Contemporary Craft

Margit Jäschke – Kairos

29.11.23 – 21.4.24
Collage mit Puppenbüste
Margit Jäschke, Ohne Titel, 2019, Collage

The second instalment of the "Contemporary Craft" exhibition series initiated in 2022 at the MK&G will showcase the 30-year oeuvre of the multi-award-winning artist Margit Jäschke (b. 1962). Jäschke describes herself as a wanderer between different art worlds, having created an entirely original body of work that straddles the boundaries between jewellery, installation, painting and sculpture. She makes no distinction between wearable jewellery and autonomous artwork, so that graphic elements can be found in her jewellery while, conversely, jewellery becomes part of her paintings and collages.

The new exhibition series "Contemporary Craft", to be presented annually to accompany the MK&G messe, spotlights the work of major international artists and craftspeople in an effort to raise the profile of craft in contemporary discourse while transcending the traditional boundaries between art and craft.

"Margit Jäschke – Kairos" at the MK&G is the last stop for the exhibition, which has already been shown at the Grassi Museum of Applied Arts in Leipzig and the Pforzheim Jewellery Museum and will be on view at Galerie Biró in Munich in early 2023.

 
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Zwei abstrakte Objekte auf weißem Hintergrund.
Margit Jäschke, Kairos, 2013, Objekt, Holz, Kunststoff
Brosche aus Collage von Gesicht und Kopfbedeckung
Margit Jäschke, Brosche, 2012, Silber, Kunststoff, Wellpappe, Bein, Collection Neuwald (DE)
Eine goldene Kette, verziert mit Schmuck.
Margit Jäschke, The golden thread, 2018, Halsschmuck, Gold / Silber feinvergoldet /Kunststoff, Collection Marion Fulk (USA), Collection Markau (DE)
Eine Frau sitzt an einem großen Schreibtisch.
Margit Jäschke, Porträt, Foto: Nikolaus Brade

 

Publication

Ein graues Buchcover von Margit Jäschke.

Margit Jäschke – Kairos

The monograph "Margit Jäschke – Kairos" was published by arnoldsche Art Publishers to accompanying the opening of her exhibition at the Grassi Museum of Applied Arts in Leipzig. 160 pages, German/English, 38 euros.