German artist Josepha Gasch-Muche studied painting and drawing at Academy of Fine Arts in Trier, Germany. Early on she absorbed the teaching of her professor and Bauhaus member, Boris Kleint, a student himself of the school’s core teacher and theorist, Johannes Itten. The Bauhaus explorations of the essential “materiality” of substances have had a clear influence on Gasch-Muche’s work. She originally experimented with other materials, but in 1998 started working with very thin, industrial liquid crystal display glass. Breaking it into shards, she arranges them, by the thousands, into simple geometric forms, which simultaneously reflect and absorb light.
In 2014 her solo exhibition Light Phenomena in Glass was organized by the Roemer und Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, Germany. Her work is represented in the collections of the Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany; Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY; Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Musée Mudac, Lausanne, Switzerland; the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk VA; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo OH; and the Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China.
BIOGRAPHY
1974–1980 studied Drawing with Günter Swiderski
1982 studied Graphic Design and Etching at Akademie der Bildenden Künste Trier
1980–1983 studied Painting with Prof. Boris Kleint
Josepha Gasch-Muche lives in Alfeld, Lower Saxony
AWARDS
2006 : Coburger Glaspreis, Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg
2006 : The Bombay Sapphire Prize, The Bombay Sapphire Foundation, London
2007 : Silver Prize, The International Exhibition of Glass, Kanazawa (Japan)
2008 : Bayerischer Staatspreis
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2001 Kreissparkasse Hildesheim
2002 Galerie „Vom Zufall und vom Glück“, Hannover / Hanover
2005 Alles ist Licht, Galerie B, Baden-Baden
2007 Licht-Llum, Galerie Lorch + Seidel, Berlin (mit / with Kazue Taguchi)
2009 Adolf Luther – Josepha Gasch-Muche, Galerie Niagara, Düsseldorf (mit / with Adolf Luther)
2010 Lichtgalaxien aus Glas, Galerie Filser & Gräf, München / Munich
2010 Lichtschichten, Gallery B, Baden-Baden
2011 Mutable Materiality, Heller Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Lichtphänomene aus Glas, Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim
GROUP EXHIBITONS & ART FAIRS (selection)
2003 Internationale Glasmalerei der Gegenwart im Wandel, Deutsches Glasmalerei-Museum, Linnich
2004 Salon Salder – Neues aus Niedersächsischen Ateliers, Salzgitter
2006 Coburger Glaspreis für zeitgenössische Glaskunst in Europa, Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg
2007 The International Exhibition of Glass, Kanazawa (Japan)
2007 Glas der Gegenwart in der Sammlung Würth, Künzelsau
2008 Le Verre, Orangerie du Domaine de Madame Elisabeth, Versailles
2008 Noir & Blanc, Musée-Atelier du Verre, Sars-Poteries
2009 Connections 2009, Galerie Mánes, Prag / Prague
2009 Salon Salder – Neues aus Niedersächsischen Ateliers, Salzgitter
2010 Material Expression, Heller Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Four in One, Galerie Lorch + Seidel, Berlin
2010 Salon Salder – Neues aus Niedersächsischen Ateliers, Salzgitter
2011 Materials Revisited, 10. Triennale für Form und Inhalte, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt/Main
2011 Éclats, Musée Würth, Erstein (Frankreich / France)
2012 Glasstress, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut
2013 Revelations, Le salon des métiers d’art et de la création, Grand Palais, Paris
2013 Clara Scremini Gallery, Paris
2014 Glass Today: 21st Century Innovations, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
2016 Jeu de matières, Exposition de sculptures, CULTUREINSIDE.gallery, Luxembourg
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg
Glasmuseum Hentrich, museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf
Deutsches Glasmalerei-Museum, Linnich
Musée Mudac, Lausanne
Ernsting Stiftung, Coesfeld-Lette
Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, München / Munich
VGH Versicherungen, Hannover / Hanover
Museum Würth/Künzelsau
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt/Main
Corning Museum of Glass, New York, NY
Musée-Atelier du Verre, Sars-Poteries
Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Kerry Centre Hotel, Peking / Beijing
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai / Shanghai
