Education

2019 Master of Fine Art, Institute of Fine Art, glass class, Höhr-Grenzhausen, DE

2016 scholarship student at the Corning Museum of Glass, NY, US

2013-2016 Bachelor of Fine Art, Institute of Fine Art, glass class, Höhr-Grenzhausen, DE

2015 scholarship student at Bild-Werk, Frauenau, DE

2011-2013 College for Technical Glass, stained glass & painting, GFS Hadamar, DE 

certificate of apprenticeship (Gesellenbrief), awarded best graduate Hessen

2009 High School Diploma (Abitur), Johann-Schöner-Gymnasium Karlstadt, DE

 

Work Experience

since May 2019: Projectmanager (development&production) Studio Olafur Eliasson, DE

 

since 2021: collaboration Susanne Kunkel & Anders Hellsten Nissen make up "Schweizer & Hellsten"

 

2021 jury member "Staatspreis Manufactum NRW"

2019 workshop: Teacher in the Hot Shop, Glasfachschule Rheinbach, DE

2018 Assistant to Scott Chaseling & Wilhelm Vernim, 1. Internationales Glassymposium Rheinbach, DE

2018 Freelancer design & production Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin, DE

2017 Teacher of the student workshop, Ludwig-Uhland GMS Schwaikheim, DE

2017 Teacher of the student workshop, 7th International Symposium of Engraved Glass, CZ

2017 Teaching Assistant to James Vella, Bild-Werk Frauenau, DE

2015 Assistant to Jároslav Sára, Kolektiv Ateliers, IGS Novy Bor, CZ

2015 Teaching Assistant to Tim Shaw, Bild-Werk Frauenau, DE

2014 Teaching Assistant to Anne Petters, Bild-Werk Frauenau, DE

since 2011 cooperation with Glaswerkstatt Feige, Karlstadt, DE

 

Selected Exhibitions

2024 "2. Glaspreis der Stadt Hadamar", Glasmuseum Hadamar

2022 "A FLUID DEFENCE", Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg, DE

2022 "Curatorial Part de Deux - Artists of the working arts", Gewerbehof Königstadt, Berlin, DE

2020 "Contra Corona - Deutsches Heißglas 2020", LWL-Industriemuseum, Glashütte Gernheim, DE

2020 "BACK ON TOUR", Europäisches Museum für Modernes Glas Rödental, Coburg, DE

2019 "BACK ON TOUR", Suomen Lasimuseo FIN

2019 "REFLEJOS", Shiras Galeria, València, ESP

2019 "seasons may change", Krupp'sche Halle, Bendorf, DE

2018 "Umlese", Pfalzbibliothek Kaiserslautern, DE

2018 "Materiale Verwandlung II", Kaiserslautern, DE

2018 "Materiale Verwandlung", Ludwigshafen, DE

2017 "Licht wird Farbe", Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur Mainz, DE

2017 "7th International Symposium of Engraved Glass", Glass Museum Kamenicky Senov, CZ

2017 "SUBTEXT GLAS(S)", Galerie lorch+seidel contemporary, Berlin-Mitte, DE

2017 Festival der Künste Rheinhessen, Westhofen, DE

2017 "mulhouse 017", Mulhouse, FRA

2017 "Dissonanzen", Galerie Made in Balmoral, Bad Ems, DE

2017 "Und wenn sie nicht gestorben ist...Glasgravur", Immenhausen, DE

2016 "Junge Positionen", kunst-direkt, Mainz, DE

2016 "Stanislav Libensky Award 2016", Prague, CZ

2016 "Gravur on Tour", Tallinn, EST, Frauenau, DE

2016 "Narrow Arrow", b-05 Montabaur, DE

2015/16 "Bewahren", Kunstraum Wiesbaden, DE, solo-exhibition

2015 "Zwieseler Kölbl", Zwiesel, DE

2015 "Raumgewinn", Höhr-Grenzhausen, DE

2015 "Mündung", Zella-Mehlis, DE

2014 "6th International Symposium of Engraved Glass", Glass Museum Kamenicky Senov, CZ

2014 "Kunstpreis der Stadt Marktheidenfeld",Marktheidenfeld, DE

2014 "Kaleidoskop", Koblenz, DE

2014 "Bodenlos", Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden, DE

2014 "1.Glaspreis der Stadt Hadamar", Glasmuseum Hadamar, DE