Brief news organized by dates related to events on art jewellery creation: exhibitions, workshops, lectures, symposiums and much more.

Lina Peterson: Exploring Colour
Place: www.craftscouncil.org.uk
(London, United Kingdom)
18.Dec.2009 - 18.Jun.2010

_Online exhibition presenting new work and research by Lina Peterson.

NO PROBLEM (?)
Place: Gallery Loupe
(Montclair/ New Jersey, United States)
09.Feb.2010 - 14.Mar.2010

_This exhibition brings together the outstanding  talent of Contemporary Studio Jewelers from Israel's renowned  Art Schools - Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem  and Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Tel Aviv.

Don’t you dare to fall off my blouse!
Place: Gallery for Applied Arts – Bavarian Society of Arts and Crafts
(München, Germany)
12.Feb.2010 - 10.Apr.2010

_(...) In the spring of 2010, Volker Atrops, Peter Bauhuis, Waltraud Erlacher, Therese Hilbert, Otto Künzli, Karen Pontoppidan and Bettina Speckner will be showing old as well as many new brooches in the Gallery of Applied Arts at the Bavarian Society of Arts and Crafts in Munich. Don’t you dare to fall off my blouse! A dream becomes true. (...)

Intelligent Trouble - A Curious Exchange
Place: Contemporary Applied Arts
(London, United Kingdom)
19.Feb.2010 - 20.Mar.2010

_Helen Carnac, Lin Cheung, David Clarke and David Gates. Four established makers who are known for their inquisitive and challenging approaches to their disciplines have come together to make work for this unique four-way collaboration.

Schatzkammer Australien – Treasure room Australia
Place: Galerie Handwerk
(München, Germany)
26.Feb.2010 - 10.Apr.2010

_(...) The idea for this exhibition was conceived during the stay of the International Jewelry Show, Schmuck 2009, in June last year in the gallery of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology .(...)

Four exhibitions at Galeria Marzee
Place: Galleria Marzee
(Nijmegen, Netherlands)
28.Feb.2010 - 20.May.2010

_You are cordially invited to attend the opening of four exhibitions: Ruudt Peters-Anima, Vera Siemund, Tore Svensson and The Marzee Collection in St Andrews.

Nikolay Sardamov: BI-RE- CYCLE
Place: Galerie V&V Vitrine
(Wien, Austria)
01.Mar.2010 - 30.Apr.2010

_(...)This body of work goes back to mobility in today’s world. In this line of thoughts the choice of material is logical: bicycle tyre. Pieces of the black tyre are slipped over a skeleton-like silver construction and create unisex neckpieces with a futuristic air.(...)

Karl Fritsch: jewelry and Richard Wathen: paintings
Place: Salon 94 Freemans
(New York, United States)
02.Mar.2010 - 10.Apr.2010

_Among Fritsh’s works on display are a grouping of 7 rings inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins. Decadently Baroque yet ominous in appearance, Fritsch interprets each sin with visual and material metaphors to create these spectacular allegorical pieces.

Djurdjica Kesic: Nomad
Place: Metalab
(Surry Hills, NSW, Australia)
04.Mar.2010 - 15.Mar.2010

_(...)For Djurdjica Kesic, the house becomes a symbol of something that evokes a sense of place and stability. More specifically these ideas are explored in relation to the migrant experience that is in many ways shaped by transition and movement.(...)

Iris Eichenberg: Birds and flowers of Michigan
Place: Galerie Spektrum
(Munich, Germany)
05.Mar.2010 - 24.Apr.2010

_(...) These are highly personal works, as intimate and familiar, and at once as exotic and estranging as life and death are in their coupling in one’s - this one’s and that one’s - everyday existence. (...)

Giampaolo Babetto. L’Italianità dei Gioielli
Place: Pinakothek der Moderne
(Munich, Germany)
05.Mar.2010 - 30.May.2010

_Giampaolo Babetto (born 1947 in Padua) has had a marked influence on the avant-garde goldsmiths’ scene since the late 1960s. He is one of the protagonists of the so-called Padua School and has significantly moulded the image of art jewellery in Italy. »Babetto’s works mirror a refined aesthetic concept based on dialogue, interrelationships and a blurring of boundaries between art genres.«
(Florian Hufnagl, Director of Die Neue Sammlung).

Inês Almeida: Longe, no Outro Lado
Place: Biblioteca de Alcochete
(Alcochete, Portugal)
06.Mar.2010 - 10.Apr.2010

_(...) Às vezes tenho a sensação de que o meu universo criativo se encontra numa outra dimensão. Longe das incertezas, dos medos, da incoerência, das faltas de resposta. Aqui, nesta dimensão, estamos obrigados a um olhar atento, obrigados a sentir. Fazemos uma viagem pelo sensível, pelo intocável. (...)

Meisterschüler 2010: Ausgewählte Arbeiten
Place: Galerie Der Künstler
(München, Germany)
06.Mar.2010 - 14.Mar.2010

_(...) Meisterschüler 2010 – Ausgewählte Arbeiten präsentiert 13 Meisterschüler aus den Klassen für Bildhauerei, Malerei, Fotografie und Goldschmiedekunst der Akademie der Bildenden Künste München. Die Ausstellung bietet einen repräsentativen Ausschnitt aus den künstlerischen Positionen, die in den verschiedenen Klassen an der Akademie vertreten sind. (...)

Machteld van Joolingen: Fragnamenten
Place: Beyond Fashion
(Antwerpen, Belgium)
11.Mar.2010 - 24.Apr.2010

_Machteld van Joolingen: Why does jewellery exist? What does it mean to us? To me these are very important questions. In my work I endeavour to unveil something of the relationship between jewellery and its wearers. Notions like ritual, culture, gesture, and folklore are the sources of my work.

Hans Stofer: Walk The Line
Place: Gallery S O
(London, United Kingdom)
12.Mar.2010 - 17.May.2010

_(...) Stofer has constructed a corridor through which one must pass in order to enter his hidden world and view pieces that attempt to walk the line of maintaining a fragile balance between binary extremes: familiarity and alienation; function and non-function; humour and sadness; beauty and ugliness; (...)

Michael Brennand-Wood: Vase Attacks
Place: Galerie Ra
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
13.Mar.2010 - 14.Apr.2010

_(...) an exhibition of new objects by Michael Brennand-Wood which Galerie Ra is presenting first at Munich’s Frame Fair, from 3 – 9 March, and then in Ra itself. (...)

Spring
Place: Galerie Sofie Lachaert
(Tielrode, Belgium)
21.Mar.2010 - 09.May.2010

_Spring is an exhibition with sparkling, new work of upcoming talents. Small objects and experiments with new techniques, with unknown materials, holding a world of imagination. A glimpse of poetry and fairytales.

Tine De Ruysser: CONFRONTATIONS 2010/02
Place: PHL Campus Elfde Linie Building C, Paciolizaal
(Hasselt, Belgium)
29.Mar.2010 - 29.Mar.2010
deadline: 23.Mar.2010

_Welcome to a lecture with jewellery designer Tine De Ruysser. Tine enjoys making work in two different ways: either reacting conceptually to a brief, or creating flexible folding objects.

Cinnamon Lee: Twilight
Place: Metalab
(Surry Hills, NSW, Australia)
08.Apr.2010 - 29.Apr.2010

_The subtle interactions that occur between people and objects continue to provide inspiration for Cinnamon Lee's work, whether they be functional or emotional, worn on the body or adorning a room.

GRAY AREA GRIS SYMPOSIUM
Place: GRAY AREA GRIS SYMPOSIUM
(Mexico City, Mexico)
12.Apr.2010 - 16.Apr.2010
deadline: 28.Feb.2010

_The great interest of the audience on this symposium had us fully booked in a matter of weeks. The symposium will receive participants from 31 countries and 5 continents. We are glad to offer 50 extra seats for the Gray Area Gris Symposium Mexico 2010.

I Care A Lot
Place: www.icarealot.me
15.May.2010 - 15.Jun.2010
deadline: 15.Mar.2010

_Open Call to artists:  An international juried exhibition which aims to facilitate the dialogue between the different cultures and to raise the discourse about the Middle East.
Deadline for submissions: March 15th 2010.

SchmuckDenken 6 - Thinking Jewellery
Place: Fachhochschule Trier
(Idar-Oberstein, Germany)
18.May.2010 - 19.May.2010

_Schmuck-Denken is an attempt to reflect on what jewellery is. It concerns an interdisciplinary approach which extends beyond the respective categories of art or craft, applied or free: the exploration of what jewellery means – not what it looks like. Thinking Jewellery 6 is a symposium on Effects of Globalisation on Jewellery.

METAL Inclinations2 International Juried Online Jewelry Exhibition
Place: metalinclinations.org
(Saint Louis, United States)
31.Oct.2010 - 31.Oct.2011
deadline: 30.Jun.2010

_METAL Inclinations2 International Juried Exhibition 2010-11 will include selections of the most exemplary fine metal art jewelry created by metalsmiths, silversmiths, goldsmiths and jewelers all over the world.