Nanorestore® in practice: Nanorestore® Cleaning Master Class, Potsdam 2025
3 - 5 March 2025 | Fachhochschule Potsdam
There are almost countless ways to clean the surfaces of works of art and cultural artefacts. Our upcoming Nanorestore® Cleaning Master Class in Potsdam offers you the ideal opportunity to familiarise yourself with the handling of the entire Nanorestore® Cleaning product range by means of theoretical and practical exercises on dummies and mock-ups.
The co-operation event of the VDR LG Berlin-Brandenburg with the FH Potsdam and D&J is dedicated to the basics as well as the practical application of Nanorestore® Cleaning products.
In a three-day master class, two groups of 20 people each will try out the handling of the entire Nanorestore® Cleaning product range. Participants will be able to use Nanorestore® hydrogels and microemulsions on various surfaces such as canvas, wood, paint, metals, plaster or paper and test different cleaning methods using compresses with Evolon CR® and Japanese paper.
Participants are welcome to bring samples and dummies from their working environment for testing. The Master Class is aimed at conservators and students from all disciplines.
Lecturer
Yngve Magnusson (Dipl. Rest. Univ.)
is a conservator of panel painting with experience in the conservation of furniture, polychrome sculptures and paintings. He graduated from the Technical University of Munich in conservation and restoration, has taught at various institutions as a guest lecturer and has worked as a senior conservator at the Kode Art Museum in Bergen, Norway. He is currently head of painting conservation and responsible for collection management at the Lillehammer Museum in Norway. He has used Nanorestore® products in conservation practice for many years and holds seminars and workshops on the application of Nanorestore® microemulsions and gels. Magnusson is the author of processing guidelines for Nanorestore® cleaning products.
Maren Dümmler (M.A.)
is a freelance conservator and completed her master's degree in paper conservation at the Institute for Conservation Science in Cologne in 2013. She has worked extensively with wax and wax seals and their conservation and has worked as a development assistant for soft particle blasting for surface cleaning. She runs workshops and gives courses throughout Europe on the subject of surface cleaning and the use of synthetic binders in paper conservation. Her professional activities include the restoration of contemporary art as well as historical documents, books and papers.
Giovanna Poggi (Ph. D.)
obtained her doctorate in Conservation Sciences of Cultural Heritage at the University of Florence under the supervision of Prof Piero Baglioni. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Centre for Colloids and Nanosciences (CSGI) within the European projects FP7 NANOFORART, H2020 NANORESTART, H2020 APACHE, ERC GraphenART and HORIZON EUROPE GREENART. She is currently a research assistant in the field of physical chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Florence. Her research is mainly focused on the synthesis and characterisation of nanoparticles and their application in the deacidification of paper and wood and in the consolidation of carbonate-based matrices. She is also working on the development and characterisation of hydrogels and organogels for the cleaning of works of art and on the development and use of biocompatible polymers in various fields of application (lecture in English Hybrid at the FH Potsdam and via Zoom).
Registration 
Registration fee: 210,00 Euro Cancellation, refund: until 18.2.2025, 100 %; from 19.2.2025, 0 %.
How to register
- Please send an e-mail to: info@deffner-johann.de with the subject ‘Nanorestore®-Masterclass Potsdam March 2025’ stating: Name, institution/company, billing address, e-mail, telephone number and which practice group (group 1 or 2) you prefer.
- You will receive an invoice from us for the course fee with the account details for payment.
- After receipt of payment, we will confirm your participation in writing. Participation allocation takes place after receipt of payment.
Please note: The organisers are responsible for allocating participants to groups. We will endeavour to take your group preference into account, but cannot guarantee this.
We look forward to an exciting workshop with you!
Venue Fachhochschule Potsdam | Building A Kiepenheuerallee 5 | 14469 Potsdam
You can find the exact schedule for the Master Class here.
