Jasmin Matzakow:

Change Worker –

Artist, Lecturer and Coach.

I have been making art for 20 years, studied at two art schools and taught at art academies since of 2016. In 2023 I completed my coaching training at the Life Coach School and with Melissa Tiers. Like many artists, I have a scanner personality. I’m driven to learn and expand my knowledge.

I know what it means to immerse myself in artistic and creative processes, to get lost in them and to peel myself out again. At best, with new work that surprises me and with a strength that comes from deep within me.

I know the doubts that won't let go and the inner drive to keep going with my projects. I know what failure feels like, in all its drama and the exhausting daily grind. I know what success feels like, the great relief, the joy and the realisation that visibility can also be uncomfortable. As a teacher at an art academy and as a coach, I have already supported many people through these processes and now offer you my focused expertise with the coaching programme "The Stinging Nettle".
I have seen time and again how artists and creatives do not see themselves as entrepreneurs and only focus on their artistic freedom. Entrepreneurial freedom often takes a back seat, even though it is just as important. This is not out of ignorance, but because we have learnt it that way.

It's time to set this straight!

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Galleries

Galerie Maurer Zilioli Contemporary Arts | www.maurer-zilioli.com

Jeweler's Werk Galerie | www.jewelerswerk.com

WORK EXPERIENCE

2024/25
Subsitute for Prof. Suska Mackert at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nürnberg

2023
Jury of the class internal Danner competition, Academy of Fine Arts, Nürnberg
2020
Lecture on methods in artistic research, Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts
2019
Visiting Critic to MA programm, RISD, Jewelry and Metal Department, Providence, USA
Lecture on my work, Brooklyn Metal Works, NY, USA

2018/19
Head of class for one semester, class of jewellery and hollowware, Academy of Fine Arts Munich
2017
Tutor for Handshake 4
2016
Lecture, Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, Imatra, Finland
Lecture, Academy of Fine Arts Munich
2017
Tutor for Handshake 4
2016-22
Assistant Professor to Prof Pontoppidan, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, class for jewellery and holowware
studio in Munich
2015-16
Studio in Stockholm
2015
Tool, Jewelry, Weapon research, exhibition and workshop at the 8th Annual Deleuze Studies Conference and Camp in Stockholm, Sweden
2014-16
Co-Founder, The Pack (former Tool Jewelry Weapon), a team of two artists and one designer researching the meaning of craft in our society in a philosophical context.
2010-13
Freelance Artist, Halle (Saale), Germany
2012
Residency and research in the Reina Sofia Museum Madrid, Spain
Researcher of Yves Klein and Richard Serra towards an understanding of the colour blue
2011
Residency and training in Tezhip (Arabic ornamentation) at Ayten Teryaki, Istanbul, Turkey
2008-11
Co-Founder, Schmuckkantine, an organization for and by jewellers in Germany

EDUCATION

2024 Coaching the Unconscious Mind Certification, Melissa Tiers
2022 Life Coach Certification at The Life Coach School
2013-15 Master of Fine Arts, Jewellery and Corpus, Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden
2005-10 Diploma of Arts, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Germany
2002-03 Apprentice to a goldsmith in Freiburg, Germany

GRANTS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES

2022
Sponsorship Award of the City of München for Jewellery
2016
Travel Stipend, Konstnärsnämnden
2015
Jubelfonden, Swedish Freemason Grant
Ulla Fröberg-Cramérs stipendiestiftelse (in collaboration with Ela Celary and Rebecca Deans for Tool Jewelry Weapon), Sweden
2012
1st prize Cominelli Award, La Fondazione Cominelli & AGC Association, Italy
Scholarship of the Art Foundation Saxony-Anhalt and Kloster Bergesche Stiftung, Germany
2011
Grassiprize of the Sparkasse Leipzig, Germany
Talente Prize 2011, Germany
2010
Istanbul Scholarship 2011 of the Art Foundation Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Mention prize of the Foundation of the Saalesparkasse, Germany
2007
3rd Prize in the competition "Mit Deinen Augen", Goethe Institut, Germany

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

THE LORE OF SINNERS, CUNTS AND WHORES, Galerie Maurer Zilioli Contemporary Arts

2020

THE GOOD CAFTSWOMAN (with Nadine Kuffner), Satelite exhibition of Galerie Maurer Zilioli Contemporary Arts
2019

Blue Hour, Jeweler's Werk Galerie, Washington DC, USA
2018

DURCHBRENNEN, Galerie Maurer Zilioli at Kunstbüro reillplast, Munich
2016

body x necklace x intention = base unit, Galerie Ra, Amsterdam

WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

CODA Museum Appeldoorn, NL

Schmuckmuseum Pforzeheim, DE

Danner Stiftung Munich, DE

Grassimuseum of applied arts, Leipzig, DE

Stiftung Moritzburg - Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, DE

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2025
Schmuck, Internationale Handwerksmesse

2024
Schmuck auf ganzer Linie, Galerie Handwerk München
Syldyr, Contemporary Art Center Kulahshi Astana, Kasachstan
Metallophone, Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Vilnius, Litauen
Wir sind Kunst, 20 Jahre Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle

2019
SCHMUCKISMUS, Die Neue Sammlung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
21 Gramm, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany
Mono No Aware, Patic Schmuck, Munich, Germany
Le Bijou, still a Risky Business, Institut Français Munich, Germany

2018
KORU6, Imatra Art Museum, Helsinki Tiivistämö, Tampere Artcenter Laikku, Finland
21 Gramm, Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museum, China

2017
Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER 2017
Special Guests zur Munich Jewellery Week, Galerie Maurer Zilioli Contemporary Arts

2016
Wood Extendend Life, Gallery Vogoze, Seoul, Korea
Not Too Precious, National Craft Gallery, Ireland
Identity Transfer, Gallerie Sebastian Schildt+, Sweden

2015
Where it all begins: Lehrende, Graduierte und Studierende der Schmuckklasse Prof. Daniel Kruger, Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein, Germany
Tool Jewelry Weapon, 8th Annual International Deleuze Studies Conference, Sweden
Not Too Precious, Ruthin Craft Centre, UK

2014
THE TALKING TABLE, Konstfack's curated exhibition for Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Italy
Gestaltung Kunst Handwerk 2014, Landesausstellung Baden-Württemberg, Germany

2013
Magnificent Views? Landscapes in Jewellery, Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany
FINE, Art Foundation Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
The Young Ones, Galerie Ra, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2012
Triple Exposure – with Kathrin Borst and Stephanie Fleck, Galerie Biró, Germany
Cominelli Award, La Fondazione Cominelli & AGC Association, Italy
BreakThrough by Dana Hakim and Jasmin Matzakow, Galerie Louise Smit, Netherlands
Transformationen. Kunsthandwerk aus Sachsen-Anhalt. Bayerischer Kunstgewerbe Verein, Germany

2011
Sieraad International Jewellery Art Fair, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Grassi Fair, Grassi Museum for applied arts, Leipzig, Germany
WOODS, Galerie Caroline Van Hoek, Belgium
Umfeld – zweite Schmuckkantine, Museum Moritzburg Halle, Germany
Istanbul Apartmani, Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi, Turkey
Art-Figura 2011, 4. Kunstpreis of the City Schwarzenberg, Germany
TALENTE at Handwerk & Design, Germany
Kunstpreis 2010, Kunstforum Halle, Germany

2009
Erste Schmuckkantine, Silke & the gallery, Antwerp, Belgium