Maria Konschake

Maria Konschake is a visual artist, researcher, and jewelry maker who works with various materials. Konschake’s work navigates between critical design and art. Most of her pieces are craft-based explorations of various themes, often related to the body but not necessarily intended to be worn.

Maria Konschake is as a PhD student at Hasselt University and PXL-MAD School of Arts Hasselt (BE). In her current PhD research, titled ‘An Act of Deviation: When Objects Carry Memories’, she is exploring deviation as an artistic strategy and attempts to analyse it in such a way that she can use it to create objects that encourage reflection on the relationship between jewellery, identity and memory. She is particularly interested in memory-related deviation. 

During her stay at S12, she mainly worked on a series of foam glass cylinders that were intended to thematise forgetting. Konschake first carried out various tests to finally cast a series of 8 cylinders (combining core – and foam casting) with different mixing ratios of foam and normal, transparent glass. She has also started 2 additional groups of objects, which she will continue to work on after her stay at S12.