Gabi Dewald has been editor of the German-based KeramikMagazinEuropa /CeramicsMagazineEurope since 1993. She also works free-lance for the German dailies and other international magazines in the field of fine and applied art as well as contributing to books and catalogues. Gabi Dewald serves as an advisor, a juror, as an independent curator and lecturer in Germany and abroad, mainly on contemporary crafts, especially ceramics. She is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics IAC, Deutscher Jounalistenverband DJV and the Journalistinnenbund JB. Since 2004 she has been chair of the International Ceramic Magazine Editors’ Association ICMEA Fuping/China. 2001 she received a Ceramic Art Foundation New York Award (for critical writing), the first given to an author writing in a foreign language. In 2004 she initiated THINK TANK.
preferred websites:
Museum of Applied Arts Frankfurt www.museumfuerangewandtekunst.frankfurt.de
Museum of Applied Arts Vienna www.MAK.at
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich www.museum-gestaltung.ch
University for Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein www.burg-halle.de
Association of Swiss Ceramics ASK www.swissceramics.ch
CURRICULUM VITAE
gabi dewald
Date of Birth: 8 June 1956
e-mail: dew.media@t-online.de
Education
Gutenberg University Mainz 1981-1985 Kommunikationsdesign
Career History(selected)
- Freelance journalist; reviewing and writing for different art and special interest magazines in art, craft and design in Germany and abroad
and for the review pages of German dailies
- Editor-in-chief of KeramikMagazinEuropa/CeramicsMagazineEurope January 2003 - ongoing
- Lecturer at Networks in Ceramics 1996 (“Welcome to the Club of Outcasts”) , University of Art and Design, Helsinki/Finland
- Vice-president of Journalistinnenbund - League of Women Journalists 1998 – 2004
- Conference address at the University of Stockholm/Sweden (“Is soap a matter of taste…?”) 1998
- Lecturer at Ceramic Millenium 99 “(About the Undead and Desires”), Amsterdam/Netherlands
- Organizing the Ceramic Caravan Germany 1999
- Curator of Keramik aus Deutschland 1900 – 2000, Japan/Germany
- Curator of Terra Ceramica Deutschland 1999, Munich/Germany
- Jury member at 51. Premio Faenza Concorso Internazionale della Ceramica d’Arte 2000 Faenza/Italy
- CAF Ceramic Arts Foundation Award 2001 for critical writing New York/USA (first time awarded to a non-native speaker author)
- Advisor and jury member Frechener Keramikpreis 2001 - ongoing
- Advisor and jury member Keramiksymposium Gmunden 2003 – ongoing
- Editing of catalogue for the Keramiksymposien Gmunden 2003 - ongoing
- Lecture on Gertraud Möhwald at SOFA New York (“Mainly one should leave the unnecessary”)
- Associated member of the staff for Ceramic Culture Innovation 2004, a project from the EU programme Culture 2000
- Member of the editorial board of Interpreting Ceramics - ongoing (“It’s time to face the music”)
- Chairwoman of International Ceramic Magazines Editors’ Association ICMEA 2004, Fuping/China – ongoing
- Initiator and chairwoman of THINK TANK. A European Initiative for the Applied Arts, Gmunden/Austria 2004 – ongoing
- Lecturer at 3rd World Ceramic Biennale 2005 Icheon/Korea
- Conference address during European Ceramic Context 2006/ Identifying European Ceramics, Bornholm/Denmark 2006 (“Rebuilding the Tower of Babel?”)
- Organizing and moderating the conference day Critical Writing on Ceramics at the ICSHU, October 2006, Kecskémet/Hungary
- Member auf EcerS work group: Art, Design and Tradition 2006 – ongoing
- Conference address at The position of Ceramics 2002, ‘s-Hertogenbosch/Netherlands
Bibliography (selected; for lectures: see above)
- Publishing since 1993 on European ceramic artists in KeramikMagazinEuropa/ CeramicsMagazineEurope
and other special interest magazines on ceramics worldwide - ongoing
- “Hygiene”; catalogue on Marek Cecula New York/USA 1997
- Wünschwundermann. About Jörg von Manz - a monograph, Ritterbach Verlag 1999
- “Hommage an das Gefäß“; catalogue for Kunsthalle Mannheim/Germany 1999, Kunsthalle Mannheim
- “One can’t want more. About Hans Fischer“; catalogue for Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein Munich/Germany 2000, Hypovereinsbank
- “Why jewellery today?“; catalogue on Ruudt Peters Amsterdam/Netherlands 2000, Peters & Versteijlen BV Amsterdam
- “Don’t say much. On Silence”; catalogue on Michael Cleff/Germany 2004, Stadtmuseum Hattingen
- “Transcending the norm”; catalogue on Jens Erland/Norway 2003, Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum
- “About the Untamable”; catalogue on Torbjørn Kvasbø/Norway 2003/2004, Bormuldsfabriken Kunsthall Arendal
- “I don’t want to make things whole”, catalogue on Gertraud Möhwald/Germany 2005, Stiftung Moritzburg Halle/Stiftung Keramion Frechen
- “Fazed by aphasia – art without a name”; THINK TANK Edition 02/Austria 2005
- “Intitmate place(s) – private sphere as point of departure”; THINK TANK Edition 03/Austria 2006
Professional Societies
- Member of Deutscher Journalistenverband e.V.
- Member of Journalistinnenbund e.V
- Member of International Academy of Ceramics IAC
- Member of Interpreting Ceramics ICRC
- Member of International Ceramic Magazines Editors’ Association ICMEA
- Member of THINK TANK. A European Initiative for the Applied Arts
- Member of EcerS work group: Art, Design and Tradition
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