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Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft

Klaus Moje: Living Treasure 2006

30 November 2008

Curiculum vitae
 
Training and education
1952-55 Training as glass-cutter & grinder in the family workshop in Hamburg - Journeyman's Certificate
1957-59 Studied at the glass schools Rheinbach and Hadamar - Master's Certificate
SOFA-Chicago , represented by Heller Gallery, Chicago, USA
Selected solo exhibitions
2007 Klaus Moje: New Works 2007, Axia Modern Art Melbourne
2006 Klaus Moje: Glass, Object Gallery, Sydney, touring national and international exhibition
2004
2002 Mosaic Glass Vessels, Wall Panels & Plate Forms, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
2001 SOFA -Chicago, represented by Habatat Galleries, Chicago, USA
2001 Klaus Moje Art Glass, Hsinchu Municipal Glass Museum, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2000 SOFA New York, represented by Bullseye Gallery, New York, USA
1998 Klaus Moje: New Glass, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
1997 Klaus Moje: Recent Work, Craft ACT Gallery, Canberra
1995 Klaus Moje: Glass, a retrospective, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, touring national and international exhibition
Selected group exhibitions
2006 20 Years On, Glasmuseet, Ebeltoft, Denmark
2006 Material Matters, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2006 Collect, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
2005 Collectors Choice, Axia Modern Art, Sydney
2005 Transformations: The language of craft, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2005 Seeds of Light, ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra
2005 Dual Vision - the Simona and Jerome Chazen Collectionr, Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA
2004 Studio Glass International, Esterling-Wake Collection, Marxhausen Gallery of Art, Concordia University, Seward, NB
2004 A Life in Glass - a retrospective exhibition, Urban Glass, represented by Lehmann Gallery, New York, USA
2002 The Glass Vessel, Kentucky Museum of Arts and Design, Kentucky, USA
2002 Dialogue, Quadrivium, Sydney
2002 Facets of Australian Glass, Leo Kaplan Modern, New York, USA
2002 Material Culture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2001 Transparent Things, Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, touring exhibition
2001 Milano Meets Canberra, Galleria Scaletta di Vetro, Milan, Italy
2001 International Glass, Millennium Museum, Beijing, China
2001 International Glass Exhibition, Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts, Shanghai, China
2001 The Colour Red, Exempla, Munich, Germany
2000 Strength to Strength, Craft ACT, Canberra
2000 Contemporary Craft, Collection of Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
2000 On the Edge, Australian glass, Gallery Handwerk, Munich, Germany, touring national and international exhibition

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Selected public collections
  • National Gallery of Australia, Sydney
  • Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
  • Corning Museum of Glass, New York, USA
  • Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
  • Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
  • Kunstgewerbe Museum, Berlin, Germany
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
Selected awards and honours
  • Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft
  • Honorary Officer, Order of Australia (OA)
  • Australia Council Fellowship
  • Lifetime Achievement Award, UrbanGlass, New York, USA
  • Australia Council Emeritus Award
  • Peoplescape 2001, Parliament House, Canberra
  • Lifetime Achievement Award, Glass Art Society, New York, USA

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Selected bibliography
  • Cochrane, Grace. The Craft Movement in Australia: A history, New South Wales University Press, Sydney, 1992
  • Edwards, Geoffrey, Art of Glass: Glass in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1998
  • Edwards, Geoffrey, Klaus Moje Glass/Glas: A Retrospective Exhibition/Eine Retrospective, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1995
  • Franz, Susanne K, Contemporary Glass, Harry N Abrams Inc Publishing, New York, 1989
  • Gray, Anna [Ed]. Australian Art: In the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2002
  • Hawkins Opie, Jennifer, Contemporary International Glass: 60 Artists in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Victoria and Albert Publications, London, 2004
  • Iannou, Noris, Australian Studio Glass: The movement, its makers and their art, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995
  • Klein, Dan, and Lloyd, Ward, The History of Glass, Orbis Publishing Ltd, London, 1984
  • Klein, Dan, Glass: A contemporary art, Rizzoli International Publications Inc, New York, 1989
  • Lynggaard, Finn, Klaus Moje/Dale Chihuly, Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark, 1991
  • Lundstroem, Boyce, and Schwoerer, Daniel, Glass Fusing, Book One, Portland, Oregon, 1983
  • Miller, Craig R, Modern Design; In the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art 1890-1990, Harry N Abrams Inc Publishing, New York, 1990
  • Osborne, Margot, Australian Glass Today, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, South Australia, 2005

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