WINNIE TESCHMACHER
From 1982-1984, Winnie Teschmacher studied at Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam, Sculpture. In 1983, she owned a glass studio in The Hague. From 1989-1993, she was a Freelance designer Unica, Royal Leerdam glassworks. From 1989-present, she is working for glass artists in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In 199, she had a scholarship to the Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, Washington.
Selected Commissions
Nationale Nederlanden, Zwolsche Algemeene, OCE, NIBC Bank, Sijthoff Pers, BAM, Volker Stevin KWS, Roto Smeets, Credit Suisse, First Boston Bank, Aedes, UBS, Robeco Groep, SCA, AKZO Nobel, Goldman Sachs, Port of Rotterdam, Nolet Distillery and several city councils and organisations
Selected Collections
Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Museum van der Togt, Amstelveen, NL
Nationaal Glasmuseum, Leerdam, NL
Musée du Verre, Sars Poterie, France
Ernsting Stiftung Alter Hof Herding, Germany
Organisations and private collections like Rabobank, AKZO Nobel, NIBC Bank, ABN/Amrobank, DSM art collection, Nolet Distillery
Selected Exhibitions
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL
National Glasmuseum, Leerdam, NL
Museum van der Togt, Amstelveen, NL
Musée du Verre, Sars Poterie, France
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, NL (group)
Galerie Rob van den Doel, The Hague, NL
Galerie Etienne & van den Doel, Oisterwijk, NL
Galerie Gooijer Fine Art, Doesburg, NL
Galerie Klute, Wenen, A (group)
Galerie Borgward, Bremen, D (group)
Gorcums museum, Gorcum, NL (group)
Singer Museum, Laren, NL
Kunstrai, Amsterdam, NL
Holland Art Fair, Den Haag, NL
PAN Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
Galerie Luca, Zalbommel, NL
Glasmuseum Alter Hof Herding, Coesfeld, DE
De Ketelfactory, Schiedam, NL
De Noletloodsen, Schiedam
Education and activities:
1980 Started working with glass, self-taught
1982-1984 Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam, Sculpture Department
1984-1985 Free Academy in The Hague, Sculpture Department
1983 Started own glass studio in The Hague
1989-1993 Freelance designer one-off pieces, Royal Crystal Leerdam
1984 Honorable Mention Haagse Salon
1989-1993 Freelance designer one-off pieces, glassfactory Royal Leerdam
1990 Scholarship Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle U.S.A.
1992 Bernardine de Neeve Prijs: Price for young Talent in Glass
1994 Participant international Symposium Optical Glass in Bratislava, Slowakia
1994 Designed and produced a collection of Design glass for Alterego, Holland
1994-1999 Freelance designer functional glass for various factories
1995-1999 Co-organisation sculpture garden ‘The Garden of Delight’, Vlaardingen
1996 Participant international Symposium Glass, Slowakia & Glassart and Technology, France
1997 Exhibition Singer Museum, Laren
1999 Installation “Transparent Body,” Amsterdam
1999 Culture award by the city of Vlaardingen for “The Garden of Delight”
2000 Installation “The Beginning is the Present” with photography
2004 “The Heart of the Matter,” exhibition and DVD
2007 Start of the collection “Spaces of Silence”
2006 Development Art-initiative of Nolet BV: De Ketelfactory at Schiedam
2007 this day Director at De Ketelfactory
2011 Waterweg Culture award for De Ketelfactory
2013 Participant Art & Science Workshop at the Watermill centre, U.S.A.
2014 Orientation trip Korea and Japan with the Mondrian Fund
2015-2016 organization “snapshot of a larger order” at De Noletloodsen, Schieda