Lines and Links BERLIN-PARIS
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October
10
75003 , PARIS
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Sunday, 2pm to 6pm
Our paths between France and Germany may have taken different directions over the years, but the connection between us has never faded. From the Berlin studio where our friendship began to the Parisian boutique De Novembre that now hosts us, a close exchange has continued to grow. Between both cities – through meetings, conversations, and shared projects – we’ve been inspiring each other and learning from one another’s experiences.
As a celebration of our reunion, we decided to reflect on the links between us – and to make them visible through contemporary jewellery. Using line as a common language, we each express this connection in our own way and bring out the essence of what moves us.
Artists
Miriam Arentz trained in metal design and has worked in Berlin since 2005. She is a member of the Galerie Temur collective and has undertaken residencies in Italy, Spain and Istanbul. It was at the jewellery workshop of the Museum of Technology in Berlin that she discovered guilloché work, and she now works there as an instructor. Her guilloché pieces have been exhibited at international exhibitions and competitions, including Schmuck and IHM in Munich, Koru 8 in Finland and Brussels Jewellery Week. She has also won several awards, including the Silver Prize in Legnica, the Amberif Design Prize in Gdańsk and the Craft and Design, the Art of Making Prize in Berlin.
Ruth Temur trained as a goldsmith in Berlin. She then studied jewellery design in Pforzheim, where she met Susanne Matsché. Following periods of work in Paris and New York, she returned to Berlin to help manage the Uhren Krüger gallery. In 2008, Ruth founded the Temur workshop and gallery, sharing the space with Susanne, Miriam Arentz, and Edith Bellod. This period was marked by exhibitions and lively exchanges. Together with Miriam, Ruth took part in a workshop at the Museum of Technology in Berlin, where she learnt to use historic jewellery production machines. There, she created new designs inspired by these traditional forms.
Having studied textiles at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Edith Bellod went on to train as a jeweller at the Massana school in Barcelona. However, it was at Ruth Temur’s studio in Berlin that she honed her skills over several years. It was there that she met Susanne Matsché, who introduced her to filigree, and Miriam Arentz, whom she later encountered for a workshop on using the Deutsches Technikmuseum’s historical tools. Since returning to Paris, Edith has expanded her expertise to include ceramics, combining these two disciplines.
Susanne Matsché studied metal design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. As a visiting student at the Stroganoff Institute in Moscow, she learnt the art of filigree. During a residency at the jewellery department of the Pforzheim School of Design, she met Ruth Temur. Susanne has lived and worked in Berlin since 2004. At Ruth’s studio, she met Édith Bellod and Miriam Arentz. Filigree remains her passion, both in her personal work and in the workshops she leads at various schools and institutions across Europe, the United States and Egypt. With her piece ‘Her new underwear’, she won first prize at the Legnica Silver Festival in 2017.
