Konservierung & Restaurierung

Janine Köppen

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Konservierung & Restaurierung

Janine Köppen

Zug, Schweiz

Konservierung & Restaurierung Janine Köppen Zug, SchweizKonservierung & Restaurierung Janine Köppen Zug, SchweizKonservierung & Restaurierung Janine Köppen Zug, Schweiz
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Janine Koeppen is an art conservator, providing professional preservation services for museum clients, private owners, and cultural institutions. She specializes in the treatment, assessment and consultation for Modern and Contemporary Art and objects made of plastics. Beyond that she holds expertise in conserving a broad range of artifacts and materials including industrial heritage, design objects, sculptures, collectables, glass, metal, ceramic, porcelain, wood, and leather.  


Whether it is a simple repair, more complex treatment, preservation advice or a general inquiry, please feel free to get in touch.

Contact

Services

Preventive and interventive treatments

Preventive and interventive treatments

Preventive and interventive treatments

Hands-on conservation and preventive treatment including cleaning, repair, consolidation, stabilization, inpainting, retouching, monitoring of environmental conditions, performing regular maintenance and rehousing 

Surveys + assessments

Preventive and interventive treatments

Preventive and interventive treatments

General organizational assessment or item level condition assessment which can provide important information about the condition of your collection or for preservation strategy planning 

Consultation

Documentation

Documentation

Consultation on regular care and treatment needs; advice on storage and display environments; consultation on procedures for packing and shipping

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Condition and treatment reports; treatment proposals; condition photography including digital photography and digital microscopy

Photo Gallery

Hand holding a coffee grinder showing its bottom to the camera and three grinders in the background
Brushes, scalpel, spatulas, tweezers, cotton swab and beakers on top of a table
Art Conservator dry cleaning a shoe with a brush and vacuum cleaner that lays on top of a table
Microscopic image of a red foam cell structure
Digital camera on tripod in the front and white-blue striped cup on top of a table in the back
Multicolored plastic sample kit spread out on top of a table with color card next to it

About Janine Koeppen

Janine Koeppen is a professional art conservator with a MA in Conservation of Modern Materials and Technical Heritage from the University of Applied Science Berlin and a BA in Conservation, Art Technology and Conservation Science from the Technical University in Munich. 


She provides conservation services for art objects with a specialization in modern materials and plastics. After moving to the US in 2019, she first worked in Los Angles before moving to Seattle. At the end of 2024 she removed to Europe and finally settled in Switzerland. Over the years, she collaborated with well-known art institutions in the US and abroad including the Washington State Arts Commission, the Getty Conservation Institute, the Wende Museum in Los Angeles, the Deutsches Museum Munich, the German Mining Museum in Bochum, and the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin. 


In addition, Janine Koeppen has held internships at Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum Munich, the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles, the Bavarian National Museum and private studios in San Francisco and Munich. 


She is a member of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC) and the Western Association for Art Conservation (WAAC).

Lectures & Publications

Publications

  • C. McCoy; O. Madden; M. Pedroni; J. Koeppen: ‘Conserving Plastics In Architecture: Challenges in Identification, Conservation, and Replication’ in: Architectural Plastics & Polymer Composites in the 21st Century: Conference Proceedings, edited by Susan E. Schur, 2021


  • Koeppen, Janine; Brunner, Susanne; Gómez-Sánchez, Elena: ‘Shoemaker’s nightmare: Deterioration of shoe soles and tests for the conservation of degraded closed-cell polyurethane museum objects’ in: Future Talks 019 Post-prints, 2021

Lectures

  • ‘Degradation of Closed-cell Polyester Urethane Museum Objects. Description, analysis of damage phenomena and preventive conservation’; presenter at Plastics Heritage Congress 2019 – Plastics Heritage: History, Limits and Possibilities Lisbon, Portugal, May 2019


  • ‘Shoemaker’s Nightmare: Deterioration of Shoe Soles and Tests for the Conservation of Degraded Closed-cell, Polyurethane Museum Objects’; presenter at Future Talks 019 Conference – Surfaces. Lectures and Workshops on Technology and Conservation of the Modern, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany, November 2019

Contact

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mail@jkoeppen.com +41 78 441 10 43

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