MASCHA MOJE, BIOGRAPHY
Mascha Moje’s practice distils ideas of material memory, whilst employing the impeccable craft of the master maker across a broad range of materials.
For more than two decades Moje has predominantly worked within the field of Jewellery, her interest stemming from questions of how objects are worn and the interface of body and object. She employs a reductionist mode of making, fascinated with the language of the material and the essence of form. Moje’s practice is not defined by material, craft or placement, but the careful consideration of given parameters, be they the interface of body and worn object or object in space.
Moje welcomes these challenges to expand on possible answers around closely investigated concepts.
Mascha Moje was born in Hamburg Germany. In 1984 she travelled to Australia to undertake training in gold and silversmithing at the A.N.U., Canberra Institute of the Arts, completing her studies in 1989. She went on to teaching roles at RMIT, ANU and Monash University. Moje has exhibited extensively in Australia, as well as exhibitions in Denmark, Holland, Belgium, New York, Germany, Austria, Japan and completed a 3 month residency in the Ceramic Centre Hertogenbosch, Holland. Her work is widely collected in both private and public collections including NGA, NGV, AGSA, Museum for Art and Design in New York, and several public collections in Germany.
EDUCATION
2000 Sessional Teaching, RMIT, Melbourne
1999 Sessional Teaching, Monash University, Melbourne
1992 Visiting Lecturer, Schwaebisch Gmuend, Fachhochschule fuer Gestaltung, Germany
1991 Head of Workshop, Jewellery and Silversmithing Workshop, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
1990 Lecturer, Gold and Silversmithing Workshop, ANU, Institute of the Arts, Canberra, Australia
1988 Postgraduate Diploma, Gold and Silversmithing Workshop, Canberra School of Art, Australia
1985-87 Undergraduate Studies, Gold and Silversmithing Workshop Canberra School of Art, ANU, Australia
1964 Born. Hamburg, Germany.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 of a tale, Gallery Funaki, Melbourne, Australia
2001 First Love, Gallery Funaki, Melbourne, Australia
1999 skin and bone, ANCA Gallery, Canberra, Australia
1995 Mascha Moje, Galerie IBO, Klagenfurt, Austria
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009/10 Lingham, Fertility objects, Denmark / Holland / Belgium
2008 Salon International, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
2007 Riggs Award, NGV, Melbourne, Australia
2006 Non omne est aurum quod splendet, Gallerie Sophie Lachaert, Belgium
2005 10 years Gallery Funaki, Melbourne, Australia
Alternatives:material/means, Rhode Island, New York
2004 Moje, Hosking, Funaki, Galerie RA, Amsterdam
2004, NGV, Melbourne, Australia
Salon International, Munich Town Hall, Germany
2003 Trienale des Kunsthandwerks, Frankfurt / New York
Sixtett, Church Gallery, Perth, Australia
2002 Moje, Hosking, Funaki, Galerie Slavik, Vienna, Austria
Rings, Gallery Funaki, Melbourne, Australia
2001 Crusoe Haus, Bremer Foerderpreis – exhibition, Germany
Grassi Messe, Leibzig, Germany
2000 Quintett, Jam Factory, Adelaide, Australia
31@20, Travelling Exhibition, Canberra School of Art, Gold and Silversmithing Workshop
1998 Alen Mueller-Hellwig Preis, Burgkloster, Luebeck, Germany
Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia
Overseas, Galerie RA, Amsterdam
Undercurrents, Itami City Craft Centre, Itami, Ueno no Mori, Japan
1997 Mascha Moje und Jan Wege, Gallerie Killinger, Hamburg
1996 A matter of making, Alumni Exhibition, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra
1996-02 Jahresmesse der Kunsthandwerker, Museum Ufer Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
RESIDENCIES
2006 Ceramic Centre Hertogenbosch, Holland
PUBLICATIONS
2010 Lingham, Arnoldsche Publications
2004 Art and medicine, Magazine, Australia, Stephen Crafti
1000 Rings, Lark Books, New York
2004, Catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Design Calendar, Monument magazine, Germany
2003 SCHMUCK, Catalogue, Handwerksmesse Munich
Trienale des Kunsthandwerks, Catalogue, Museum Frankfurt
Mascha Moje, Self Publication
2001 Mascha Moje, Catalogue, Museum fuer Kunst un Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Moje’s mojo, Monument magazine No.42, Australia
2000 32@20, Catalogue, Canberra School of Art Gallery
Quintett, Catalogue, Jam Factory, Adelaide
1998 Undercurrents, Catalogue, Itami City Craft Centre, Japan
Kunsthandwerk und Design, 4/98 Magazine, Germany
1997 SCHMUCK, July edition, Magazine, Germany
Kunsthandwerk und Design, 6/97 Magazine, Germany
1996 A Matter of Making, Catalogue, Canberra School of Art
Schmuckszene ’96, Catalogue, Handwerksmesse, Munich
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2004 Arts Victoria Grant
2001 Justus Brinckmann Preis, Museum fuer Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Grassi Preis der Sparkasse Leibzig, Germany
Bremer Foerderpreis fuer das Kunsthandwerk, Bremen, Germany
1998 Alen Mueller-Helwig Preis, Lubeck, Germany
1997 Australia Council Grant
1995 Kulturpreistraegerin, Landeskreis Osterholz, Germany
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of South Australia
Landesmuseum Schleswig Holstein, Germany
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin
Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria
National Gallery of Australia, ACT
Grassi Museum, Leibzig, Germany
Museum for Art and Design, New York
Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany