Satoko Toyoda

Conservator M.A.

Founder of Kintsugi-Berlin

Member of  VDR, Germany

1986 born in Osaka, Japan / living in Berlin, Germany

 Language: Japanese, German, English

 

Since 2018 Freelance Conservator

- Conservation and restoration of stones, murals, architecture surfaces, sculptures and ceramics

- Assessment of condition and condition including mapping with CAD system

- Development of restoration concept

- Creation of object database

 

3/2019 - 8/2020 worked as conservation planer by Restaurierung am Oberbaum GmbH, Berlin

 

Education

 

2016 – 2018 Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, Germany

Conservation and Restauration of Built Heritage, Mural-painting and Stone by Prof. Roland Lenz (M.A.)

 

2017  Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria

Master of Art, Conservation (ERASMUS, European Exchange Programm)

 

2013 – 2016 Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, Germany

Conservation and Restauration of Built Heritage, Mural-painting and Stone by Prof. Roland Lenz (B.A.)

 

2010 – 2012 Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, Germany

Fine Art, Video and Performance Art by Prof. Christian Jankowski (Programm Student)

 

2007 – 2008 Turku Art Academy, Finnland

Fine Art, Sculpture (Exchange Programm)

 

2005 – 2010 Kyoto Seika University, Japan

Fine Art, Sculpture (B.F.A)


Conservation / Restoration projects (selected)

 

9/2020-10/2020 Conservation and restoration of secco-murals / worked for Spiegler Stuckrestaurierung/ St. Leonhard church in Gaisbeuren, Germany/ Conervation and restoration of murals with Secco-technique, documentation

 

9/2019–10/2019 Conservation and restoration of mesopotamien murals  (KEMUNE, Kurdistan-Irak) / IANES, Tübingen University, Germany / Conservation and restoration of murals with Secco-technique, documentation (digital mapping), preventive conservation

 

1/2019–2/2019 Conservation and restoration of 1th century BC wall reliefs and stone objects of Repit Temple in Athribis (Al-Sheikh Hamad, Sohag, Upper Egypt) / German-Egyptian interdisciplinary project, American research center in Egypt & Tübingen University / Chief Restorator: Lucie Pieri / Conservation and restoration of wall reliefs with Secco-technique, documentation (digital mapping), supervise an Egyptian conservation team

 

11/2018–3/2018 Conservation and restoration of 1th century BC wall reliefs and stone objects of Repit Temple in Athribis (Al-Sheikh Hamad, Sohag, Upper Egypt) / German-Egyptian interdisciplinary project, Tübingen University / Chief Restorator: Lucie Pieri / Conservation and restoration of wall reliefs with Secco-technique, painted stone objects, ceramics (Ostracon)

 

7/2017–10/2017 Internship: Conservation and restoration of the 18th century wall painting of a catholic church (Hemmendorf, Germany) / Chief Conservator: Luise Schreiber Knaus / Conservation and restoration of wall painting with Secco-Technique, painted stone object with Oil-Technique

 

2/2017–6/2017 Semester Project: Conservation and Restauration of the 16th century's Wall painting of Michael church (Vienna, Austria) / Conservation and restoration of plaster, wall painting with Secco-Technique

 

7/2015–8/2015 Internship: Conservation and restoration of the 18th century's celling painting of a catholic church (Hilzingen, Germany) / Chief Conservator: Steffen Bückner / Conservation and restoration of celling painting with Oil-Technique

 

2/2015–3/2015 Internship: Conservation and restoration of the 15th century's wall painting of a protestant church (Bad Mergentheim, Germany) / Chief Restorator: Robert Lung / Conservation and restoration of wall painting with Secco-Technique

 

8/2014–10/2014 Internship: Conservation and restoration of the 17th century's gypsum ornament of a protestant church (Ehningen, Germany) / Chief Restorator: Luise Schreiber-Knaus / Restoration of gypsum ornaments 

 


Documentation / Analysis

 

5/2021 Inventory and damage assessment of 20th century ceiling painting  / chapel Hannober in Waldburg/

Freelance work for Spiegler Stuckrestaurierung

 

 

3/2020 Color survey of facades and staircases from the 20th century /Woelckpromenade Berlin / restoration at Oberbaum

 

4/2018–11/2018 Master project: A comparative study of techniques used in the production of eleven ancient Egyptian steles from the 12th and 13th dynasty (State Museum Württemberg, Museum of Tübingen University, Germany) / Multispectral Imaging, mapping with Auto CAD, preparation of X-Ray Analysis, Photo-documentation, Summarizing conservation and object history, Preventive conservation concept

 

9/2016–2/2017 Semester project: Research and documentation of ancient egyptian Mastaba (Museum of Tübingen University, Germany) / Photo-documentation, Summarizing conservation history 

 

4/2016–7/2016 Bachelor project: Research and documentation of 10 - 11th century fragments of Ellwangen Monastery (LAD Esslingen, ABK Stuttgart, Germany) / 

Photo-documentation, Cleaning test, Identification of clay layers, pigments and binders, responsible for all microscopical and chemical analysis

 

10/2015–3/2016 Semester project: Research and documentation of 11th century fragments of Magdeburg Cathedral (ABK Stuttgart, Germany) / Photo-documentation, Cleaning, Identification of clay layers, pigments and binders, responsible for microscopical and chemical analysis

 

4/2015–7/2015 Semester project: Research and documentation of 14th century wall painting and adobe wall of a protestant chapel (Wernau, Germany) / Photo-documentation, mapping with Auto CAD, responsible for microscopical and chemical analysis


Heritage Management

 

8/2016 - 10/2016 Internship in Ghana Museum and Monuments Board (Accra, Ghana)

 

9/2015 Observer: 10th International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage, organized by Institute of disaster mitigation for urban cultural heritage, Ritsumeikan University / In cooperation with UNESCO, ICCROM, ICOMOS/ICORP (Kyoto, Japan)

 

7/2012 - 8/2013 Internship in Baden-Württemberg State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments (Esslingen, Germany)


Prize, Scholarship

 

2017 - 2018 Scholarship for Master study, JASSO (Tokyo, Japan)

 

2016 Subsahara-Africa Scholarship, Japan-Africa Society (Tokyo, Japan)


2011 Prize of the Academy, Summer exhibition 2011 (Stuttgart, Germany)

 

2010-2011 Scholarship for young Artists, Nomura Foundation (Tokyo, Japan)