SMCK MAGAZINE
Christoph Ziegler is the publisher of SMCK Magazine, a digital and print periodical focusing on contemporary jewelry, applied art, and design. He co-founded the magazine in 2020 together with Loukia Richards.
⇾ SMCK Magazine website
SMCK ON REEL
Co-founded by Christoph Ziegler and Loukia Richards in 2022, SMCK On Reel is an international video festival inspired by jewelry and wearable art. It is part of SMCK Magazine.
⇾ SMCK ON REEl website
INITIATION
From 2017–22, Christoph Ziegler co-curated together with Loukia Richards the exhibition series INITIATION, presenting more than eighty contemporary jewelry artists in various venues in Munich and Amsterdam, including Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein and Sieraad Art Fair.
The exhibition series aimed at crossing interdisciplinary borders by combining media such as jewelry, installation, performance, storytelling, and video.
MYTHS
Together with Loukia Richards, Christoph Ziegler co-curated from 2013–16 the exhibition series MYTHS with a main focus on Greek contemporary jewelry and international jewelry art inspired by Greece's ancient mythology. The exhibition series included MYTHS Test Drive, a mobile exhibition in a caravan presented at Munich's annually Schmuck week.
⇾ MYTHS website
METAMORPHOSES
Metamorphoses – curated by Loukia Richards and Christoph Ziegler – presented 20 international jewelry artists at Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein Munich. The exhibition explored transformation as a universal experience in art, myth, and religion.
⇾ BKV website
WERT/VOLL ( I )
The exhibition WERT/voll – curated by Christoph Ziegler and Loukia Richards – featured 20 jewelry artists using upcycling and sustainable materials to question beauty, value, and our culture of consumption. Supported by the German Environment Agency.
⇾ UBA website
WERT/VOLL ( II )
WERT/voll II followed the first part of the exhibition at UBA Dessau and was held at the Grassi Museum of Applied Art in Leipzig, in the renowned Pfeilerhalle. It was accompanied by a workshop program on sustainable jewelry.
⇾ GRASSI website
FAVELAB
Christoph Ziegler is the co-founder of the artist-in-residence platform FaveLAB in Athens, Greece. Established in 2017 together with Loukia Richards, FaveLAB fosters artistic research, development, and networking, and offers curated, customized residency programs for artists, designers, and writers in the Greek capital. The FaveLAB residencies include workshops, studio presentations, exhibitions, lectures, and performances that reflect contemporary, medieval, and ancient Greek art.
⇾ FaveLAB website
