04–08 March 2026

(04.03 – 08.03.2026)

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Daily Records

Group Exhibition

Gollierstraße 28, 80339 München-Schwanthalerhöhe, Germany

Peter Machata, Fosil, 2025, Silver, Plastic. Photography Peter Machata


Event Duration:
04-08.o3.2026, Wed 14:00-18:00, Thu-Fri 10:00-18:00, Sat 10:00-14:00, Sun 10:00-12:00

The exhibition Daily Records brings together the works of Peter Machata and Jana Machatová, two artists who explore memory, presence, and the subtle narratives embedded in everyday life. Though their approaches differ in form and material, both share an interest in transforming fleeting experiences into tangible objects that invite reflection.

Peter Machata’s sculptural works and jewellery series Fosil investigate observation and the traces left when time seems to pause. He turns fragments into fossil-like forms—artifacts for the future, capturing stillness and suspended time. His jewellery pieces extend this concept through 3D scanning of daily visual fragments, CNC-milled into neutral-toned plastic and completed with silver brooch backs. These objects become silent witnesses—holding memory, absence, and vulnerability.

Jana Machatová’s series Everyday Stories focuses on women and their experience of daily life. Drawing from anatomical illustrations, exercise instructions, and photographs, she uses traditional goldsmithing techniques to create wearable compositions. Silver lines trace drawings across raw exotic woods, combined with natural stones in their original form. Her jewellery acts as a palimpsest, where meanings shift from collective to individual, anonymous to personal, and virtual to material.

Together, Machata and Machatová present a dialogue between permanence and fragility, routine and transformation. Daily Records invites viewers to consider how ordinary moments—whether preserved in fossil-like imprints or layered intojewellery—become enduring testimonies of human experience.

 

 

Born in 1972, Jana Machatová lives and works in Slovakia as a jewellery artist. After graduating from the Jewellery and Metal Department at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava in 1997, she began working independently in the field of author’s jewellery. She has collaborated with various galleries and exhibited her work internationally. For many years, her practice has focused on themes of social and personal memory, explored in depth during her doctoral studies at the Academy from 2020 to 2024. Since 2025, she has been a teacher in the Studio of Metal and Jewel at the same institution.

 

Peter Machata (born 1971) is a Slovak artist whose work moves between sculpture and contemporary jewellery. After completing his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava in 1997, he gradually developed a distinctive artistic language in which jewellery functions as an intimate form of sculpture. His work combines traditional craftsmanship with modern technologies such as digital scanning and CNC-milling, enabling him to explore themes of identity, memory and personal narrative. He has presented his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Slovakia and abroad, and is known for his refined material sensibility and strong conceptual grounding.

 

Although Machatová and Machata frequently exhibit together, their artistic projects remain independent, each shaped by their own conceptual focus, methods and visual language. Together, they represent two distinct yet complementary voices in contemporary Slovak jewellery and design.

 

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