Laura Alvarado*1977 in Bogotá, Colombia
Education
2006-2011
Graduate Product and Jewelry Designer, University of Applied Arts and Design Düsseldorf, Germany
2005-2006
Practical Trainig of goldsmithery at Vassiliou Juwelier GmbH, Bonn, Germany
2003-2004
Practical Training of goldsmithery at Escarof Bogotá, Colombia
1998-2003 Graduate Industrial Designer, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano. Bogotá, Colombia
Beyond
2010 Artist in Residence at Ted Noten Atelier / Red Light Design Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Exhibitions
2017
Manu Factum 2017 – Staatspreise im Kunsthandwerk NRW, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund, Germany “Perfect Strangers” Munich, Germany
2015
“Zeitgenössische Keramik von Fontana bis Uecker” Neuerwerbungen der Stiftung Lontzen, Hetjens Museum Düsseldorf, Germany Lange Nacht der Museen, Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany
Pop-Up PENG: Home away From Home – Allianzhaus, Mainz, Germany
2014
“Around the Future”, Vicenza Jewellery Fair, Vicenza und Salon Di Mobile Mailand, Italy
“Think Twice: New Latin American Jewelry”, Franz Mayer Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
“Portrait me: Origo”, Atelier/Galerie Punktpunktkommakunst Munich, Germany
“Máquina”, Showcase 20a, Munich, Germany
2013
Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
Sciencity Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast, Germany
Think Twice: New Latin American Jewelry, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, México
Think Twice: New Latin American Jewelry, Estonian Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Tallinn, Estonia
The Jewelbook Exhibition, WCC-BF Worlds Craft Council, Belgium
2012
3D Print Show, The Brewery, 53 Chiswell Street, London
“Ritual”, 21st Silver Festival, Legnica, Poland
Talente, IHM Munich, Germany 3 Stations ”
What’s in a frame?” Munich, Germany
“A2&D”, H Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2011
Konzepte, Projekte, Forschung. Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany
Special Project. Sieraad Jewellery Art Fair Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Marzee International Selection of Graduate Work, Gallerie Marzee, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Short Film Program in the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany
Think Twice: New Latin American Jewelry, Bellevue Arts Museum, Northeast Bellevue, USA
NEUN Gallerie V&V, Vienna Austria
2010
Think Again: New Latin American Jewelry, Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA
3 City Storytelling. Fashion Museum, Hasselt, Belgium / Maastricht, The Netherlands / Düsseldorf, Germany
Dormitory_Bauleitung_Laboratory “Schmuck in Schlafrock aus 7 Laendern” Munich, Germany
2009
Sieraad Jewellery Art Fair Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Video Salon Damen und Herren Düsseldorf, Germany
DMY International design Festival Youngsters Berlin, Germany
Permanent Collections
Hetjens Museum, Ceramic Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany
Awards
2017
Nominee Manu Factum 2017 – Staatspreise im Kunsthandwerk NRW, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund, Germany
2012
Honorable Mention, “Ritual”, 21st Silver Festival, Legnica, Poland
Selected for Talente 2012, Munich, Germany
Lectures
2015 Short lecture about “Portrait me”, within the exhibition “On the elementary power of jewellery” Maximilians Forum, Munich, Germany
2013 Think Twice Conference, Estonian Academy of Art, Tallinn, Estonia
2012 Sperk Stret N5, Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia
2011 43. Schmucksymposium Zimmerhof, Bad Rapenau, Germany
2011 Symposium: Übergangsobjekte, Experimentelle Objektstrategie. IRAA Institute for Research in Applied Arts, FH Düsseldorf, Germany
2010 DAVD Digital Analog Vortrag Ding. FH Düsseldorf, Germany
Publications
Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital, Black Dog Publishing
Jewelbook 12-13, International Annual of Contemporary Jewel Art, Stitchting Kunstboek
Übergansobjekte
Three City Storytelling
Workshops
2014 “Paper Heroes” Interaktiver Workshop: Vom Papiermodell über die digitale 3D-Datei zum realen Objekt, Fachhochschule Düsseldorf, Germany