From Louise Bourgeois to Yoko Ono - by Petra Hesse & Lena Hoppe (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

With this publication the Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne, presents around 60 jewelry works by some 40 internationally renowned female visual artists from the 1920s to the present day. Text in English and German.

From Louise Bourgeois to Yoko Ono presents around 60 jewelry works by some 40 internationally renowned female visual artists from the 1920s to the present day. Their jewelry pieces open up new, often surprising perspectives on their artistic production. Some pieces captivate with minimalist elegance, others with their expressive, sculptural presence or playful humor, with each unique work consolidating an artistic vision into a small personal statement. With its exhibition of the same name, the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln (MAKK; Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne) deliberately focuses on female standpoints, thus breaking with the male-dominated perception of avant-garde art jewelry.

Text in English and German.

About the Author

Petra Hesse was born in Wiesbaden in 1966 and has been the director of the Museum of Applied Arts Cologne since March 2010. Prior to that, she worked in various functions at the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums in Mannheim, the largest municipal museum complex in southern Germany, since 1998, most recently director of the Museum Zeughaus and the Museum Schillerhaus as well as deputy to the general director. Her areas of responsibility included in particular the project management for the general renovation and museum refurnishing of the Museum Zeughaus as well as the supervision for the new construction of the Bassermannhaus for music and art. Lena Hoppe is the Research Associate for Metal Art, Objects made of Organic Materials, Jewellery and Weapons at the Museum of Applied Arts Cologne. Together they have also published Faszination Schmuck / Fascination Jewellery, a comprehensive monograph on 7000 years of jewelry history as showcased by the museum.