Katja Prins (Haarlem, the Netherlands, 1970) lives and works as an independent jewelry artist in Amsterdam.
She graduated from the Polytechnic Schoonhoven in 1993 and from the jewelry department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 1997. As a jeweler she is working with silver, plastic, glass, porcelain and polyurethane rubber, creating unique pieces. She has had solo and group exhibitions all over Europe, USA, Asia and Russia. She was a guest lecturer at Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, Academie Beeldende Kunsten Maastricht, AKI Enschede, Konstfack Stockholm, Hiko Mizuno College, Tokyo, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Savannah College of Art and Design, Tainan National University of the Arts, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston and University of Arts & Design Samara, Russia. Her jewelry has been purchased by Museum of Arts and Design New York, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, CODA Museum Apeldoorn, Museum for Modern Art Arnhem, Textile Museum Tilburg, Mint Museum Charlotte, Glasmuseum Alter Hof Herding, Nationaal Glas Museum Leerdam, SM’s Stedelijk Museum ‘sHertogenbosch and Musée des Beaux Arts Marseille.
With her work she wants to tell stories about the body, the body as an instrument, as a machine - instruments/machines as extensions of the body.
Our body as an extension of our mind by changing and improving it with our technology.
Stories about the intimate relationship between human bodies and mechanic devices, (medical) technology and industry.
How are we related to each other?
An interaction that is rapidly increasing in these days.
