Bernhard Stimpfl-Abele

founder/artist/designer/owner at abele jewellery & objects

Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

About

Artist statement - about my current work: My work „Organic Metal“ is about the symbiosis (dependence) between the old and the new. Before I can declare my work as new, alive and at the same time art, I must find the old, dead in it. The living can only emerge throw the dead. This is also how evolution works. In that process, my original objects which were made out of bread for example, will be transformed in something new. My pieces tell a story about the transition from the old to the new and express a feeling of magic and surprise which has something to do with my new organic way of forming metal - when something exceeds the ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical. Specialties: -gold & silversmithing in combination with other materials -designing -exploring different techniques in combining different materials,

Experience

  • Co founder, main artist and main designer for the company Stilami noble jewellery at STILAMI Noble Jewellery
    Sep 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 11 mos

  • abele contemporary jewellery (19 yrs 11 mos)
    • artist/designer/owner at abele jewellery & objects www.stimpfl-abele.com
      Apr 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 4 mos

      www.stimpfl-abele.com Contemporary Jewellery/object/sculpture/exhibition art and design

    • Main artist, designer, manager
      May 2010 - Apr 2017 · 7 yrs

    • artist, designer & owner
      Jan 2010 - Apr 2017 · 7 yrs 4 mos

      Artist/Designer in context to Contemporary Jewellery & Corpus; Exhibitions: 2005 Alchimia School of Contemporary Jewellery: End of the Year Show, Sonic Garden, Florence, Italy 2006 Inhorgenta, Munich, Germany 2006 Florencimiento, St. James Church, Florence, Italy 2006 Alchimia School of Contemporary Jewellery, Modo, Florence, Italy 2006 Alternative Roma, group exhibition, Rome, Italy 2007 New Brand Show Inhorgenta Europe, Munich, Germany 2007 Boston Craft Fair, group exhibition, Boston, USA 2007 Enjoia´t, competition/exhibition, Barcelona, Spain 2007 Circuitismo Gotico, workshop exhibition, Barcelona, Spain 2008 Refined: Abundance, competition/exhibition, Texas, USA 2008 Alternative Roma, group exhibition, Rome, Italy 2008 Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, Germany 2008 Museo del oro de Asturias, Navelgas, Spain 2009 Squatting Corpus, group exhibition, Munich, Germany 2009 Dreams of Bernhard Stimpfl-Abele, Stockholm, Sweden 2010 Spring Exhibition, Konstfack University, Stockholm, Sweden 2010 Broochmania, group exhibition, Galerie Rob Koudijs, Amsterdam, Netherlands; 2010 In Corpo Rated, group exhibition, Gallerie Nutida, Stockholm, Sweden;

  • owner at Parallell Gallery Café for contemporary art and design
    May 2012 - 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    Director, creative director, financial manager, exhibition planing, exhibition design

  • contemporary jewelry teacher at Azza Fahmy Design Studio, Cairo, Egypt at Azza Fahmy Jewellery
    Sep 2013 - Sep 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

    building up and developing the art and design school based on contemporary and conceptual jewellery, teaching art/design/crafts, exhibition design, development,...

  • Received MA at Konstfack University Stockholm, Sweden at Konstfack
    Sep 2008 - Jun 2010 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Received MA at Konstfack University Stockholm, Sweden