Wiebke Pandikow
Lives and works in Helsinki
B.1986
Wiebke Pandikow is a German jewellery artist living in Helsinki, Finland. While her work is based in the tradition of craftsmanship with its diligence and patience, she loves to experiment with materials to invent these traditions anew. She has worked with plastic bags since 2014, developing her own techniques using a flat iron and soldering irons.
She is inspired by nature and its systems and interested in humans’ ambivalent connection to them. With the diligence and time it takes to craft plastic bags into jewellery, she examines value and preciousness and reminds people of the different aspects a material has, negative and positive. In our culture, plastics are ubiquitous and invaluable but at the same time insignificant and harmful. For her, they bear the possibility of beauty.
Wiebke Pandikow collections
‘Blue Twig’
Type: Brooch
Material: Recycled plastic bags，pigment, wire
Size:23 cm x 6,5 cm x 3,5 cm
Year: 2022
‘Herbarium Chroma-Fallopia’
Type: Necklace
Material: Herbarium Chroma - Fallopia
plastic bags, pigments, wood
Size: Diameter about 15 cm
Year: 2022
Wooden hanging box included
Exhibition piece
‘Herbarium Chroma-Tropaeolum’
Type: Necklace
Material: Plastic bags, pigments, wood
Size: Neck area diameter about 13 cm, Size of jewelry 24 cm x 23 cm
Year: 2022
Wooden hanging box included
Exhibition piece
‘Oat Toast’
Type: Brooch
Material: plastic bags, pigments, wood, pigment mechanism from stainless steel
Size: Length 18 cm
Year: 2020
Exhibition piece
‘Herbarium Chroma-Hedera’
Type: Necklace
Material: Plastic bags, pigments, wood
Size: Neck area diameter about 14 cm, Size of jewelry 27 cm x 19 cm
Year: 2022
Wooden hanging box included
Exhibition piece
‘Cinders brooch Nr.3’
Type: Brooch
Material: recycled plastic bags, burned wood
catch and needle from stainless steel
Size: 25 cm ×5 cm ×3 cm
Year: 202o
‘Small Growth’
Type: Sculpture
Material: Recycled plastic bags, pigment, wood
Size: 25 cm x 17 cm x 13.5 cm
Year: 2021
‘Autumn Branch’
Type: Sculpture
Material: Recycled plastic bags，pigment, wire
Size: 35cm x 18cm x35cm
Year: 2022
‘Blue Twig’
Type: Brooch
Material: Recycled plastic bags，pigment, wire
Size:13 cm x 17 cm x 2.5 cm
Year: 2022
‘Sunset Branch’
Type: Sculpture
Material: Recycled plastic bags，pigment, wire
Size: 19.5 cm x 10 cm x3 cm
Year: 2022
‘Hedera series’
Type: Necklace
Material: recycled plastic bags，wood
Size: 22 cm x 27 cm x 6 cm
Year: 2020
