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

Garbage Pin Project
Ana Cardim
Place: Barcelona
(Barcelona, Spain)
01.Feb.2008 - 25.Sep.2008
deadline: 20.May.2008

_(...) The proposal consists in asking the carrier to make use of the piece in a conscious manner during 5 consecutive days. Through this period of time, s/he will experiment with it and choose the contents to put on the plastic bags according to her/his perspective and reflections originated by this project. (...)

Jewellery, anthology from our own collection
Place: Coda Museum
(Apeldoorn, Netherlands)
09.Feb.2008 - 22.Jun.2008

_CODA Museum belongs with its jewellery to the top five of the Netherlands and shows a choice from the collection.

Real Jewellery - Portuguese and Brazilian Contemporary Jewellery
Place: Museu Histórico Nacional
(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
13.Mar.2008 - 18.May.2008

_The project / exhibition Real Jewellery - Portuguese and Brazilian Contemporary Jewellery, with the Portuguese and Brazilian curatorship, by Cristina Filipe and Lúcia Abdenur, was conceived so as to be a part of the official Celebrations of the 200th Anniversary of the arrival of the Portuguese Royal Family to Brazil in 1808.

Nsaio 3 – New Jewelry from Idar-Oberstein
Place: Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau
(Hanau, Germany)
03.Apr.2008 - 15.Jun.2008

_(...) With a selection of 100 works, 30 students show their work of the last two years which was developed within the framework of various study projects. (...)

X-Bones
Svenja John
Place: Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau
(Hanau, Germany)
03.Apr.2008 - 04.Jun.2008

_(...) In her most recent works, Svenja John has abandoned the voluminously interlocking modules. Now she is more interested in an additive fitting together – the so-called x-bone becomes the essential part of an airy construction. (...)

Peter Skubic, gioiello e scultura a parete
Peter Skubic
Place: Marijk Studio
(Padova, Italy)
04.Apr.2008 - 20.May.2008

_(...) Ultimamente è interessato ad un processo di dematerializzazione dell’opera, riducendo il colore e privilegiando il gioco estetico della complessa realtà riflessa dalle superfici specchianti che intersecandosi si rispondono moltiplicate all’infinito. (...)

In the Shade of the Tree
Mari Ishikawa
Place: Hnoss Gallery
(Göteborg, Sweden)
26.Apr.2008 - 18.May.2008

_(...) People are fascinated by nature ever since. Especially plants are always part of our life.(...)

FracShard
Patrick Shia Crabb
Place: Patina Gallery
(Santa Fe, United States)
02.May.2008 - 01.Jun.2008

_(...) Patrick Shia Crabb is widely known for his reconstructed clay vessels and sculptures, and cites Rick Dillingham as an important influence. Dillingham conceived of the clay vessel as a whole object, made up of numerous pieces. He was among the first to deliberately crack his work, only to reassemble it.(...)

Summer Land
Birgit Laken
Place: Galerie Pilartz
(Cologne, Germany)
07.May.2008 - 07.Jun.2008

_New necklaces of the Dutch artist transport the contemplator to the middle of a flower - right into her summer land. Clear and powerful lines form the graphic character of her works - pieces of cautious beauty.

The European Triennial of Contemporary Jewellery 2008
Place: Site des Anciens Abattoirs
(Mons, Belgium)
10.May.2008 - 17.Aug.2008

_Third edition of this major event in the field of European contemporary jewellery, the Triennial this time takes place at the prestigious Grand Hall of Old Abattoirs in Mons (Belgium)

SchmuckDenken 4 – Thinking Jewellery
Place: Fachhochschule Trier
(Idar-Oberstein, Germany)
19.May.2008 - 21.May.2008

_In 2008, our 4th Symposium is dedicated to the ornament. Is jewellery per se decorating? Are there contemporary ornamental means of expression? What is their social context?

Charon Kransen Arts at the SOFA NY Fair 2008
Place: Park Avenue Armory
(New York, United States)
29.May.2008 - 01.Jun.2008

_Charon Kansen Arts presents at Sofa 2008 fair a collection of International Contemporay Jewelry

Fuori Luogo, First Edition of the Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Jewellery
Place: Town Hall of Roccaraso
(Roccaraso, Italy)
02.Aug.2008 - 06.Sep.2008
deadline: 20.Feb.2008

_Deadline, February the 20th
(...) The title "Fuori Luogo" (Out of Place) is meant as an ironical emphasis on the extraneousness between the place and the themes of Contemporary Jewellery, in an interest generating contrast. (...)

International contemporary jewellery
Place: Imatra Art Museum
(Imatra, Finland)
02.Nov.2009 - 08.Nov.2009
deadline: 28.Mar.2008

_Jewellery 2009 will show art works by artists living and working in Baltic Sea countries, also will organize a conference and workshops during the opening week.