Katell Gélébart
Katell Gélébart (* 1972 in Vezin-le-Coquet , Bretagne ) is a French designer .
life and work
Katell Gélébart comes from Brittany and led a restless life after the divorce of her parents. She became an environmental activist , a member of Robin Wood , got involved with Greenpeace and demonstrated in Gorleben . She did her Master of Arts in Danish and art history at the Sorbonne and at the École du Louvre in Paris . She then traveled around the world and lived for seven years in Puna , India , where she was trained as a sannyasin , practiced meditation and became a student of Guru Osho . Since then she has seen herself as a cosmopolitan and modern nomad .
In 1998, Gélébart in Amsterdam a studio with its own label (dt. "Art d'Eco" Eco-Art ). There she worked with Czech seamstresses on her “garbage design”. Clothes were sewn from terry towels, skirts from mailbags, raincoats or bags from plastic packaging. Today she lives and works in Berlin .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2012 Museum for Arts and Crafts in Hamburg
- 2012 documenta 13 , Kassel
Award
- 2012 KAIROS Prize , Hamburg
literature
- Christine Eichel The garbage designer: How Katell Gélébart changed the world Scorpio Verlag, February 2013, ISBN 978-3943416022
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Katja Deiss: How the garbage designer Katell Gélébart changed the world ( Memento from March 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 29, 2013
- ↑ Verena Lugert: Creative Recycling. Beauty and the Trash , accessed March 29, 2013
- ↑ Katja Engler: Die Welt: The garbage designer with the Bonduelle dress.Retrieved on March 29, 2013
- ↑ Katell Gélébart makes art out of garbage Garbage - the gold of the future. Accessed March 29, 2013
- ↑ Katell Gélébart designs Öko Mode Fashion Lounge. Accessed March 29, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gélébart, Katell |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | french fashion designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Le Coquet |