Zane Bērziņa

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Zane Bērziņa (born May 11, 1971 in Riga ) is a Latvian designer , artist , researcher and professor for conceptual design of materials and surfaces in the field of textile and surface design at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art .

biography

Zane Bērziņa studied fine arts at the Janis Rozentals Fine Art School in Riga from 1982 to 1989 . At the Latvian Art Academy in Riga, Textile Department, she received her Bachelor of Arts in 1994 and her Master of Arts in 1997.

From 1994 to 1995 she was a visiting student at the University of Arts and Design in Helsinki, Finland. From 1995 to 1999 she studied industrial design with a focus on textile design at the Hochschule der Künste (HdK) Berlin , (today University of the Arts, UdK) with Barbara Ehring. She completed her second master's degree in textile and fashion design (European Master's program in Fashion and Textiles) from 1999 to 2000 at the University of Southampton (Great Britain), at the HdK Berlin (now UdK), at the Winchester School of Art (Great Britain) and at the Institut Français de la Mode, Paris (France).

From 2000 to 2004 she was a lecturer at the UdK Berlin and did her doctorate at the London College of Fashion at the University of the Arts in London , where she received her doctorate in 2005 for her work "Skin Stories: Charting and Mapping the Skin". Her doctoral thesis was supervised by Frances Geesin, Norma Starszakowna and Kay Politowicz, she received content-related support from Klaus Haussmann, Institute for Biology and Zoology, Free University of Berlin .

From 2004 to 2006 she taught at Goldsmiths, University of London , Fine Arts Department. In 2006 she was part of the founding team of the E-Text + Textiles Society in Riga, Latvia, together with Joseph Tabbi (professor of literature at the University of Illinois, Chicago ) and Manuela Rossini (cultural scientist, Basel). From 2007 to 2009 she worked as a research assistant at Goldsmiths College, University of London, on her own research project "E-Static Shadows". Cooperation partners were the architect Jackson Tan, the TITV - Textile Research Institute Greiz (Germany), the Department of Materials, the Queen Mary, University of London (Great Britain), the Department of Computing and the Constance Howard Resource and Research Center in Textiles at Goldsmiths College, University of London (Great Britain). Her research was funded by AHRC - Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Between 2007 and 2016 she was a member of Goldsmiths Digital Studios at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Zane Bērziņa has been a professor at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin since 2008. In 2010 she initiated and founded the GreenLab, a laboratory for sustainable design strategies, at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule berlin together with the industrial designer Susanne Schwarz-Raacke and the fashion designer Heike Selmer , and in the same year together with the industrial designer Carola Zwick and the digital media Designer Barbara Junge created the eLab, a laboratory for interactive technologies.

Zane Bērziņa works on various interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of design, art, society, natural sciences and technology. Her artistic and creative practice and research revolves primarily around soft technologies, active textiles, adaptive surface systems, experimental materials research , processes and scenarios for design, often in connection with biomimetic practices. Her teaching and research is based on interdisciplinary activities in science and design and shows how these influence the cultural and technological context.

Since 2014 she has been a member of the research consortium "smart³ I materials, solutions, growth" for the development of new products with intelligent materials and head of several BMBF-funded smart³ research projects at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin ("start smart", "smart tools for smart design "," SoundAdapt "," smart materials satellites "). Since 2016 she has been a member of the “futureTEX” research consortium and heads the “Textile Prototyping Lab” research project at the art college.

Her works are represented in the art collections of the US Embassy in Riga (Latvia), European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Riga (Latvia), Lloyd Cotsen Collection (USA) and in private collections. Her projects “Skin Stories” (2000–2006), “Touch Me” (2005–2011) and “E-Static Shadows” (2007–2009) are particularly well known to the public.

From 2008 to 2012 she was a member of the editorial team for the scientific publication "The Nordic Textile Journal" published by The Center for Textile Research, University of Borås. From 2013 to 2016 she worked as a member of the editorial team for the scientific publication "Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice", Bloomsbury Publishing. Since 2012 she has been a member of the project advisory board for the Federal Ecodesign Award , Berlin.

She lives and works in Berlin.

Exhibitions

Her work has been shown in international exhibitions since 1991, including in:

  • NAMOC, The National Art Museum of China, Beijing
  • Wellcome Trust, London, UK
  • Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg
  • FACT - Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool, Great Britain
  • Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, North Carolina, USA
  • Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK
  • Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
  • Textile Museum of Prato, Italy
  • National Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
  • State Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
  • State Gallery Arsenals, Riga, Latvia
  • Foreign Art Museum, Riga, Latvia
  • The Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
  • Dana Center, Science Museum, London, UK

Awards & scholarships (selection)

  • 2009 'Eurolecture - European Program for Innovative Academic Teaching' award by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation for the project e-MOTION at the UdK Berlin, Institute for Experimental Fashion and Textile Design, Germany
  • 2009 Arts Council and The National Lottery, Grant for the Arts, Great Britain
  • 2007–2009 Arts and Humanities Research Council large research award for the project E-Static Shadows in collaboration with the Constance Howard Resource and Research Center in Textiles, Great Britain
  • 2006 Goldsmiths, University of London, Visual Arts Department, Research Award
  • 2002–2004 The Textile Institute bursary (fellowship), Great Britain
  • 2000–2003 ORS - The Overseas Research Students Award, Great Britain
  • 2000–2004 The London Institute Research Students Scholarship, Great Britain
  • 2000 Lucky Strike Junior Designer Award, Raymond Loewy Foundation, Germany
  • 1999 Artist grant from the Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia
  • 1998–1999 Scholarship from the Foundation Kulturkapitala Fonds in Latvia
  • 1995 UIAH Scholarship, Finland
  • 1995 CIMO - Nordic Council of Ministers Scholarship, Finland

Publications (selection)

  • Greendesign 4.0: Social Design - creating ideas. Editors: Susanne Schwarz-Raacke, Zane Berzina, Steffen Schuhmann. Projects from the GreenLab. Published by GreenLab, Weißensee Kunsthochschule berlin, 2017
  • Berzina, Zane (2016): Active textiles, adaptive surfaces and tangible interfaces. In: Doll, Nikola / Bredekamp, ​​Horst / Schäffner, Wolfgang for the interdisciplinary laboratory “Image Knowledge Design” (ed.): + Ultra. design creates knowledge. Exhibition catalog Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. Leipzig: EA Seemann, pp. 205-211.
  • Greendesign 3.0: Postcarbon - Design for a sustainable Lausitz. Editors: Susanne Schwarz-Raacke, Zane Berzina, Steffen Schuhmann. Projects from the GreenLab. Published by GreenLab, Weißensee Kunsthochschule berlin, 2014
  • Green Design 1.0: Projects from the Greenlab / Greenlab, Laboratory for Sustainable Design Strategies. Editors: Zane Berzina, Susanne Schwarz-Raacke, Heike Selmer. GreenLab, Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, 2014
  • The digital turn - Design in the Era of Interactive Technologies. Editors: Barbara Junge, Zane Berzina, Walter Scheiffele, Wim Westerveld, Carola Zwick. Park Books, 2012
  • Berzina, Z (2010). High-Craft - Examples of Practice Led Research Work from 2000 to 2010. In: Future Textile Environments, edited by Renata Brink, Marion Ullrich Publisher: HAW Hamburg and R. Brink, M. Ullrich, 2010
  • Berzina, Z (2008). E-Static Shadows. Ambience 08 Conference. Paper publications, 2008, The Swedish School of Textiles, University College of Borås, Sweden and the Tampere University of Technology, Finland.
  • Berzina, Z (2008). Re-thinking touch. In: Sk-interfaces, Exhibition catalog, edited by Jens Hauser. Publisher: Liverpool University Press and FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool, 2008, p. 147-149
  • Berzina, Z (2006). Designing for Future Textiles - Challenges of Hybrid Practices. In: Textile Narratives & Conversions: Proceedings of the 10th Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America, October 11-14, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Berzina, Z (2006). Skin Stories II - Archeology of Skin. Zane Berzina, exhibition catalog. Publisher: British Council, Riga, 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ + ultra. knowledge creates design . 1st edition. EA Seemann, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-86502-378-0 .
  2. ↑ Susanne Schwarz-Raacke, Zane Berzina, Steffen Schuhmann (eds.): GreenDesign 3.0. postcarbon - design for a sustainable Lausitz . Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-9814373-9-3 , p. 130 .
  3. ↑ Green design 1.0: Projects from the Greenlab . Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-9814373-8-6 .
  4. ^ The digital turn: design in the era of interactive technologies . Park Books, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-906027-02-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Bērziņa, Zane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian designer, artist, researcher and professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga