Nicola Heidemann's starting material is titanium. Through forging, forms and surfaces emerge whose contrasts – convex and concave, rough and smooth – determine the haptic quality of her works: Seeing with the hands!
The working process is not entirely controllable, and chance is a welcome collaborator.
For Stephan Hampala, chance plays only an occasional role, during the search for materials: glass beads from the 19th and early 20th centuries, whose precise processing requires the meticulous planning of forms and patterns