The artist and designer Andrea Auer, known for oversized beads made of cling film and jewelry made of Bakelite or electrical cables, also shows early works made of metal in her first solo museum exhibition and gives a comprehensive insight into her work.

Her body objects are characterized by a minimalist approach to form and material as well as precision and craftsmanship, conceptual considerations and the use of everyday materials that are processed into small treasures as author's jewelry.

Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic to go down in design history and popularized in jewelry by Coco Chanel, plays a special role in her work. With shiny black earrings made from machine knobs or a necklace with the mouthpiece of a telephone receiver, Andrea Auer points to the material's social and historical significance 100 years after its boom and enters into a dialogue with objects from the Upper Austrian State Collection, the Technology Collection and the Folklore and Everyday Culture Collection.

Andrea Auer, born in 1972 in Gmunden, lives and works in Vienna. Her eponymous label was founded in 2002. She attended the HTL Steyr (technical school for creative metal crafts), studied at the University of Art in Linz in the master class in metal, object and product design under Helmuth Gsöllpointner and graduated in spatial and design strategies under Elsa Prochazka. Exhibitions and projects in Austria, Armenia, China, Germany, Estonia, France, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Spain and South Korea, among others.