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Silke Fleischer                                     Art Skills

°1975       BE/AT                                  jewellery
                                                            curating
                                                            scenography
silke@silkefleischer.com                      gallery
www.silkefleischer.com                       research 
                                                             art direction
                                                             education
                                                             
                                                             

Language

Dutch       native
English     expert
German    expert

BIO

Most days you can find Silke in the forest or heather fields around her studio, located in the north of Antwerp. Shortly after her MA degree in jewellery at Sint Lucas KdG University, in addition to her own studio, she organised a show space for contemporary jewellery. First in Antwerp (Silke & the gallery 2005-2010) and later on abroad (Jewellery Sessions 2012-2014). From 2015 her main focus becomes teaching. Silke is convinced that analysis, reflection and writing can strengthen the making and presentation of jewellery and visual art.

STATMENT

“It is important that the visuals support the piece because it is not only a piece of jewellery. It is a visual communication that is illustrated with jewellery. And those two aspects must complement each other.”
As an artist, Silke works where form, sculpture, and visual communication overlap. Even though she is a jewellery artist and draws on jewellery and words, she recognised early on that in order to convey her idea’s the image became more important than the wearable object itself. Using her body as a site of enquiry, her work focuses on ownership, awareness, and the interplay of force and movement.


EDUCATION

1999 — 2002 MA Jewellery / Silversmithing, Campus St Lucas, KdG University of Applied Science and Arts, Antwerp (BE)
1995 — 1999 MA Ceramics, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, AP University College, Antwerp (BE)
1993 — 1995 Dramatic Art, De Kleine Academie, Brussels (BE)


MORE

2016 CHADO (the way of thee) class, Staf Daems, Japanese Center Berlaar (BE) 
2014 Masterclass Rosas, Cynthia Loemij, Vormingscentrum Destelheide, Brussels (BE)
2014 Suomussalmi workshop Markku Hakuri (FI), Aalto University, Department of Art & Design, Suomussalmi (FI)
2014 — 2013 Film and video, Academy of Fine Arts, Sint Niklaas (BE)
2013 Focus sur la présence et l’intelligence corporelle, dance class Isabelle Soupart (FR/BE) Brussels (BE)
2013 Partnering & floor work, workshop Ultima Vez,  Iñaki Azpillaga (ES) Antwerp (BE)
2013 Sharing moving making, workshop Helen Carnac (UK) and Laila Diallo (UK), Independent Dance/Siobhan Davies Dance, London (UK)
2013 From dance to performance, workshop Isabella Soupart (FR/BE) Studio Joji Inc, Brussels (BE)
2013 Porcelain digital fabrication, research European Ceramic Workcentre, fablab noord brabant, sundaymorning@ekwc ’s-Hertogenbosch (NL)
2013 You are now leaving Switzerland – or a crash course on how to occupy the public space, workshop Benjamin Lignel (FR) St Lucas University College of Art & Design, Antwerp KDG (BE) 
2011 Points of no return, workshop Christophe Zellweger (CH), St Lucas University College of Art & Design, Antwerp KDG(BE) 
2011 Within, workshop Hanna Hedman (SE), Jewellery Sessions 01I11, St. Lucas Antwerp (BE)
2011 3D printed jewellery, workshop Karen Wuytens (BE), i.materialise, Brussels (BE)
2011 — 2010 Open Edelsmeed Atelier, Siegfried De Buck (BE), St Lucas University College of Art & Design, Antwerp KDG (BE) 
2010 Workshop Anita Evenepoel (BE), Vormingscentrum Destelheide, Brussels (BE) 
2002 — 1999 Workshop Hilde De Decker (BE) Cristina Filipe (PT) St Lucas University College of Art & Design, Antwerp KDG (BE) 

POSITIONS

2026 — 2002 Independent Art Professional
2026 — 2015 Teacher Jewellery design, Teacher Project, Academie beeld Berchem (BE)
2026 — 2005 Teacher Jewellery design, d’Academie beeld, Sint-Niklaas (BE)
2025 — 2023 Active member Les Brucelles (BE)
2024 — 2023 Co-organiser Brussels Jewellery Week, Particle(s) (BE)
2015 — 2014 Visiting tutor, Object & Jewellery, Mad-Faculty, PXL University College, Hasselt (BE)
2014 — 2012 Founder Jewellery Sessions
2010 — 2005 Founder Silke & THE GALLERY, Antwerp (BE)
2009 Lecture Sint Lucas University College of Art & Design, Antwerp KDG (BE)
2005 Workshop Design Museum Ghent (BE)


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Closer Distant, cabinet valerie_traan Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2006 ARTE FACT /10, International symposium, St Lucas University College of Art & Design, Antwerp KDG (BE)


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Full House, Studio Wear House, Obsessed! jewellery festival Amsterdam (NL)
2025 Dim Glim, Studio Sieraad KDG University of Applied Science and Arts, Obsessed! jewellery festival Antwerp (BE)
2025 Onboards Biennale, city centre Antwerp, opening M HKA, Museum of contemporary art, Antwerp (BE)
2025 Energy, Slovanian Jewellery week, Center Rog, Ljubljana (SI)
2024 Personal narrative spaces, In Flow, Hybridart space gallery, Budapest (HU)
2023 Re:Action, Budapest Jewellery Week, Hybridart Space Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2022 InFieri, Brussels Jewellery Week, Mad House of Creators, Brussels (BE)
2021 Until death do us part, Gallery Alliages, Lille (Fr), Munich Jewellery Week (DE), Gallery Lalabeyou, Madrid (ES)
2021 Loop & loupe, Obsessed! Jewellery Festival, Current Obsession, with Peter Vermandere, Galerie Daisy Verheyden, Antwerp (BE)
2018 From Walter to Valerie, valerie_traan gallery Antwerp. A corporation between St Lucas KdG University, Walter Fischer GmbH Co. KG and Veerle Wenes (BE)
From Walter to DIVA Museum Antwerp (BE),
From Walter to Sieraad Amsterdam (NL)
2018 Doing the No No, Current Obsession, week long festival, Munich Jewellery Week (DE)
2017 Open Source Jewellery, European Triënnale for Contemporary Jewellery, selected by A5 Sweden, WCC-BF, Mons (BE), Stockholm's Län (SE), Atelier de Paris (FR)
2017 Inter City, Kunsthal Extra City, Berchem (BE)
2016 (IM)PRINT, Gallery Easy-up Stream, Munich Jewellery Week (DE)
2015 “Belgisch bei Bengel”, Villa Bengel, Idar-Oberstein (DE), Munich Jewellery Week (DE), with Peter Vermandere, Arnaud Sprimont, Carine Van Landeghem
2014 European Triënnale for Contemporary Jewellery, WCC-BF, Mons (BE)
2014 A touch of steel, Goldschmiedehaus Hanau (DE), Klingenmuseum (DE), a corporation between Royal Academy of Fine Arts, AP University College, Carl Mertens Solingen
2013 The Wilde Things - The so contemporary jewellery collection of Mrs. Wilde, Z33, House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt (BE)
2013 This is where they met. Gallery Platina, Jewellery Sessions 3I13, Munich Jewellery Week, Neue Messe München (DE) / Design Center De Winkelhaak Antwerp (BE)
2013 Suspend.ed in pink, The Atrium Gallery, The School of Jewellery, Birmingham (UK), Studio Gabi Green, Munich Jewellery Week (DE)
2012 The art of collecting, Tallinn 6th Applied Art Triennial, (ET)
2012 Enjoia’t, Contemporary Jewellery Award, Barcelona (ES)
2012 This was (my) 2007, Gallery Caroline Van Hoek, Brussels (BE)
2012 Ritual, Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER, The Gallery of Art, Legnica (PL)
2011 European Triënnale for Contemporary Jewellery, WCC-BF, Mons (BE)
2011 PIN Anonimum, EXD’II/Lisboa (PT)
2011 Conceptual Jewellery, Art gallery ‘Putti’, Riga (LV)
2010 7th Biënnale Bijoux Sauvage, Wesel Art Gallery/Design Flanders, Brussels (BE)
2008 European Triënnale for Contemporary Jewellery WCC-BF, Mons (BE)
008 Tête – à – tête, Design Museum Ghent (BE)
2007 Migration in Jewels in Migration, Villa de Bondt, Ghent(BE)
2005 Fantasy Design, Design Museum Ghent (BE)
2003 movement(s), Diamond High Council Awards, Diamondmuseum Antwerp (BE) Hong Kong (CN), Shanghai (CN) La Valetta (MT) Basel (CH) Amsterdam (NL)
2003 BAG AGE, Fashionmuseum Hasselt (BE)
2002 International final year projects, Marzee, Nijmegen (NL)