Rothe Kristina

During her studies as a textile designer at the University of Applied Arts Schneeberg/ Germany, Kristina Rothe discovered her passion for paper and spent most of her studies in the paper workshop to refine her knowledge and to push the material's limits. After careful material research, she found her appropriate vehicle of expression in plastic forms and objects. She combines traditional papermaking techniques with rather innovative and self-developed aspects. Her work is based on a traditional paper pulp made from plant fibers, which she applies to a mold by hand. Due to the process quality of this technology, the work can grow gradually and with great care. Movement and silence, dance, nature and architecture are permanent inspirations and fields of experimentation. This is how paper objects and wide variety of vessels are created in her workshop in Leipzig. In 2014 Rothe began to unite the lightness and transience of paper in a series of urns. The raw material she uses for her urns collection is a pulp made of the bast of hemp plants which provides a stable, useable product after drying. She has received several awards for her work and was nominated for the Loewe Crafts Prize in 2017 and the European Prize for Applied Art in 2018.