Curriculum Vitae

Born
13.03.1979 in Großburgwedel (D)

Education

2005
self-employed as Jeweldesigner
2004
Diploma “ERIKA” at the University of Applied Sciences Trier, Department of Gemstone- and Jewellery design, Idar-Oberstein. Supervised by Ute Eitzenhöfer and Prof. Theo Smeets
2002
Exchange semester at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (VŠVU), Department S_M_L_XL, Prof. Karol Weisslechner, Bratislava (Sk)
2000
2 month practical training, Ulrich Pauly, Gemstone carver, Idar-Oberstein
1999
Study at the University of Applied Sciences Trier, Department of Gemstone- and Jewellery design, Idar-Oberstein
1999
9 month practical training, Kristina Behr, Goldsmith, Beedenbostel
1998
Graduation from German High school

Exhibitions

2008
NBS Múzeum mincí a medailí, Kremnica (SK), „Absolute part of the Whole“
2007
Salle du Chapître, Agde (Fr), „Parures d´ amazones“
 
Gardening Festival Herrenhausen, Hannover (D)
 
SOFA Art fair, Chicago, New York (USA), Charon Kransen
2006
Gardening Rothenfeld, Neuwarmbüchen (D), „ERIKA in der Gärthnerei Rothenfeld“
 
Atelier Doris Kleinz, Sargenroth (D), Workshopexhibition „Faszinieren – Provozieren“
 
Parc des Expositions de Nîmes, Nîmes (FR) „Parures“
 
SOFA Art fair, Chicago, New York (USA), Charon Kransen
 
Villa Bengel, Idar-Oberstein (D)
 
Gallery MEDIUM, Bratislava (SK) “EXchanche”
2005
Gallery AURUM; Frankfurt (D) „BRDKD”
 
Tatranska Galeria, Poprad (Sk) „ERIKA & Small Personal Gagets”
 
Gallery Marzee, Nijmegen (Nl) „Atelier Ravary”
 
Inhorgenta 2005 Munich (D)
 
SOFA Art fair, Chicago, New York (USA), Charon Kransen
 
Le Arti Orafe, Firenze (I), Birmingham (GB) . . . „CHROMA Exhibition“
 
Schmuckdesign O. Sonnleitner, Wels (Au) „Weihnachtsausstellung 05”

Symposium

2008
14. Medzunárodné Sympósium Umeleckého Šperku Kremnica ’08, Kremnica (SK)
2005
Atelier „Ravary“, Ravary (Be)
2004
Erfurter Schmucksymposium 2004, Erfurt

Publications

„Erika & small personal gadgets“ Text by Mária Nepšinká, in magazine RUD (Remeslo Umenie Dizajn) 2005

„Jewellery Schiedam’s Choice“ Gallery Marzee 2005

„Neuer Schmuck aus Idar-Oberstein II“ Designer/-innen 2005, Gallery AURUM

Scholarship

2002 – 2004
Scholar of the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes”

Prizes

2004
Marzee Prize 2004
 
Promotional Prize of the University for Applied Sciences, Trier e.V.

Teaching Assignment

2008
Workshop „WOODY WOOD“ an der VŠVU Bratislava (SK)

Else

2010
Internship at ATELIER BLAUMEIER Kunst und Psychiatrie, Bremen
2008
Participation at the Festival THEATERFORMEN Braunschweig, in DIE PERSER

contact /mail to

steffiklemp[at]web.de

Since 2004, I devote myself in my artistic discussion to the material apple wood on account of his modesty and the stories, which entwine themselves round the apple and the apple tree. The works resulting from this process, I summarise under the collection ERIKA.

ERIKA

is my alter ego, my good friend with whom I dispute. From this discussion originates my jewellery.

ERIKA is eloquent, authentic, unprecedented and poetical, a beautiful woman, intelligent, viable, independent, puerile, naïve and clumsy, strenuous, talented, tempting.

BetStefka

The BetStefka collection arises from the interchange of the artistic work of Bety Majerniková and Stefanie Klemp.

In exchanging process pieces and with the at times other woman’s material Bety and Stefanie found a way to express a connection of the two different artistic worlds.

It is a diving into the privacy of the artistic working of the other woman and a research for a connection of the two different artistic worlds.