Is the admission to the exhibition free?

Yes, according to the available information, the admission is free.

When does the event take place?

On 07.06.2026 starting at 07:06. The end time is not specified in the data.

Who is the visit particularly suitable for?

For all those interested in contemporary art, jewelry art, material experiments, and nature motifs.

Is there confirmed information on guided tours?

The dataset does not specify any binding guided tour times.

What artistic themes are central?

The focus is on clouds as a pictorial motif, experimental material processing, and the Eternal Rings as a connection of jewelry and photography.

Is the exact event location known?

The dataset mentions Amberg, but does not provide a clearly established space or exact house address.

Clouds and Forged Air Holes

Name: Clouds and Forged Air Holes – Bettina Dittlmann & Michael Jank
Start: 2026-06-07T09:06:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-07T09:06:00+02:00
Location: unbekannt

Clouds, Metal and Light: an Exhibition about the Visible in Transition

With Clouds and Forged Air Holes, a couple of artists takes center stage in Amberg, connecting craftsmanship, material aesthetics, and natural observation in an unusually precise manner. Bettina Dittlmann and Michael Jank have been working for many years on a complex body of work where jewelry, photography, and the trace of design intertwine. The event promises an artistic experience that not only shows form and surface but sharpens the eye for processes: for forging, compressing, stretching, and for the quiet energy of the cloud as a pictorial motif. ([galerierobkoudijs.nl](https://www.galerierobkoudijs.nl/en/artists/dittlmann-jank))

Between Goldsmithing and Image Poetry

Bettina Dittlmann, born in 1964 in Passau, completed an apprenticeship as a silversmith, studied in Munich with Hermann Jünger and Otto Künzli, as well as at SUNY New Paltz. Her work is represented in internationally significant collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and Die Neue Sammlung. Michael Jank complements this practice with a photographic and print graphics language that focuses on detail, surface, and material impact. Together they create works that liberate jewelry from the showcase and place it in an expanded art historical context. ([galerierobkoudijs.nl](https://www.galerierobkoudijs.nl/en/artists/dittlmann-jank))

The Project Eternal Rings as an Artistic Laboratory

Since 1998, Dittlmann and Jank have been working on the Eternal Rings. They have shaped hand-forged rings from gold, silver, copper, and iron, developed from a single piece of material: pierced, stretched, elongated, precisely controlled, and simultaneously open to traces of the material. This fusion of goldsmithing, experimentation, and conceptual openness gives the exhibition a unique depth. It shows how contemporary jewelry goes far beyond mere decoration and can be read as an artistic form of engagement with the work. ([galerierobkoudijs.nl](https://www.galerierobkoudijs.nl/en/artists/dittlmann-jank))

Clouds as a Motif of Movement

Michael Jank has been circling the element of the cloud for many years and translates his observations into photography, photogravure, lithography, and screen printing. In the exhibition contexts, it becomes visible how the natural phenomenon transforms into an open field of imagery: fleeting, rhythmic, atmospheric. Especially in conjunction with the forged metal, an aesthetic tension arises between weight and hovering, between permanence and transience. This lends the exhibition a meditative, yet energetic atmosphere. ([museen-in-bayern.de](https://museen-in-bayern.de/en/exhibitions/exhibition/haus-der-fotografie-dr-robert-gerlich-museum/exhibition/15020?utm_source=openai))

Art Historical Classification and Cultural Education

The work of Dittlmann and Jank stands in the tradition of artistic jewelry, which plays an independent, internationally visible role in contemporary art. It is not merely craftsmanship, but a reflective form of material research, spatial perception, and form thinking. For visitors, this opens a pathway that connects museum education and aesthetic experience: precise observation, comparison, reflection on surface, weight, line, and light. Those interested in modern jewelry art, experimental material processing, and nature motifs in art will find here a concentrated, challenging, and simultaneously sensually accessible exhibition date. ([galerierobkoudijs.nl](https://www.galerierobkoudijs.nl/en/artists/dittlmann-jank))

Conclusion: A Visit for Everyone Who Wants to Experience Material as Language

Clouds and Forged Air Holes promises an exhibition that sharpens the eye for subtleties and reinterprets the relationship between nature observation and craftsmanship. Between jewelry objects, photography, and printmaking unfolds a quiet, intense artistic experience that resonates long after. A visit is worthwhile for all who want to not only observe contemporary art but understand it with all their senses.