Lectures

Speakers

More than 7 years ago in Rome, I became fascinated by the ancient craft of mircromosaic and have not let go since. With the help of inspiring example pictures, I would like to share with you my fascination for this well-kept knowledge about this special mosaic technique

Angelika Algieri

Born 1967 in Kiel. Lives with her family in the Hanover area.
Mosaic since 2000 with own workshop, courses, exhibitions. Member of DOMO since 2008, Member of AIMC since 2017, further training in mosaic with national and international artists such as Bruno Rodi, Martin Cheek, Minola Miriam Bastisch, Luciana Notturni with Gabriela and Luca Luciano Bonzini, Thomas Denker, Jeannot Leenen, Marita Schauerte, Dino Maccini.
Since 2005 public projects and various exhibitions.
Motto: "... I have a vision, I want to create something beguiling, something I can inspire people with!"

A journey from Trier via Dresden to Berlin and finally south to Constance provides an insight into the world of mosaics. Along the way, historical Roman mosaics as well as impressive mosaic works from the 1950s and 1960s are presented. These stations also inspire a voyage of discovery across Germany to mosaic works that are mainly found in cultural institution

Helga Dangel

Helga Dangel first worked successfully in management in industry for over 20 years. During a family stay in the USA, she began her artistic career in 1999 and at the same time acquired her art teaching skills with a Master's degree at the SAIC art school in Chicago. Since 2010 she has been working both artistically and teaching painting and mosaic art. As a freelance artist, she regularly exhibits her work at home and abroad.

Marc Chagall is considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century. He used a variety of techniques to express his poetic motifs. When he met the mosaic artist Lino Melano, he decided to have his pictorial vision translated into the medium of mosaic. Since the 1960s, more than 20 mosaics based on Chagall's designs have been created for both private and public clients in Europe, Israel and the United States. The lecture will highlight the close cooperation between the client, the artist and the mosaic workshop by means of several examples.

Britta Kuth

Britta Kuth M.A., born 1964 in Cologne, studied art history and archaeology. The focus of her work is on classical modern and contemporary art. Since 2005, she has been intensively studying the history of mosaic art. Her scientific research led her to learn various traditional mosaic techniques. In her artistic works, she combines tradition and modernity to create poetic two- and three-dimensional works. Britta Kuth's work has been shown in numerous national and international exhibitions. She is a member of the Verband Deutscher Kunsthistoriker e.V., a member of the AIMC, International Association of Contemporary Mosaicists, and a founding member of DOMO, Deutsche Organisation für Mosaikkunst e.V..

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian is an Iranian artist known for her work in mirror and painted glass. Monir's mirror mosaic and inverted glass painting sculptures are built around the principles of Islamic geometry. Through wall panels and freestanding works, she presents both detailed craftsmanship and contemporary abstraction that uses an interplay of surface texture, light and reflection, colour and form.
The lecture will present the history and work of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian through various examples, showing the influence of Islamic architecture and the PopArt movement in her creative journey.

Kimia Nasirian

Currently a Master's student at the sculpture workshop of La Cambre, Belgium, Kimia Nasirian holds a bachelor's degree in Design from the University of Strasbourg and a bachelor's degree in Sculpture from the University of Art in Tehran. She has had the opportunity to learn a variety of artistic techniques during various internships (notably mosaic and audiovisual).
She has participated in several international group exhibitions and has had several solo exhibitions of her work in France and Belgium.

Ursula will show us how art can improve the lives of communities and students through three large mosaic projects. In her talk, Ursula will inform about the different working processes, funding and practical implementation

Ursula Neufeld

 

Ursula Neufeld is a Canadian based award winning Community Artist who has been creating large scale mosaic installations that reflect education and social commentary.

In this presentation I will talk about my experience leading big urban mosaic projects. I will show images oft the work I have done in Chile, explaining the process and describing how we developed our mosaic technique as a team, during the creation of about 4.000m2 of mosaic.

Isidora Paz López



Isidora Paz López, Chilean, 46 years old, mosaicist, ceramicist, belongs to the third generation of an artistic family. She studied art at the University of Chile and obtained her title as a ceramicist in 1999. She currently lives in Germany.
Since 2011, she has been realising large-scale mosaics in Santiago de Chile, including the largest mosaic project in South America to date in 2012/2013 with approx. 4,000m2 of mosaic surfaces in the metro stations. In 2014, she organised the "1st International Urban Mosaic Intervention" in Punto Alto, Chile, in which 60 artists from 22 countries participated.
More large-scale mosaics followed, e.g. Aruba Art Fair with mosaic mural "The Carnival Nymph" or 2018 "The Dragon", mosaic staircase on a bridge in Santiago de Chile.
In 2019 she organised the international project "Bird Staircase" in Pirmasens, Germany, where more than 100 people from 24 countries participated and more than 170 people from all over the world sent their mosaic birds by mail.

The lecture will explain the history of the indirect setting technique and its importance in the production of large-scale mosaics. The technique will be explained in all its different phases with the help of pictorial examples and the advantages and disadvantages of this technique will be discussed.
 

In this lecture, Svenja Teichert will report in detail on her many years of experience with the restoration of historical mosaic surfaces. In particular, she will discuss the preservation aspects of dealing with historical mosaic surfaces.

Svenja Teichert

Svenja Teichert has been involved in mosaic art for 28 years. In 1995 she graduated with distinction from the Scuola mosaicisti del Friuli in Spilimbergo, northern Italy. Since 1996 she has been working with Giuseppe Fornasari in their joint studio for mosaic art cosmomusivo in Berlin. Over the years, she has acquired a wealth of experience in the execution of larger and smaller mosaic works and restorations. In countless workshops for adults and in projects with young people, she was able to discover her joy in teaching the art of mosaic. Svenja Teichert was born in 1969, grew up in Esslingen am Neckar, has lived in Berlin since 1988 (with a 3-year interruption for training in Spilimbergo) and has two grown-up sons.