Exhibitions Archive - post-Victorian

Style periods

GLANZ EINER EPOCHE. Jugendstilschmuck aus Europa
Brilliant Times- Jugendstil Jewellery from Europe

Based around the innovative jewellery designs of members of the Darmstadt Artists´ Colony - Peter Behrens, Rudolf Bosselt, Paul Bürck, Hans Christiansen, Johann Vincenz Cissarz, Ludwig Habich, Patriz Huber and Joseph Maria Olbrich - a unique exhibition of European jewellery history from around 1900 will once more take place in autumn 2011. It will be held in the exhibition rooms of the Museum Künstlerkolonie (Darmstadt Artists´ Colony), housed in impressive Jugendstil-era buildings. Highly valued pieces of jewellery by René Lalique, Georges Fouquet, Jan Eisenloeffel and Fabergé present a detailed overview of the outstanding creativity these artists expressed through the Jugendstil. As well as including the Museum Künstlerkolonie´s finest jewellery, the exhibition displays a selection of particularly exquisite objects from the outstanding Jugendstil jewellery collection in the Hessisches Landesmuseum. This museum´s inventory is based on the collection of the Dutch court jeweller Karel A. Citroen (b. 1922). On display are works by the famous Parisian jewellers, goldsmiths and enamellers René Lalique and Georges Fouquet as well as André-Fernand Thesmar and Lucien Gaillard. Lalique sparked a revolution in the field of jewellery design while inspiring Viennese jewellery production at the turn of the century, which neverthless developed in a different direction. Josef Hoffmann´s stricter designs are a statement that the artistic composition and handworked quality of a piece of jewellery is more important than its value in raw materials.

21/08/2011 – 11/12/2011

Museum Künstlerkolonie, Darmstadt, Germany

Bijou Art déco et Avant-garde. Jean Després et les bijoutiers modernes

The exhibition is both a celebration of Art Deco jewellery and of the work of the jeweller and precious metalsmith Jean Després (1889-1980). 180 of this major yet little-known artist’s works, inspired by Cubism and machinery, are being shown together for the first time, alongside works by the great names of French jewellery in the 1930s: Jean Fouquet, Gérard Sandoz, Raymond Templier (all three members of the Union des Artistes Modernes), and also by architects (Robert Mallet Stevens), interior designers, (Jean Dunand) and silversmiths (Jean Puiforcat), all illustrating the formidable attraction jewellery exercised over the artists of the period.

19/03/09 – 12/07/09

Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, France

Art Déco: Schmuck und Accessoires der zwanziger Jahre

Art Deco: Jewellery and accessories from the 20s

20/9/08 – 11/01/09

Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany

Japonisme: from Falize to Fabergé - the goldsmith and Japan

This exhibition, spanning the fifty years from 1867 to 1917, is the first devoted to the influence of Japanese works of art on Western jewellers and goldsmiths including Falize, Boucheron, Fouquet, Gaillard, Vever, Lalique, Cartier, Tiffany, Gorham, Elkington, Wolfers, and Fabergé. Some 160 jewels, objects and original designs assembled from public and private collections will be shown alongside photographs of related Japanese source material. Amongst the loans are a centrepiece by Boucheron featuring a Japanese boy painting a screen, a diamond-set corsage ornament by Vever composed of a spray of cherry blossom measuring 29 cm, a winter landscape pendant by Lalique framed by ice-laden conifers, a brooch in the form of a chrysanthemum set with Mississippi pearls by Tiffany, and a hardstone Japanese flower study poised on a miniature table by Fabergé.

10/05/2011 – 20/05/2011

Wartski, London, UK

Glanz einer Epoche Jugendstil Schmuck aus Europa: Brilliant Times - European Art Nouveau Jewellery

This will be Austria's most comprehensive exhibition to date on the topic of Art Nouveau jewellery. It will include works by the renowned Parisian jewellers, goldsmiths and enamellers René Lalique (1860–1945) and Georges Fouquet (1862–1957), as well as creations by André-Fernand Thesmar (1843–1912) and Lucien Gaillard (1861–1933), as well as Viennese Jugendstil art, and, after 1903, work from the production community known as the “Wiener Werkstätte”, above all Kolo Moser, Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) and Bertold Löffler (1874–1960). Germany is represented by Hans Christiansen (1866–1945) and by examples of jewellery from the jewellery-making centres of Hanau and Pforzheim. Jewellery from Denmark is also present in the form of works by Georg Arthur Jensen (1866–1935). Furthermore, the exhibition includes Dutch jewellery by Bert Nienhuis (1873–1960) and Jan Eisenlöffel (1876–1957), as well as pieces by the legendary Russian goldsmith Carl Peter Fabergé (1846–1920). Belgian Art Nouveau is represented by works of the jewellery producer and designer Philippe Wolfers (1858–1929). Jewellery from Great Britain by William Hair Haseler (1864–1949) will also be shown, as well as pieces of jewellery and works in gold by the British architects and designers Henry Wilson (1864–1934) and Charles Robert Ashbee (1863–1942), and further objects produced by Liberty & Co. The exhibition will present exquisite objects from the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt as well as from private collections, ihcluding many pieces not shown before.

25/02/2011 – 20/06/2011

Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria

Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry

The organic beauty of jewelry from the Art Nouveau movement shines in this intimate exhibition. Selected from the finest American private collection, Imperishable Beauty features over one hundred works from France, Germany, Austria and the United States by major art nouveau designers and jewelers, including René Lalique, Henri Vever, Philippe Wolfers and Tiffany & Co. Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

23/07/08 - 9/11/08

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA

24/10/2009 – 25/01/2010

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Hand and machine - Reconstruction of Art Nouveau jewellery from Pforzheim

The focus of the presentation, with over 100 pieces of jewellery, is the conservation, preservation and transmission of traditional manufacturing and jewellery production. At the beginning of the 20th century, more than 30,000 highly qualified professionals in the manufacture of jewellery were active in Pforzheim, in such companies as Levinger & Bissinger, Lauer & Wiedmann, Rodi & Wienenberger, Victor Mayer, F. Zerrenner, Kollmar & Jourdan and Theodor Fahrner.

29/11/08 – 11/01/09

Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany

06/09/2009 – 15/11/2009

Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, Germany

Alfons Mucha

This is the first large exhibition in Vienna dedicated to Alfons Mucha (1860–1939). The oeuvre of Mucha, who became known as a commercial and decorative artist, is presented with all of its different aspects. Having designed jewellery for Georges Fouquet within the framework of the World Fair, Mucha furnished the Paris jewellery store in 1901, thus creating an icon of Art Nouveau interior decoration. Individual pieces of jewellery dating from that period, as well as numerous designs for the shop's furnishings, are displayed next to unique pieces of furniture.

12/02/09 – 1/06/09

Lower Belvedere, Vienna, Austria

Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design

Surreal Things offers a new perspective on the surrealists’ contentious and ambiguous relationship to the commercial fields of design, fashion, advertising, architecture, film and theatre. The exhibition explores how the increasing pressures of burgeoning consumer culture conflicted with surrealism’s first principles. Nonetheless, there was significant creative, cross-fertilization between surrealist artists and designers. The exhibition brings together some of the most extraordinary objects ever created, and will include painting, sculpture, architecture, works on paper, jewellery, ceramics, textiles, furniture, fashion, film and photography. Organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

9/05/2009 – 30/08/2009

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

4/10/2009 - 24/01/2010

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA

Wiener Werkstätte: Design in Vienna 1903-1932

The largest show in Britain in recent years, the exhibition draws primarily on the collection of David Bonsall and includes over 150 pieces of jewellery, ceramics, glass, metalwork, functional items, textiles, wallpaper, prints and enamel-ware.

1/07/2009 – 04/10/2009

Dorman Museum, Middlesbrough, UK

Sparklers. Emilie Flöge and the jewellery of Wiener Werkstätte

The exhibition in cooperation with the New Gallery New York presents about 40 jewels of Wiener Werkstätte – brooches, necklaces, pendants and diadems – from the years 1903 till 1920. It is supplemented with drafts and historical photographs.

13/11/08 – 22/02/09

Wien Museum Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria

Companies

Royal Fabergé Exhibition

The exhibition at the annual Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace brings together masterpieces by Carl Fabergé, from Imperial Easter Eggs and dazzling jewel-encrusted boxes to miniature carvings of favourite royal pets. Royal Fabergé reveals how the world’s finest collection of work by the great Russian goldsmith and jeweller has been created by successive generations of the British Royal Family.

1/08/2011 – 25/09/2011

The State Rooms, Buckingham Palace, London, UK

Artistic Luxury: Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique

In this opulent exhibition of more than 300 objects, see the greatest masterworks of these artists reunited for the first time since the legendary 1900 world’s fair in Paris.

19/10/2008 - 18/01/2009

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

7/02/2009 - 31/05/2009

Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, USA

Bulgari. 125 years of Italian magnificence

After the enormous success of its 125th anniversary celebration in Rome last year, the luxury jewellers will be bringing its exhibition to Paris for the first time, choosing the legendary surroundings of the Grand Palais to showcase its history, creativity and prestige. "125 years of Italian Magnificence" looks back over the key moments in the history of the celebrated jewellery maker and the development of Bulgari design, from the opening of the first boutique on Rome's Via Sistina in 1884 to the present day. More than 500 precious items illustrate the path followed by Bulgari on the way to becoming the world's leading exponent of precious, highly colourful jewellery. Divided chronologically into periods, the retrospective begins with designs using silver and diamonds from the first half of the 20th century, then shows the creative turn taken in the 1960s with the emergence of a new style combining precious stones with rarely used original materials. The exhibition continues with the eclectic style inspired by 1970s pop art, the bold designs of the 1980s and 90s, right through to the spectacular designs of the 21st century. Jewellery, drawings, cinema stills and original items from private collections never yet publicly exhibited in France, including Bulgari's own vintage collection and pieces owned by Elisabeth Taylor, immerse visitors in the luxurious world of Bulgari, in a spectacularly designed setting.

10/12/2010 – 12/01/2011

The Nave, Grand Palais, Paris, France

4/09/2011 – 3/11/2011

National Museum of China, Beijing 100006, China

17/02/2012 - 17/04/2012

Aurora Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Bulgari

This important retrospective exhibition will celebrate both the founder and the history shared by Bulgari and the Eternal City. Moreover, 2009 marks the 125th anniversary of the opening of the first Bulgari shop in Rome. The exhibition will display 400 of the best jewels, watches and decorative objects produced by Bulgari throughout its history. The majority have never been seen before in public, having spent decades in private collections and safes. Additional works from the private Bulgari Vintage Collection will also be exhibited, alongside drawings, historic documents and photographs of famous clients: businessmen, aristocrats, artists, film stars. In short, an exhibition not to be missed, whether one be an aficionado of history, a devotee of this most magnificent of Italian luxury brands, or simply eager to share in the glamour that Bulgari has epitomized for more than a century.

22/05/2009 – 13/09/2009

Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

Cartier at Prague Castle - The Power of Style

This exhibition will present exceptional jewellery, watches and luxurious objects created by the Maison Cartier. The riding hall at Prague Castle will thus, after the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the British Museum in London and other renowned exhibition halls in Paris (Le Petit Palais), Berlin (the Vitra Design Museum), Moscow (the Kremlin Museum), Tokyo (the National Museum) or nowadays in Beijing (the palace Museum in the heart of the Forbidden City), become another place where visitors from all over the world will have an opportunity to acquaint themselves with products of the company Cartier from 160 years of its existence. The exhibition will offer to the visitors in the form of a fascinating and inspiring way a unique regard at the treasures of the royal jeweller. It will show the influences which led to creation of the pieces of art and also original archive materials and biographic stories of their well-known owners.

9/07/2010 - 17/10/2010

The riding hall Jízdárna at Prague Castle, Prague, Czech Republic

Cartier and America

Cartier came to fame as the “King of Jewelers” during the Belle Époque for his beautifully made diamond and platinum jewelry created for the courts of Europe and Americans of the Gilded Age. With an extensive variety of jewelry forms—ranging from traditional white diamond suites to the highly colored exotic creations of the 1920s and 1930s—Cartier made its mark with the ingenuity of its designs and its exquisite craftsmanship. This exhibition celebrates the imagination and creativity of Cartier in the 20th century. The jewelry and works of art include pieces from the private collection of Cartier.

19/12/2009 - 9/05/2010

Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, USA

Cartier Treasures - King of Jewellers, Jewellers to Kings

This exhibition, previously displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) in 1997, and the British Museum (London) in 1998, shows over 300 pieces, including jewellery, compacts, cigarette cases, watches and clocks, of oriental inspiration.

5/09/2009 - 22/11/2009

Palace Museum, Beijing, China

"Story of ..." - Memories of Cartier Creations

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Japan-France diplomatic relations, this exhibition displays 250 pieces from amongst the 1300 objects in the archives of Cartier, France's representative jeweler. Yoshioka Tokujin, highly-esteemed worldwide as a supervisor and designer, will be dramatizing the secret stories of the various articles of jewelry.

28/03/2009 - 31/05/2009

Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Fabergé: The Hodges Family Collection

This exhibition features a splendid group of over 100 objects made by famed Russian artist-jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé (1846–1920). From cigarette cases and smoking accessories, to photograph frames, tableware, desk accessories, boxes, clocks, and jewelry, the consummate skill of the House of Fabergé is evident in the ingenious use of precious and semi-precious materials to create luxury objects of the highest order. The objects are from the Hodges Family Collection, the first significant collection of Fabergé assembled in America in decades.

23/10/2011 - 15/01/2012

Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15208, USA

Carl Fabergé and Masters of stone carving. Russian masterpieces of semi-precious stones

The exhibition, comprising articles made from semi-precious stones, is devoted to the Russian art of stone carving and its most distinguished craftsmen, i.e. jewellers Carl Fabergé, Avenir Sumin, Ivan Britsyn, suppliers to the Imperial court, Alexey K. Denisov (pseudonym Uralsky), known as “the artist and poet of the Urals”, as well as other eminent jewellers and stone carvers of the XVIIIth - XXth centuries from Jeremy Pauzie to Louis Cartier, whose style and art of jewellery making in the early XXth century has been developing under the influence of the Russian school of gem stone carving. The display presents over 400 jewellery pieces made from precious and semiprecious stones, derived from the Urals, Siberian and Altai deposits. All of them reveal the highest level of craftsmanship, characteristic of manufacturers from the Imperial Lapidary Factories of Yekateringburg, Peterhof, Kolyvan, the firm of Verfel and the Ural workshops.

8/04/2011 - 24/07/2011

Assumption Belfry, Kremlin, Moscow, Russia

A tribute to magnificance: Jewelry and microscupture

(Over three hundred works of jewelry and micro-sculpture created by designer and academician Ilias Lalaounis)

20/3/08 – 5/7/08

National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, Romania

René Lalique and his art

A collection of art nouveaux jewellery designed by Rene Lalique, including sketches as well as the jewels themselves. With the participation of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, the Lalique Museum, Hakone, Japan, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

16/09/2010 – 9/01/2011

Assumption Belfry, Kremlin, Moscow, Russia

Tiffany: Color and Light

Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933), son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of the famous Tiffany & Co. in New York is unquestionably one of the most talented artists of all time. This exhibition, previously shown in Paris and Montreal, will include approximately 160 works (stained glass, vases, lamps, objects, jewelry and mosaics, drawings, watercolors and vintage photos) to prove his remarkable creative contribution both to the glass industry and to all decorative arts.

16/09/09 – 17/01/10

Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France

11/02/2010 – 2/05/2010

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada

28/05/2010 - 15/08/2010

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA

Louis Comfort Tiffany: Nature By Design.

Louis Comfort Tiffany: Nature By Design will explore the oeuvres of Louis Comfort Tiffany within the context of Art Nouveau style and the Aesthetic Movement focusing on nature in his designs. Tiffany was the foremost proponent of the use of natural motifs in furniture, ceramics, metalwork and jewelry in America.

20/06/2009 - 25/10/2009

Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont, USA

Elsa Peretti: Jewellery and objects for Tiffany & Co

This exhibition of more than 30 objects features many of Peretti’s most iconic pieces, almost all designed between 1974 and 1986, and marks the 35th anniversary this year of her collaboration with the world-famous jewellers. Her instantly recognisable approach to design is inspired by organic forms such as beans and bones, marine life, teardrops, hearts, snakes and scorpions and a fascination for traditions of different cultures around the world. The sensation of how a piece feels, when held, is as important to her as the fluidity of how it looks.

May 2009 – October 2009

The British Museum, London, UK

Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels

Since its opening on the Place Vendome in Paris in 1906, Van Cleef & Arpels has played a leading role in style and design innovation.Its timeless pieces have been worn by style icons including the Duchess of Windsor, Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor. This exhibition will explore the historical significance of the firm's contributions to jewelry design in the 20th century, including the establishment of Van Cleef & Arpels in New York with the advent of World War II. On view will be more than 250 works including jewels, timepieces, fashion accessories and objets d'art by Van Cleef & Arpels, many of which were created exclusively for the American market. The exhibition will examine the work through the lenses of innovation, transformation, nature as inspiration, exoticism, fashion and celebrity, and will include design drawings from the Van Cleef & Arpels archives.

18/02/2011 - 4/07/2011

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY 10128, USA

Artists jewellery

Picasso to Koons: Artist as Jeweler

Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Max Ernst, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Jeff Koons and Anish Kapoor are some of the 20th century's greatest and best known artists. What is less well known are the incredible works of sculptural beauty created by these artists in the form of jewelry. In an exhibition of over 240 masterpieces Picasso To Koons: Artist As Jeweler explores works from an array of artists, not known as jewelers, who have created stunning works of jewelry both reminiscent of their existing artistic vocabulary and in other instances representing a striking departure from their oeuvre. These richly imaginative pieces were never intended for mainstream production, but rather were created as one-of-a-kind pieces or limited editions, that were often personal gifts made for family and friends, revealing an intimate view into the lives of the artists who created them. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue published by Flammarion/Rizzoli.

20/09/2011 - 8/01/2012

Museum of Arts and Design, New York NY 10019, USA

Bijoux d'artistes - Jean-Pierre Dussaillant & Trésors du musée

Since 2008, Jean-Pierre Dussaillant has created jewellery which is like miniature sculptures, supra-dimensional ornaments which combine base or precious metals with horn, paste, coral, pearls... These works are "talkative," speaking of love, feelings, malicious actions. The jewellery of Jean-Pierre Dussaillant will be presented as part of a historical discourse that will show for the first time the "Treasures" of the museums in Chateauroux: jewellery, ornaments and paintings depicting the history of jewellery, from the Gallo-Roman period to the present day. A catalogue will be published after the exhibition.

18/02/2011 – 22/05/2011

Musée-Hôtel Bertrand, Châteauroux, France

Jewelry by artist. From Modernisme to the early avant-garde

This exhibition will reveal how major artists at the forefront of creative trends in the fertile 20th century --both Catalans and their international counterparts, from Modernisme to the first historic avant-garde movements --approached the world of jewellery. The exhibition will expose the least-known facets of Auguste Rodin, Hector Guimard, Josep Hoffmann, Josep Llimona, Serrurier-Bovy, Henry Van de Velde, Manolo Hugué, Paco Durrio, Xavier Nogués, Pau Gargallo, Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Fernand Léger, Charlotte Perriand, Hans Arp, Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, Julio González and Henri Laurens, as well as many others.

27/10/2010 – 13/02/2011

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Dalí: Gems

Dalí: Gems features selections of the artist's work by celebrated friends of the Dalí, including Alice Cooper, Jeff Koons, Susan Sarandon and John Waters. The jewelry designed by Dalí in the 1940s and 1950s is a highlight of the exhibition.

13/09/2009 – 18/04/2010

Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA

Dali d’Or & Bijoux de Gala

In honour of the 20th anniversary of the death of Salvador Dali, the espace Dali presents the collection of jewels and gold objects designed by the artist in the 1960s. Sumptuous pieces illuminate the largest exhibition of works by the Catalan master in France and will pay tribute to this internationally renowned artist.

18/10/09 – 20/01/10

Dali, espace Montmartre, Paris, France

From Picasso to Warhol - Sculptured Jewelry of the Avant-Garde

With accentuated modifications after its initial presentation at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Cologne, this exhibition offers visitors the enchanting possibility to acquaint themselves with the smallest form of art that the great sculptors of the 20th century have created, that is, jewelry.

extended to 9/08/2009

Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany

16/02/2010 - 18/04/2010

Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany

Bijoux d'artistes

This exhibition shows 160 pieces of jewellery from a private collection of the biggest names in modern and contemporary art, from Gonzalez, Gargallo, Picasso to Anish Kapoor, from dada to surrealism with Man Ray, Wifredo Lam, Victor Brauner, Max Ernst to Miquel Barcelo, from Giacometti to Louise Bourgeois, Calder's kinetic art to Pol Bury and François Morellet, from Dubuffet to the new realists and pop artists Arman, César and Lichtenstein. Around 50 European and American artists have created jewellery in gold, silver, steel, and plastic, often unknown to those who only know their painting or sculpture.

11/06/09 – 11/10/09

Musée du Temps, Besançon, France

Costume jewellery

Modeschmuck in der DDR. Formgestaltung von Armgard Stenzel für Gablona

Fashion Jewellery in the GDR. The designs of Armgard Stenzel for Gablona

Chains, bracelets, necklaces, brooches, chokers - 60 sets are a representation of Armgard Stenzel's creativity for the jewellery company VEB Gablona and part of the design history of the GDR. Between 1960 and 1977, the designer could develop with great inventiveness a completely new product range "of artistic design," which laid the foundations for national and international recognition of VEB Gablona as a fashion jewellery company. "It was a crazy productive time".

7/11/2011 - 18/03/2012

Baruth Glassworks Museum, 15837 Baruth Glashütte, Germany

The Vintage Woman: A Century of Costume Jewelry in America 1910-2010

Costume jewelry in America (1910-2010) is a fascinating story that came to life in a turbulent century darkened by two world wars and the Great Depression—indeed, times remarkably relevant to today. Master jewelers fled from Europe with little more than their tools and talent. With glass in lieu of gemstones, and pot metal substituting for gold, they created magnificently crafted jewelry so matchless in design that fine jewelry pales in comparison. At one time, costume jewelry was the fifth-largest industry in America and single-handedly made Providence, Rhode Island the costume jewelry manufacturing capital of the world. Featured in the exhibition are masterpieces by legendary designers Elsa Schiaparelli, Coco Chanel, Hattie Carnegie and Henry à la Pensée—Europeans who sought refuge, as well as fame and fortune, in America. Joseff of Hollywood, “the designer of the stars,” whose faux jewels adorned the Garbo in Camille, Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind and numerous other stars in other motion pictures, is another great name; Marcel Boucher and his wife, Sandra, designed for Cartier and Tiffany’s. And the renowned illustrator McClelland Barclay designed costume jewelry for two years before giving his life in the service of his country in World War II. There are the great houses of costume jewelry—Trifari, Coro, Miriam Haskell, Hobe and Ciner. And let us not forget the King of Faux Jewelry, Kenneth Jay Lane, who has been designing for over 60 years.

7/12/2010 - Spring 2011

Forbes Jewelry Gallery, New York, USA

Costume Jewelry from a Collection in Turin

Costume jewelry is a form of bijouterie designed especially to adorn a garment, or “costume”. The term was used for the first time in reference to the bijoux designed by Hobé for the stage costumes of the Ziegfeld Follies, a series of theatrical productions on Broadway, and this form of jewellery was later considerably developed with silent movies in Hollywood. This exhibition will show around 300 items invented and styled by the most important designers like Trifari, Marcel Boucher, Coro, De Rosa, Eisenberg, Miriam Haskell, Eugène Joseff, Kenneth J. Lane, and Pennino, through to Wendy Gell and Iradj Moini. The exhibition will not have one particular criterion for selection, but will instead adopt different approaches to the fascinating and still relatively unknown history of American costume jewelry. Visitors will thus be able to find out about materials of great visual impact, such as Bakelite, lucite, crystals, and rhodium, as well as techniques such as enamelling.

23/11/2010 - 23/01/2011

Museo Civico D’arte Antica, Turin, Italy

To go with petticoats and wasp waists - Fashion jewellery from the 1950s - Christian Dior and Grossé at Hause Henkel & Grosse

Henkel and Grosse was one of the most famous makers of costume jewellery. This exhibition shows some of the pieces made for their partnership with the fashion house Christian Dior from 1955 onwards.

17/09/2010 – 15/11/2010

Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Pforzheim, Germany

Karfunkelschein. Prade - Gablonz Fashion

Karfunkelschein - the exhibition's title evokes magical associations, and brings to mind mysterious, glittering treasures. It also describes the glittering world of costume jewellery, which was the speciality of the company Prade. Their turbulent history and the infinite variety of their creations are the subject of this new special exhibition.

23/02/2010 - 27/06/2010

Jizerska Museum Neugablonz, Kaufbeuren-Neugablonz, Germany

29/09/2011 – 20/11/2011

Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, Germany

Bijoux americani d’epoca

Magnificent American jewels. This exhibition shows over 800 pieces of jewellery made between 1930 and 1980 in the United States of America (Providence, Rhode Island), a period of great imagination in which our compatriot goldsmiths were dedicated to the creation of costume jewellery rather than real jewels, which became famous thanks mainly to the movies. Many of these, in fact, have been worn by stars like Greta Garbo, Grace Kelly, Jacqueline Kennedy, Audrey Hepburn. The jewels were made in various materials, from alloys of gold or base metals to plastic, and were a curious and valid alternative to expensive jewellery, in a period, that of the Great Depression, around 1929, in which imagination and inventiveness at low cost were certainly welcome.

29/07/2009 – 01/11/2009

Il Museo del Presepe - Pinacoteca Civica di Imperia, Liguria, Italy

Opulent Ephemera: Fantasy and fashion in American costume jewellery, 1880 – 1960. A century of costume jewelry from the collection of E. Angelopoulou

Over five-hundred pieces of costume jewelry, dating from around 1880 to the late 20th century, are presented in an exhibition dedicated to the art of jewelry as a necessary appendage to dress. The glittering jewels on display, carefully selected from the over 2.500 pieces of an extensive private collection, constitute the first ever presentation of such artifacts in Greece.

16/04/2008 - 22/05/09

The Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum, Athens, Greece

Other

Preziosa Young – contemporary jewellery

Young, experimental art jewellery is once again the topic in the basement of the Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus. Eight artists - Dana Hakim, Israel/Italy - Sam Hamilton, Ireland - Hanna Hedman, Sweden - Lisa Juen, Germany/China - Heejoo Kim, South Korea - Seul-Gi Kwon, South Korea and Elena Ruebel, Germany, were selected for exhibition in the Young PREZIOSA competition, organized by the Italian school "Le Arti Orafe" led by Gio Carbone in Florence since 2008. The competition in 2011 received 178 entries from around the world, an expert jury chose 39 works, absolutely convinced by their originality, quality and the consistency of their formal concept and execution. The jewellery pieces are created from various materials such as glass, porcelain, silver, light reflectors, rubber, ceramic, copper, textiles and leather and show the sometimes humorous but also rigorous handling of the materials taken for granted in the avant-garde jewellery of today.

16/02/2012 - 15/04/2012

Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, Germany

Under That Cloud

An exhibition of jewellery by 18 international artists produced in response to their experience of being stranded together in Mexico City in April 2010 under the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud. Their enforced stay became an exciting opportunity to make new work inspired by their impressions of Mexico – the vibrant colours, the traffic chaos, the architecture, the ancient heritage, the music and the people. Work from this show is for sale.

19/11/11 - 15/04/2012

Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester M2 3JL, UK

International Art Jewelry: 1895-1925

The goal of this exhibition is to show both the enormous range of pieces made during this period as well as the relationship between the various art jewelry/design reform movements in many countries in the early 20th century. It will feature approximately 200 pieces of jewelry

28/10/2010 - 17/03/2012

Forbes Jewelry Gallery, New York, NY 10011, USA

Exhibition of jewellery „Szkatułka” (chest)

The Danish presidency of the EU has become a good occasion to promote the country and its culture. Over 100 exhibits from the collection "Chest" from the Danish Art Foundation will be presented at a special exhibition at the Amber Museum in Gdańsk. The exhibition "Chest" will be presented for the first time in Poland and for the third time in the world (after being in Hungary and Mexico). The curator of the Danish Design Museum has selected the exhibits. They will mostly consist of jewellery, furniture, and containers - the characteristic areas of Danish design. The exhibition illustrates the development of Danish jewellery from the 20th century until today, and as such it is the evidence of the level of goldsmithery and the design. "Three basic features that are distinctive for Danish design are: reliability, functionality and simplicity" - explains the director of the Danish Institute of Culture in Poland Bogusława Sochańska. She adds: "This simplicity shows mostly in jewellery because many Danish artists treat jewellery like a sculpture that is going to be worn."

12/01/2012 – 4/03/2012

Amber Museum, Gdansk, Poland

Unleashed!

In this state-of-the-art overview, pieces of jewellery will break out of the museum cases and be scattered over the walls and floors and decorate streets and squares. From small imaginative brooches to portraits of pop-stars woven from strings of pearls and meters-high pieces interwoven with street furniture: in Unleashed! an international community of jewellery designers shows that the possibilities and applications of jewellery are almost boundless.

6/11/2011 – 5/02/2012

Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Netherlands

Pensieri preziosi 7 - gioielli d'Italia

This exhibition shows jewellery by 15 contemporary Italian artists with different styles: Fernando Betto, Adreani Bloomard, Patrizia Bonati, Lucia Davanzo, Elizabeth Dupre, Anna Fornari, Maria Rosa Franzin, Simonetta Giacometti, Lisa Grassivaro, Eugenia Ingenuity, Rita Marcangelo, Mauritius ponds, Fabrizio Tridents, Barbara Uderzo, Stefano Zanini. Educational activities for children, organized by Fantale, are also provided.

19/11/2011 – 22/01/2012

Oratorio di San Rocco, Padova, Italy

The Spirit of Stone

This event will bring to Lappeenranta an exhibition, work-shops and lectures, related to stones and jewellery. The theme of the event is the spirit, mythic and power of the stone. The Spirit of Stone is organized in cooperation with Kalevala Jewelry (Kalevala Koru) and South-Karelia Museum. It will present the prehistory of the stone and some of the best works from the international competition for art jewelry students. The exhibition also includes an invitation exhibition for jewelry artists around the world and a stone jewellery exhibition of Kalevala Koru.

8/05/2011 - 8/01/2012

South Karelia Museum, Lappeenranta (Fortress area) Finland

Fired, Crafted and Blown

New ceramic jewellery from Jane Stirzaker-Evans

17/09/2011 – 21/01/2012

Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 1HP, UK,

Felicity Powell - Charmed Life: The solace of objects

This exhibition is the result of the artist Felicity Powell’s engagement with a collection of 1400 amulets assembled by the Edwardian amateur folklorist Edward Lovett. One of the few people to have had access to this curious collection of ‘charms’, once carried in the pockets of Londoners for luck or protection, Powell was intrigued by the silent witness they bore to countless personal narratives. Amulets have appeared throughout history and across many cultures in an infinite variety of forms. Each has been invested with the hope or belief that it could somehow mediate on behalf of its owner. Reflecting on the potency – sometimes alluring, sometimes repellent – of these much-touched objects, Powell found parallels with her own artistic practice.

6/10/2011 – 26/02/2012

Wellcome Collection, London NW1 2BE, UK

Art Rocks: Contemporary Jewellery,

An exhibition of ten designers curated by international jewellery specialist Joanna Hardy. Featuring some of the world’s most inventive jewellers, both established names and emerging talent, including Shaun Leane (UK), Zoe Arnold (UK), Sophia Mann (UK), Leo De Vroomen (UK), Fred Rich (UK), Kevin Coates (UK), Gimel (Japan), Atelier Zobel (Germany), Sevan Biçakçi (Turkey) and, for the first time showcasing in the UK, ARK (USA). The exhibition exemplifies the gallery’s innovative programme and celebrates handcrafted pieces of jewellery by positioning them as works of art.

25/11/2011 – 11/02/2012

Shizaru Gallery, London W1K 2TU, UK

Inspired: contemporary views of Renaissance jewellery

A display of contemporary jewellery considering the attributes and preoccupations of a 21st-century man by six early-career silversmiths, inspired by the British Museum's Renaissance jewels. The craftsmen and women have all completed postgraduate training at Bishopsland in Oxfordshire. This year-long workshop aims to support young graduates, so they can then establish their own workshop and pursue a career as an independent designer-maker. Since 1993, about 150 silversmiths have taken part in the programme.

11/11/2011 – 30/01/2012

British Museum (room 46), London, WC1B 3DG, UK

Rooms For Ideas - Contemporary Jewellery by The Line Up

This exhibition of contemporary jewellery by The Line Up.... illustrates what is achievable from the random allocation of a starting point. Responding to a room each within the Museum, nine makers local to Hastings present jewellery and related objects in a gallery context.

12/11/2011 – 19/02/2012

Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Hastings, TN34 1ET, UK

Claire Falkenstein - Intimate Relations

Falkenstein was initially a sculptor in Paris and was at the core of the circle of international artists there as her studio was a conduit for artists ranging from Henry Moore to Sam Francis. She was soon recognized as one of the most daring sculptors of that epoch by the renowned French critic, Michel Tapié who recognized her inventive use of materials; particularly evident in her fusions of glass and metal. That adventurous use of materials also characterized her printmaking, when she impressed her sculptures into paper. This exhibition presents rarely seen drawings, small sculpture and her highly prized jewelry. Transcending the traditional definition of the genre, Falkenstein’s jewelry was the subject of her 1961 solo exhibition at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs.

5/11/2011 – 24/12/2011

Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles CA 90036-2517, USA

Akelo's treasures

This exhibition will celebrate a quarter of a century’s work from Andrea Cagnetti, who works under the artistic name of Akelo – the Greek god of water. Regarded as one of the most talented masters in goldsmithing, Cagnetti was born in Corchiano in Italy. He creates jewellery and golden objects that combine traditional techniques, with a look that shows influence from the Etruscans and Greeks.

2/11/2011 – 20/11/2011

Bentley & Skinner, London W1J 0DX, UK

All Golds

An exhibition to celebrate alumni of the School of Jewellery, Birmingham from 1971 to 2011. The exhibition is a brilliant confirmation of how the institution has helped encourage links between creativity and entrepreneurship over the last 40 years; showing the School’s significant influence not only on the business of craft and product in the West Midlands but also throughout the world.

24/10/2011 – 25/11/2011

School of Jewellery, Birmingham B1 3PA, UK

Wallace Chan

An exhibit of works by Wallace Chan of Hong Kong.

11/07/11 - October 2011

The GIA Museum, Carlsbad, CA 92008, USA

Objects of Status, Power and Adornment

Mobilia Gallery presents the exhibition Objects of Status, Power and Adornment featuring many pioneers of the Studio Jewelry movement, 1950-2011.

13/09/2011 – 12/11/2011

Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Hammer, Sketch and CAD - 90 years of Pforzheim's Technical College for Goldsmiths

To mark the 90th anniversary of Pforzheim's Technical College for Goldsmiths, which is part of the city's Goldsmithing and Watchmaking School, the Jewellery Museum will present a retrospective on the nine decades of the College's existence. The exhibition will show the works of former students, some of whom have become successful jewellery artists, from the college's very first years up to the present day.

10/07/2011 – 30/10/2011

Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany

Think Twice: New Latin American Jewelry

Objects of adornment have long played a significant role throughout Latin America's history, from the spiritually potent jewelry of the pre-Columbians to today's eye-catching ornaments. Bringing together more than 130 works by over 90 artists from 25 countries, Think Twice is the largest collection of contemporary Latin American jewelry to be seen in the United States. BAM is the only museum in the Northwest to showcase this fascinating exhibition!

26/05/2011 – 16/10/2011

Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA 98004, USA

Digital Mettle: Jewelry and Objects of CAD

This exhibition presents a range of current activity by artists who design and make works of the digital medium. Jewelers and metalsmiths working with CAD (computer aided design) continue to define new practices that cross the traditions of art, craft and design disciplines, enjoy great opportunities for innovation, explore new means of making and new materials, and realize aesthetic objects that reflect the period from which they have emerged.

24/06/2011 – 11/09/2011

National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Art of Adornment: Studio Jewelry

The Hunterdon Art Museum presents an exhibition of contemporary studio jewelry featuring 13 artists.

19/06/2011 – 18/09/2011

Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, USA

Attitude and Alchemy: The Metalwork of Gary Noffke

Gary Lee Noffke has been described as “a pacesetter” and the “ultimate maverick.” For nearly 50 years, he has consistently and simultaneously created jewelry, hollowware, and flatware, passionately exploring surface, form, and function. This is the first museum-organized project about this consummate artist in almost 20 years. Dating from the 1960s to present day, the exhibition includes approximately 124 examples of his silver and gold hollowware, flatware, and jewelry in addition to a selection of objects forged in steel.

2/04/2011 – 11/09/2011

Mint Museum UPTOWN at Levine Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC, USA

Contemporary Indian jewellery

A small exhibition presenting contemporary Indian jewellery. Researcher Saskia Konniger has studied the centuries old Indian tradition of making jewellery. Styles and use of different materials differ from region to region. During two periods of fieldwork in India she’s been able to expand the museum’s collection with some surprising pieces

10/09/2011 – 10/10/11

Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands

Giampaolo Babetto Jewellery 1970-2011

A series of contemporary exhibitions on the ground floor of the Museum im Palais kicks off with jewellery by Giampaolo Babetto (b. 1947 Padua), who has been a force on the avantgarde international goldsmith scene since the late 1960s. His works are notable for their geometric shapes with special gold alloys, surface structures and colour highlights.

11/05/2011 – 25/09/2011

Museum im Palais, Graz, Austria

Matters of Life and Death

An exhibition that explores the responses of nine international jewellery artists to the proliferation of natural disasters and man-made destruction in our world.

7/07/2011 – 25/09/2011

Kath Libbert Jewellery Gallery, Saltaire, UK

Time Regained: Works by Artist Goldsmith Kevin Coates

Known for his technical brilliance, and the symbolic imagery of his work, Kevin Coates is considered by many to be Britain’s foremost artist-goldsmith. Associate Artist at the Wallace Collection since 2007, Coates has spent the past four years channelling his creative energy and unique insights to the Collection’s works of art. The exhibition, ‘Time Regained’, will be a major London showing from this leading artist-goldsmith, and has been driven by one of Coates’s enduring preoccupations – the connection of Time with Art and Humanity, and our response to the artefacts left by others. Inspired directly by a dozen of the treasures from the Wallace Collection, Coates hopes that this exhibition will renew our ways of looking at all things: to stimulate the imagination, and not just the senses or the cultural responses, but to express the meaning of every object, its career, its experience of the humanity which has shaped it, revered and collected it, over the passage of time.

23/06/2011 - 25/09/2011

The Wallace Collection, London, UK

NOW – Jewels by Norman Weber

Exhibition of the work of the Schwäbisch jeweller born in 1964. Weber's jewellery includes both what is fashionable,and what is traditional, its entire history, while its complete transformation, its satire, its exaggeration and its negation, are always performed with joy and ambiguity.

8/05/2011 – 28/08/2011

Museum und Galerie im Prediger, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany

Atelier Janiyé and the Legacy of Master Jeweler Miyé Matsukata

Celebrating the work and legacy of Boston-based jewelry artist Miyé Matsukata (1922–1981), this exhibition presents together for the first time a retrospective selection of Matsukata's work, alongside the work of her colleagues Nancy Wills Michel, Alexandra Solowij Watkins, and Yoshiko Yamamoto.

22/01/2011 – 24/07/2011

Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, USA

Wives and Sweethearts

Wives and Sweethearts explores soldiers' relationships from the 18th century to the present day through a deeply-moving selection of letters and photographs. Displayed alongside are sweetheart brooches, jewellery and other touching love-tokens.

10/02/2011 – 30/07/2011

National Army Museum, London SW3 4HT, UK

The Modern Jewel In time and the mind of others

The Modern Jewel is a major new contemporary jewellery exhibition and mima’s largest presentation of jewellery to date. As part of museumaker, over the last year Middlesbrough Museums and Galleries have been working with makers Atelier Ted Noten and Lin Cheung & Laura Potter, to commission pieces of jewellery for the collection and the people of Middlesbrough. Taking over four large gallery spaces, the new works will be shown alongside other works from Middlesbrough collection and pieces by Maisie Broadhead.

25/03/2011 – 10/07/2011

mima. Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK

Hammer, Skizze und CAD – 90 Jahre Berufsfachschule für Goldschmiede Pforzheim

Hammer, sketch-book and CAD - 90 years of the vocational school for goldsmiths at Pforzheim

To mark the 90th anniversary of the vocational school for goldsmiths at the goldsmith and watchmaking school at Pforzheim, the Jewellery Museum is showing a retrospective of the past decades. The exhibition will display the work of former professional technical students from the beginning until today, many of whom have become successful jewellers.

08/04/2011 – 26/06/2011

Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany

Komposition der Träume - Georg Dobler - Composition of Dreams

Since the beginning of his creative work in 1980, Georg Dobler, jewellery artist and lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hildesheim, has dealt with geometric shapes. Even when he moved to naturalistic elements, he remained faithful to geometry. Naturalism, a phenomenon of Art Nouveau, Dobler understood to interpret in a completely new and fascinating way to a young generation of jewellery designers, as a pioneer in interpreting or celebrating vegetable forms which merge later in an amalgam of branches, fruits or flowers. A breathtaking journey through 30 years of jewellery design in different creative approaches, which ultimately emerge in a symbiosis of all his jewellery creations.

30/06/2011 – 11/09/2011

Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, Germany

Georg Dobler – Schmuck 1980 bis 2010

Georg Dobler - Jewellery 1980-2010

Geometric and floral elements characterize the jewellery of Georg Dobler. Often the viewer sees black chromium or oxidized silver surfaces shining in iridescent black. While the artist initially worked in strictly geometric forms, from the mid-1980s organic elements are found in his jewellery, for example in the form of casts of branches or foliage. The work of recent times is a symbiosis of his entire creative life. The artist underwent his apprenticeship as a goldsmith in Pforzheim, and now teaches at the College of Applied Arts and Science in Hildesheim. This exhibition presents the work of Dobler from the early 1980s to today.

08/04/2011 – 26/06/2011

Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany

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A representative selection of fifty jewellery pieces of the biennial international jewellery contest: New Traditional Jewellery, this year themed TRUE COLOURS. In the most literal sense, it involves the history, meaning, value, power and magic. More figuratively speaking TRUE COLOURS can also be interpreted as “true colors” or “show your true nature”.

20/02/2011 - 29/05/2011

Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Netherlands

Space-Light-Structure: The Jewelry of Margaret De Patta

A seminal figure in the American Modernist Jewelry movement, De Patta was born in 1903 and moved to the Bay Area in 1923. Distinguished as one of the few American jewelers whose work and ideas were allied to the evolving ideas presented in the modern art movement, De Patta’s work was heavily influenced by the Constructivists and features architectural forms with simple lines, structure, and often movable parts. Space-Light-Structure: The Jewelry of Margaret De Patta features 50 jewelry pieces as well as ceramics, flatware, photographs, pictograms, and newly released archival material. OMCA holds the largest collection of De Patta’s work, most of which was donated by her husband, Eugene Bielawski, after the artist’s untimely death in 1964.

4/02/2012 - 14/05/2012

Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, USA

12/06/2012 - 11/09/2012

Museum of Arts and Design, New York NY, USA

Décor, Design & Industrie. Les arts appliqués à Genève

Decoration, Design & Industry. The Applied Arts in Geneva.

This multidisciplinary exhibition will be staged in a setting inspired by the atmosphere of the trade fair. Founded on the principle of transversality in collections, it will present works produced in Geneva, including the arts of measuring time, printing on fabric, metalwork, etc

15/10/2010 - 5/05/2011

Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, Switzerland

Radical. Peter Skubic. Jewellery

The Austrian Peter Skubic (*1935) is still considered the 'agent provocateur' among jewellery artists today. His first works in gold were created around 1969. At that time he and his friends declared: "We're creating art. That's a revolution." Within a short time he was considered one of the most highly-regarded and influential newcomers in this field internationally. The central principles of his design are austerity, clarity of proportion, precision, radical minimalism and uncompromising rebelliousness. Tension brooches, balancing objects - these are characteristic namings of just two groups of works. The artist/engineer Peter Skubic sees making jewellery as an experiment, a body happening, a creative liberating act going beyond established borders.

19/03/2011 – 15/05/2011

Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

Arline Fisch: Creatures from the deep

Considered to be one of the most respected jewelry makers in the field, Arline Fisch has created a new exhibition, which began as an eighty-foot window display for the Windows on Fifth Gallery at the Racine Art Museum in Racine, Wisconsin. Fisch combines jellyfish, crochet and wire with blown air and lighting effects in order to transform the Metal Museum’s exhibition space into an underwater environment.

14/01/2011 - 3/04/2011

National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis TN, USA

Philip Sajet: Collections Collected

Philip Sajet makes jewellery which combines a high level of aesthetics with an unprecedented level of discipline. CODA Museum in Apeldoorn presents the retrospective exhibition "Collected Collections' of the renowned jewellery artist Philip Sajet. This special exhibition contains 14 collections, generously made available by dedicated collectors of the work of Philip Sajet.

18/09/2010 - 18/03/2011

Coda Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands

Nora Fok, A Retrospective

The first ever solo exhibition by the extraordinary jeweller, textile artist and 3D designer Nora Fok will be on show at the Harley Gallery at the ducal estate of Welbeck, which has been the family home of the Cavendish Family since the early 1600s. The artist has established herself as a pioneering maker, crafting her delicate, intricate forms from nylon microfilament. Nora makes her work by hand using techniques she has taught herself: knitting, knotting, tying, weaving, plaiting. The list is deceptively simple, her chosen material of nylon monofilament is fine and hard to work but her results are spectacular. These pieces are often very complicated and take many hours, days or weeks to produce.

22/01/2011 – 20/03/2011

Harley Gallery, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, UK

2/04/2011 – 5/06/2011

Ruthin Craft Centre, Denbighshire, UK

12/05/2012 – 7/07/2012

Bilston Craft Gallery, Bilston WV14 7LU, UK

18/06/2011 – 16/11/2011

Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, NE8 4JB, UK

17/12/2011 – 11/03/2012

Touchstones Rochdale, Rochdale, Lancs OL16 1AQ, UK

17/03/2012 – 4/05/2012

Museum in the Park, STROUD, Gloucestershire GL5 4AF, UK

Bijoux, Joyaux et Parures

30 subjects were distributed to participants in the American East Coast, France and Japan. Links have been able to create, open horizons and the journey of two years of the 90 works in the 3 participating countries, amplifies this sense of openness and sharing well beyond the borders.

4/10/2010 – 4/03/2011

La Maison du Textile, Fresnoy le Grand, France

Touching Gold -Jacqueline Mina

Contemporary Applied Arts is delighted to announce the launch of Jacqueline Mina’s major retrospective show. Timed to follow her critically acclaimed show at The Goldsmiths’ Company, this touring exhibition offers the opportunity of acquiring rare and unrepeatable pieces dating from the 1980’s to the present day. The exhibition includes the few examples still available of ‘fusioninlay’ – a lavish brocade-like technique in gold & platinum, for which Mina is renowned alongside her exceptional examples of her bold and colourful jewellery in titanium. Jacqueline was winner of the Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts in 2000 and has recently shown at COLLECT with CAA’s sister gallery, Electrum. With previous solo shows at the V&A Museum and frequent international exhibitions, her exquisite work is in high demand.

5/08/2011 – 3/09/2011

The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh EH3 6HZ, UK

17/06/2011 – 23/07/2011

Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK

19/11/2011 – 15/01/2012

Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, Denbighshire, LL15 1BB UK

Dialogues in Gold - the Jewellery of Jacqueline Mina

Jacqueline Mina is one of the UK's leading goldsmiths. This exhibition will unite, for the first time, significant loans from public and private collections with an exciting selection of new work. Each piece showcases her unique style and mastery of precious metals.

31/01/2011 – 26/02/2011

Goldsmiths' Hall, London, UK

Ich sage Schmuck, aber meine den kreativen Prozess. Gerd Rothmann. Schmuck und Gerät
I say jewellery, but mine is a creative process. Gerd Rothmann. Jewellery and artefacts

Gerd Rothmann began his training as a gold and silversmith at the State Academy Hanau exactly 50 years ago, after an apprenticeship as a toolmaker. In this exhibiiton, 120 exhibits can be seen in 34 display cases, a retrospective of works from 1967 until today.

18/09/2011 – 9/11/2011

Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, Germany

Returning to the jewel is a return from exile

This exhibition features three outstanding artists, Robert Baines, Karl Fritsch and Gerd Rothmann. All are master technicians producing some of the best examples of contemporary jewellery practice both in Australia and abroad. Their innovative and complex surface treatments and use of materials alongside a commitment to abstraction and contemporary thinking make the work of Baines, Fritsch and Rothmann both fascinating and compelling.

7/11/2010 - 20/02/2011

TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville VIC, Australia

The Miniature Worlds of Bruce Metcalf

This is the first exhibition and first major monograph with a retrospective view of the artist’s work. Featuring approximately sixty pieces dating from the 1970s to the present, the exhibition conceptualizes Metcalf’s work in relationship to his interest in architecture, the comics, and the narrative. It examines the social, moral, and political issues that Metcalf has raised in published essays about the handmade and that are acted out by his rueful bigheaded and vulnerable protagonists on miniature stages. In their dual life as wearable brooches, they venture into the world, where they engage the unsuspecting viewer with their stories and distinctive visual language.

10/11/2009 - 10/01/2010

Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, USA

11/02/2010 - 11/04/2010

Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio TX, USA

28/05/2010 - 22/08/2010

Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, USA

September 2010 - January 2011

Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin, USA

Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection

Organized by the Museum of Arts and Design, this exhibition highlights over 200 pins from the unique collection of the former Secretary of State. The Madeleine Albright collection includes pins of every description, many with fascinating stories attached. Some of the pieces are associated with important world events, others were gifts from international leaders or valued friends. A select number of the pins are fine antiques, most are costume jewelry, chosen for the symbolic messages they might convey. As the fame of Albright's pins has grown, so has their variety and number. Distinctive as it is democratic, this often whimsical collection spans more than a century of jewelry design and includes pieces from across the globe.

30/09/2009 - 31/01/2010

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, USA

7/11/2010 – 30/01/2011

Indianapolis Museum of Art IMA, IN, USA

3/09/2011 – 27/11/2011

Jimmy Carter Library & Museum, Atlanta, Georgia 30307-1498, USA

13/12/2011 - 4/03/2012

Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

Karl Fritsch: Scenes from the Munich Diamond Disaster

An installation by German jeweller Karl Fritsch, where we encounter the exquisite rings in the midst of a ‘scene’ created by the artist. Karl likes to treat his jewellery like plasticine. His pieces remain unfinished until they are worn. He endeavours to expand the idea of what jewellery might be, throwing off kilter conventional ideas about value, wearablity, and what is beautiful. This exhibition shows an extraordinary artist at work on both micro and macroscopic levels: in the minute rings, and with the room at large. These are gems that refuse to be just beautiful; they jostle with real life and what it means to be precious, to be worn and to be loved. They create a scene, and revel in it.

26/11/2010 - 16/01/2011

City Gallery Wellington - Hirschfeld Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Karl Fritsch: Metrosideros Robusta

A collaboration between the Neues Museum, Nuremberg, the International Design Museum, Munich and the artist.

28/11/08 – 27/02/09

Neues Museum - Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, Nuremberg, Germany

five of a kind - Positionen anwendbarer Kunst

Small sculptures, objets d'art, wearable sculpture, performance - all these names apply to the media heterogeneous forms of jewellery as art. With this exhibition Austrian art jewellery is again fed to the European discourse and more firmly anchored in the international panorama. The work of five women artists discusses the relevance of this concept of art and the provision of various manifestations of origin, education and individuality. These artists include Margaret Hart (Vienna), Stefan Heuser (Munchen), Fritz Maierhofer (Vienna), Kathryn Partington (Birmingham) and Wolfgang Rahs (Graz).

30/11/2010 – 15/01/2011

Galerie Eugen Lendl (Palais Lengheimb), Graz, Austria

Notorious and Notable: 20th Century Women of Style

Co-presented with the National Jewelry Institute, Notorious and Notable: 20th Century Women of Style highlights 80 prominent New York women who used their style, talent, or wealth to capture the attention of society and the media. The exhibition features a runway of original attire—much of it created by the most important designers of their times—and an impressive selection of jewelry crafted from the dawn of the 20th century to its close. The exhibition features such celebrated New York women as Mrs. Cornelius Whitney Vanderbilt, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Babe Paley, and Barbara Walters, as well as women from the arts world, including Isadora Duncan, Marian Anderson, Lena Horne, and Lauren Bacall. The exhibition offers an opportunity to encounter many of New York’s leading ladies past and present through their fashion and jewelry.

14/09/2010 - 3/01/2011

Museum of the City of New York, NY, USA

Mignon Faget: A Life in Art and Design

A native New Orleans artist, Mignon Faget has a national reputation in jewelry design. She began her career in 1967 by designing ladies’ apparel. In 1970 Faget’s creative impulses shifted from textiles to jewelry making, a career in which she has enjoyed immeasurable success for four decades. Through the years Faget has introduced over thirty major jewelry collections, each based on a particular theme. Architecture and nature are consistent sources of inspiration, persistently providing Faget with the initial creative spark that lies behind her translation of imagery into art. Faget has executed numerous special commissions for social, educational, and philanthropic organizations. This exhibition celebrates Faget’s career with more than 500 objects on display, including jewelry, clothing, drawings, photographs, linocuts, and glassware.

22/09/2010 - 2/01/2011

The Historic New Orleans Collection, LA, USA

Realizing the Neo-Palatial

This exhibition brings Metalsmith magazine’s annual Exhibition in Print to life at the Metal Museum. The printed exhibition was curated by celebrated author Garth Clark, who offered a guided tour of the palatial mode in contemporary metalsmithing and art. The Museum’s exhibition is drawn from the pages of the magazine, featuring opulent and lavish objects that share the splendor of the past but with timely twists and new materials. Metalsmith is a publication of The Society of North American Goldsmiths.

5/11/2010 - 9/01/2011

National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

The Jewelry of John Paul Miller

At once an artist, teacher, and craftsman, John Paul Miller personifies a lifetime of creative expression. This exhibition celebrates this living legend and master goldsmith in an installation of more than 50 of his incredible works, including sketchbooks and drawings, spanning nearly 60 years of his illustrious career.

16/06/2010 – 2/01/2011

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA

Golden Impressions of Andrew Wyeth by Donald Pywell

This exhibition features exquisitely-crafted jewelry inspired by Andrew Wyeth's paintings. Goldsmith Donald Pywell collaborated with Wyeth on the initial design for each piece of jewelry, and architectural designer Timothy Mark Cole created the settings for them, which are also based on Wyeth's paintings.

26/11/2010 – 9/01/2011

Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA, USA

Jewellery Circus/Smykkesirkus - Felieke van der Leest

Originally hailing from the Netherlands, Felieke van der Leest now lives and works in Hardanger, Norway, where she creates toys and humoristic jewellery with plastic animals, precious metals and textiles. Educated as both a pictorial artist and a goldsmith, she has developed a singular expression by enriching jewellery design with textile techniques. Van der Leest is represented by galleries in Tokyo, New York and Amsterdam, and her works are coveted and collected by individuals and museums the world over. In 2006 the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art presented the exhibition Jewellery Fables, which included an overview of her artistic practice. With the uniqueness and humour of the hippopotamus-ring Prima Ballerina Hippo-Lolita and Cowboy Lion Cub’s Necklace, it is easy to understand why van der Leest’s works are popular. But, she warns, ‘you need guts to wear these things, because you will attract attention’.

29/05/2010 – 9/01/2011

West Norway Museum of Decorative Art, Bergen, Norway

Alberto Zorzi Unicum – Jewellery and Silver 2000-2010

80 unique works of Alberto Zorzi (Padua, 1958): sculptural jewellery (gold, silver, precious stones, oil painting, glass), plus six large silver works that at first glance seem only decorative, whereas they hide the function of "revealing" the vases, bowls, centerpieces. All created in the last decade, they were specifically selected by the artist for their relationship with the place, space, objects, clothing and textiles in the museum.

4/09/2010 – 9/01/2011

Museo Fortuny, Venice, Italy

Zorzi 1973-2009: Jewellery, silver and drawings

Alberto Zorzi’s incessant research into the jeweller’s art is presented here in the form of a one man show devoted to the artist-goldsmith from Padua, whose work is already present in the permanent collection of contemporary jewellery in the Museo degli Argenti of Palazzo Pitti. Over thirty years of activity and an inexhaustible creative vein translated into the most sophisticated techniques which, every time and in every piece, reinterpret and repropose the relations of the metal and the precious stones with form in space. This is not only the absolute and abstract space of the showcase, but rather the space of that special shape, always the same and always different, that is the human body.

29/07/2009 – 01/11/2009

Museo degli Argenti, Florence, Italy

Beppe Kessler: Paintings & jewellery

The particular training of the Dutch artist Beppe Kessler in the sector of visual arts, as well as in weaving and, later, in experimental jewellery, reveals a language which is identified totally with these different disciplines. Proof of this is to be seen in her works of the ten-year period 1990-2000, when her canvases, already supports to paintings, became the same main material she used to create jewellery. In her works of the last ten years, Kessler has been experimenting with precious materials, using gold and gem stones - mainly transparent ones such as alabaster, rock crystal and agate, but also acrylic fibre. This new phase of her work is dominated by a different application of weaving techniques. Now she uses gold thread to penetrate translucent materials, creating arabesques inside them, or defining lines linking very different and contrasting elements in elaborate, complex necklaces.

28/10/2010 - 22/12/2010

Studio GR·20, Padua, Italy

David Watkins - Artist in Jewellery, a Retrospective View (1972 - 2010)

Celebrate the career of David Watkins, leading British artist jeweller and sculptor in metal. This retrospective will feature 68 pieces of jewellery that show how his early jewellery as miniature sculptures developed to become large scale wearable objects that also exist independently as art objects. The use of different techniques, materials and styles displayed across these pieces will show his versatility as an artist jeweller and herald Watkins as a contemporary force in international design.

24/07/09 – 18/10/09

Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany

23/02/2010 – 26/09/2010

Victoria & Albert Museum/V&A South Kensington, London, UK

Onno Boekhoudt - Work in progress; The legacy of Onno Boekhoudt - jewellery and studies

The exhibition of Boekhoudt’s legacy offers a view behind the walls of his studio. Not only does it show the customary and nicely polished works, it also offers a glimpse of the artist at work. All the objects on display form part of the collection of the CODA Museum. Onno Roelof Boekhoudt (, 1944 –2002) was trained at the renowned technical school in Schoonhoven and the Kunst- und Werkschule in Phorzheim. He gained international recognition as a designer of jewellery, but he also made objects, installations and drawings. It was not so much the end result, but rather the process, the search and the path towards it that mattered to him.

4/09/2010 - 6/12/2010

Coda Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands

Masters and Apprentices: The European Tradition and Contemporary Jewelry in an American Context

This exhibition celebrates and examines the nature of the relationship between the Master and the Apprentice in an American context. The old European tradition, still strong in Germany today, educates goldsmiths through a rigorous apprenticeship program, including years of education and then training under a Master goldsmith. Under this system, apprentices either succeed their Masters or open their own studios often facing unique challenges in identifying their own styles. By contrast American jewelers trained in Art programs in the University system are taught to develop their creative process and focus unique concepts and ideas from the beginning. The Aaron Faber Gallery has invited three Master Goldsmiths working in both America and Germany, Michael Good, Barbara Heinrich and Michael Zobel and the apprentices-- Britt Anderson • Jordan Barnett-Parker • Sabine Dessarps • Claudia Geiger • Regina Hiestand • Insa Grotefendt • Ayesha Mayedas • Juha Koskela • Stephen LeBlanc • So Young Park • Simon Spinoly • Christian Streit • Liz Tyler • Liaung Chun Yen – --trained in their studios to participate in this seminal exhibition exploring the evolution of ideas and techniques between Masters and Apprentices.

30/09/2010 - 31/10/2010

Aaron Faber Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Women's Tales: Four Leading Israeli Jewelers

International art jewelry designer and sculptor Wallace Chan continues his world tour showcasing his creations. The jewelry artists featured in this exhibition - Bianca Eshel-Gershuni, Vered Kaminski, Esther Knobel, and Deganit Stern Schocken - have chosen jewelry as an appropriate medium for personal comment. Although all sought inspiration in their local surroundings as well as in their personal life, these four artists have developed very distinctive styles. While Eshel-Gershuni and Knobel use figurative imagery to relay their personal experiences and memories, the works of Kaminski and Stern Schocken are more abstract in form and focus on the process. Following singular journeys of self-discovery, these four women artists have made major contributions to the field of avant-garde jewelry making in Israel.

23/04/2010 - 12/11/2010

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Master Metalsmith: Michael Jerry

Michael Jerry is known for his exquisitely crafted hollowware and jewelry, which combines pewter, silver, and gold with other natural materials. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Art and Design, and the Brooklyn Museum in New York; in the De Young Museum in San Francisco; and in many other public and private collections of mid-century and contemporary metal work. He studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology, the School for American Craftsmen, and the Cranbrook Academy of Art and is Professor Emeritus of the Syracuse University College of Art and Design. Jerry currently resides in Santa Fe. This exhibition showcases his work in honor of his appointment as Master Metalsmith 2010.

3/09/2010 - 31/10/2010

National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Dichotomies in Objects: Contemporary South African Studio Jewelry from the Stellenbosch Area

The Metal Museum and The Society of North American Goldsmiths, in partnership with American curator Lauren Kalman and South African curator Carine Terreblanche, present Dichotomies in Objects, Contemporary South African Studio Jewelry from the Stellenbosch Area. The exhibition will feature approximately 150 pieces of work by eighteen South African artists. The curators have chosen to showcase provocative, experimental and formally engaging works. All of the artists selected are affiliated with Stellenbosch University, the only university in South Africa teaching conceptual approaches to jewelry making.

12/09/2009 – 31/10/2010

The Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, Ohio, USA

1/07/2010 – 31/07/2010

Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA

21/01/2011 - 3/04/2011

National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

NOW. Norman Weber - Best of Jewels

Eccentric, provocative, amusing, profound, unusual, lively and intelligent - this is the jewellery of Norman Weber. He learned his craft from scratch and mastered the vocabulary as a juggler of his utensils: He pulls us into the carousel with his brilliant jewellery creations full of ironic allusions.

2/09/2010 - 5/11/2010

Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, Germany

3x2=Schmuck

Nikolay Sardamov, Dimitar Delchev and Zwetelina Alexieva represent three generations and exhibit often together: the three jewellery makers from Sofia show works, inspired by classical techniques like a jour, forging, welding, in precious metals, and on the other hand exploring the decorative qualities of other materials: rubber and plastic.

13/09/2010 - 13/11/2010

Galerie Mangold, Leipzig, Germany

Side x Side, Edge > Edge

Generously sponsored by Kultakesus Oy, who provided the silver and the Goldsmiths company, this exhibition will showcase Contemporary British silversmiths, members of the Finnish Silversmiths Association and tutors and students form Lahti University. Visitors to the exhibition will see how 75 different designers responded to the title theme. All the pieces are produced by hand and showcase the fantastic skills of these craftsmen and women. The exhibition showcases worked silver both visually stunning and technically accomplished, offering insight into the world of silver and how it is developing within the context of contemporary design.

18/09/2010 – 6/11/2010

Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, Cornwall, UK

Bling. Jewellery Stories from the East End

This exhibition explores some of the diverse jewellery stories of people from the East End of London. A collaborative project with the London College of Fashion combining the work of local school children, Foundation Diploma students and contemporary jewellers with an East End link. Every piece of jewellery tells a particular story and what we value is highly subjective. Gold and diamonds make expensive statements about material value whereas an inexpensive trinket might have some profound sentimental value associated with a place, a person or a time in our life.

26/06/2010 – 7/11/2010

V&A Museum of Childhood, London, UK

Under the Counter Jewellery: Trading Stories

The exhibition aims to take an outward look at how jewellery communicates to a wide audience, going beyond personal ownership and adornment and aiming to think about how the works communicate - questioning the role of jewellery beyond an individual’s making or wearing of it. This exhibition is co-curated, designed and installed by Intelligent Trouble, who will also conduct a public intervention during the exhibition.

18/09/2010 – 30/10/2010

Smiths Row/Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk, UK

Different from - Ulla und Martin Kaufmann

For the artists, using the techniques before the gold and silver make the basic theme of their vessels, flatware and jewellery. With their practical and aesthetic qualities Ulla and Martin Kaufmann create works in a distinctive kind of classical modernism up to the present day.

15/08/10 - 28/10/2010

Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, UK

Ina Seidl. Jewellery

Inspired by bees and honeycombs, Ina Seidl forms unique surfaces and structures using wax, in order to use the material that has now processed to the point of no longer being recognizable for her unique items of cast jewelry. The metamorphosis that the pieces of jewelry undergo while being produced symbolize those changes that characterize life.

5/05/2010 – 26/10/2010

MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

Sequences, Identities: Israeli Jewellery 5

Jewellery traditionally represented social status and identity. Through their work, jewellery designers show how sequences of possibilities are created in Israel by the fusing of different ethnic origins.

13/05/2010 - 16/10/2010

Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

Bijoux d’Israël

This exhibition is the first time that modern Israeli jewellers have been presented at the Espace Solidor. Among others, they include Vered Kaminski and Degani Stern Schocken, jewellery teachers for over 20 years (respectively at the Fine Arts schools in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv) and heads of the departments of jewellery design. All the most promising young artists from Israel have studied under these two great artists. These creative artists, renowned for jewellery in their own country, reflect their experiences through beautiful and powerful work. Thanks to them, Israel has forged a distinct identity in the contemporary jewellery movement, quite different from that of Europe or America. Although they have participated in artistic activities in Europe, their work is autobiographical and shows that they are above all women living in Israel, and that their culture has greatly influenced them.

5/06/2010 – 10/10/2010

Espace Solidor, Haut-de-Cagnes, France

JASSO: the Jewellery and Silver Society of Oxford exhibition

A stunning collection of silverwork produced during special courses, personal projects and commissions.

19/09/2010 – 17/10/2010

The Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, UK

Inspiria. A renowned jewellery firm celebrates the Cirque du Soleil

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts unveils a spectacular private collection of twenty exceptional pieces of jewellery, the fruit of a collaboration between the Cirque du Soleil and one of the most distinguished jewellery houses of the Place Vendôme, in Paris.

26/03/2010 – 29/08/2010

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada

Designers on Jewelry: Twelve Years of Jewelry Production by Chi ha paura…?

Who is afraid…of contemporary jewelry? This exhibition surveys the extraordinarily inventive jewelry produced between 1996 and 2008 by the Chi ha paura…? Foundation in the Netherlands. These bold new works are based on the highly imaginative, sometimes humorous, often conceptual, and always thought-provoking designs of the most pioneering artists working in the contemporary design field. With over seventy examples by more than fifty artists from the Netherlands, England, Germany, France, Switzerland, New Zealand and elsewhere, this exhibition demonstrates the Foundation’s success in pursuing “intelligent jewelry design”.

26/06/2010 - 5/09/2010

Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

Guntis Lauders: In Search of the Lost Court

Ten years ago – on May 20th, year 2000, the Putti gallery was opened with jewellery designer’s Guntis Lauders' solo show. This year, again in May, Guntis Lauders – wiser for 10 years and inspired by Shakespeare’s sonnets, invites you to his solo show “In Search for the Lost Court”.

28/05/2010 - 28/08/2010

Putti Art Gallery, Riga, Latvia

Bijoux contemporains

There is a current trend to create an emotional bond between the wearer and the jeweller. Discover unique jewellery from famous designers or young talents.

9/05/2010 - 29/08/2010

Château de Seneffe, Seneffe, Belgium

IntoFlora Exhibition

An exhibition of exuberant floral jewellery by eight internationally recognised contemporary jewellers, featuring special pieces created in honour of famous personalities who have inspired them, including a fantastical neckpiece made in honour of Florence Welch, and a beautiful and delicate paper necklace made for Cate Blanchett, among others. Curated by Kath Libbert.

18/07/2010 – 26/09/2010

Kath Libbert Jewellery

Salts Mill, Victoria Road, Saltaire, UK

Grace Kelly: Style Icon

The spectacular wardrobe of Grace Kelly will be on display at the V&A. Tracing the evolution of her style from her days as one of Hollywoods most popular actresses in the 1950s and as Princess Grace of Monaco, the display will present over 50 of Grace Kelly's outfits together with hats, jewellery and the original Hermès Kelly bag.

17/04/2010 – 26/09/2010

Victoria & Albert Museum/V&A South Kensington, London, UK

Gold from straw - Student's work from the National Academy of Drawing

An exhibition of the National Academy of Drawing, which documents in jewelry, equipment, study, work, sketches and drawings of design processes and their results.

until 25/08/2010

Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, Germany

Lingam - Fertility NOW

The exhibition shows more than 120 contemporary 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.

from 16/01/2010

Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, Netherlands

8/05/2010 - 22/08/2010

WCC-BF, Mons, Belgium

Karl Fritsch: Freeling

I will be showing my first ‘made in New Zealand’ pieces. I’ve just built my own workshop in Wellington and am still keen to build more things. I like it. I like the DIY mentality – everybody has a project around the house and it doesn’t matter how skilled you are; you just do it. You might fail but then you can just fix it again. There’s usually a good amount of making things fit that do not really fit. Materials get reinterpreted for a new use and the project becomes a creation and a statement in itself: the serendipity of DIY.

8/06/2010 - 3/07/2010

Gallery Funaki, Melbourne, Australia

Adornment and Excess: Jewelry in the 21st Century

This exhibition will address 'luxury, consumption, excess.' Several contemporary art jewelers—interested in using jewelry as a way to raise questions and/or awareness about significant cultural issues—consider decadence and extravagance as a conceptual project while others purposefully create objects and “gemstones” with recycled materials. Artists under consideration include Boris Bally, Harriete Estel Berman, Kathy Buszkiewicz, Meg Drinkwater, Yael Friedman, Erin Rose Gardner, Lisa Gralnick, Rory Hooper, Yevgeniya Kaganovich, Michelle Kendrick, Anya Kivarkis, Opulent Project, Emiko Oye, Shari Pierce, Gary Schott, Kimberlie Tatalick, Francesca Vitali.

21/1/2010 - 10/7/2010

Miami University Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA

Portage: Crossing Points – Digital Jewellery Exhibition

An innovative exhibition that combines new technology, jewellery design and craft that explore how people relate to one another. It features the work of Mutsugoto by Distance Lab, Hazel White and Sarah Kettley. A catalogue of the exhibition will be available for sale from Bonhoga Gallery from 29 May 2010 with essays by the artists and William Gaver, Professor of Design, Goldsmiths, University of London.

29/05/2010 – 27/06/2010

Bonhoga Gallery, Weisdale, Shetland, UK

Paola Crema. Fragments of Atlantis - small sculptures and jewellery

This exhibition presents part of the collection of jewelled-sculpture and sculptural-jewellery produced by the artist over the last few years using the technique of electro-forming.

27/04/2010 – 20/06/2010

Musei di Villa Torlonia, Rome, Italy

Preziosa 2010: Dialoghi

The 2010’s edition of PREZIOSA presents three masters of research jewellery: three artists, three different nationalities, a geographical line leading from North to South: Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy. The three artists,who have been working for about 40 years, 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.

22/05/2010 – 20/06/2010

Sala Leopoldine, Florence, Italy

New Work from Gallery S O

Gallery S O has recently opened in London, and this exhibition will show a range of contemporary studio jewellery and applied art by leading makers from Britain and Europe. Felix Flury is a well-known Swiss jeweller making innovative work that focuses on conceptual theories. In 2003 he decided to open his own gallery in Solothurn, Switzerland. When lining-up his stable of artists, Flury focused his idea of ‘exploring the parameters of the threshold between art and design'. His artists are well known and most have earned international acclaim for their accomplished work that employs a vast range of materials. The exhibition is curated by Ralph Turner.

15/04/2010 – 20/06/2010

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales, UK

Designers on Jewelry: Twelve Years of Jewelry Production by Chi ha paura…?

Chi ha paura…? Translation: Who’s afraid of…contemporary jewelry? 12 years ago, Dutch jewelry and product designer, Gijs Bakker, began a dialogue with designers about jewelry and its place in the modern world. Moving past the conventional concept of simple decoration and an investment in gold or stones, the goal was to redefine the value of jewelry by the fineness of the idea, not the materials. This exhibit presents the conversation that has followed with over 50 artists from New Zealand, Asia and across Europe. They have translated concepts, such as “Sense of Wonder” in a golden computer key, “What’s Luxury?” in a chain of gold nuggets and “Rituals” in a porcelain wishbone necklace, to name a few. With over 80 thought-provoking pieces on display, each designed to ask what jewelry is in the new millennium, the resulting thought waves will ripple through the design world and add valuable ideas to our everyday lives.

15/01/2010 - 16/05/2010

The San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design, San Francisco, CA, USA

Jens-Rüdiger Lorenzen: Jewellery Sculptures

The jewellery of Jens-Rüdiger Lorenzen is like miniature sculptures on the body. Jens-Rüdiger Lorenzen studied at the Art + Factory School, now the University of Pforzheim, to which in 1985 he was appointed as a lecturer and from which he retired in 2009. This exhibition features a retrospective of his work.

ends 17/01/2010

Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, Germany

26/02/2010 – 24/05/2010

Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany

Giampaolo Babetto - Jewelry

As one of the protagonists of the so called School of Padua, Giampaolo Babetto (b.1947) has affected the vanguard goldsmith’s scene with his experimental, expressive, but wearable jewellery since the late 60s.

6/03/2010 - 30/05/2010

Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

Marian Hosking: Jewellery

With a career spanning almost 40 years, Hosking is one of Australia’s foremost contemporary jewellers and silversmiths. Hosking has exhibited both nationally and internationally and is represented in numerous collections. Working almost exclusively with silver, her work is concerned with rich surface patterns and textures. This reflects her particular concerns for the natural environment, allowing her to echo the forms and motifs found in nature. Her Living Treasures exhibition includes a large scale sculptural work along with a collection of new vessels and jewellery pieces. As a practitioner and educator, Hosking’s influence has been far-reaching. She established the first jewellery course at Charles Sturt University in 1973, and went on to establish her own studio in Melbourne in 1976 before co-founding Workshop 3000 in 1981. She has lectured at RMIT and is currently the Head of Metal and Jewellery at Monash University, where she is also undertaking a PhD.

20/03/2010 - 9/05/2010

Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, NSW, Australia

Calder Jewelry

Calder Jewelry is the first exhibition of its kind devoted exclusively to the jewelry work by the American artist Alexander Calder (1898 – 1976). During his lifetime Calder produced approximately 1,800 pieces of brass, silver, and gold body ornaments, often embellished with found objects such as beach glass, ceramic shards, and wood. Best known for his sculptures and mobiles this exhibition explores Calder’s lifetime production of wearable art pieces which he made for his family and friends. The exhibition comprises some 100 pieces including necklaces, bracelets, brooches, earrings and tiaras.

9/12/2008 - 1/03/2009

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA

1/04/09 – 21/06/09

IMMA | Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

18/07/2009 - 4/01/2010

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA , USA

29/01/2010 - 18/04/2010

Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, USA

Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act

From small-scale works on paper and jewelry to monumental sculptures and one of the artist’s largest mobiles, Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act is a large-scale exhibition of the work of the American master sculptor. Drawn primarily from private collections, the exhibition includes more than 80 pieces many of which have rarely been seen by the public.

15/10/2009 – 11/04/2010

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA

The Discerning Eye: Focus on Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder (trained as an engineer) challenged the long-held notion that sculpture was static and monumental. His inventive, colorful, animated “mobiles” epitomize the innovative, optimistic spirit of early-twentieth century modernism. In all of Calder’s mobiles, his objective was not just to represent or refer to nature, but to capture its dynamic actions and unpredictable, living systems. This exhibition will include mobiles, jewelry, and works on paper drawn from Bay Area collections, including the holdings of several of the Museum’s founders and longtime supporters.

1/08/2009 - 13/12/2009

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA

18 Positionen zur zeitgenössischen Schmuck- und Gerätgestaltung

18 positions on contemporary jewellery and object design

28/01/2010 - 4/04/2010

Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, Germany

Transformation des Alltäglichen - Esther Bott

Transformation of the mundane - the work of Esther Bott.

28/01/2010 - 4/04/2010

Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, Germany

Dutch Jewellery from 1965 until now

Since the 1960's jewellery design in The Netherlands has developed in a fascinating way. The Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem traces this development and draws on its rich jewellery collection to showcase this history. The exhibition includes work from Gijs Bakker, Emmy van Leersum, Nicolaas van Beek, LAM de Wolf, Nel Linssen, Ruudt Peters, Herman Hermsen, Maria Hees, Felieke van der Leest, Ted Noten and more.

4/12/2009 - 7/03/2010

Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Netherlands

Bling

Jewellery from 1850 to the present

23/01/2010 - 6/03/2010

Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, Northampton, UK

1839 Exchanges - Jewellery by Jason Hall

Since 1998 artist Jason Hall has been questioning what it means to be Pakeha. This exhibition, curated by Damian Skinner, is about jewellery, identity and cultural exchange. It features a series of amulets created by Hall ‘for’ Frederick Edward Maning, an Irishman who arrived in Aotearoa in 1833. Hall’s works draw a parallel between the meaning of the amulet and the tension that sits at the heart of settler societies.

19/12/2009 - 21/02/2010

Rotorua Museum, New Zealand

Pocket Guide to New Zealand Jewelry

During the Second World War, American troops in New Zealand were issued a concise guide to familiarize themselves with the country in which they were stationed. Five decades later, the Pocket Guide to New Zealand Jewelry continues this tradition of cultural exchange, introducing a new generation of Americans to contemporary jewelry made, as the original guide put it, "deep in the heart of the south seas."

13/01/2010 - 28/02/2010

Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco CA, USA

From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith

This exhibition honors the gift of twenty-one pieces of silver and gold jewelry created by the Brooklyn-reared modernist jeweler Arthur Smith (1917–1982), primarily from Charles Russell, Smith’s companion and heir.

14/05/2008 - 21/02/2010

Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, USA

Edge of the Sublime: Jamie Bennett

Jamie Bennett is an internationally recognized metalsmith whose painterly innovations have greatly expanded the field of fired enamel into a medium for contemporary expression. This first-ever retrospective explores Bennett’s creative use and development of a variety of enameling and metalworking techniques to produce highly color-saturated imagery on signature brooches, necklaces and pendants. Bennett’s related production of enameled wall reliefs and other works on paper painted in oil and encaustic is explored in this exciting overview of the artist’s career.

22/03/2009 - 6/09/2009

Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin, USA

3/11/2009 – 28/02/2010

Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA, USA

Precious Thoughts 5

The fifth annual exhibition presents this year the colourful and unconventional Spanish jewellery that can be summarized in the works of the most important exponents of the Massana School of Barcelona. We admire the works of the head of school Manuel Capdevila (no longer living), Ramon Puig Cuyàs, his successor and current director of the School, and Gemma Draper, Javier Moreno Frias, Xavier Ines Monclus, Greg Garcia Tevar, and Silvia Walz. The exhibition is a fascinating journey into the world of jewellery art of recycling and colour.

18/12/2009 – 28/02/2010

Oratorio di San Rocco, Padua, Italy

Modern and Contemporary Jewellery

A small display illustrating the developments and innovations in jewellery-making from the 1970s to the present day. Examples of gold and silversmithing will be shown alongside pieces made from more unusual materials such as Perspex and driftwood. A bracelet by the renowned jeweller David Watkins is featured.

4/11/2009 - 20/02/2010

Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland, UK

Wrought & Crafted: Jewelry and Metalwork 1900 to the Present

Today, Philadelphia is home to many emerging and established metalsmiths who teach, create, and exhibit their work here and elsewhere. On display in this gallery are pieces by several significant Philadelphians—Olaf Skoogfors, Stanley Lechtzin, Jan Yager, Bruce Metcalf, and Sharon Church, to name just a few—as well as recognized artists from around the country. Showcasing more than 50 works, the exhibition highlights the Museum’s extensive holdings of 20th- and 21st-century hollow-ware, sculpture and jewelry, documenting the development of metalwork over the past two centuries.

9/05/2009 - 7/02/2010

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Johanna Dahm. Rings

The Swiss-born Johanna Dahm active since the 1970s, has continually pursued new ways of defining what jewellery can be. Her work is characterized by an investigative and open approach, which has led her everywhere from quests for the integration of fabric and brooch, exploring light reflections on the body, to researching exotic jewellery techniques. Her work has explored many key practical and conceptual themes in jewellery. Dahm’s work is of the highest standard, and her intellectual understanding of both technique and creative process is one which she is able to articulate eloquently.

9/07/2011 - 16/10/2011

Design museum Gent, Ghent, Belgium

Same same, but different

Jewellery of Johanna Dahm. During her sabbatical leave as a professor at Pforzheim University she followed an apprenticeship to the Asante king's goldsmith in Ghana, and in Orissa in India she worked with Dokra casting masters. Her jewellery builds a bridge between cultures.

13/11/09 – 07/02/10

Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany

Siegfried De Buck: a career as a jewellery designer and silversmith

Siegfried De Buck will turn sixty on 24 August 2009. To mark this occasion, Design museum Gent will present an overview of his work. As a contemporary jewellery designer and silversmith, Siegfried De Buck plays an important role in the development of Belgian jewellery art. His career, in which craftsmanship and elegance are key, spans over 30 years and bears witness to a great personality. By virtue of his incessant drive for innovation, various style periods surface within his design. Led by his sense of materials, the designer joins precious and non-precious materials to form unique objects.

31/10/2009 – 07/02/2010

Design museum Gent, Ghent, Belgium

Private Passion – the artists' jewellery collection of SM's

17/10/2009 - 31/01/2010

Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

Sustainable jewellery

Exhibition in support of the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference It has been a common practice, among the Conceptual Jewellery Artists, to draw inspiration from nature and natural materials. Accordingly, recycling, using found objects and transforming old items into new ones is the theme of this exhibiton. By organising this exhibition we are bringing the public's awarness to the ecological way of working within Conceptual Jewellery.

12/12/2009 - 30/01/2010

Galerie Louise Smit, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Fausto Maria Franchi: Artefatti Preziosi

This exhibition has, preceded by a brief retrospect, the works of Franchi from 2000 to the present day. Silver and jewellery are one in Italian goldsmith's art. On display are some 80 artifacts, including silver and gold.

27/11/2009 – 31/01/2010

Museo degli Argenti, Florence, Italy

Loud Bones: The Jewelry of Nancy Worden

Nancy Worden is a Seattle artist who creates intensely personal narrative jewelry that explores universal themes and various rites of passage from a woman’s perspective. Organized by the Tacoma Art Museum, the exhibition presents a wide range of work created over the past 35 years drawn from public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe.

27/06/2009 - 11/10/2009

Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, USA

21/11/09 - 17/01/2010

Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, Oregon, USA

For Long And Faithful Duty - 10 Years Of Beauty

Since the start of PLATINA in 1999 we have run a mission for the kind of jewellery that we think matter, annoy and tickle - wearable pieces where aesthetic can be as important as laughter. At PLATINA you will find exceptional jewellery. You will also meet with protesting jewellery, storytelling, gossiping, chanting and crying jewellery - enchanting jewellery, unfaithful jewellery and jewellery that laughs loud and long. Every piece is chosen for its personal quality. During the years we have made almost 100 exhibitions and been working with a large number of artists. Some doesn't work any longer but the most are making more and even better. Now 10 years later PLATINA has invited some of them again. Everyone has got a jewellery-box to fill with whatever they think will fit in. The collection is an extraordinary amount of exceptional unique pieces from 78 international artists.

5/12/2009 – 16/01/2010

Platina, Stockholm, Sweden

Rings of Dieter Roth. Wearable art of a universal artist

The renowned Swiss painter, graphic artist, sculptor, object artist, typographer and poet Dieter Roth (1930 - 1998) developed since 1959 over a period of twenty years for the goldsmith Hans Langenbacher a series of finger rings. On display are all (approximately 50) rings and ring attachments, plus prints, sketches, designs, drawings and correspondence between Roth and Langenbacher.

29/10/2009 - 10/01/2010

Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany

Falko Marx. Jewellery from 1966 to 2009

Falko Marx (born 1940) has been for many years one of the most important jewellery artists from Cologne. He is renowned worldwide and is represented in major international, public and private collections with outstanding work. This exhibition will show a representative cross-section of work selected by the artist with around 60 works from all periods.

29/10/2009 - 10/01/2010

Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany

Marianne Anselin, en chemin... avec la complicité de Gilles Jonemann

This exhibition highlights the work of master and pupil, including two pieces by Gilles Jonemann from the permanent collection of the City.

24/10/2009 – 17/01/2010

Espace Solidor, Haut-de-Cagnes, France

The Donna Schneier Collection Arrives at RAM: Art Jewelry of the 1980s and 1990s

This is the second in an ongoing series of exhibitions at RAM that debuts the acquisition of major collections of artworks. To welcome this gift, the museum is featuring these new arrivals with pieces already in RAM's collection by the same artists. Schneier's gift includes the work of more than twenty American artists, significantly augmenting RAM's in-depth holdings of the work of jewelers like Carolyn Morris Bach, Arline M. Fisch, Bruce Metcalf, and Kiff Slemmons. The gift also provides the first example of jewelry by Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, June Schwarcz and Christina Y. Smith who, until now, have been represented in the museum's collection solely by their hollowware. Schneier's gift also includes several European leaders of the New Jewelry movement. Since RAM's holdings are largely American, the introduction of works by European masters like Bussi Buhs, Paul Derrez, Fritz Maierhofer, and Tone Viglund will be instrumental in encouraging further expansion of RAM's collection into the European arena. Jewelry by ceramic artist Beatrice Wood, fiber artist Shelia Hicks and furniture maker Garry Knox Bennett further enhances RAM's jewelry collection to the broader field of contemporary crafts.

4/09/2009 - 3/01/2010

Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, USA

Tea at Mrs Katakouzenou’s

In this exhibition jewellery, furniture and decorative objects by Marios Voutsinas have been distributed throughout the rooms of the house. Many of the pieces were inspired by the Katakouzenos legacy and were made with the house in mind as a setting. Bulky jewellery made of metal and stones – Voutsinas’s favorite materials – are laid out in the boudoir, bedroom and against the balcony door of the living room, and presented more like sculptures than accessories.

11/12/2009 – 31/12/2009

Katakouzenos House Museum, Athens, Greece

Near and Far - Jewelry Artists at the Museum of Cultures

The Near and Far exhibition arose out of a group of Finnish and international jewelry artists experiencing the Museum of Cultures’ permanent exhibition, Fetched from Afar, from a fresh perspective. The artists were taken on an adventure into the unknown and were exposed to a host of cultural-historical objects. The jewelry exhibition was built around 21 items of interest from the Fetched from Afar exhibition, and 20 jewelry artists from Finland and abroad were invited to contribute to it. Each artist chose one of the items as the point of departure for their creative work. The Fetched from Afar exhibition has, in other words, reached far to answer some of the questions relating to cultures and the art of jewelry making.

06/05/09 – 11/11/09

Museum of Cultures, Helsinki, Finland

All that Matters… The Art of Ivaan Kotulsky in Retrospect

This exhibition shows jewellery, sculpture and objets d’art by the renowned Ukrainian Canadian metal artist Ivaan Kotulsky. Inspired by Lalique and Guimard, but especially by the artists of the Renaissance, Ivaan made objects of incredible beauty in gold, silver, bronze, copper, pewter, platinum and steel, as well as [in] his personal blend of steel and chrome. He used the ancient process of lost wax casting, doing his own polishing and finishing for quality control. Kotulsky had played an active role in the exhibit organizing committee but succumbed to illness and passed away in early December 2008.

23/01/2009 – 31/10/2009

Ukrainian Museum of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Marzee Collection

Galerie Marzee in Nijmegen, Netherlands, will be celebrating its 30th anniversary over the next year and this will be billed as one of the anniversary events. The gallery is the largest in the world dedicated to innovative contemporary jewellery. Its Director, Marie-Jose van den Hout has built an extensive collection of some of the best international contemporary jewellery over the last 30 years. FCAC will be bringing part of the Galerie Marzee's exciting collection, chosen by Marie-jose to Fife, in partnership with St Andrews Museum and the Falkland Centre for Stewardship.

12/09/2009 – 01/11/2009

St Andrews Museum, St Andrews, Scotland, UK

The Sting of Passion

Twelve international jewellery designers present new commissions in response to the Pre-Raphaelite painting collection. The exhibition features new work by: Jivan Astfalck (UK), Cristina Filipe (PT), Peter Hoogeboom (NL), Sarah O’Hana (UK), Benjamin Lignel (FR), Jorge Manilla (BEL), Nanna Melland (NOR), Kepa Karmona (SP), Anya Kivarkis (USA), Marianne Schliwinski (GER), Bettina Speckner (GER) and Arek Wolski (POL)

11/07/2009 – 25/10/2009

Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK

Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection

Ornament as Art is the first major exhibition of contemporary jewelry to fully explore its impact as a global art form. Drawing from the highly regarded collection of jewelry expert, gallerist, and educator Helen Williams Drutt, the exhibition examines the art and design of contemporary jewelry, placing it firmly within the artistic movements of the 20th century.

6/06/2009 - 13/09/2009

Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, USA

Christina Brade. Schmuck

This exhibition is dedicated to the memory of the artist who died unexpectedly in 2007. It unites about 80 decorative objects from its own collection, supplemented by loans from the Museum of Decorative Arts of the National Museums in Berlin, the GRASSI - Museum of Arts and Crafts of Leipzig and the estate of the artist.

05/07/09 – 19/09/09

Stiftung Moritzburg - Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle, Germany

Mass number and weight - Bruno Martinazzi

In association with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, this exhibition shows selected sculptures and jewelry of the acclaimed 85 year old master jeweller Bruno Martinazzi. The exhibition presents some 70 works from the goldsmith's oeuvre and shows the background of the artist and his aesthetic concerns.

21/05/09 – 30/08/09

Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

Worlds Apart: Contemporary Adornment and Sacred Ornament

This exhibition features a collection of jewelry artworks by Tracey Davis and Donna Sweigart. Tracey Davis is a self-taught artist from Florida whose work is composed of intricate and delicate ornamentation resonating with sacred devotion through her use of religious iconography. Donna Sweigart is an art professor at The University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg where she teaches jewelry and metalworking. Her works are organic and reminiscent of natural life forms, both scientific and environmental. Her jewelry is a representation of the ephemeral state of being and the inevitable force of change within life.

16/07/2009 - 14/08/2009

South Texas College, Pecan Campus Art Gallery, McAllen, Texas, USA

Inner Voice

This exhibition of international jewellery curated by Dorothy Hogg shows the work of well-established artist jewellers and metalworkers mixed with that of emerging makers. The range and ambition of the work is wide; from the painterly work of Australian Sally Marsland to the large sculptural hammered forms of Mizuko Yamada of Japan; from the poetic jewels of Zoe Arnold to the compositional jewellery installations of Helen Carnac. Angela O’Kelly shows paper forms of vibrant colour while Birgit Laken of Holland explores colour and pattern in mixed materials. Jessica Turrell is fascinated by the rhythm and gesture of writing while Maria Militsi breathes new life into lost objects using the gestural language of ballet. Beth Legg is inspired by landscape while Susan May and Alistair McCallum demonstrate their consummate understanding of metal in wire and sheet form. The youngest exhibitor Matthew Brady investigates function within industrial objects and presents this to us in a fresh way.

26/05/09 – 22/08/09

CAA Gallery, London, UK

Jeweled Objects of Desire/Glorious Goldsmiths and Designers

Jeweled Objects of Desire features objects from the gem collection of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History. Included in the exhibit are pieces created by San Francisco jewelry designer, Sidney Mobell. He became famous for his 24k gold jeweled Monopoly Board, a jewel-encrusted trashcan and a gold mousetrap with a diamond wedge of cheese. Glorious Goldsmiths and Designers features the work of three very talented contemporary jewelry designers Paula Crevoshay, Ruven Perelman and Reubin Simantov.

24/02/2009 - 31/07/2009

Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, KY, USA

Guns N' Bones - the work of Bety K. Majernikova and Kristyna Spanihelova

Jewellery is perceived both as a conventional symbol of beauty, through which the artists reflect their observations and comments, and also linking beauty with suffering, and non-living symbols, irony and criticism in several levels. The visual beauty and aesthetic jewelry become carriers of serious topics.

27/05/2008 – 31/07/2009

SATELIT, Bratislava, Slovakia

Elegant Armor: The Art of Jewelry

The first exhibition in MAD's newly established Tiffany & Co. Foundation Jewelry Gallery, one of the only galleries in the nation dedicated to contemporary jewelry, this exhibition explores the inspirations for contemporary jewelry, including the fine arts, the human form and the natural world. Featuring over 240 works from 1948 to the present, Elegant Armor draws from the museum's collection of approximately 500 modern and contemporary works. The remainder of this extraordinary collection is housed in publicly accessible study drawers. In an exploration of major themes in contemporary jewelry, Elegant Armor represents works which range from minimal to theatrical, from everyday to opulent. The exhibition is divided into four sections: Pioneers, Sculptural Forms, Narrative Jewelry and Textured Surfaces and Radical Edge.

9/06/2009 - 5/07/2009

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, USA

Glanzstücke - Shiny objects

Contemporary jewellery. The exhibition is a collaboration between Vienna workshops and the Neue Gallery New York.

14/03/09 – 05/07/09

Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany

Creation II - An insight into the mind of the modern-artist jeweller

This exhibition shows the creative talent of 12 of the United Kingdom’s most distinguished and exciting contemporary artist jewellers. They include Vicki Ambery-Smith, Malcolm Betts, Susan Cross, Charlotte de Syllas, Dorothy Hogg, Daphne Krinos, Andrew Lamb, Catherine Martin, Susan May, Wendy Ramshaw, Kamilla Ruberg and David Watkins. The exhibition will explore the multi-faceted process of creativity by showing a selection of pieces by each jeweller – some of the works have been specially made for the exhibition while others show the development of their talents and individual styles. The result is diverse and startling. Aside from the stunning pieces of jewellery on display, another important and exciting element of the exhibition is the series of short documentary films on each of the designers, which play throughout, vividly illustrating the creation process.

29/05/2009 – 11/07/2009

Goldsmiths' Hall, London, UK

Made in Aotearoa: Jewellery by Alan Preston

This exhibition showcases one of New Zealand’s greatest artisans, whose desire to create a “jewellery of this place” saw him spearhead a movement in favour of materials from Aotearoa and the Pacific. In the late 1970s Alan Preston abandoned western jewellery making traditions in favour of locally found materials and techniques. From delicate shell necklaces to politically charged sovereignty badges, Preston began crafting beautiful objects with symbolic meaning. The exhibition features some of his most riveting work, much of it influenced and discovered between the tides and inspired by artefacts at Auckland Museum.

7/03/2009 - 31/05/2009

Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand

Dorothea Prühl – Necklaces

Dorothea Prühl is a leading exponent of the current art jewellery scene. Her aesthetic stance is informed by abstract impressions from nature, concentration on essentials, eminent sensitivity and sculptural power. She makes basic statements in gold and silver – but also in wood, aluminium, titanium and stainless steel – impressions manifest in generously proportioned, clear entities. Starting with what is there, she tracks it down to its inmost core, applying to its quintessence a new aesthetic idiom – it might be a flower, the wind, a house, birds in flight …

14/03/09 – 17/05/09

The Neue Sammlung, State Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Munich, Germany

The Dreamer and the Dream - New Swedish Jewellery

The art of jewellery design taps into a basic instinct in the human animal – that of adornment. The talented jewellery designers showcased in this exhibition produce just such a response with their work, be it witty or understated or disconcerting. These designer-makers, based in the Swedish principle of good design and strong aesthetics, tap into personal experiences to create one-of-a-kind treasures, working with both precious materials and found objects to fashion pieces that operate on many different levels. Referencing nature, the body, everyday items and curiosities these works enchant the viewer, connecting the objects to their own half-remembered dreams.

6/02/2009 – 17/05/2009

Fashion and Textile Museum, London, UK

Once Upon a Time: Jewellery Inspired by Childhood Memories

The Blue Pacific Gallery at Pataka presents Once upon a time.... an exhibition of jewellery inspired by childhood memories. Jewellers include: Viviene Atkinson, Tara Brady, Natalie Brasell, Victoria Clay, Kylie Fyfe, Glynis Gardner, Jhana Millers, Neke Moa, Lindsay Park, Kristelle Plimmer, Spring Rees, Sue Shore, Nadine Smith, Margaret Tolland and Kate Woodka.

29/03/2009 - 3/05/2009

PATAKA Museum of Arts and Cultures, Porirua, New Zealand

Tributaries: Jillian Moore

Moore kicks off the Tributaries series for 2009 with an exhibition of her carefully detailed anthropomorphic sculpture and jewelry. Of her work Moore writes "Recently, I've been combining forms that I find appealing based on my interests in biology. I've been creating jewelry forms that become extensions of the body-invented symbiotic organisms. I'm also interested in small sculptural forms that are becoming more abstractly figural as they evolve. I enjoy what is both repellent and seductive."

27/02/2009 - 11/04/2009

The Metal Museum, Memphis, TN, USA

Rings etc.- Jewellery of Barbara Uderzo

Collection of Blob rings and brooches

21/03/2009 – 26/04/2009

Casa Cogollo detta del Palladio, Vicenza, Italy

Once upon a time, there was a ring... Jewels by Gabi Dziuba presented by Christian Philipp Müller

Gabi Dziuba, a German artist who lives and works in Munich, here presents a selection of original works in gold, silver and precious stones, half of which created in collaboration with some of the most important artists on the contemporary German art scene including Martin Kippenberger, Heimo Zobernig, Hans-Jörg Mayer and Günther Förg. While it is not possible to pin down an artist like Dziuba to a specific current or movement, it may be stated that she has often created jewels that pre-empt styles and fashions that have gone on to form part of both the street style and the haute couture of jewellery making. The jewels on show in their own glass cases interact with the installation created by the artist Christian Philipp Müller, who also created the graphics of the exhibition catalogue.

1/02/2009 – 26/04/2009

Galleria Civica, Modena, Italy

RememberRing

Herinner-ring /Remember-Ring is a collaboration of 90 jewellery designers from around the world who have each made a hand-crafted ring based on the theme of ‘remembering’. Each ring depicts a personal memory for the individual artist whose recollection is given shape within the limited dimensions of a ring. Herinner-ring /Remember-Ring is on loan from Galerie Beeld and Aambeeld in Holland and the National Craft Gallery is the first location to receive the exhibition outside the Netherlands before it tours internationally. The 90 participating artists in Herinner-ring /Remember-Ring include Irish jewellery designers Melissa Curry, Angela O’Kelly, Sonja Landweer, Rachel McKnight and Céline Traynor.

14/02/09 – 26/04/09

Crafts Council of Ireland, Kilkenny, Ireland

New Expressions: An exhibition of contemporary resin jewellery by jewellery-maker Daisy Dunlop

The New Expressions programme, funded by MLA South West, was designed to foster fresh interactions between artists, museums and visitors. This exhibition will include a range of original necklaces, bracelets and earrings inspired by the creations and philosphy of Leach. Daisy, who grew up in Cornwall and is now based at Krowji in Redruth, has recently completed a commission for the Royal Academy interpreting their Hammershoi Exhibition.

21/02/2009 – 25/04/2009

Leach Pottery, St Ives, Cornwall, UK

Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda

In the years following the Mexican Revolution (1910–20), Mexican jewelry and other silver objects were crafted with an entirely innovative approach, informed by modernism and the creation of a new Mexican national identity. Antonio Pineda was a member of the Taxco School and is recognized as a world-class designer. Pineda’s jewelry is especially known for its elegant acknowledgment of the human form. It is often said that a Pineda fits the body perfectly, that it feels right when it is worn. Nearly two hundred examples of Pineda’s acclaimed silver work will be displayed.

24/08/2008 - 15/03/2009

Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

4/06/2010 – 2/01/2011

Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM, USA

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Exhibitions Archive - post-Victorian

Style periods

GLANZ EINER EPOCHE. Jugendstilschmuck aus Europa Brilliant Times- Jugendstil Jewellery from Europe

Bijou Art déco et Avant-garde. Jean Després et les bijoutiers modernes

Art Déco: Schmuck und Accessoires der zwanziger Jahre

Japonisme: from Falize to Fabergé - the goldsmith and Japan

Glanz einer Epoche Jugendstil Schmuck aus Europa: Brilliant Times - European Art Nouveau Jewellery

Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry

Hand and machine - Reconstruction of Art Nouveau jewellery from Pforzheim

Alfons Mucha

Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design

Wiener Werkstätte: Design in Vienna 1903-1932

Sparklers. Emilie Flöge and the jewellery of Wiener Werkstätte

Companies

Royal Fabergé Exhibition

Artistic Luxury: Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique

Bulgari. 125 years of Italian magnificence

Bulgari

Cartier at Prague Castle - The Power of Style

Cartier and America

Cartier Treasures - King of Jewellers, Jewellers to Kings

"Story of ..." - Memories of Cartier Creations

Fabergé: The Hodges Family Collection

Carl Fabergé and Masters of stone carving. Russian masterpieces of semi-precious stones

A tribute to magnificance: Jewelry and microscupture

René Lalique and his art

Tiffany: Color and Light

Louis Comfort Tiffany: Nature By Design.

Elsa Peretti: Jewellery and objects for Tiffany & Co

Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels

Artists jewellery

Picasso to Koons: Artist as Jeweler

Bijoux d'artistes - Jean-Pierre Dussaillant & Trésors du musée

Jewelry by artist. From Modernisme to the early avant-garde

Dalí: Gems

Dali d’Or & Bijoux de Gala

From Picasso to Warhol - Sculptured Jewelry of the Avant-Garde

Bijoux d'artistes

Costume jewellery

Modeschmuck in der DDR. Formgestaltung von Armgard Stenzel für Gablona

Fashion Jewellery in the GDR. The designs of Armgard Stenzel for Gablona

The Vintage Woman: A Century of Costume Jewelry in America 1910-2010

Costume Jewelry from a Collection in Turin

To go with petticoats and wasp waists - Fashion jewellery from the 1950s - Christian Dior and Grossé at Hause Henkel & Grosse

Karfunkelschein. Prade - Gablonz Fashion

Bijoux americani d’epoca

Opulent Ephemera: Fantasy and fashion in American costume jewellery, 1880 – 1960. A century of costume jewelry from the collection of E. Angelopoulou

Other

Preziosa Young – contemporary jewellery

Under That Cloud

International Art Jewelry: 1895-1925

Exhibition of jewellery „Szkatułka” (chest)

Unleashed!

Pensieri preziosi 7 - gioielli d'Italia

The Spirit of Stone

Fired, Crafted and Blown

Felicity Powell - Charmed Life: The solace of objects

Art Rocks: Contemporary Jewellery,

Inspired: contemporary views of Renaissance jewellery

Rooms For Ideas - Contemporary Jewellery by The Line Up

Claire Falkenstein - Intimate Relations

Akelo's treasures

All Golds

Wallace Chan

Objects of Status, Power and Adornment

Hammer, Sketch and CAD - 90 years of Pforzheim's Technical College for Goldsmiths

Think Twice: New Latin American Jewelry

Digital Mettle: Jewelry and Objects of CAD

Art of Adornment: Studio Jewelry

Attitude and Alchemy: The Metalwork of Gary Noffke

Contemporary Indian jewellery

Giampaolo Babetto Jewellery 1970-2011

Matters of Life and Death

Time Regained: Works by Artist Goldsmith Kevin Coates

NOW – Jewels by Norman Weber

Atelier Janiyé and the Legacy of Master Jeweler Miyé Matsukata

Wives and Sweethearts

The Modern Jewel In time and the mind of others

Hammer, Skizze und CAD – 90 Jahre Berufsfachschule für Goldschmiede Pforzheim

GLANZ EINER EPOCHE. Jugendstilschmuck aus Europa
Brilliant Times- Jugendstil Jewellery from Europe

Ich sage Schmuck, aber meine den kreativen Prozess. Gerd Rothmann. Schmuck und Gerät
I say jewellery, but mine is a creative process. Gerd Rothmann. Jewellery and artefacts