About

Jeanne Koepp in the glass workshop

Jeanne Koepp was born as a Black German in Dresden, in the former East Germany. In 1989, she moved to East Berlin and founded the JEANNE KOEPP gallery after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Black-and-white portrait of Jeanne Koepp

This charming gallery, much loved by its customers and complete with an adjoining workshop, still occupies a late nineteenth-century building on Kollwitzstraße today.

For many years, she exclusively created wheel-thrown vases, bowls and tableware there, choosing crackle glaze as a defining element of her artistic expression.

Working on a large yellow vase in the ceramics workshop

During a visit to Maison & Objet in Paris in 2019, she was captivated by glass vases. They inspired a new direction in her work and led her, a year later, to a glass factory on Murano, near Venice.

Glass fascinates, not despite its fragility, but precisely because of it. Berlin-based Jeanne Koepp, originally known for her ceramics, discovered an entirely new dimension in glass: translucency and an intense spectrum of colours that cannot be achieved in ceramics in the same way. This luminosity became the starting point of a creative journey that took her to Murano in 2020 and to Zwiesel in the Bavarian Forest in 2023.

People working in a glass workshop

There, she met experienced glassblowers and glass cutters and was able to draw on their expertise.

Craftspeople outside the workshop with coloured glass vases

These collaborations gave rise to collections mouth-blown in wooden moulds and free-blown one-of-a-kind pieces. Jeanne Koepp’s work is characterised by a clear, contemporary design language that brings beauty and poetry into everyday life.

An open wooden mould for a glass vase outside the workshop

Since 2020, four small-series collections have been created: THEA, FEDERICA, TINE and MATTEA. Classic shapes are reinterpreted through precisely cut rims and engraved elements. Exceptional craftsmanship and artistic vision come together in objects that bring a sensory richness to everyday life.

Hands holding two textured glass elements, one green and one transparent

The collections are complemented by FABIONA and DONDOLA, large-scale objects with an unmistakable physical presence that make independent statements within a space.

Working on a glowing glass object in the glass workshop