Jonas Noël Niedermann. Chromagnetic

Jonas Noël Niedermann (St. Gallen, Switzerland, 1990) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. He began working with glass at the age of fourteen, when he started his first internship at the Glasfachschule in Zwiesel, Germany, where he learned from the Bavarian masters. At sixteen, he became an apprentice glassblower before going on to work in studios in Italy, Germany, Austria, Denmark, and the United States.

He studied in Murano, Italy, at Studio Berengo; Pilchuck Glass School, Washington, USA, with Ned Cantrell, Michael Schunke, Mlasowsky & Szösz; Corning Museum of Glass, New York, USA, with Sugiki & Zerkowitz and Mel Douglas; Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina, USA, with Devin Burgess; and Bildwerk, Frauenau, Germany, with Franz-Xaver Höller. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Bornholm, Denmark.

His works have been exhibited at MK&G Messe, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany (2024); and Modern Glass Denmark, European Glass Museum, Coburg, Germany (2023).

He has received several awards, including the Justus Brinckmann Förderpreis, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany (2024); the Bavarian State Prize, Munich, Germany (2022); Milano Vetro Under 35 – Enrico Bersellini Prize (residency in Murano, Italy, 2022); the BKV Prize for Young Applied Arts – 1st Prize, Bavarian Craft Council, Germany (2021); Finn Lynggaards Legat, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark (2020); Bündner Kunsthandwerkspreis, Switzerland (2019); and the Cultural Promotion Award, Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland (2016).