Iris Eichenberg
{{short description|German contemporary artist, metalsmith}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Infobox artist
| birth_date = 1965
| birth_place = Göttingen, Germany
| nationality = German
| education =
| style = Contemporary
| known_for = Metalsmithing, jewelry design
}}
Iris Eichenberg (born 1965) is a German post-war, contemporary artist, metalsmith, and educator. She is head of the Metalsmithing Department at the Cranbook Academy of Art.
Early life and education
Born Göttingen, Germany, in 1965,{{Cite web|title=118 Iris Eichenberg {{!}} Essay'd|url=http://essayd.org/?p=2630|last=Apel|first=Dora|date=February 18, 2019|website=Essay'd : Detroit art + Detroit artists|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-25}} Eichenberg graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 1994.{{Cite web|url=https://cranbrookart.edu/metalsmithing/artist-in-residence-iris-eichenberg/|title=Artist-in-Residence Iris Eichenberg|date=2017|website=Cranbrook Art Academy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126232556/https://cranbrookart.edu/metalsmithing/artist-in-residence-iris-eichenberg/|archive-date=26 January 2018|url-status=dead|access-date=7 March 2019}}
Career
Eichenberg taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie beginning in 1996, and became head of the Jewelry Department from 2000–2007.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ornamentumgallery.com/artists/iris-eichenberg|title=Iris Eichenberg – Artists – Ornamentum Gallery, contemporary jewelry|website=www.ornamentumgallery.com|access-date=2020-04-10}} She has been Artist in Residence and head of the Metalsmithing Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan since 2006.
Critical reception
The Cranbrook Museum of Art review of her work for her "Bend" exhibit noted it "...is renowned for its diverse collections and challenges to the definitions of craft and jewelry; the result is an unconventional retrospective of her twenty-five-year career told through a body of new work."{{Cite web|url=https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/exhibition/iris-eichenberg-bend/|title=Iris Eichenberg: Bend|website=Cranbrook Art Museum|access-date=2019-03-08}}
Of Eichenberg's art Dora Apel wrote that her works "convey a searching spirit that permeates Iris Eichenberg’s work, which often meditates on making home and finding our place in the world. Related in some way to the body, her constructions produce sensorial and emotional effects that stretch conventional boundaries to explore structures of feeling".
Selected exhibits
Eichenberg's works are in permanent collections of the Museum of Arts and Design, the Rijksmuseum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Schmuck Museum Pforzheim, the Fondation National d’Art Contemporain in Paris, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her group exhibitions at international venues have included the Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of Art and Design, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, CaixaForum, Frans Hals Museum, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, and Museum Boymans van Beuningen.
=Solo exhibits=
- Perspex Hands Chatelaine, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007{{Cite web| url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/495336 | title=Perspex Hands Chatelaine|date=2007|website=www.metmuseum.org|access-date=2019-03-07}}
- Pink Years Later, Ornamentum Gallery, 2009
- Strange Birds, Ornamentum Gallery, 2012
- X series, Cranberg Art Museum, 2014
- Bend, Cranberg Art Museum, 2014{{Cite web|title=Iris Eichenberg: Bend {{!}} Cranbrook Art Museum|url=https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/exhibition/iris-eichenberg-bend/|website=cranbrookartmuseum.org|access-date=2020-05-09}}
- Real series, Ornamentum Gallery, 2015
- I Do Not Wish, Ornamentum Gallery, 2017
- Kein Ort Nirgends ("No Place Anywhere") and Moreland, Simone DeSousa Gallery, 2017{{Cite web|url=https://www.simonedesousagallery.com/artists/iris-eichenberg/iris-eichenberg-exhibits/|title=Iris Eichenberg Exhibits – Simone DeSousa Gallery|website=www.simonedesousagallery.com|access-date=2019-03-08}}{{Cite web|title=Eichenberg and Turner Featured Academy Graduates in "Moreland" at Simone DeSousa Gallery|url=https://cranbrookart.edu/2017/10/11/eichenberg-and-turner-featured-academy-graduates-in-moreland-at-simone-desousa-gallery/|date=2017-10-11|website=Cranbrook Academy of Art|access-date=2019-07-25}}
- The Domestic Plane: New Perspectives On Tabletop Art Objects, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
- Useless Utility, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 2019{{Cite web|title=Eichenberg, Iris {{!}} 5 Exhibitions and Events|url=https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Iris-Eichenberg/3C7E5E0CD0B75154/Exhibitions|website=www.mutualart.com|language=en|access-date=2020-05-07}}{{Cite web|title=Iris Eichenberg {{!}} Artist Profile with Bio|url=https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Iris-Eichenberg/3C7E5E0CD0B75154|website=www.mutualart.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-08}}
=Selected group exhibits=
- "Collect", Saatchi Gallery, London, 2009{{Cite news|title=Golden globes|work=The Economist|url=https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2009/05/07/golden-globes|access-date=2020-05-10|issn=0013-0613}}
- "Setting the Table", Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 2011{{Cite web|title=Six Local Artists Grapple with the Specter of Detroit’s Manufacturing Heritage|url=http://www.mutualart.com/ExternalArticle/Six-Local-Artists-Grapple-with-the-Spect/685FAC13E4A11995|website=www.mutualart.com|language=en|access-date=2019-09-28}}
- "MoreLand", Simone DeSousa Gallery, 2017
- "Handheld", Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 2018{{Cite web|title=Eichenberg is part of "Handheld" at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum|url=https://cranbrookart.edu/2018/05/24/eichenberg-is-part-of-handheld-at-the-aldrich-contemporary-art-museum/|date=2018-05-24|website=Cranbrook Academy of Art|access-date=2019-07-25}}
Awards
- 1994 — Gerrit Rietveld Academy Award
- 1999 — Artist in Residence, EKWC, s'-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands{{Cite web|title=Artist Talk: Iris Eichenberg|url=https://lookthensee.com/calendar/2018/3/30/visiting-artist-iris-eichenberg|last=|first=|date=|website=Look See|language=en-US|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316165454/http://cranbrookart.edu/metalsmithing/artist-in-residence-iris-eichenberg/|archive-date=March 16, 2015|access-date=2019-03-08}}
- 1999 — Herbert Hofmann Prize, (Schmuckszene Munich)
- 1999, 2001 — Residencies: European Ceramic Center in Den Bosch
- 2000 — Artist Stimulation Award from the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
- 2002, 2005 —Incentive Grants from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.iriseichenberg.com/iris-eichenberg/|name=}}
- {{Cite web|title=Jewelry of Ideas Symposium: Morning Session | url=https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2017/11/17/jewelry-of-ideas-symposium-morning-session/ | date=2017-11-17 | publisher=Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |language=en-US | access-date=2019-03-08}}
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Category:Artists from Göttingen
Category:20th-century German women artists
Category:21st-century German artists
Category:21st-century metalsmiths
Category:Cranbrook Academy of Art faculty