TALENTE’14 Nominees

Munich Jewellery Week 2021

The annual Munich Jewellery Week showcases avant-garde contemporary jewellery by both established and up-and-coming designers from all around the world. This unique phenomenon is the most significant event on the contemporary jewellery calendar that sets the pace for the contemporary jewellery field.

Hundreds of makers, students, educators and collectors come to Munich to be inspired by MJW’s motley programme, which ranges from artist-run exhibitions, book launches and lectures, to performances, mobile presentations and parties. What began as a collection of independent city exhibitions, has gradually and organically expanded to now include a remarkable 100+ initiatives, establishing in the process a dynamic self-organised community of local and international artists.

MJW is an independent initiative that supports and communicates information about the jewellery exhibitions that are held across the city each year in parallel with the International Trade Fair for the Skilled Trades at the Handwerksmesse and its historic jewellery exhibitions: Meister der Moderne, Schmuck and Talente.

Jewellery Magazine and Platform Current Obsession coined the title Munich Jewellery Week in 2015 to give a name to this extraordinary collective effort and to associate it with other professional fashion and design weeks around the world. Current Obsession’s aim is to represent the multitude of impressive independent events as a whole, to give them a recognisable visual identity and to offer clear information to new participants, press and international visitors.

Photography by Linda Beumer

“For the past 5 years I was and still am a jury member at Talente, the international competition for young talent no older than 33. It is quite remarkable to be seen as a young talent at that age, having regard to the fact that students graduating are getting younger and younger. During these years I have seen some exceptional and intriguing work, which shows that craft nowadays is more than just good handwork and skills.

It is about innovative techniques, social and sustainable context. It is about objects of desire and tradition, about products or concepts that raise questions. And above all it is about storytelling and authorship.”

Introduction by Chequita Nahar

December 7, 2014

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Questioning Jewellery with Jussi Järvinen

Gripping Narrative

Lin Cheung

Hacking Environments