Credit: © Veronika Beckh, Foto: Peter Hübbe, Design: Bjoern Wolf

The MK&G messe 2024 will take place from November 27 to December 1 2024.

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Eva Benamou and Antonia Gauss are developing a textile dyeing system and exploring the creative possibilities offered by the pen plotter as a digital tool at the interface between textile craftsmanship and industrial reproduction. 

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"The fair at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg combines outstanding German and international arts and crafts." - Art Aurea

Onka Allmayer-Beck moves clay. The Viennese artist has found a strong formal language in ceramics with a high recognition value. Proportions, movement and color are important to her; her objects are unique, small personalities.

"Jewelry and textile design, ceramics, metal and wood: the MK&G has invited 54 selected international designers to present their high-quality unique pieces. The special feature of the show is the individual discussions with the artists."- Welt am Sonntag

The MK&G puts the focus on the theme of arts and crafts. Every year the MK&G messe is accompanied by a large solo exhibition from the Contemporary Craft series. 2024 Hanne Friis will be on show.

Members are closer! The Friends of the MK&G, the Justus Brinckmann Gesellschaft, is a partner of this fair. Members have free admission and are part of a special programme. Not a member yet? Become a member now.

Every year at the MK&G messe, the Justus Brinckmann Prize and the Justus Brinckmann Förderpreis are awarded by the Friends of the MK&G. With 7500 EUR and 2500 EUR, these renowned awards are among the most highly endowed prizes in the field of arts and crafts in Germany.

The works of sculptor Katharina Andress always move between the boundaries of fine and applied art and the transitions between wearable jewelry and autonomous artwork are fluid.

While the uniform patterns are digitally preprogrammed, the contours of the notches in the vases by Konrad Jünger and Verena Kühn result from the shape of the tool.

Driven by a utopian desire to change the habits of our capitalist societies, Yoann Piccardi has developed EggwaveWorkset: a cottage industry for reusing egg cartons.

Doerthe Fuchs' pendant jewelry are often containers or amulets enriched with messages. 

In her works, Aino Nebel questions when and how artistic values arise and how they materialize. In doing so, she explores various techniques, media and materials.

Sungkyung Yoon's works deal with the Koranic and German contexts of textiles and their uses.

Christiane Wilhelm's vessels are clearly contoured in form and are characterized by a subtle surface design.

Hyojung Yun and Jinhwi Lee are constantly developing new glazes, materials and techniques and combine stability and lightness in their objects.

Jonas Noël Niedermann's glass objects from the 'Magnetics' series are based on investigations into magnetic fields, their collision and breakage.

The materiality and form of In Jung's ceramics and vessels allow the inside and outside to become permeable.

Christoph Leuner sees his 'HOHL-KÖRPER' as containers for storing personal items and thoughts with meaning: for real, small collector's items as mementos or for wishes and ideas projected into them. 

From 28 November to 3 December 2023, the MK&G messe presented the latest trends in contemporary craft, including both up-and-coming and well-known positions, international tendencies and fresh perspectives from many disciplines ...

The winner of the Justus Brinckmann Prize 2023 is glass artist Veronika Beckh. She blows her vessels in one piece and creates biomorphic shapes with strong contrasts.

Alexandra Stein has been awarded the Justus Brinckmann New Generation Award 2023. She uses her ceramic objects like canvases and they sometimes end up on the wall.

The MK&G messe 2023 had a varied programme with interesting guests, talks, guided tours of the fair, evenings at the bar and other interesting events. Click here for more information.