Pia Pasalk

jewellery, product and fashion

1977 Born in Cologne
1997-2000 Apprenticeship as goldsmith at the Le Arti Orafe, Florence, Italia
2000-2003 Goldsmith work for designers and goldsmith workshops in Germany
2003-2008 Product design studies, with an emphasis on jewellery design, at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences and Arts und at the UCE, School of Jewellery, Birmingham, UK.
Final project with Elisabeth Holder and Herman Hermsen Since
2008 independent designer selling work from her own Cologne workshop under the name Content and Container

Exhibitions

Since 2001 exhibitions in Germany and abroad, among which:

2002 and 2003 Arcades for IMM Cologne, Benninger Gallery
2002-2004 Workshop exhibition, Cologne
2003 MIPEL, Milan
2005 Grassimesse, Leipzig
2006 Ciuchino.com, Milan
2007 Rhine Design, “Fragile – handle with care”, Werft 11 Gallery, Cologne
2007 Cologne Design Bootique, Rhine Design Festival
2008 IMM Cologne

 

“My task as a designer is to give form to my ideas. For me, clothing and jewellery are about more than covering the body, just as cups are about more than holding liquid. They are at once form and bearer of content.”

Website
http://www.contentandcontainer.com/



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