SE)
2013         Gallery Platina, This is where they met.  Jewellery Sessions 3I13, Munich Jewellery Week, Neue Messe München (DE) / Design Center De Winkelhaak Antwerp (BE)
2013         The Atrium Gallery, The School of Jewellery, Birmingham (UK), Studio Gabi Green, Suspend.ed in pink, TMunich (DE)
2012         Tallinn 6th Applied Art Triennial, The art of collecting (ET)
2012         Enjoia’t, Contemporary Jewellery Award, Barcelona (ES)
2012         Gallery Caroline Van Hoek, This was (my) 2007, Brussels (BE)
2012         Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER, Ritual, The Gallery of Art, Legnica (PL) 
2012 — 2010     Op Voorraad, Amsterdam (NL) Tapei (TW) Antwerp (BE) Arnhem (NL) Berlin (DE), Zürich (CH) Eindhoven (NL) Barcelona (ES)
2012         Munich Jewellery Week 2012 MURMURation, with Adam Grinovich, Dana Hakim, Hannah Joris, Jorge Manilla, Peter Vermandere, Munich (DE)
2012         Schmuck – Show 2012, concept Gallery Biró, Munich (DE)
2011         European Triënnale for Contemporary Jewellery, WCC-BF, Mons (BE)
2011         PIN Anonimum, EXD’II/Lisboa (PT)
2011         Art gallery ‘Putti’, Conceptual Jewellery, Riga (LV)
2011         Ghyczy – New values, Changing Jewellery by 10, Berlin (DE)
2011         Munich Jewellery Week 2011 I am sorry, there’s no title (Jewellery from Belgium), with Jorge Manilla, Willy Van De Velde, Peter Vermandere
2011 — 2009     Garbage Pin, Riga (LV) Barcelona (ES) Lisbon (PT) Antwerp (BE) Los Angeles (US) Porto (PT)
2010         Wesel Art Gallery/Design Flanders, 7th Biënnale Bijoux Sauvage, Brussels (BE)
2010 — 2008     Design Flanders, Je suis DADA …, Turin (IT) Brussels (BE) Vienna (AT) Praha (CZ) Göteborg (SE), Budapest (HU) Madrid (ES) Eindhoven (NL) Milan (IT) Oslo (NO)
2008         European Triënnale for Contemporary Jewellery WCC-BF, Mons (BE)
2008         Design Museum Ghent (BE) Tête – à – tête
2007         Villa de Bondt, Ghent(BE) Migration in Jewels in Migration
2007         Museum Waterland, New design from Belgium / Vrije vormgeving en sieraden, Purmerend(NL)
2005 — 2003     Diamond High Council Awards, movement(s), Diamondmuseum Antwerp (BE) Hong Kong (CN), Shanghai (CN) La Valetta (MT) Basel (CH) Amsterdam (NL)
2005         Design Museum Ghent (BE), Fantasy Design
2003         Fashionmuseum Hasselt (BE), BAG AGE
2002         Marzee, International final year projects, Nijmegen (NL)

SOLO — 2023 Closer Distant, cabinet valerie_traan Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
SOLO — 2006     ARTE FACT /10, International symposium, St Lucas University College of Art & Design, Antwerp KDG (BE)