This video is a brief explanation by Dorothea Prühl of the concept behind her necklace Kleine Vögel (Small Birds) to Marie-José van den Hout of Galerie Marzee. The necklace has been presented for the first time during FRAME – SCHMUCK 2026 in Munich from 4 to 8 March 2026. Two months prior to the final version Dorothea Prühl lays out the idea for the necklace with the main elements of the necklace. The final necklace remains the same, only the final arrangement and number of birds is different from the initial concept, with four small birds instead of five. The birds’ mutual movement, as if rushing through each other to quickly eat food from the ground (or table because that is where Dorothea places the food when she is in her workshop in Augustenberg) is the cental idea. A photo of the finished necklace can be seen at the end of the video.
Please note that native subtitles of this video are in German which can be auto-translated to English.
…a man who leaves with a suitcase is a man with a chance of returning… Juliane Brandes’ exhibition ‘The Noise of Time’ which is on display at Galerie Marzee from 31 January until 7 April 2026, is inspired by the novel with the same name by Julian Barnes, written in 2016. The book by Julian Barnes is a fictional novel about the life of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich who lived under the dictatorship of Stalin and Khrushchev. The book covers many subjects like art, politics, totalitarianism, terror and freedom.
“Art belongs to everybody and nobody. Art belongs to all time and no time. Art belongs to those who create it and those who savour it. Art no more belongs to the People and the Party than it once belonged to the aristocracy and the patron. Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.”
Both jewellery and sculpture, Juliane Brandes’ work has a spirited, naturalistic quality but always with a twist. The inventive wit of the surreal, small creatures and objects of much of her earlier work have now metamorphosed into something at once more earthy and more other-worldly.
Juliane Brandes was born in Hamburg in Germany in 1962. After completing her goldsmiths’ training, she studied jewellery at Hochschule Pforzheim and has taught at the city’s Berufskolleg für Design, Schmuck und Gerät since 1991. Her work is widely exhibited and can be seen in the collections of the Schmuckmuseum in Pforzheim, the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt, Dallas Museum of Art, the Alice and Louis Koch collection at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich, The Rotasa Collection in the US as well as in the Marzee Collection.
The hare is a widely used symbol in art and literature. The hare of Albrecht Dürer from 1502 is probably the most famous depiction of a hare. Joseph Beuys also used the symbolism of the hare in his influential 1965 performance entitled ‘Wie man dem toten Hasen die Bilder erklärt’. In the Marzee Collection there are many pieces of jewellery depicting hares and for this exhibition we have asked our artists for an object or jewellery with this theme.
The exhibition features new work, made especially for this exhibition and already existing work from the Marzee Collection.
You can see work by, among others: Lili Barglowska, Ela Bauer, Nicole Beck, Iris Bodemer, Jonathan Boyd, Juliane Brandes, Tim Carson, David Clarke, Katrin Feulner, Carmen Hauser, Herman Hermsen, Susie Heuberger, David Huycke, Margit Jäschke, Levan Jishkariani, Karin Johansson, Hee-ang Kim, Rudolf Kocéa, Winfried Krüger, Otto Künzli, Felieke van der Leest, Stefano Marchetti, Christine Matthias, Chequita Nahar, Carla Nuis, Ted Noten, Annelies Planteijdt, Dorothea Prühl, Ulrich Reithofer, Tabea Reulecke, Karin Seufert, Pedro Sequeira, Vera Siemund, Adi Toch, Karola Torkos, Vivi Touloumidi and Andrea Wippermann.
