beständig war die Perle – Werkstätten & Wandel
Frauke Zabel, Detail Aus der Geschichte der Jablonecer Industrie von Bohumil Maryša, 1955, Muzeum skla a bižuterie v Jablonci nad Nisou, 2025, Videostill. Copyright: Die Künstlerin
Frauke Zabel, beständig war die Perle, 2025, Installationsansicht. Copyright: Frank Bauer
Frauke Zabel, beständig war die Perle, 2025, Installationsansicht. Copyright: Frank Bauer
Frauke Zabel, beständig war die Perle, 2025, Installationsansicht. Copyright: Frank Bauer
Frauke Zabel, beständig war die Perle, 2025, Installationsansicht. Copyright: Frank Bauer
Programme & Events
Based on the tradition of glass bead production in the Kaufbeuren-Neugablonz district, the artistic research project beständig war die Perle (the pearl was constant) deals with the significance of glass beads as a global commodity.
The starting point is Frauke Zabel's training as a silversmith and goldsmith at the Kaufbeuren-Neugablonz Vocational School for Glass and Jewelry and her learning of the technique of glass bead winding at the Bohemian lamp fire. For the second chapter of the project, starting in November 2025, the focus will be on the craft and the places of production—the workshops—and the collection will be supplemented by works from the vocational school's classes. In addition to the presentation in the exhibition space, walks invite visitors to explore the district. Together, they visit places of current and historical production. The glass bead is used to trace changes in production processes and transformations in Neugablonz. A new video work reflects this exploration of the Neugablonz district back into the exhibition at the Kunsthaus.
Supported by the Danner Foundation and with funds from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and Art in the program VERBINDUNGSLINIEN of the BBK Bayern.
About Frauke Zabel ↓
After training as a gold and silversmith at the vocational school for glass and jewelry in Kaufbeuren-Neugablonz, Frauke Zabel studied art in Halle/Saale, Munich, and São Paulo. She has taught at the Technical University of Munich, the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, and as a visiting professor at the HGB Leipzig, and is currently pursuing a doctoral project at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She worked as a curator in the team at the FLORIDA Lothringer 13 art space and, since 2013, at the Kunstpavillon e.V. in the Old Botanical Garden in Munich. She has received numerous residencies and scholarships. Participations in exhibitions and performances as well as performances in collective contexts took place at MUSA – Museu da Amazônia / Manaus, Teatro de Arena / São Paulo, Pivô / São Paulo, esponja / São Paulo (BR), Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Kunsthaus Bregenz – KUB Arena (AT), Cité internationale des arts Paris (FR), Deutsches Studienzentrum Venedig (IT), Kunstverein München, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Lothringer Halle München, PAM – Public Art Munich, Goethe University Frankfurt, SPIELART Munich, KV Leipzig, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Kunstraum Munich, Kunstverein Bamberg, and in the global dis:connect program at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte Munich.