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.

The town’s permanent collection
Place: Solidor art space
(Cagnes-sur-Mer, France)
12-Oct-2007 - 01-Jun-2008

_(...) the town’s permanent collection, consists of works acquired from exhibiting artists, showcases a large and noteworthy collection by contemporary jewellery artists from all over the world (...)

Flockage: The Flock Phenomenon
Place: Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
(Bournemouth, United Kingdom)
15-Jan-2008 - 01-Jun-2008

_Zoe Robertson jewellery designer and lecturer at the School of Jewellery, Birmingham City University has been invited to showcase her new collection of work “flock it!” as part of Flockage: the flocked Phenomenon.

The fat booty of madness
Place: Pinakothek der Moderne
(Munich, Germany)
29-Feb-2008 - 18-May-2008

_Emotional, provocative, conceptual, imaginative, daring, profound, crazy, rebellious, garish, stark, highly personal, refined, playful … big fat crazy boonty? Multi-facetted, free from conventions and undogmatic is how the art of the goldsmith is understood at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

In addition: applied - contemporary – textile
Place: Schlossmuseum Linz
(Linz, Austria)
05-Mar-2008 - 25-May-2008

_(...) In association with the reopening of the permanent exhibition "Costume and Textile Culture" at the Schlossmuseum in Linz, Austria, contemporary artists are exhibiting works on the borderline between applied and free art. (...)

Beauty of the Lost
Place: Star Space
(Shangai, China)
30-Mar-2008 - 30-May-2008

_(...) This exhibition sets up a framework to invite artists’ personal reflection, re-interpretation and imagination, not for fantasies up there in the future, but for those that we have lost. (...)

Gioielli d'Autore - Padova e la Scuola dell'oro
Place: Palazzo della Ragione
(Padova, Italy)
04-Apr-2008 - 03-Aug-2008

_(...) the Gold-Working School of Padua - is admired throughout the world and now, finally, a significant and important exhibition brings its special value to the public. (...)

LUCCA PREZIOSA 2007-2008 and LUCCA PREZIOSA YOUNG
Place: Villa Bottini
(Lucca, Italy)
24-Apr-2008 - 18-May-2008

_Le Arti Orafe, since 2005 the most important school for contemporary goldsmith in Italy, presents in Lucca the 2007-2008 edition of LUCCA PREZIOSA, and announces the first edition of Lucca Preziosa Young.

Contemporary jewellery from Italy
Place: Velvet da Vinci
(San Francisco, United States)
01-May-2008 - 08-Jun-2008

_(...) an exhibition with a strong emphasis on constructed jewellery, very typical of the Italian jewellery scene. Most of the artists are Italian or based in Italy, and make use of ancient techniques that are still widespread in Italy and used by most contemporary jewellers.(...)

Frozen moments, sparkling outlines
Artists: Iris Nieuwenburg
Place: Galerie Louise Smit
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
03-May-2008 - 12-Jun-2008

_(...) It is jewelry of a narrative character with which Iris Nieuwenburg is working on'. The stories she relates unfold as if on a stage. (...)

Metrosideros Robusta
Place: Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design
(Tallinn, Estonia)
07-May-2008 - 29-Jun-2008

_(...) More than ten years ago I began using conventional jewellery pieces as a grounding material in my work. Like the epiphyte rata I added my attachment in gold or silver, nestling in or on a ring and also growing over entire pieces of jewellery. (...)

(...)e no entanto move-se
Artists: Ana Albuquerque, Salima Thakker
Place: Reverso
(Lisbon, Portugal)
10-May-2008 - 31-May-2008

_(...) The resemblance is clear: both artists presented on the 04/10 exhibition work the materials - silver and gold - exploring their characteristics and singularities, like one would when exploring a newly found continent. (...)

Sometimes
Artists: Lisa Walker
Place: Platina
(Stockholm, Sweden)
15-May-2008 - 19-Jun-2008

_If the metal brooch had been plastic i couldn´t have broken the sheep`s legs like that, so you could say the nature of the material dictated how it turned out.

Claude Schmitz: a european approach
Place: Gallery deux poissons
(Tokyo, Japan)
16-May-2008 - 01-Jun-2008

_(...) What then grasps the fascination of the artist, who seeks his own distinctive language to allow his creativity to express itself in its unmistakable way? Claude Schmitz knowingly rears his roots, yet seeks greater grounds to grow to full flourish. (...)

Aus jedem Land ein Souvenir....
Place: Beatrice Lang Galerie für Schmuck
(Bern, Switzerland)
31-May-2008 - 28-Jun-2008

_(...) Wenn der Lederball im Namen einer ganzen Nation und nicht nur für eine Mannschaft rollt, soll das Spiel auch vor der Kunst nicht Halt machen (...)