Life is a cycle of giving and taking, development and change.The found object, a discard from the utilitarian world lays idle awaiting destruction, renewal or metamorphosis. A leftover is a reminder of a person’s presence, a witness of passed time. Found objects attract my perception. They trigger my curiosity and play with my imagination. Leftovers disturb routines, habits and orders.

The transformation of these found objects as well as everyday patterns are starting points for my work. The alternating process of experimentation and reflection leads me to the final piece. I respond to used everyday objects and fragments with intuition. I let them disturb my daily life routines, habits and rituals. Common ways of looking at things and values in society are being questioned.

Luzia Vogt,1971, Basel, Switzerland

Education 
2008 – 2010 Certificate, Classes in Didactics, Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Basel 
2004 Diploma as Designer FH in jewelry and hollowware, Pforzheim, Germany
2003 Practical training as silversmith, Tokyo, Japan
2002 – 2003 Exchange study, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), Halifax, Canada
2000 – 2004 Department of Jewellery and Hollowware, University of Pforzheim, Hochschule für Gestaltung Pforzheim, Germany
1992 – 1996 Professional jeweller apprentice, Basel
1991 – 1992 Foundation Year, College of Art and Design, Schule für Gestaltung, Basel 

Collections
Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands | Schweizerisches Landesmuseum Zurich | Städtische Sammlung Idar-Oberstein | mudac (Musée de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains), Lausanne

Awards 
2011 Premio Fondazione Cominelli, Palazzo Cominelli, Cisano di San Felice del Benaco (Brescia)
2008 Blickfang Zurich, first prize together with Natalie Luder and Stephanie Hensle
2005 Swiss Federal Design Grant 2005 | Innovationprize, Inhorgenta Europe 2005, Prize of the International Jury
2004 formforum Schweiz, Jury Price, first prize | Bertha Heraeus und Kathinka Platzhoff Stiftung, Germany, recognition 

Exhibitions (only juried exhibitions)
2011 Verwandlungen - Metamorphosen, Gallery Handwerk, Munich | ultramarine Noblessner Foundry,Tallin, Estonia | Jenny Klemming, Luzia Vogt Gallery viceversa, Place Saint François 2, Lausanne | Design Miami, Gallery Ornamentum, Basel | op voorraad, Lloyd Hotel Amsterdam | un peu de terre sur la peau, Fondation Bernardaud at the MAD (Museum of Arts and Design), New York | Friedrich Becker Award, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, Germany  | 16th Silver Triennial International, Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, Germany | Luzia Vogt, Ramstein, Basel, Switzerland | un peu de terre sur la peau, Fondation Bernardaud, Yingee Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 handmade, Galeria Reverso, Lisbon, Portugal | Steinbeisser, Lisbon, Portugal | In stock Taipei, Taiwan Designers’ Week, Taipei, Taiwan | Un peu de terre sur la peau, Fondation Bernardaud, Limoges, France | Walking the Gray Area, Galeria Emilia Cohen, Mexico City, Mexico | The Art to Wear, Gallery Von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland | The Box, Gallery Maurer Zilioli at Reillplast, Munich, Germany | lingam, Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, NL and Les Anciens Abatoirs, Mons, Belgium 
2009 Near and Far – Miten niin kaukaa, Museum of Cultures, Helsinki, Finland | Porzellan -Weisses Gold, Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzeland | Lingam, Konstfack, Stockholm (SE) and Catarjineconvent, Utrecht (NL) | Instant Idylle, Einzelausstellung, Galerie Noosphere, Basel, Switzerland
2008 Luzia Vogt, Idylle, Soloshow, Gallery Beatrice Lang, Bern, Switzerland | from hand to hand, mudac (Musée de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains), Lausanne, Belgium | Melange, Gallery SO, Solothurn, Switzerland | International Jewellery Triennial, Mons, Belgium
2007 Enter Platina Jewellery, Platina Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden | 15th Silvertriennial, Deutsches Goldschmidehaus, Hanau, Germany | Designers Avenue, Inhorgenta Europe 2007, Munich, Germany
2006 Natalie Luder, Luzia Vogt, Gallery Noël Guyomarc’h, Montréal, Canada | SOFA New York, USA | Schmuck, International Crafts Fair Munich (IHM), Munich, Germany | Collect 2006, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK | The Necklace Show, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, USA |  Designers Avenue, Inhorgenta Europe 2006, Munich, Germany
2005 SOFA Chicago, USA | Swiss Federal Design Grants, mudac (Musée de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains), Lausanne, Belgium |  DesignLabor, Gewerbemuseum ,Winterthur | Incorporer, Biennale Nîmes, Musée des Beaux Arts, Nîmes, France | FOOL’S GOLD, International Jewellery Exhibition, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland | Designers Avenue, Inhorgenta Europe 2005, Munich, Germany 
2004 T5, Contemporary Jewels, Art Fit, Galeria Nuno Cardoso; Lisbon, Portugal | 200 rings, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, USA | International Graduate Show, Galerie Marzee, Njimegen, Netherlands | 14. Silbertriennale 2004, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, Germany
2003 Annual Juried Student Exhibition, SNAG, San Francisco, USA | SOTA, NSCAD Studentworkshow, Khyber Gallery, Halifax, CAnada
2002 Function - Fiction, Museum of Art and History, Neuchâtel, Switzerland | Schweizerschmuck im 20.Jh., Museum of Art and History, Geneva; Switzerland | Talente, International Crafts Fair, Munich, Germany | Cut n‘ Colour,Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Canada

Professional Experience 
2009 Lecture, Hochschule Pforzheim
since 2007 teacher for design, Berufsbildungszentrum Luzern 
2006 – 07 external Expert, Schule für Gestaltung, Basel
2006 Artist in Residence, Idar-Oberstein | Temporary teacher, College of Art and Design, Schule für Gestaltung, Basel
since 2004 own studio in Basel
1996 – 2000 professional jeweller and designer, in Montréal, Canada and Switzerland

Catalogues and Prints (selection) 
2011 New Rings, Promopress, Barcelona, Thames & Hudson, London, 2011, p. 176. | Premio per il gioiello contemporaneo Fondazione Cominelli (Exhib. Cat.), il Edizione, Fontaniva, Padova Italia, 2011, p. 50 and 81.
2010 Swiss Design, Dorian Lucas, www.braun-publishing.ch, 2011, p. 118/119. | lingam, ed. Ruudt Peters, Guus van den Hout, Antwerpen, 2010, p. 57. | novembre, magazine about fashion and contemporary art for Switzerland, issue 1 – S/S 2010, | Luzia Vogt: Instant Idylle, S. 284/285. Fotos by Maria Trofimova, www.dedicatedtoyou.org/maria
2009 GZ Goldschmiedezeitung, November 2009, p.78-80. | The Compendium Of Contemporary Jewellery Makers. Darling Publications | Schmuck, magazine, No. 1, March 09, p. 72.
2008 (Cat. Exhib.) from hand to hand, ed. Mudac (Musée de Design et d’Arts Appliqués Contemporains), Lausanne, 2008, p. 93 and intro | (Cat. Exhib.) International Jewellery Triennial, ed. World Craft Council, Mons (Belgium), 2008, p. 151.
2007 (Cat. Exhib.) 15. Silvertriennial, Gesellschaft für Goldschmiede-kunst e.V., Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, presented by Robbe & Berking, p. 176/177 | Metalsmith, Vol. no. 1/2007, p. 42 und 49 | inside Switzerland, No. 1, p. 67.
2006 (Cat. Exhib.) Schmuck, IHM Munich, ed. GHM – Gesellschaft für Handwerksmessen GmbH, 2008, p. 75 | 500 Necklaces, A Lark Jewelry Book, ed. Marthe Le Van, New York, p. 130.
2005 (Cat. Exhib.) Swiss Federal Design Grant, Bundesamt für Kultur, Bern, p. 2/3, 152 – 155 | Schmuck Magazin, Nr. 2 May/ June 2005, p. 97 | profil femme, 03/2005 Nr. 58, p. 16 | GZ Art + Design, International Jewelry Magazine, February 1/ 2005, p. 34/35.
2004 (Cat. Exhib.) T5, Contemporary Jewels, Art Fit, Galeria Nuno Cardoso; Manuel Vilhena, Diana Silva, Agnes Kainz, Monica Cecchi, Luzia Vogt; Lisbon, Portugal, p. 1, 2, 22-31 | 1000 Rings, A Lark Jewelry Book, New York, p. 171.
2003 (Cat. Exhib.) SOTA, NSCAD Studentworkshow, Khyber Gallery, Halifax, Canada, no page numbers.
2002 NZZ (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), Newspaper of Zurich, August, 2002 | (Cat. Exhib.) Fonction - Fiction, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, p. 75 | (Cat. Exhib.) Talente, 54. Internationale Handwerksmesse München, Bayerischer Handwerkstag e.V., p. 110 | (Cat. Exhib.) Swiss Jewellery in the 20th Century, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, p. 181 | HFG PF, Hochschule für Gestaltung, University of Pforzheim, Germany, p. 17 and 84. 

Gallery Ra, Amsterdam
Gallery Platina, Stockholm
Gallery Jungblut, Luxembourg
Gallery Ornamentum, Hudson
Gallery Noel Guyomarc’h, Montréal
Gallery viceversa, Lausanne
Gallery Ellen Maurer Zilioli, Brescia
Gallery Reverso, Lisbon