www.visual-chemistry.net

ANKE ZÜRN

PROJECTS:

>	Labor für Struktur und Farbe
>	natural dyes and pigments
>	making sense
>	space structures and modular structures
>	periodic surfaces
>	visuals for communicating chemistry
>	symmetry, pattern and ornament
>	crystallography, art and cultural heritage
>	on materials research

ABOUT

Photo: © Bea Hänggi, 2013	Dr. rer. nat. Anke Zürn artist researcher Independent artist researcher. Associated researcher at the Competence Center for Arts Materials Research of the Lucerne University of Applied Science and Art (with Julie Harboe and at the Laboratory for Inorganic Chemistry, ETH Zurich with Prof. Dr. Reinhard Nesper.

Current research topics in the field of artistic materials research: Natural colors - dyes and pigments Sustainability & arts materials: Rethinking historic approaches; Home grown raw materials Patterns, ornaments and space structures Periodic surfaces; visual Artists research methods, sensuous research Research-exhibitions > more More art work: www.ankezuern.com Atelier: Labor für Struktur und Farbe General Dufourstrasse 138 2502 Biel-Bienne Switzerland Contact Mobil: +41 - (0) 76 48 100 98 e-Mail: zuern@visual-chemistry.net Past professional activities: 02/2000 – 12/2011 Researcher at the Laboratory for Inorganic Chemistry, ETH Zurich in the solid state research group of Prof. Dr. Reinhard Nesper Lecturer, introduction to structural chemistry (2007-2010). Research on space structures in art, design, architecture, and materials sciences. Visual research of crystal structures, and design of new media materials for communicating chemistry. 10/1998 – 01/ 2001 Member of the artist curating team and managing board of the “Künstlerhaus Dortmund”, an artist-led atelier and exhibition space. Curatorial practice and organization of exhibitions such as „VOUS ETES ICI“. 04/1998 – 09/1998 Postdoctoral researcher, solid state chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart (group of Prof. Dr. Martin Jansen). 11/1994 – 03/1998 PhD researcher, solid state chemistry research group of Dr. Dres. h.c. Hans Georg von Schnering, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart Thesis: Konstruktion, Analyse und Graphische Darstellung von Interpenetrierenden Netzen in Translationsgittern. 1992 – 1994 Course instructor: visual arts (Painting, drawing on canvas, techniques on paper; working with pigments) Jungendkulturhaus Mitte, and Kunstschule Filderstadt, Stuttgart, Germany Memberships: Member of Visarte Biel. Member of the “Commission on Crystallography in Art and Cultural Heritage” (CrysAC) of the “International Union of Crystallography“ (IUCr), www.crysac.visual-chemistry.net. Awards and Grants: 2007 Hans Herloff Inhoffen Prize by the Ernst Schering Foundation, and the commission on chemistry teaching of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) for “pioneering work in the visualization of chemical structures”. 10/2004 – 11/2004 “Art, Science & Business” grant, Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart 1999 Invited to „Project Mongrel“, an interdisciplinary art project to investigate urban public space, Cork, Ireland. 11/1994 – 11/1997 Atelier Grant of the county of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Publications (selection): “Periodische Flächen in der Kunst, im Design und in den Naturwissenschaften”, Anke Zürn, in “Kunst, Erkenntnis, Wissenschaft: Formen des Wissens von der griechischen Antike bis heute”, Marion Hiller, editor, Reihe Wissenschaft und Kunst, Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg, in press. „Topological Analysis of Mesoporous Solids and Their Ordered Pore Structures by Periodic Nodal Surfaces, PNS”, A. Zürn and H. G. von Schnering, Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 2008, 634, 2761-2764.”. “Hyperbolic Cation Diffusion Paths in α-RbAg4I5 Type Superionic Conductors”, Jen-Hui Chang, Anke Zürn, Hans Georg von Schnering, Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 2008, 634, 2156-2160. “The Intrinsic Shape of the cubic cP124 Clathrate Structure”, Hans Georg von Schnering, Anke Zürn, Jen-Hui Chang, Michael Baitinger, Yuri Grin, Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 2007, 633, 1147_1153. Public presentations, invited talks (selection): 10/2012 Invited talk: “Art et Symétrie”, CRDP, Grenoble, France, introduction to Dan Shechtman’s lecture “La révolution des quasicristaux”. Invited talk “Indigo“, conference: “Definieren Materialisieren, Archivieren“, Lucerne University of Applied Science and Art, Lucerne, Switzerland. 06/2012 Exhibition: CLUB DUFOUR Nr. 138, Au Joli Mois de Mai, Biel, Switzerland. 08/2011 Organization of: “Crystallography Between Art and Science” XXII Congress of the International Union of Crystallography in Madrid, Spain. 02/2011 Invited talk: „Periodische Flächen in der Kunst, im Design und in den Naturwissenschaften“, Conference: „Kunst, Erkenntnis, Wissenschaft. Formen des Wissens von der Antike bis heute“, University Vechta, Germany. 06/2011 Invited talk: „Farbstoffe“ (dyes), University Irchel, Zurich, Tag der Chemie, in the framework of the International Year of Chemistry, Zurich, Switzerland. 06/2010 Invited double talk with Alicja Rafalska, INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL HUBERT CURIEN STRUCTURAL AND MOLECULAR ARCHAEOLOGY NON-INVASIVE ANALYSIS OF PAINTING MATERIALS, Erice, Sicily, Italy. 06/2008 Invited talk: “Symétrie et ornement - motifs pérsoethe-Institut, Point E, Dakar, Senegal. Education: 11/1994 – 03/1998 PhD student, solid state chemistry, group of Dr. Dres. h.c. Hans Georg von Schnering, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart Thesis: Konstruktion, Analyse und Graphische Darstellung von Interpenetrierenden Netzen in Translationsgittern. 10/1992 – 11/1994 and 10/1986 – 11/1988 Studies of Chemistry Education, University of Stuttgart, Germany. State Diploma Chemistry Education, University Stuttgart (11/1994). 10/1985 – 11/1992 Studies of Art Education, Stuttgart State Academie of Art and Design State Diploma Art Education (11/1992) 04/1990 - 04/1991 Guest student, visual arts, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France.