Gabi Dziuba & Friends

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Stylistic pluralism is the distinguishing characteristic of 1980s applied and fine arts.

The art scene developed dynamically in urban environments: exhibitions were group shows, music meant jam sessions, the club scene became established. Political, leftwing discourse and 'reckless' hedonism ran parallel; prescriptive stylistic postulates and the idea of fixed identities were dropped. Punk went its own way, and 'Bad Painting' set the agenda in paintings. Her quirky designs and preference for collaborative ways of working place the jewelry artist Gabi Dziuba among the pioneers of that time.

The present publication vividly demonstrates how personal and artistic values can be interwoven by juxtaposing paintings, sculptures, installations, photo works, and jewellery on an equal footing, just as Gabi Dziuba has done in the company of the men and women who have contributed to this cooperative effort. The publication shows how content-related and design-orientated processes in jewellery and painting can benefit from each other. Gabi Dziuba's jewellery is engaged in an exhilarating dialogue with the various artworks.

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Gabi Dziuba studied at the Fachhochschule fr Gestaltung in Pforzheim from 1972 until 1983 with Reinhold Reiling, a pioneering exponent of a new conception of jewellery. She was then in Hermann Jngers goldsmithing class at the Akademie der Bildenden Knste in Munich. The friends Gabi Dziuba made there among her fellow artists included Gnther Frg and Hans-Jrg Mayer, with whom she began exchanging artistic ideas. In 2011 she opened Dziuba Jewels, a studio plus showroom, designed by Heimo Zobernig, on Rosa Luxemburg Square in Berlin. Ever since, she has been organizing rotating exhibitions of the jewellery that has grown out of collaborations with distinguished men and women artists.