Munich Jewellery Week 2020

“#000000” is a project that gathers five jewellery makers working in the field of Contemporary Jewellery. In spite of their clear individuality, these five male voices intersect in this project with one mutual condition: #000000, the hex value for black, refers to the complete absence of colour and is the common ground for the artists to explore the symbolic range of meanings attached to it.

#0000000 project was shown in Munich Jewellery Week 2019 and returns in 2020 with special invitees. Women’s voices are added to the conversation. Ten artists are now in dialogue around the colour black. Hints on concealing and protecting, the secretive and the unknown, strength and authority, elegance or sophistication are unveiled throughout the exhibition.

“I will defend a weird realism. This model features a world packed full of ghostly real objects signaling to each other from inscrutable depths, unable to touch one another fully.”

Introducing this show of a somewhat mysterious title with a fragment from Graham Harman’s ‘‘On Vicarious Causation’’ might refer to both inevitability of thinking through objects and duality of such thoughts. Since the Objects belong to the
realm of the real they are constantly escaping us. We cannot do anything but keep on training our sensory apparatus to distance from itself. The act of sensory perception is the never-ending story of the vital, like two ends of one piece that never meet each other although they are connected permanently. Meanwhile the transient refers to border territories of matter and its nature, of life and nonlife. Even the strongest can be fragile. What are these spaces in between, are they only given to our instrumental use or is there a mutual poetics exchange revolving around the properties of objects?

Aluminium plays an important part in Peter’s work. Ever since he was asked to work with discarded panels from the iconic Atomium building in Brussels in 2008. Since then he has upcycled aluminium from a variety of sources: used offset printing plates for his ‘Argent d’Argyle’ series and hammered Bengel chains for his ‘Back from Bengel’ series. For this exhibition he will show a selection of jewellery and statuettes from his different collections.

Beads are among the most archaic objects known.
Whether linked to commercial transactions and market values, or as exchange currency for the passage to the next life, part of religious rituals or symbols of social status, they can “tell the history of humanity” through their many shapes, materials, sizes and uses.

Over the centuries, beads became increasingly popular in the five continents, to the point of being regarded as almost banal – and thus losing ground as work material in the field of visual arts, particularly in jewellery.

This exhibition brings together nine artists from across the island of Ireland. The work of each of these artists is firmly rooted in a philosophy of body adornment and objects, and their relationship with the body, which is jewellery.

Light form and heavy material, necklaces to be released and small satisfying sensations.
The three jewellery artists Lena Munzig, Carolina Lutz and Esther Gleuwitz once met in Allgäu, where they took their first steps in making jewellery together.

For Schmuck 2020 they show their pieces through airy, light layers and come together for some “heavy breeze”.

Questionary from Laurence Verdier for Monika Brugger
If only one word in the French language remained, what would it be?
Memory

Who is your personal saint?
Barbara

What does your mother think of your work?
She is probably unaware of everything I do, even though she was the person who helped it all
happen…

Your favourite occupation?
Work.

“Put A Pin On It”, Workshop. A nice and creative way to start your day. Come to IO&U, make your pin and support a social and innovating project.

“I wanna wear it”, Red carpet photo shot. Would you like to try on our jewellery? Pick your favourite, get a “red carpet” photo shot and have inspiring conversations with the artists.

“From dumpling to pancake”, International brunch. The most special feature of Idar-Oberstein campus is the variety of cultures. IO&U represents 9 of them. By joining our international brunch, you can taste the beauty of our small world.

“Gemtonic red-eye-talk”
We open our world to share our stories with you. Join us for an open talk, about stone, about making, about thoughts and future projects.

The students of the PXL-MAD School of Arts from Hasselt (BE) present their work: objects & jewellery at the Trippen flagship store.

PXL-MAD master students will lace up their Trippen shoes for a MADwalk through Munich Jewellery Week: presenting a moving exhibition in honour of MAD’s tradition. The soon to be graduates will travel through the city with their show boxes carrying a selection of their pieces. Meet them on the streets and collect an ‘impress’ jewel! Or, stumble into their exhibition at the Trippen shop, where they will show their most recent work, tip toeing in between the Trippen shoes.

Take yourself on a trip and discover the work of this year’s masters, an eclectic mix of international students. Through the city they will be leaving their footprint, as well as at the Pinakothek, the International Handwerksmesse and their own grand opening on Friday March 13th from 4pm till 7pm. Get curious and follow their journey on #MADwalk to find out where their feet will take them and when they will bring the MADness out of their show boxes. They will sweep you off your feet!

Since 2012 I have incorporated in my contemporary jewelry works discarded plastic modules that I recycle and thermoform  rescuing plastics discards from their pollutant destiny and giving them, my understanding, of a new life.

A reality that causes fright: everything is contaminated with plastic waste…..

Eight million tons of plastics are poured into the oceans every year…

Plastics last forever but the degradation in microplastics by the action of the sun and heat does not … those microplastics arrive by contamination of the earth and water to all living beings on the planet through food …

There are research and studies to create degradable plastics but we still have to wait….

Galerie Door shows contemporary art and art jewellery from (inter)national artists and designers, both young talent and established names. You will discover experimental and conceptual work, art that is at the edge of autonomous visual art and applied art.

For the opening of this spring show in Munich the artists represented by Galerie Door were invited to make an artwork referring to the theme: next door. The ‘door’ leading to interpretations from a rite of passage, a transition, a hole, to an opening, borders… etc. We invite you to come in and open your door.

Fragile matters …
Subtle objects

They look for us carefully
we found them with the soul,
We make sure we always treat each other with love and devotion.

We know there will be no abrupt treatment,
Having them close, will be a conquest of exquisite care.
These pleasure relationships,
valuable, embrace magic.

The extraordinary phenomenon will be,
the audacity to adorn our bodies a bit tough,
with objects that resemble desire
and could only be taken from our world in an impetuous rather vulgar maneuver.

In this way we deserve to have them and
not have them.

On the occasion of Munich Jewellery Week, Adornment is pleased to present the second chapter of Nuda Vita, an experience of artistic production that presents the work of some of the most interesting contemporary jewellery artists.
The exhibition will take place at ABC Westside Galerie from 11 to 15 March 2020. The initiative, curated by Ilaria Ruggiero, explores the value and role of the public, collective and political body, taking as its starting point the expression Nuda Vita, coined by Benjamin and then developed by the philosopher Giorgio Agamben, reworked as an impossible condition, an indescribable concept, and an artistic action.

As an artistic movement and an open platform for regection, this year the exhibition presents the previously unseen work of 12 artists who have both continued and made further contributions to artistic research around the public body and social and political identity: Vivien Bedwell, Daria Borovkova, Satomi Kawai, Anna Lewis, Nina Lima, Peter Machata, Jana Machatova, Nanna Obel, Margherita Potenza, Eva van Kempen, Tanel Veenre, Snem Yildirim.
The artists were invited to explore different aspects of ‘nudity’, as an ideological and existential condition that humanity experiences when free from constraints, rules, obligations and norms, in order to develop a personal artistic resistance action. The goal is to compare the most varied experiences and to broaden social and political awareness. The great wealth of perspectives and themes, already set out in the first edition, presents jewellery as a means of raising questions relating to major issues such as the role of women in society, the issue of gender, the freedom to have control of one’s own body, sexual orientation, slavery, the idea of beauty, regimes and dictatorships, mysticism and eroticism, disability and public spaces.

With a view to accompanying the creations with an in-depth critical discourse, in this edition the relationship between ethics and aesthetics will be considered in greater depth, in an attempt to position artistic practice in a progressive stance
and give it true weight.

Nuda Vita remains an act of provocation and resistance, subversion and awareness, which stages the body, through the jewel, as a statement of politics, identity and humanity.

The truth is, we long for love. We seek understanding of death and beauty. We want to be vulnerable and protected. We want to define our own realities and find freedom through perception.

Four jewellers: Erinn M. Cox, Kristine Ervik, Olaf T. Hodne, and Hanna-Maria Vanaküla depict the unknown, the unspeakable, and the unmanageable through the inherent understanding of the circle.  As both starting points or conclusions, the round form finds its way to the chest, the neck, the eyes in the personal languages of structured metal chains or meticulously carved stone and glass to find consolation of these ever-present, ever personal, universal desires.

Twelve contemporary jewelers from Israel return to Munich, this time overreacting to a new subject: self-destruction. Each artist explores this concept from a different perspective, and together they show varied interpretations of both self and destruction. The topic is expressed through personal and global issues, ranging from works about stress-eating and emotional overload to over-consumption and the environmental crisis. Other works examine jewelry’s ability to not only criticize social aspects but also to reflect upon itself as an active participant in the process of self-destruction.
From fragile glass rings to large organic kombucha objects – the pieces displayed are suggested as a medium for introspection in hopes of one day overcoming these vicious forms of self-destruction.

There’s a corner inside each home of us, where portraits are collected and displayed. All well arranged, grouped and framed, they seem to be there to prevent our fear of loneliness.
This place has been designed to silence a might-it happen future pain with overwhelming emotions. In fact, surrounded by the portraits we recover feelings.

The portraits are emotional carriers which go beyond time and space. By looking at them we approach a representation of a reality in which both essence and appearance, perception and experience are mixed together. Portraits of a year is a story of revelation. Focused on the duality of concealing and exposing, Federica investigates the mechanics of representation that concerns our own persona. The main focus of the artist’s research has been human feelings, and the portraits are meant as a collection of universal emotions, an assortment of intuitive reactions to the events of life.

The event will put architecture and contemporary jewelry in dialogue, underlining their similar language lead by a sense of proportion, composition and materialization.
A selection of projects from the Munich based architectural office “Kollektiv A” and the pieces of jewelry handcrafted by the architect and designer Laura Micheli will be exhibited to show how the research of a “harmonious space” is present both in the larger scale of a building as well as in the minimal one of a jewerly piece.

Organized by: Laura Micheli

Laura Micheli studied architecture at the „Accademy of Architecture of Mendrisio“, Switzerland where she graduated her Bachelor Degree in 2013 and Master Degree in 2016. Between 2016 and 2018 she worked in different international architecture and design offices like Dominique Perrault Architecture in Paris, Quincoces-Dragò & Partners in Milan and the Surman Weston in London. In parallel to her education and work in the field of architecture, Laura deepend and studied the craft of jewelry making, starting in a small goldsmith laboratory in her home town Novi Ligure, then through courses at the „London Jewelry School“ and at the Contemporary Jewellery School „Alchimia“, in Florence (Italy). Since 2017 Laura is based in Zurich where she practices architecture with the office Michael Meier und Marius Hug Architekten and is part of the design collective Die Macherei . Since 2018 Laura has founded her own jewelry brand and design and architectural studio Laura Micheli in Zurich.

„My education in architecture has driven my interest towards every form and scale of art and design. I like to think of my pieces as intimate and emotional. I often use archaic and organic forms, often inspired by nature and my training as architect leads my eyes and hands in the sense of proportion and composition, in the role of light, in the functional research. The creative process behind my pieces takes place in different ways. It can start from a formal or aesthetic inspiration, from a memory, or from the request of the client. Often a creative error turns into an element of interest, so when a piece is not finished yet, a second is already born”.

Benedict studied Architecture and Construction at the “Hochschule München”, at the “Technischen Universität München” and at the “Accademia di Architettura of Mendrisio”, Switzerland. He has been awarded the Egon Eiermann Prize, the Wittman Scholarship and the Senator Bernhard Borst Prize. He was an Architect-in-Residence supported by the Goethe-Institute in Rotterdam in 2017 and by the German Academy Rome – Villa Massimo in Rome in 2017/2018. From 2016 to 2017 he taught at the Technical University of Munich at the chair of Design and Creation and from 2018 at the “Accademia di Architettura of Mendrisio ” (Switzerland). Since 2019 he has been a lecturer for architectural strategies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He is a member of the Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities/German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina. Since 2015 he is part of Kollektiv A, an internationally active architectural practice based in Munich.

Work time. Play time. Party time!
Whether it flies or drags, you can never have enough.
Spend some time with us.

Infamous for their signature style of immersive exhibitions, Dialogue Collective present musings on the materialisation and / or dematerialisation of time with an installation of works by London based artists for sale, and an international auction.

We are a group of artists born in Japan. We make jewelry focusing on techniques and materials.
This time is the third exhibition. Our theme is “Jewelry trap”

Embark on our voyage of discovery, where curiosity and imagination are continuously stimulated through the subject of jewellery. Students of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp exhibit the graduation collections of June 2019, and the current master students launch their Multiples.