International art jewellery exhibitions. Here you can find complete and updated information including title, artists, dates, place, theme, images, contact, related publications and information on past exhibitions organised by year and month.

Lingam
Place: Museum Catharijneconvent
(Utrecht, Netherlands)
17-Jan-2010 - 14-Mar-2010

_(...) Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht present the exhibition LINGAM. 122 contemporary fertility symbols, with more than 120 interpretations of an age-old Eastern religious fertility symbol: the lingam. At the invitation of guest curator Ruudt Peters, artists, designers, and jewellery makers from 24 countries – including Marcel Wanders, Ted Noten, and Johanna Schweizer – have drawn inspiration from this ancient tradition of fertility symbolism. (...)

Alexander Blank: The Gathering
Artists: Alexander Blank
Place: Galerie Rob Koudijs
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
23-Jan-2010 - 13-Mar-2010

_(...) The animals gather. Thirteen in all. Not the most exotic or dangerous animals, simply the everyday ones that are part of our daily life. Yet it feels unsettling, threatening: What is the purpose of this gathering? A conspiracy? What draws them together? (...)

18 Positionen zur zeitgenössischen Schmuck- und Gerätgestaltung
Place: Gesellschaft für Goldschmiedekunst e.V.
(Hanau, Germany)
28-Jan-2010 - 04-Apr-2010

_(...) Of the over 400 members of the Association for Goldsmiths’ Art, the goldsmiths, silversmiths, jewelry designers, metal designers, and artists of the avant-garde scene from around the world are especially important. New members from the past two years exhibit a small selection of the wide, creative spectrum the society entails (...)

Esther Bott: Transformation of the everyday
Place: Gesellschaft für Goldschmiedekunst e.V.
(Hanau, Germany)
28-Jan-2010 - 04-Apr-2010

_(...) The aspect of recycling plastic plays an important role for Esther Bott: thus, a printed milk carton is developed into the necklace, "Milk" (...)

L’éducation sentimentale
Place: Solidor Art Space
(Cagnes sur Mer, France)
27-Feb-2010 - 23-May-2010

_(...) In the last decades, the theoretical issue of modernity and his need for change became less relevant and visual artists started to look back to the past, taking forms from a common repertory inheritated from international Avant-gardes.(...)

Ruudt Peters: ANIMA
Artists: Ruudt Peters
Place: Galerie Marzee
(Nijmegen, Netherlands)
28-Feb-2010 - 19-May-2010

_(...) For a considerable time now I have been exploring the feminine subconscious in the male (the ANIMA) as a guiding principle for my design. (...)

Alexandra Bart
Artists: Alexandra Bart
Place: Gallery deux poissons
(Tokyo, Japan)
05-Mar-2010 - 21-Mar-2010

_This exhibition consists of three series that are simultaneously being expanded by the artist: FINE SILVER, MINIT and PLACES. Welcome to the solo exhibition by Berlin-based German jewelry artist, Alexandra Bart, for the first occasion in Japan.

Ana Margarida Carvalho: A door without a knob is a wall
Artists: Ana Margarida Carvalho
Place: Galeria Tereza Seabra
(Lisbon, Portugal)
11-Mar-2010 - 25-Mar-2010

_You are invited to the current exhibition at Galeria Tereza Seabra with work by Ana Margarida Carvalho (...) Curiosity is part of human nature. Keys, doors, etc have been used as symbols of that curiosity. Without them, we are only presented with uncrossable obstacles (...)

Terhi Tolvanen & Evert Nijland: Naturae
Artists: Terhi Tolvanen, Evert Nijland
Place: viceversa bijoux contemporains
(Lausanne, Switzerland)
13-Mar-2010 - 17-Mar-2010

_Naturae presents two artists, both concerned in different ways with the interaction between nature and culture: Terhi Tolvane and Evert Nijland.

Bas Bouman
Artists: Bas Bouman
Place: Galleri hnoss
(Göteborg, Sweden)
13-Mar-2010 - 04-Apr-2010

_Bas Bouman investigate the meaning of the word value in relation to jewellery, especially the value of a material. Instead of the obvious financial value he takes an interest in the cultural, religious or mythological meanings of a material.

Esther Knobel
Artists: Esther Knobel
Place: Jewelers' Werk Galerie
(Washington DC, United States)
13-Mar-2010 - 03-Apr-2010

_Jewelers' Werk Galerie is proud to present a new exhibition by Esther Knobel.

Pavel Opocenský: Colocircol
Artists: Pavel Opocenský
Place: Galeria Reverso
(Lisbon, Portugal)
13-Mar-2010 - 09-Apr-2010

_(...) The beholder finds nothing additional, no decoration in his work. On the contrary, reduction is taking place; he carves out, bores out, files off. Through the artistic treatment, a perfect dialogue between form and material turns out. (...)

Chased + Repoussé
Place: Velvet da Vinci
(San Francisco, United States)
17-Mar-2010 - 18-Apr-2010

_(...) an exhibition shown in conjunction with the release of the recent publication, Chasing and Repoussé, Methods Ancient and Modern, by Nancy Megan Corwin. This exhibition includes work from twenty-one contemporary artists who have mastered the ancient metalworking techniques of chasing and repoussé. (...)

Letters to Padova: Jewellery from Estonian Academy of Arts
Place: Marijke Studio
(Padova, Italy)
23-Apr-2010 - 25-Jun-2010

_Handwritten letters and jewellery share many similarities. They both require time and concentration and are profoundly personal. Jewellery is like letters that tell stories with their own form.

PREZIOSA 2010: Dialoghi
Place: Leopoldine old Cloister
(Florence, Italy)
22-May-2010 - 20-Jun-2010

_(...) Three masters of research jewellery, three artists have been asked to select a younger artist to set up a dialogue with: the exhibition is thus driven by a “spirit of dialogue”. Not merely “talking with” but “thinking with”, “being bound by thought”: a dialogue based on the desire to understand and know the other, and to propose an approach to the reality of the research jewel through a spirit of discovery. (...)