Industriedenkmal Jakob Bengel

28/05/2026

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17. Mai 2026, Idar-Oberstein Idar-Oberstein feiert 25 Jahre Jakob Bengel Stiftung mit Bundestagspräsidentin, Hochschule Trier und viel Begeisterung – ein Festakt mit Glückwünschen sowie Lob für die Hochschule Trier. Bundestagspräsidentin Julia Klöckner dankt der Jakob Bengel-Stiftung und der...

21/05/2026

A Shared Silence

Bahareh A***n:

"Obstacle refers to a physical, mental, or social force that shapes human experience. Rather than seeing barriers only as sources of suffering, the works question how perception defines them. Through compression, tension, and fragile connections, my work translates inner resistance into material form. The body becomes both carrier and witness of pressure, endurance, and transformation."

Photos 1, 2: Bound Distance | Halsschmuck | 2023 | Basalt, Lapislazuli, Baumwolle, Silber | Photo 1: Gina Müller, Photo 2: Bahareh A***n

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Photos 1, 2: Bound Distance | Necklace | 2023 | Basalt, lapis lazuli, cotton, silver | Photo 1: Gina Müller, Photo 2: Bahareh A***n

20/05/2026

A Shared Silence

"Obstacle refers to a physical, mental, or social force that shapes human experience. Rather than seeing barriers only as sources of suffering, the works question how perception defines them. Through compression, tension, and fragile connections, my work translates inner resistance into material form. The body becomes both carrier and witness of pressure, endurance, and transformation."

Photos 1, 2, 3:
Threshold | Halsschmuck | 2023 |
Basalt, Silber, Jaspis, Baumwolle | Photos 1, 2: Bahareh A***n, Photo 3: Gina Müller

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Photos 1, 2, 3:
Threshold | Necklace | 2023 |
Basalt, silver, jaspis, cotton | Photos 1, 2: Bahareh A***n, Photo 3: Gina Müller

20/05/2026

A Shared Silence

Farnoosh Abdoli:

"My recent works explore the threshold between dream and nightmare, and the shifting relationship between consciousness and the unconscious. I am interested in how these states overlap – how the conscious mind attempts to define experience while deeper, less visible layers continue to influence it.
Rather than presenting fixed meanings, the pieces operate within a space of tension: visibility and concealment, material presence and psychological depth. Certain elements appear clear and tangible, while others remain partially hidden, suggesting the layered structure of inner experience. Dreams occupy a paradoxical condition. They are intangible, yet vividly real. We cannot touch them, yet we see and feel them with intensity. This coexistence of the perceptible and the unreachable forms the core of my inquiry.Through material contrasts and subtle structural relationships, I aim to create works that reflect this intertwined condition –where conscious and unconscious processes are not separate domains, but continuously interacting states within us."

Photos 1, 2, 3:
Dreams Tunnels | Halsschmuck | 2026 |Silber, Photopolymerharz | Photos: Farnoosh Abdoli

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Photos 1, 2, 3:
Dreams Tunnels | Necklace | 2026 | 3D printed photopolymer resin, silver | Photos: Farnoosh Abdoli

20/05/2026

A Shared Silence

Farnoosh Abdoli:

"My recent works explore the threshold between dream and nightmare, and the shifting relationship between consciousness and the unconscious. I am interested in how these states overlap – how the conscious mind attempts to define experience while deeper, less visible layers continue to influence it.
Rather than presenting fixed meanings, the pieces operate within a space of tension: visibility and concealment, material presence and psychological depth. Certain elements appear clear and tangible, while others remain partially hidden, suggesting the layered structure of inner experience. Dreams occupy a paradoxical condition. They are intangible, yet vividly real. We cannot touch them, yet we see and feel them with intensity. This coexistence of the perceptible and the unreachable forms the core of my inquiry.Through material contrasts and subtle structural relationships, I aim to create works that reflect this intertwined condition –where conscious and unconscious processes are not separate domains, but continuously interacting states within us."

Photos 1, 2: Incubus | Schulterobjekt | 2024 |
Rostiges Eisen | Photos: Farnoosh Abdoli

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Photos 1, 2: Incubus | Shoulder piece | 2024 | Rusted iron | Photos: Farnoosh Abdoli

19/05/2026

A Shared Silence

Statement of the exhibiting artists:

"We are Iranian jewelery artists who are connected to Idar-Oberstein — a place many of us have come to call home - at least for a while. As students and graduates of the Idar-Oberstein Campus Gemstones and Jewellery, our personal, academic, and professional journeys have been shaped here. Iran is not distant or abstract to us. The developments in our home country resonate deeply within our works. Between cultural origin and new surroundings, hybrid forms emerge. Traditional symbols are not reproduced; they are transformed, broken, and reassembled. Identity appears as fluid, constantly negotiated between past and future, between belonging and separation."

Photo: Gina Müller

19/05/2026

A Shared Silence - bis zum 17. Mai in der Villa Bengel / A Shared Silence - at Villa Bengel until 17th May

Gheseh Shahandeh:

"The experience of being shaped by forces that are both inherited and imposed takes on a deeper meaning within the context of contemporary Iranian history, where political movements, repression and large-scale massacres have affected not only geography, but the collective psyche. In such a landscape, the self is no longer a fixed, individual identity; it is continuously negotiated and redefined in confrontation with ideology, violence and shared memory. To acknowledge the weight of contradiction, belonging and alienation, vulnerability and strength, silence and intensity, is to live with a memory that carries both wound and identity at once.
The coexistence of these tensions within a single wholeness reflects the experience of a generation shaped between love for homeland and the necessity of distance, between mourning and resistance."

Photo: Self discovery | Brosche | 2024 | Silber, Messing, Pigment | Photo: Nima Ashrafi

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Photo: Self discovery | Brooch | 2024 | Silver, brass, pigment | Photo: Nima Ashrafi

18/05/2026

A Shared Silence

Gheseh Shahandeh:

"The experience of being shaped by forces that are both inherited and imposed takes on a deeper meaning within the context of contemporary Iranian history, where political movements, repression and large-scale massacres have affected not only geography, but the collective psyche. In such a landscape, the self is no longer a fixed, individual identity; it is continuously negotiated and redefined in confrontation with ideology, violence and shared memory.To acknowledge the weight of contradiction, belonging and alienation, vulnerability and strength, silence and intensity, is to live with a memory that carries both wound and identity at once.
The coexistence of these tensions within a single wholeness reflects the experience of a generation shaped between love for homeland and the necessity of distance, between mourning and resistance."

Photos 1, 2:
Entanglement I | Halsschmuck | 2024 | Messing, Textil, Kupfer, Lapislazuli | Photo 1: Nimq Ashrafi, Photo 2: Gina Müller

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Photos 1, 2: Entanglement I | Necklace | 2024 | Brass, textile, copper, lapis lazuli | Photo 1: Nimq Ashrafi, Photo 2: Gina Müller

18/05/2026

A Shared Silence

"It is summertime, and it is such a warm day. I walk into an ice cream shop, choosing my favorite flavors: one yogurt, one bitter chocolate. I already know that it is going to taste amazing; I have it in my memory. After finishing my ice cream, I realize the need for water. It would wash away all the sweet taste in my mouth, which made me thirsty. It is a good feeling for me – not because I didn’t like the ice cream, but simply because I needed the water to wash the sweetness away. My visit to the ice cream shop is one of many memories I carry through my life. Memory shapes our identities and gives structure to our personal narratives, yet it is never stable or permanent. Like taste, it fades, is washed away, and leaves only traces behind. This tension between presence and disappearance is central. At the end, aren’t we all just a memory that we can’t even remember?"

Photos 1, 2: I’m Just a Memory That I Can’t Even Remember | Halsschmuck | 2022 | Fuchsit, Silber, Wolle | Photos: Gina Müller

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Photos 1, 2: I’m Just a Memory That I Can’t Even Remember | Necklace | 2022 | Fuchsite mica, silver, wool | Photos: Gina Müller

18/05/2026

A Shared Silence

Mana Jahangard:

"It is summertime, and it is such a warm day. I walk into an ice cream shop, choosing my favorite flavors: one yogurt, one bitter chocolate. I already know that it is going to taste amazing; I have it in my memory. After finishing my ice cream, I realize the need
for water. It would wash away all the sweet taste in my mouth, which made me thirsty. It is a good feeling for me – not because I didn’t like the ice cream, but simply because I needed the water to wash the sweetness away. My visit to the ice cream shop is one of many memories I carry through my life. Memory shapes our identities and gives structure to our personal narratives, yet it is never stable or permanent. Like taste, it fades, is washed away, and leaves only traces behind. This tension between presence and disappearance is central. At the end, aren’t we all just a memory that we can’t even remember?"

Photos 1, 2: I’m Just a Memory That I Can’t Even Remember | Halsschmuck | 2022 | Fuchsit, Silber, Wolle | Photo 1: Mana Jahangard, Photo 2: Gina Müller

Photo 3:
Remembering Your Hands | Necklace | 2022 | Fuchsit, Baumwolle, Wolle

Fading Away | Brooch | 2022 | Fuchsit, Silber, Stahl

Photo: Gina Müller

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Photos 1, 2: I’m Just a Memory That I Can’t Even Remember | Necklace | 2022 | Fuchsite mica, silver, wool | Photo 1: Mana Jahangard, Photo 2: Gina Müller

Photo 3:
Remembering Your Hands | Necklace | 2022 | Fuchsite mica, cotton, wool

Fading Away | Brooch | 2022 | Fuchsite mica, silver, steel

Photo: Gina Müller