Exhibitions Archive - Europe

Austrian

Eligius award 2022 - Jewellery Art in Austria

With the exhibition ELIGIUS AWARD 2022: Jewellery Art in Austria the MAK, in cooperation with Kunst im Traklhaus, Salzburg, once again offers an insight into the contempo-rary Austrian jewellery scene. For the fifth time, the MAK is showing the entries for the Eligius Award for Body Jewellery and Jewellery Objects, which was established by the federal state of Salzburg in 2005 and is awarded every three years. The works of those artists who have been nominated for the ELIGIUS AWARD 2022 will be presented in a concentrated show at the MAK FORUM.

31/08/2022 - 25/09/2022

Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK), Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria

Mit Eigensinn* Schmuck aus Österreich. Künstlerinnen im fokus
With obstinacy* Jewellery from Austria. Artists in focus

With a focus on female protagonists from the early days of avant-garde jewellery, the synopsis of numerous jewellery objects, sculptural and conceptual works offers an exciting insight into Austrian jewellery creation from the 1970s to the present. The starting point for the selection of the works is the diverse and open approaches of an exciting and heterogeneous scene, as it has developed in Austria due to specific conditions. To this day, this "new", experimental view of jewellery not only works through its terminology, but also manifests itself in the use of "non-jewellery" materials and techniques. Usually one concept is in the foreground: the medium for the statement is jewellery in all its radicalism and sensuality. Away from the purely decorative, pieces of jewellery become independent and idiosyncratic objects.
A catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

3/04/2022 - 25/09/2022

Museum Angerlehner, Ascheter Str. 54, 4600 Thalheim bei Wels, Austria

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

Belgian

Room of Wonder II: Wouters & Hendrix

The Antwerp design duo Wouters & Hendrix takes over the baton from Axel Vervoordt as guest curators. Katrin Wouters and Karen Hendrix look back at what has amazed and inspired them in their 35-year career as jewellery designers and storytellers with a view to bringing together items of jewellery from their own body of work with gems from DIVA’s collection, contemporary art and curiosities. The leitmotif of the exhibition is Wouters & Hendrix’s fascination with remarkable stories and the precious metals silver and gold. The novel assemblages, so typical of their work, provide an explosion of forms and colours. An important aspect of the exhibition is Antwerp’s famed craftsmanship which is reflected in the collections.

13/09/2019 - 16/02/2020

DIVA, Antwerp Home of Diamonds, Suikerrui 17-19, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium

Horta & Wolfers. Reopening of the Wolfers Frères jewellery store, 1912

105 years after the official inauguration of the Wolfers Frères jewellery store in 1912, visitors will once again be able to admire the shop in its original form. To do this, the Cinquantenaire museum has cleared a room of approximately the same shape and area as that originally foreseen by Victor Horta in the building in rue d’Arenberg in Brussels. On the basis of a thorough historical study, the showcases and the counters will be reinstalled as Horta designed them in his time. First, it was necessary to take down the provisional arrangement of a part of the furniture in the museum and then obtain from storage the remaining interior elements. Even the original entrance doors will be reintegrated. Visitors will be able to walk around an identical reconstruction of the room, like elite customers of the past. The interior layout of the shop has been restored to the highest standards. The Cuban mahogany furniture has been cleaned and the original layer of varnish refurbished. The velvet interior furnishing of the showcases has been re-woven based on the original material. The patina of the bronze decorations has been refreshed. The harmony of the colours desired by Horta emerges once again: a sublime combination of the deep red polished mahogany, the dark green velvet, and the golden accents of the bronze decorations, all in total accord with the mauve colour of the walls. Thanks to this detailed restoration and refinishing, visitors will have the illusion of crossing once again the threshold into a Brussels shop for luxury goods.

29/11/2017 - 30/12/2018

Cinquantenaire Museum, Parc du Cinquantenaire 10, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Bijoux contemporains
Contemporary Belgian jewellery

The exhibition features the jewellery of 27 contemporary Belgian jewellers selected in 2011 to showcase their creations in Baccarat. Among them, there is a selection of 18 jewellery designers trained at either IATA or the School of Art at Maredsous.

20/04/2012 - 24/06/2012

Musée de Groesbeeck - de Croix, Rue J. Saintraint, 3 - 5000 Namur, Belgium

British

Meanings and Messages: ACJ Touring Exhibition

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Association for Contemporary Jewellery (ACJ) is hosting this major touring exhibition visiting six venues throughout the UK – with one of its final stops at the Goldsmiths’ Centre.
The ACJ has chosen to focus on brooches for this exhibition, as they form the ideal jewellery archetype for conveying meanings and messages. Brooches can be subversive and are often used by people in the public eye, by political figures or sovereignty to convey important messages. These messages may be hidden, subtle or occasionally more of an overt protest!

15/04/2023 - 17/06/2023

New Brewery Arts, Brewery Court, Cirencester, England, GL7 1QD, UK

9/01/2023 - 24/02/2023

The Goldsmiths' Centre, 42 Britton Street, London EC1M 5AD. UK

The Partridge Family of Barnstaple: Ethel Mairet, Fred Partridge and the Arts and Craft Movement

This exhibition tells the little-known story of Barnstaple’s Partridge family who became influential members of the Arts and Crafts movement.
The project explores the lives and work of Ethel, Fred and Maud Partridge, who were born and educated locally in the late nineteenth century and went on to become part of the artistic community of Ditchling, where their circle included Bernard Leach, Shoji Hamada, Eric Gill and many more.
The exhibition brings together items from the Museum’s own Partridge Geology Collection with loans from national and regional museums including: examples of Ethel’s celebrated handmade textiles from the Crafts Study Centre and Ditchling Museum of Arts and Craft; jewellery created by Fred from the V&A, Fitzwilliam and Birmingham Museums; and a first edition copy of a book on Mediaeval Sinhalese art from the British Library.

14/05/2022 - 29/10/2022

Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon, The Square, Barnstaple, North Devon, EX32 8LN, UK

A Sense of Jewellery. Work by 40 iconic jewellers from the past 40 years

Jewels are one of the most intimate and oldest forms of human expression, seen in the extraordinary objects held in museums and personal collections worldwide. This free exhibition sets out to rediscover British jewellery design and celebrate the quality of design thinking and material innovation which has emerged from independent studios in this period. It will unite pieces from the V&A, private patrons, artist collections and The Goldsmiths’ Company’s own collection to demonstrate how artists and designers continue to be drawn to this field of activity, inspired by its human and material histories. This unique combination of British works has been put together by invited guest curators: Amanda Game, a leading UK independent curator and producer in the field of jewellery and silversmithing and Liveryman of The Goldsmiths’ Company and Professor Dorothy Hogg MBE, influential designer and former Head of the School of Jewellery in Edinburgh. Major works by established artists such as Wendy Ramshaw CBE and Gerda Flockinger CBE will be shown alongside works by emerging makers from across the UK, such as Andrew Lamb and Zoe Arnold.

15/09/2015 – 19/11/2015

The Goldsmiths’ Centre, 42 Britton Street, Clerkenwell, London EC1M 5AD, UK

An Adaptable Trade: The Jewellery Quarter at War

Before the outbreak of the War in 1914, Birmingham’s jewellery industry was vast, with an estimated 70,000 people employed in manufacturing jewellery and supplying the trade. By 1918 over 200 firms had closed, and employee numbers halved - and yet Birmingham’s jewellery trade survived, retaining much of its former dominance. This exhibition explores how the industry adapted to wartime austerity, the impact on local people, and the vital role played by women. Looking in detail at three prominent Jewellery Quarter firms, and illustrated with items loaned from family collections, it reveals the extraordinary sacrifices made by a generation of Birmingham people.

14/06/2014 – 27/06/2015

Museum of the Jewellery Quarter, 75-80 Vyse Street, Hockley, Birmingham, B18 6HA, UK

The Lee Rings

Two gold and enamel rings were given by the town of Totnes to Katherine and Christian, the grand-daughters of Richard Lee senior, a wealthy wool merchant, in the 17th century. This was in gratitude for the fact that he had presented the Church Walk to the town in around 1612, to be used as an Exchange. One of the rings has been in Totnes Museum for many years, but the other was thought to have been lost. This ring has now been identified as one in the V&A, and the two are shown together in this exhibition, reunited for the first time in almost 400 years.

15/03/2012 – 31/10/2012

Totnes Elizabethan House Museum, 70 Fore Street, Totnes, TQ9 5RU, UK

Marvellous Marble - South Devon's forgotten industry

The marble industry of South Devon is probably the least well-known of the British decorative stone-cutting industries of the 19th century. This exhibition includes a selection of jewellery, mainly brooches, set with South Devon marbles, and is a rare opportunity to see authentic pieces. There are also some Scottish and Derbyshire examples for comparative purposes.

6/04/2012 – 26/07/2012

Torquay Museum, 529 Babbacombe Road, Torquay, Devon TQ1 1HG, UK

Bulgarian

Das älteste Gold der Welt. Der Schatz aus Varna
The Oldest Gold in the World. The Treasure of Varna

Since time immemorial, people have been fascinated by the magic of brilliant gold. More than 6,500 years ago, there was an ancient culture on the west coast of the Black Sea. At that time, a nation of peasants in the area of Varna discovered the cultivation of copper and gold. At first it was copper, with which people covered the bodies of their deceased chiefs, tribal elders and priests. But soon they gave the dead gold for eternity. More than 3,000 gold objects and other burial objects from prehistoric Varna were discovered during an archeological dig in the 1970s. The golden grave goods from the middle of the 5th millennium BC are among the oldest known jewels in the world. The exhibition shows a spectacular selection from the grave finds of gold, copper and clay and leads into the world of one of the oldest cultures in the world and the beginning of civilization. The finds have already been shown in Bulgaria, Japan, Canada, France, Italy, Israel and the Netherlands, among others. Now the exhibition of the Archaeological Museum Varna, with one of the most spectacular gold discoveries in the world, comes to Rostock.

30/11/2018 - 28/04/2019

Kulturhistorisches Museum Rostock, Klosterhof 7, 18055 Rostock, Germany

Le Trésor de Preslav

As part of the Bulgarian presidency of the European Union, the Louvre Museum is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the "Trésor de Preslav". The treasure was unearthed in 1978 near Preslav, capital of the first Bulgarian kingdom which converted to Christianity in 864 and was overthrown by the Byzantines in 1018. It is the largest discovery ever made of Byzantine princely medieval jewellery.

27/06/2018 - 5/11/2018

Musée du Louvre, 99 rue de Rivoli - Entrée par la Pyramide, 75001 Paris, France

Czech

A History of Contemporary Czech Jewelry Design

Cancelled due to Covid

A survey of artistic jewellery making from the Czech Republic with the most prominent artists, from the 1930’s generation up to Generation Z. The exhibition explores traditional crafts and fine arts for the making of new sculptural jewellery, up to the most recent creations by people born between 1995 and 2010 who are true digital natives. From the use of glass to inspiration by abstract exposure to the internet, social networks and mobile systems, the show is curated by an expert on studio jewellery Julie Bergmann.

11/11/2020 – 31/01/2021

Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum, Kallisperi 12 & Karyatidon Str., Acropolis 11742, Athens, Greece

Time in Us: Jana Machatova and Peter Machata. The Communication Potential of Contemporary Jewellery

“Time in Us” represents the creative output of Slovak artists who are gradually approaching middle age and belong with the so-called “Generation of Husák’s children”. The jewellery objects designed by Jana and Peter Machata are accompanied by photographs made by Peter Ančic. Each one of this trio of artists reflects their childhood lived against a prefab housing skyline. The selection of some fifty pieces of jewellery that maps out two decades of the artists’ work documents the power of jewellery to carry a message. For the viewers, each of the exhibited objects becomes an entrance ticket to universal time, in which they can recurrently experience the crucial stories of their lives – the search of oneself, maturation, love, relationship mishaps, periods of painful losses and new hopes. Abstract elements mingle with citations of images found in family albums and social-life magazines. The possibility of observing what is substantial is offered through the raster of a prefab building as well as folk art ornament. The depth of feelings and bonds between people are reflected in the body landscape of today’s individuals, as well as in fragments of the bodies of the Virgin and Christ in the Pietà composition.

7/11/2019 - 5/01/2020

The Museum of Decorative Arts, 17. listopadu 2, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic

Pravěký a současný šperk
Prehistoric and Contemporary Jewellery

Includes antique jewellery ranging from buckles of the Duchcov type that made a part of the votive gift found during the reconstruction of the Giant Spring (Obří Pramen) in Lahošť at Duchcov, buckles from the Roman period, armbands of Únětice culture to fashionable shapes of armbands from the La Tene period, the valuable findings of brooches made from shells, amber beads and golden earrings from Blšan in Louny area and jewels from nearer destinations (for example, a glass bead from the fort in Frýdlant area or S-shaped earrings from Dubá at Mnichovo Hradiště) aranged side by side with contemporary jewellery, including work from renowned Czech and foreign authors from their own studios but also from the collections of several institutions - the Northern Bohemian Museum in Liberec, the Museum of Glass and Jewellery in Jablonec nad Nisou, the Museum of the Czech Paradise in Turnov and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, among others

14/07/2012 - 29/09/2013

Severočeské muzeum v Liberci, Masarykova 11, 460 01 Liberec, Czech Republic

Danish

Danish Jewellery Box. Zeitgenössisches Schmuckdesign
Danish Jewellery Box. Contemporary jewellery design

Jewellery as an independent art form has a long tradition in Denmark. A simple and at the same time expressive minimalism is still a trademark of Danish jewellery. The exhibition therefore offers an impressive insight into 50 years of contemporary jewellery design, for which the Danish Arts Foundation has built a jewellery collection of around 300 objects since 1978.

cancelled due to covid

Museum of Applied Arts (MAKK), An der Rechtschule 50667 Köln, Germany

Simply Danish. Silver Jewellery of the Twentieth Century

The exhibition “Simply Danish” presents the collection of the Berlin couple Marion and Jörg Schwandt with around 170 works of silver jewelry by 48 Danish artists, including icons like Georg Jensen and Mogens Ballin. The collection provides an overview of the various currents of Danish jewellery design in the twentieth century. The spectrum reaches from floral belt buckles in an art nouveau style, constructivistic works from the 1930s, to typically organic shapes from the 1950s. Silver jewellery of later decades reflects the preference of Danish jewellery designers and workshops for geometric shapes and combinations of material. The exhibition shows how a fixation on the material value of a piece of jewellery was abandoned by the Danish bourgeoisie in favor of artistic value and how this change in mindset has inspired Danish jewellery design for over 100 years now to attain great aesthetic achievements.

14/11/2018 - 3/03/2019

Bröhan-Museum, Schlossstraße 1a, 14059 Berlin, Germany

Georg Jensen - A tale of Danish Silver

Georg Jensen (1866-1935) is one of the finest exponents of Danish design. Koldinghus marks the 150th anniversary of his birth in a large retrospective exhibition, which presents the finest and rarest works by Georg Jensen and the company he founded, and tells the story of a global design adventure in an eventful century marked by bloom, crisis, war and new cultural breakthroughs. It opens with an impressive selection of the master's own beautiful jewellery with flora and fauna motives and the hammered hollowware with vigorous decorations. The modern jewellery is richly represented by Nanna Ditzel, Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe amongst others, while for instance Allan Scharff’s amazing bird fabulations is showcasing the hollowware to the present.

4/09/2015 - 28/02/2016

Museet på Koldinghus, Koldinghus 1, 6000 Kolding, Postboks 91, Denmark

#153 - Selected pieces from the Danish Arts Foundation’s Jewellery Collection

Since 1978, the Danish Arts Foundation has purchased jewellery by the most acknowledged and experimental jewellery artists in Denmark. This small exhibition will show 153 of the almost 300 pieces of jewellery, which the collection contains. A piece of jewellery is a personal expression, which is why the exhibition shows many different jewellery forms and ideas. At the same time, the exhibition shows how jewellery design has developed over time. The designers represented are a mix of different cultural and educational backgrounds and they define themselves in different terms – both as designers, crafts men and jewellers. The jewellery on display invites us to think and reflect about what a piece of jewellery is and what it can be.

19/02/2015 - 16/08/2015

Design Museum Denmark, Bredgade 68 / 1260 København K, Denmark

Modern jewellery design from Brazil and Denmark

Ten eminent goldsmiths from Denmark join forces with ten Brazilian colleagues in this transnational exhibition of modern jewellery design. The exhibition not only showcases fascinating contrasts between Nordic simplicity and Latin lavishness but also a shared reference to the global issue of sustainability – a key issue in an industry that until recently was associated with overconsumption and exploitation of the Third World. The exhibition is clear testimony to the transformation of jewellery design in Brazil and Denmark. Modern jewellery design is no longer measured in carats but on the interaction between form and material and on the loyalty of the piece to the resources of our planet

24/08/2013 - 24/11/2013

Museet på Koldinghus, Markdannersgade 11, Postboks 91, 6000 Kolding, Denmark

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

Dutch

Sieraden uit de bodem
Jewellery from the soil

Jewellery is probably as old as humanity itself. It is a way to distinguish yourself or to radiate power. Gold jewellery has existed in Gelderland since 2300 BC, but remains very rare until Roman times. It often indicates contacts with other peoples, for example within the Celtic area, where networks were created through the exchange of valuable gifts. Bronze jewellery comes from around 1800 BC. for neck rings, bracelets and decorative pins, used to fasten clothing. The Romans bring their own style of body decoration to our country. Rings of precious and base metals, but also of precious stones are very popular. In the early Middle Ages, a new fashion emerged that is strikingly similar in Northwest Europe. Typically, jewellery is inlaid with pieces of garnet, a bright red gem originating from India. Beautifully decorated belts for men can certainly also be counted among the jewellery. Many of these age-old jewels were deposited in tombs, or had been abandoned or lost for various reasons. Often, after having been in the soil for centuries, they are found in archaeological excavations. By comparing these jewels with preserved paintings and sculptures, we can form a picture of thelr use.

Ending 31 December 2019

Museum Het Valkhof, Kelfkensbos 59, 6511 TB Nijmegen, Netherlands

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

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

Estonian

Exhibition by õ h u L o s s (Castle in the Air)

õ h u L o s s (Castle in the Air in English) is a group of jewellery artists who are all alumni of the Jewellery and Blacksmithing Department of the Estonian Academy of Arts: Kadri Mälk, Tanel Veenre, Piret Hirv, Eve Margus-Villems, Kristiina Laurits and Villu Plink. In September 2018 “Castle in the Air” will land again after several years in Tallinn, in the exhibition hall at the Estonian History Museum’s Maarjamäe Palace. The goal is to create a modern castle of jewellery in the historically-charged summer residence of the Orlov-Davydov family, by visualizing a castle in the air – a castle made of air – an airy castle. While creating an opportunity to exhibit jewellery, at the same time the aim is to intensify the spatial experience. The meeting of history, air and jewellery to create a new visual space that would at the same time conceptually support the jewellery and objects on display.

19/10/2018 - 21/01/2019

Maarjamäe Palace, Pirita tee 56, 10127 Tallinn, Estonia

Pensieri preziosi 8 - La magica poesia della scuola orafa di Tallinn

The eighth festival dedicated to contemporary jewellery showcases works by six artists from Estonia, belonging to the Art Academy in Tallinn: Kadri Malk (1958), Piret Hirv (1969), Kristiina Laurits (1975 ), Eve Margus-Villems (1972), Villu Plink (1977), Tanel Veenre (1977).

1/12/2012 – 27/01/2013

Oratorio di San Rocco, via S. Lucia - Padova, Italy

Finnish

Bold. Contemporary. Genuine. 80 years of Finland’s best-loved jewellery

This exhibition presents the story of Kalevala Jewellery. The exhibition tells about the history, operation and production of the company as well as the values and role of Kalevala Jewellery in the Finnish society through decades. The audience is able to see over 200 pieces of jewellery from a period of 80 years. All the jewels of Kalevala Jewellery are produced in the company’s factory in Pitäjänmäki, Helsinki. Exhibition visitors can experience the company’s fascinating everyday routines of jewellery making by putting on 360 virtual reality glasses. With the glasses it is possible to experience the factory work in the same way as in the real factory.

11/03/2017 - 7/05/2017

The Craft Museum of Finland, Kauppakatu 25, Jyväskylä, Finland

Brilliant!

This is the Finnish Goldsmith Association’s 110th Jubilee Year Exhibition, featuring jewellery from the 1960s onwards by 30 Goldsmiths of the Year and photograph art by Susanna Majuri.

18/09/2015 - 1/02/2016

The National Museum of Finland, Mannerheimintie 34, 00100 Helsinki, Finland

A Century of Finnish Jewellery

Organized by the Helsinki Design Museum, this exhibition of Finnish jewelry from the 1930s to contemporary conceptual art pieces follows changes in the meanings and design of jewelry over the decades. The exhibit includes uncluttered jewelry design from the 1950s by Elis Kauppi, Bertel Gardberg, Börje Rajalin and Paula Häiväoja, Björn Weckström’s forceful Lapponia jewelry of the 1960s, and the most interesting achievements of the jewelry industry and designers from recent decades.

16/10/09 – 24/01/10

DESIGNMUSEO, Helsinki, Finland

28/03/2010 - 5/06/2010

Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA, USA

French

Merveilles d’or et d’argent, trésors cachés et savoir-faire de la Manche

Organised by the Department, in partnership with the Centre des monuments nationaux (CMN), this exhibition is the result of more than two years of work. More than 200 pieces on the theme of metal, from 78 lenders, spanning the Middle Ages to the 20th century, will be exhibited in the Salle des Hôtes of the Abbey of Mont Saint-Michel. During their visit, the public will be able to discover many previously unseen pieces, from both public and private collections, as well as the way in which the various craftsmen worked: art founders, pewter potters, tinsmiths and master goldsmiths. A contemporary showroom, installed in the chapel adjacent to the Salle des Hôtes, will complete the scenographic tour by highlighting living heritage companies and contemporary creators from our region. The history of metal is still alive!
A catalogue to discover the exhibition is available for purchase at the Fnac in Saint-Lô, on the Orep éditions website and at the exhibition venue.

18/09/2021 - 30/01/2022

Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel, 50170 Le Mont-Saint-Michel, France

Torques et compagnie

Since the 19th century, the chalk of Champagne has delivered a considerable number of objects buried in Iron Age necropolises, that have helped successive generations of archaeologists to forge shared references to build and rebuild the image of the Gauls. This exhibition hoghlights the most characteristic of Gallic jewels, the torc.

8/03/2018 - 16/09/2018

Musée du Pays Châtillonnais, 14 rue de la libération, 21400 Châtillon-sur-Seine, France

Bijoux Parisiens: French Jewelry from the Petit Palais, Paris

Throughout history, jewellery has served both functional and decorative purposes, reflecting not only the patron’s particular values and interests, but also the social, political, and economic circumstances of the time and place of its creation. In France, Paris has long been considered a center of innovation in fashion, the visual arts, and jewellery production. This exhibition charts the course of jewellery design in France over four centuries, tracking the country’s evolving jewellery aesthetic as it responded to historical events and art historical movements.

28/04/2013 - 21/07/2013

Memphis Art Museum, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 4339 Park Avenue, Memphis, TN 38117, USA

16/04/2016 - 4/09/2017

Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE 68102-1292, USA

11/02/2017 – 14/05/2017

The Taft Museum of Art,316 Pike Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202, USA

13/10/2017 - 7/01/2018

Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Avenue, Jacksonville, Florida 32204, USA

Trésors princiers. Richesses de la cour de Navarre au XVIe siècle.

The treasures of the kings of Navarre are celebrated for their richness, sometimes even surpassing those of the kings of France. Marked by the humanist figure of Marguerite d’Angoulême, a woman of letters and an artistic patron, this exceptional patrimony evolved over time and marital alliances. Including objects of goldsmiths' work, precious jewels and rare books, this exhibition pays homage to the scattered treasure with loans from the Musée du Louvre, the château d’Écouen and the Prado. It brings to life the great days of the Château de Pau, whose courtyard and Renaissance gardens have just been restored.

7/04/2017 - 9/07/2017

Musée national et domaine du château de Pau, Rue du Château, 64000 Pau, France

130 ans de création joaillière à Bastia. : l’atelier Filippi

This exhibition is devoted to the jewellery trade in Bastia, brought to life through the workshop of four generations of the Filippi family of goldsmiths. Around 200 objects are on show, including tools and machines, most of which are from the original workshop, founded in 1882 at No. 3 in the Rue Saint by Jean Cesare Filippi (1857-1916). Ulysse (1883-1965) continued the workshop of his father that he passed on to his son Pierre (born 1923). The latter was supported by his uncle John, but also by Lilia, his wife and especially his daughter Nicole Matelli - Filippi, who, after participating in the family adventure, worked to keep the workshop and convey the story. In 2011 the Filippi family decided to give this collection to the city of Bastia in its permanent exhibition in a part of Caraffa Palace. As in all Bastia mansions from the 17th to 19th centuries, the lower floors were indeed traditionally reserved for commercial and craft activities. The Filipi workshop will therefore be one of the illustrations of this typically urban lifestyle. Pending the opening to the public of the whole building, the workshop is exposed in the Genoese powder rooms of the Palace of the Governors. The display is designed to reconstruct the different stages of creating a jewel, from the initial project, in the form of a drawing, to the final jewel, the metal of which has been repeatedly worked (melted, rolled, drawn, welded, chiseled ...). Many stages that involve creativity but also precision and dexterity; qualities that the Filippi family displayed during these 130 years of activity in the service of elegance and refinement at Bastia.

19/07/2014 - 19/07/2016

Musée municipal d’art et d’histoire, Place du donjon, La Citadelle, 20200 Bastia, Corsica, France

Emaux de Bresse. Joyaux du quotidien

Bressan enamel is a decorative art resulting from multiple influences. Very popular in the 19th century, it reached its peak with the International Exhibitions of the time. During the 20th century it underwent a progressive decline, and now there is only a single designer-jeweller based in Bourg-en-Bresse. Bressan enamel objects were made for all occasions: cross-pendants for first communion, jewels for "approchailles" (engagement) or for birthdays ... Received as a gift passed down from mother to daughter, these enamels still accompany family rites. Apart from jewellery, Bressan enamels had a less-known aspect: they was also used to decorate religious objects, for entertainment (theatre binoculars, dance cards) and decoration (pill boxes, inkwells). To date, the industry has been little studied and is little known outside the territory of the Bresse and the world of jewellery. This exhibition of Bressan enamels, precious everyday objects, devoted to a key element of regional identity, has become a reservoir of memory and emotion. It places the art in its historic landscape of international and contemporary enamel in general. Looking at its fine paillettes, the subtlety and diversity of colours and the balance of its compositions with multiple details of glazes ... are some of the great pleasures that this event offers.

25/05/2014 - 15/11/2015

Musée départemental de la Bresse - Domaine des Planons, 987 Chemin des Seiglières, 01380 Saint-Cyr-sur-Menthon, France

Divines joailleries, l’art de Joseph Chaumet (1852-1928)

In 2005, with assistance from Fonds national du patrimoine, Fonds régional d’acquisition des musées (Région Bourgogne) and private donations, the City of Paray-le-Monial was able to enrich the museum with 'Via Vitae' (the Way of Life), a monumental work by the goldsmith and jeweller Joseph Chaumet of Paris 1852-1928), made between 1894 and 1904. This major acquisition for the national heritage is classified as a National Treasure. Following this memorable acquisition, the exhibition "Divine jewellery. The Art of Joseph Chaumet (1852-1928)" is the opportunity to gather around the treasure other works by the goldsmith and unprecedented documentation. The participation of Chaumet International, and exceptional loans of Christus Vincit, gold medal winner at the 1900 World's Fair, the crowns of Hyeres and Montligeon, silver works from the Museum St. Nicolas de Vitre, and objects from private collections including documents and art in possession of the family, all contribute to make this an unprecedented exhibtion.

14/06/2014 - 4/01/2015

Musée du Hiéron, 13, rue de la Paix 71600 - Paray-le-Monial, Saône-et-Loire, France

In the Line of Sight: contemporary jewellery in France

This exhibition also takes us on a tour of the museum’s permanent collections, where seventy jewellers and silversmiths have been invited to show their most recent creations alongside Medieval/ Renaissance, 17th/18th Century, 19th Century, Art Nouveau/Art Deco, Modern and Contemporary works, and also in the Contemporary and Jewellery galleries. This panorama of contemporary French creation shows how jewellery and its role are changing today, in its daring, often spectacular formal experimentation, “questioning” of the contemporary body and identification of new social behaviours.

19/09/2013 - 2/03/2014

Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 107, rue de Rivoli 75001 Paris, France

Le grand collier de la Légion d’honneur, de Vincent Auriol à François Hollande

The Museum of the Legion of Honour pays tribute to the President of the Republic, Grand Master of the Order, in an exhibition on the Grand Collar. The public can learn about the history and symbolism of this universal badge presented to the President at his inauguration. Jewellers' designs, details of allegorical medallions, films of investiture ceremonies under the Fourth and Fifth Republics, magazines and vintage photos, and official portraits, bring to life the Grand Collar of the Legion of Honour which in the contemporary version echos models of the First Empire and the Third Republic, also exhibited in the museum.

14/07/2012 - 29/09/2013

Musée national de la Légion d’honneur et des ordres de chevalerie, 2, rue de la Légion-d’Honneur, 75007 Paris, France

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

L'éventail, matières d'excellence

Paris, capital of fashion and elegant women, vibrates with the genious of its craftsmen. The fan, at the same time both a work of art and a fashion accessory, belongs to this tradition. In the boutiques of the Opera district, women marvel at the beauty of the paintings and are seduced by the elegance of pearl carvings, ivory or tortoiseshell. In their hands they hold the virtuosity of the craftsmen of the Oise. For the most part remaining in the shadows, the craftsmen of the Méru region contributed to the spread of French decorative arts. While best known for making the buttons and dominoes that made their reputation, history has neglected their talent for fans. Their ingenuity and expertise magnify rare and precious materials from distant countries, Africa, India and the Pacific islands. For nearly three centuries this was the main centre for tabletterie in France, Europe, and certainly the world. This new exhibition pays tribute to the expertise of these artisans. Nearly a hundred fans from the early eighteenth century to the present day highlight their mastery and creativity.

13/09/2015 - 17/04/2016

Le Musée de la Nacre et de la Tabletterie, 51, rue Roger Salengro - 60110 Méru, France

German

Pforzheim revisited Berlin – Twelve years of the eponymous scholarship programme

Embossing, pressing and guilloché engraving are techniques employed in manufactory-style jewellery production. Within the context of the »Pforzheim Revisited« semester project, initiated in 2010, they are experiencing a new lease of life: students of the Jewellery and Everyday Objects Design course at Pforzheim University use these techniques to create contemporary jewellery. The project has been made possible by a collaboration with the German Museum of Technology in Berlin and the Technical Museum of Pforzheim’s Jewellery and Watchmaking Industries, as well as thanks to the support from the C. Hafner company. The exhibition will be spotlighting the works created by the participants of the scholarship programme of the past twelve years.

25/11/2022 - 26/02/2023

Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Jahnstraße 42, 75173 Pforzheim, Germany

Jewellery & Garment

'Jewellery & Garment', a Side Event of the Berlin Fashion Week, is an interplay between the two sister disciplines of jewellery and fashion. Positions of contemporary author’s jewellery are shown together with vintage avant-garde fashion from private collections. Since the 1960s, an international scene of jewellery makers has emerged who place the artistic idea at the centre of their work. In addition to early approaches that radically break with a traditional conception of jewellery, the exhibition also shows works by a younger generation of artists who not only fight against conventions, but also devote themselves to current socially relevant themes in this ever more complex day and age. These are innovative and experimental works with an individual stamp, carried by the spirit of the times of their creation, but independent of seasonal fashions. Jewellery and fashion are presented in the exhibition as equal, corresponding entities.

8/07/2022 - 15/01/2023

Bröhan-Museum Landesmuseum für Jugendstil, Art Deco und Funktionalismus, Schlossstraße 1a, 14059 Berlin, Germany

“Diamonds are not only a girl’s best friend”: Diamonds in industry – 100 year anniversary of Hanau’s long-established company LACH DIAMANT

6/10/2022 - 25/10/2022

Deutsche Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, Altstädter Markt 6, 63450 Hanau, Germany

Arbeit im Prozess - 250 Jahre Zeichenakademie

The exhibition reflects the interior, living structure of the Staatliche Zeichenakademie, a training school that has been in Hanau for 250 years.
On display is the dialogue between traditional hand craftsmanship, fine art, and current methods of development and production.

28/04/2022 - 6/07/2022

Deutsche Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, Altstädter Markt 6, 63450 Hanau, Germany

Münchner Schmuck. Perspectives on a private Munich Jewellery Collection

Since the end of the 19th century, the craft of goldsmithing has gained in importance in Munich, and substantial numbers of goldsmiths still live and work in the city today. This is in no small part due to the internationally renowned jewellery and hollow ware course offered by the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. The Münchner Stadtmuseum has been fortunate to acquire a collection of Munich jewellery dating mainly from the period between the 1880s and 1930s and has joined forces with students from the Academy of Fine Arts course and their professor, Karen Pontoppidan, to mount an exhibition of this work. It seeks not only to offer visitors insights into these historical works and their background, but also to showcase today’s budding jewelry artists, their training, aims, approaches and significant works.

13/11/2020 - 26/09/2021

Münchner Stadtmuseum, St.-Jakobs-Platz 1, 80331 München, Germany

Impulse. 30 Jahre Stiftung Gold- und Silberschmiedekunst in Schwäbisch Gmünd
Impulse. 30 years of the Gold and Silversmiths' Craft Foundation Schwäbisch Gmünd

In 2018 the Gold and Silversmithing Foundation of Schwäbisch Gmünd celebrates its 30th anniversary. In 1989 the foundation initiated various projects to promote gold and silversmithing. In addition to exhibitions, competitions and acquisitions, this included the establishment of a city goldsmith. Since 1989, a total of 15 renowned city goldsmiths have been guesting in Schwäbisch Gmünd with this award. Together with works by this year's 16 city goldsmiths, the exhibition brings together 70 pieces. The spectrum encompasses jewellery and objects, ranging from the traditionally enamelled brooch to unconventional necklaces made of a wide variety of materials, from the classic candlestick, coffee and mocha service to vessels which explore the limits of metal casting. Although designed individually and in their own time, the term Zeitgeist loses itself in the works: in addition to quality and creativity, they testify to timeless beauty. The exhibits come from artists, private and museum collections, and particular pieces, which were acquired by the foundation for the collections of the Gmünd museum. In addition, works from workshops, posters, books and other documents convey the intensity of the Foundation's activities over the past three decades.

15/04/2018 - 28/10/2019

Silberwarenmuseum Ott-Pausersche Fabrik, Milchgässle 10, 73525 Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany

Natürlich Elegant. Schmuck und mehr
A special exhibition about the Gablonz Jewellery Industry

This interactive exhibition presents handcrafted jewellery from the workshops of the Gablonzer Industrie. Whether classical or modern, playful or straightforward - the individual creations have their own character and develop natural elegance. There is a variety of different designs and materials that every guest can create and try. This always creates new and very personal connections, because the effect of the jewellery is individual. The special show offers jewellery for special occasions and jewellery for every day.

8/04/2019 - 4/10/2019

Erlebnisausstellung der Gablonzer Industrie

Neue Zeile 11, 87600 Kaufbeuren-Neugablonz, Germany

Echt unecht? — Schmuck aus Pforzheimer Industrieproduktion
Authentically inauthentic? — Jewellery from Pforzheim’s Industrial Production

Industrialization brought about the democratization of luxury items in the field of jewellery and watches. Inventive companies in Pforzheim developed methods for cost-efficient production of jewellery and watches that nevertheless possessed eyecatching appeal. Gold overlay (Doublé) or marcasite jewellery and simulated gemstones radiated an aura of luxury in broad sections of the population. But Pforzheim has also always been and still is home to exquisite designer jewellery. Renowned designers have contributed their creative input to the local jewellery industry while also pursuing their own artistic approaches. The guilds and the former State Arts and Crafts School, which has evolved into what is Pforzheim University’s School of Design nowadays, have always been forums for discussing aspects of »good design«. Organized by the Jewellery Museum and the Department of Cultural Affairs, and curated by Chris Gerbing, the exhibition at the Municipal Museum will be highlighting the success story of Pforzheim’s jewellery industry, which is based on the farsightedness, business acumen and the courage to embrace risks displayed by Pforzheim-based entrepreneurs from the industry’s early beginnings until way into the 1970s and accounting for their unique status in the world. The structural changes up to the present day will also be addressed.

28/05/2016 - 10/09/2016

Stadtmuseum Pforzheim, Westliche Karl-Friedrich-Straße 243 Pforzheim, Germany

Beautiful Mind: Ein Schmuckstück für Cranach
Beautiful Mind: A Gem for Cranach

In May 2014, on the 500th anniversary of Lucas Cranach the Younger's birth, the Kunststiftung of Saxony-Anhalt announced a national competition. The competition sought contemporary artistic interpretations of jewellery worn by Cranach the Younger, his wives, sons, daughters, as well as the contemporaries he portrayed. Some 146 artists entered the competition, representing each of the federal states of Germany. The 51 works selected for exhibition offer a broad perspective on contemporary artistic work from across Germany. Of the large number of prize-worthy entries that bore a special relationship to Cranach the Younger in both content and form, the jury selected three winners: The first prize went to Bettina Dittlmann from Breitenbach, Bavaria; the second prize to Beate Eismann from Halle, Saxony-Anhalt; the third prize to Svenja John from Berlin. Their work, alongside 48 other pieces, forms the exhibition 'Beautiful Mind: A Gem for Cranach'. Conceived of as a travelling exhibition, it was shown first in the Lutherhaus in Wittenberg, and afterwards in the Schmuckmuseum in Pforzheim.

20/05/2016 - 28/08/2016

Kunstgewerbemuseum, Matthäikirchplatz, 10785 Berlin, Gemany

"In Eiserner Zeit”
During the Iron Age

During the "Iron Age" (War of Liberation) iron became a metaphor for the patriotic resistance against Napoleon and the pursuit of national renewal. In 1813 Frederick William III, King of Prussia, instigated the Iron Cross as an award in the fight against France. (Designer: Karl Friedrich Schinkel). During the First World War, the appeal to the population for sacrifice was renewed, but this time the call concerned the whole of Germany. "I gave gold for arms, I received iron in honour" was the inscription this time on the iron replacement jewellery, whose wearing effectivly demonstrated the old-new patriotism to the onlooker. This exhibition is a collaboration of the Museum Schloss Neu-Augustusburg in Weissenfels and the Kleihues-Bau Kornwestheim Museum. On display are over 100 exhibits on the subject, including a collection of patriotic iron jewellery from the collections of the Museum Weissenfels which have not previously been shown in public. Patriotic decorations and medals from the First World War provide a link into the 20th century.

22/02/2015 - 3/05/2015

Museum Schloss Neu-Augustusburg, Zeitzer Str. 4, 06667 Weißenfels, Germany

100 Years of the Pforzheim Jewellery + Design Guild

In 1912, when the first of the two traditional goldsmiths’ guilds was founded in Pforzheim, later renamed into ›Turm Pforzheim‹ (›Pforzheim Tower‹). The other guild, founded a few years later and called ›Zunft Jungkunst‹ (›Young Art Guild‹), had a similar programme. The members of both provided important impetus both for artistic and industry-oriented jewellery design. Their active members included renowned artists such as Theodor Wende or Reinhold Reiling. In 2003, both associations combined to form the ›Zunft Pforzheim Schmuck + Gestaltung‹ (›Pforzheim Jewellery + Design Guild‹). In addition to providing a retrospect, this exhibition will also be dedicated to today’s members and their oeuvres.

21/09/2012 – 11/11/2012

Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Jahnstrasse 42, D-75173, Pforzheim, Germany

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

Schmuck zum Gwand. Traditional jewellery from South Germany

The Bavarian National Museum has not only an extensive collection of rural clothing of the 19th century, but also the associated jewellery. More than 150 of the best examples are now shown in a small special exhibition. A gallery of contemporary rural portraits illustrates how the jewellery was worn and shows the interaction between clothing and jewellery. Notes on the gold and silver techniques and tools used complement the historical record.

2/09/2010 - 5/11/2010

Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, München, Germany

11/06/2010 – 05/09/2010

Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Pforzheim, Germany

Die Berliner Goldschmiede Emil Lettre und Herbert Zeitner

Lettré Emil (1876-1954) and Herbert Zeitner (1900-1988), made a substantial contribution to Germany's jewellery and appliance design in the cultural capital of the German Reich in the 1920s. Both have close links with the Goldsmithing city of Hanau - Lettré was born and trained there and for a short period (1933/34) taught at the National Academy of Drawing; Zeitner moved as a child to Hanau and also visited the local school for goldsmiths. While Lettré's jewellery expresses the timeless elegance of classicism, Zeitner played with the involvement of "Figurines" in the forms of expressionism. The exhibition consists of over 200 exhibits, jewellery displays, equipment, photos and drafts of the two artists from private collections, as well as works on loan from the Badische Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe, the Jewellery Museum at Pforzheim and the National Academy Hanau.

until 1/08/2010

Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, Germany

Greek

Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean

Bringing together extraordinary antiquities, Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean takes visitors on a 4,000-year journey from life in the ancient Mediterranean to today.
Many of the more than 200 objects from three of the largest Mediterranean islands, Cyprus, Crete and Sardinia will be seen in the UK for the first time. They help us understand the ways these island cultures reflected, and even shaped the larger Mediterranean world with its migrations and movement of peoples. And they reveal how islanders lived every day, their communities, memories, myths, art and creativity.
Highlights include striking bronze votive figurines made around 4,000 years ago by the Nuragic people of Sardinia; exquisite pottery, jewellery and bronze figures from the palaces, sanctuaries and caves of Minoan Crete; and from the sanctuary of Agia Eirini, a selection of clay-modelled humans, deities, sphinxes and horse-drawn chariots that reveal the complexities of Cypriot society in the 6th and 7th century BC.

24/02/2023 - 4/06/2023

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RB, UK

The Art of Adornment: Greek Jewellery of the 17th-19th centuries

The latest collection from the Benaki Museum to travel to Australia’s Hellenic Museum tells a tale of more than just the wearing of jewellery. Opening Friday 26 August, 2016, The Art of Adornment: Greek Jewellery from the 17th to 19th Centuries features items that were said to bring the wearer good luck, enhance fertility, and ward of evil spirits for protection and prosperity. The collection, that spans 400 years, features over 90 exquisite and intricate objects which highlight the artistry involved in jewellery making throughout this period as well as portraits in the gallery showing how these items were worn.

26/08/2016 - 29/01/2017

The Hellenic Museum, 280 William Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia

Unclasped: Discovering Contemporary Greek Jewellery

22 works of local and international jewellers will explore the connection between identity and place. The pieces reflect the relationships between history, traditions and cultural identity which shape and inform the artist’s practice.

6/02/2016 - 3/04/2016

Hellenic Museum, 280 William Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia

Patterns of Magnificence: Tradition and Reinvention in Greek Women’s Costume

Abundant in local variety, rich in embroidered and woven decoration and monumental in its completed ensemble, Greek traditional women’s dress has few equals in other countries. This exhibition will bring thirty two of the most splendid examples to London for the first time. They include the richly embroidered costume from Astypalaia in the Dodecanese, the astonishing assembly of fabrics, colours and jewellery from Stefanoviki in Thessaly and the superbly brocaded dress from Jannina in Epirus. The exhibition will also illustrate the interplay of native tradition and western aesthetic by displaying the court dress of the first Queen of the independent Greek state, Amalia of Oldenburg and that of her successor at the end of the nineteenth century, Queen Olga, the Russian-born consort of King George I. These splendid costumes represent a synthesis that is emblematic of nineteenth-century nation building. During the period of the exhibition the Hellenic Centre will arrange guided tours and hold lectures on costume, textiles, the reception of the indigenous tradition and the history and culture of Greece after independence. A fully illustrated catalogue with 10 essays by specialists in the field alongside catalogue entries and images for each costume will be available.

4/02/2014 – 2/03/2014

The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street, London W1U 5AS, UK

'Best of': Highlights in Jewelry and Couture

An exhibition which celebrates the power of Greek private institutions as generators of culture, this display invites viewers to challenge preconceived notions about fashion, jewelry and the art of design through a wealth of unique works that speak for themselves, evoking both the temporal and the timeless. Jewels from 50 collections created by Ilias Lalaounis and the Lalaounis house between 1947 and 2008 are presented alongside selected highlights from the extensive costume collections of the PFF dating from the 19th century to the present.

21/06/2011 – 29/12/2011

Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum, Athens, Greece

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

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

Irish

Ridefinire il Gioiello - Irlanda. Collettiva di bijoux ispirati all'Isola di Smeraldo
Redefining the Jewel - Ireland. Collection of jewels inspired by the Emerald Isle.

This is the eighth annual exhibition in the series 'Redefining the Jewel', part of the events of the cultural review 'Stupor mundi', an event organized by the Casalmaggiore Municipality's Culture Department. This year the reference theme is Ireland. The chosen artists designed a jewel with the aim of enhancing this area with its lush and unspoiled green meadows, changing skies and the beauty of the cliffs overlooking the stormy seas that bathe the island. Also, ruined castles and mysterious places of Celtic mythology, amid heroic poems and legendary figures. Starting from the suggestions of this island, the selected authors proposed a jewel capable of evoking its beauty, following different strands of research and inspiration: from nature to colours, from myths to the meaning of the word "island," from architecture to unspoiled landscapes.

22/10/2022 – 21/01/2023

Museo del Bijou di Casalmaggiore, Via Porzio, 9 - 26041 Casalmaggiore (CR), Italy

Jewellery Showcase

This exhibition showcases the Museum's important collection of Victorian costume jewellery. Amongst the accessories on display there will be delicately carved bog-oak jewellery that was most popular in the 1860s. Many of the pieces featured in the exhibition are based around traditional Irish designs including one on the Tara brooch. The historic costume accessories also on show were once essential accoutrements for every fashionable Victorian lady. The collection includes the gilt posy-holders, button-hooks and intricately made chatelaines that would have been as prized then as the latest iPhone today.

23/04/2015 – 31/08/2015

Armagh County Museum, The Mall East, Armagh, BT61 9BE, Northern Ireland, UK

Italian

Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean

Bringing together extraordinary antiquities, Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean takes visitors on a 4,000-year journey from life in the ancient Mediterranean to today.
Many of the more than 200 objects from three of the largest Mediterranean islands, Cyprus, Crete and Sardinia will be seen in the UK for the first time. They help us understand the ways these island cultures reflected, and even shaped the larger Mediterranean world with its migrations and movement of peoples. And they reveal how islanders lived every day, their communities, memories, myths, art and creativity.
Highlights include striking bronze votive figurines made around 4,000 years ago by the Nuragic people of Sardinia; exquisite pottery, jewellery and bronze figures from the palaces, sanctuaries and caves of Minoan Crete; and from the sanctuary of Agia Eirini, a selection of clay-modelled humans, deities, sphinxes and horse-drawn chariots that reveal the complexities of Cypriot society in the 6th and 7th century BC.

24/02/2023 - 4/06/2023

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RB, UK

Tra fili d'argento e arte
Between silver threads and art

This exhibition is dedicated to one of the typical handicrafts of the region: filigree.
The art of working pure silver has been for decades, centuries even, one of the staples among the teachings of the School of Art, creating over time master goldsmiths capable of making splendid masterpieces of incomparable taste and refinement. Among the jewellery made of filigree (mainly in silver, but some parts also in gold) the trèmui, characteristic hair pins intended to adorn women's hairstyles in traditional costume, stand out. The flowers, reminiscent of those found in the meadows of Cortina, are made from wire worked to a thickness of only 0.08 cm, i.e. that of a single hair, and are finished with coloured pastes.
It is these, together with brooches, necklaces and other items, that are on display in the exhibition. A true act of love towards an art that is unfortunately disappearing along with its custodians, whose numbers are dwindling fast, but which deserves to be shown and exalted so that someone, perhaps impressed by the silver wonders, will decide to pick up the baton.

7/12/2022 – 10/04/2023

Museo Etnografico Regole d'Ampezzo, Via Marangoi, 1, I-32043 Cortina d'Ampezzo (BL), Italy

Gioielli di Giulio Manfredi celebrano Raffaello. Scuola di Luce
Jewels by Giulio Manfredi celebrate Raphael. School of Light

This exhibition consists of 21 exquisite jewels, corresponding to 21 characters from Raphael’s cartoon, demonstrating that 'the cartoon still inspires those who let themselves be provoked by such lofty beauty'.
Giulio Manfredi recreates the dazzling secret of Raphael’s masterpiece in jewels and precious stones, as a gesture of admiration and love. His research, the awareness with which he experiments with matter and form, are the traces of a precious dream, where the legacy of Humanism is nothing more than the gaze turned towards new and contemporary beauty.

16/09/2022 – 16/02/2023

Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Room of the Raphael Cartoon, Piazza Pio XI 2, Milan, Italy

Ridefinire il Gioiello - Irlanda. Collettiva di bijoux ispirati all'Isola di Smeraldo
Redefining the Jewel - Ireland. Collection of jewels inspired by the Emerald Isle.

This is the eighth annual exhibition in the series 'Redefining the Jewel', part of the events of the cultural review 'Stupor mundi', an event organized by the Casalmaggiore Municipality's Culture Department. This year the reference theme is Ireland. The chosen artists designed a jewel with the aim of enhancing this area with its lush and unspoiled green meadows, changing skies and the beauty of the cliffs overlooking the stormy seas that bathe the island. Also, ruined castles and mysterious places of Celtic mythology, amid heroic poems and legendary figures. Starting from the suggestions of this island, the selected authors proposed a jewel capable of evoking its beauty, following different strands of research and inspiration: from nature to colours, from myths to the meaning of the word "island," from architecture to unspoiled landscapes.

22/10/2022 – 21/01/2023

Museo del Bijou di Casalmaggiore, Via Porzio, 9 - 26041 Casalmaggiore (CR), Italy

Vetro. Gioielli italiani fra '800 e '900
Glass. Italian jewellery in the 19th and 20th centuries

The UN has declared 2022 as the International Year of Glass in which the world celebrates the "technological, scientific, economic, environmental, historical and artistic role of glass in society". The Museo del Bijou is celebrating glass with this special exhibition of a selection of jewellery and period documents.
Glass, kaleidoscopic and multiform, has always been appreciated because it is capable of taking on the features and colours of nature and also of going further, transforming itself into something new, the fruit of human ingenuity and creative ability.
Before the advent of plastics, glass was considered one of the materials par excellence in the creation of jewellery that marked the evolution of women's style and role in society: from angel of the hearth to uninhibited flapper, from bon-ton lady to career woman, from revolutionary flower child to ethereal minimalist. Between the 19th and 20th centuries, following the process of industrialisation, glass diversified its identity: on the one hand a mass-produced article for the general public used in low-cost bijoux; on the other a product of the highest craftsmanship subject to technical and artistic experimentation for refined and luxury jewellery.

23/04/2022 – 16/10/2022

Museo del Bijou di Casalmaggiore, Via Porzio, 9 - 26041 Casalmaggiore, Italy

Diva! Italian Glamour in Fashion Jewellery

This exhibition features 200 pieces of Italian fashion jewellery, from the 1950s to today. The exhibition was curated by Alba Cappellieri, Professor of Jewellery Design at Politecnico di Milano University (Italy), and Codirector of the Vicenza Museum of Jewellery. The exhibition will take the visitors on a journey through the masterpieces of the major Italian bijouterie, the finest expression of Italian design and craftsmanship, bringing together a well-established and prestigious tradition with innovation of materials and new technologies.

23/06/2021 - 23/07/2021

The Italian Cultural Institute of Abu Dhabi

Al Qasbah Street, Al Bateen, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.

Napoli Liberty. “N’aria ‘e primmavera”
Liberty style at Naples. 'Spring in the air'

The exhibition demonstrates the spread of the modernist style and the original character of art in Naples in the period between 1889 and 1915. During the Liberty season, the applied arts that integrate with the major arts occupy an important role. High quality manufactories will be exhibited, in the sector of precious goldsmiths and semi-precious stones (coral, mother of pearl and tortoise), a genre in which Naples is pre-eminent in Europe. Among these precious objects, the jewels of Emanuele Centonze, Gaetano Jacoangeli, Vincenzo Miranda and the Ascione Manufactury are famous throughout Europe for diadems, brooches, clasps. The Coral School of Torre del Greco will also be represented, which has distinguished itself for a refined, eclectic and modern processing of semi-precious stones, applied to objects of functional value, in great demand on the market, such as buttons, jewellery boxes and 'pettenesse'. Central to this section is the painting 'Seductions' (1906) by Vincenzo Migliaro, which depicts a window of the Jacoangeli jewellery store, in which you can see a female figure who lets her intense emotionality shine through in front of those objects of desire.

25/09/2020 - 24/01/2021

Gallerie d’Italia – Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Via Toledo 185, Napoli, Italy

Stile Milano. Storie di Eleganza

This exhibition, set up in the new wing on the first floor of this historic building, will illustrate the relationship between dress and jewellery from the 1950s to the present day. Each city has its own style and Milan, with its sobriety, has defined a refined elegance, made of impeccable garments and precious details, the result of high craftsmanship, to become the undisputed capital of fashion: Stile Milano tells how this happened. In addition to targeted loans, the exhibition presents some clothes belonging to the Museum's heritage which document the history of Milanese tailoring.

21/01/2020 - 29/03/2020

Palazzo Morando, Via Sant'Andrea, 6 - 20121 Milano, Italy

Longobardi. Un popolo che cambia la storia
The Longobards. A people who changed history

The arrival of the Longobards in Italy in 638 changed the country, and Western Europe, for ever. This major exhibition will link the parabola of the Lombard presence in Italy with its antecedents and contemporary events elsewhere, linking the local scenario to the global one of Europe and the Mediterranean. It will highlight how the presence of the Longobards played a "leading" role in cultural transmissions and knowledge in the transalpine area, the Mediterranean and the Byzantine world, addressing diverse aspects and themes. The exhibition will subsequently be shown in Naples, from 15 December, and St Petersburg, from April 2018.

1/09/2017 – 3/12/2017

Musei Civici di Pavia, Castello Visconteo, Viale XI Febbraio 35, 27100 - Pavia, Italy

Rigore e Libertà. All’origine del gioiello contemporaneo italiano
Rigour and Freedom. The origins of Italian contemporary jewellery

Rings, earrings, necklaces, bracelets and brooches designed and made as works of art. Sculptures to wear and admire, born from evolving thought that tell the story of Italian genius in the art of gold. The shapes, functions and characteristics of the twentieth century jewel are the protagonists. It is a tribute of international scale that the Fondazione Marino Marini di Pistoia dedicates to the origins of contemporary jewellery through the masterpieces of the three greatest masters of gold: the Paduan Giampaolo Babetto (Padua 1947), Francesco Pavan (1937), and, taking the journey back until the birth of the jewel, Mario Pinton (Padua 1919 - 2008). He also studied under Marino Marini, when he was teaching at the Istituto Industrie Artistiche (ISIA) of Monza, where Pinton was inspired to rework the jewel as a true work of art. This exhibition highlights for the first time the relationship between Pinton and Marino Marini, author of jewels and works of art made with precious materials.

26/10/2018 – 24/03/2019

Marino Marini Foundation, Corso Silvano Fedi 30, 51100 Pistoia, Italy

Gioielli e gioiellieri italiani: 1900 – 1990. Il trionfo della creatività
Italian jewels and jewellers: 1900 - 1990. The triumph of creativity

In a tribute to Italian craftsmanship, over 150 works tell, for the first time, the scenario of Italian jewellery production in the 20th century. This evolution is traced through chronological sections devoted to Neo-historicism, Liberty Style, Art Deco, the production of the thirties, forties and fifties, until you get to the sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties: the path of the birth of the "made in Italy" movement. Archive research, revealing the homegrown technical excellence and the perfect organization of work in the goldsmith's workshops, has also enabled us to reconstruct the history of Italian jewellers, often active in existing family enterprises, today involving the third or fourth generations. They parade before our eyes many different types of precious objects - tiaras and diadems, necklaces, rings, bracelets, brooches and earrings - made by the great names of Italian goldsmithing: starting from the splendour of the jewellery of Mario and then Gianmaria Buccellati through the Milanese creations of Alfredo Ravasco (some of whose works will be on public display for the first time), the Genoese Filippo Chiappe, the Musy from Turin, the Roman Petochi and Milanese Cusi, the neo-archeological Codognato, to jewellery in coral by the Ascione family. The examples from the Forties, the choice of materials and forms conditioned by war events, are represented by the major names of Cusi, Chantecler and Illario. The exhibition also presents works inspired by art movements made by the Roman jeweller Mario Masenza in collaboration with painters and sculptors such as, among others, Afro and Cannilla, as well as showing examples of the experimental "new jewels" created by the brothers Arnaldo and Giò Pomodoro.

24/11/2016 – 20/03/2017

Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Via Manzoni 12, 20121 Milan, Italy

I gioielli neoetruschi di Zenobio Bencivenga
The Neo-Etruscan jewellery of Zenobio Bencivenga

This exhibition, the fourth in a series dedicated to restoring to public sight forgotten objects from the collections of the Museums of Lazio, displays the neo-Etruscan jewellery of the celebrated nineteenth-century Roman goldsmiths, the Bencivenga. The jewellery in Zenobio Bencivenga's "Etruscan-Roman" style testifies to the refined quality reached by the Roman goldsmiths of the nineteenth century in the production of jewellery inspired by ancient models. "Italian" archaeological jewellery, as evidenced by the productions of Bencivenga, consisted not in the mere copy or imitation of antique jewellery, but in the reinterpretation and transformation of the original models in a fully nineteenth-century context. The work of Zenobio Bencivenga perfectly illustrates this, decorated with theatrical masks and palms and, on the bracelet, coloured enamels as well. The Bencivenga were among the finest exponents of Roman gold production in the second half of the nineteenth century and the jewellery on display, donated to the State by the heirs of Bencivenga in 1936, along with two others in the same style and a bracelet "with winged female busts in the Egyptian style", was initially intended for the Museo Nazionale Romano, but then became (with the full agreement of the heirs) part of the collections of the Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia in 1955.

30/09/2016 – 9/01/2017

Museo Archeologico dell'Agro Falisco, Forte Sangallo, Via del Forte 01033, Civita Castellana, Italy

Gioielli Vertiginosi. Ada Minola e le avanguardie artistiche a Torino nel secondo dopoguerra
Dizzying jewels. Ada Minola and the artistic avant-garde at Turin after WWII

This exhibition, curated by Paola Stroppiana, is devoted to gold jewellery and in particular that of the artistic and human personality Ada Minola (1912-1993): versatile sculptor, goldsmith, entrepreneur and gallery owner, active in Turin in the second half of the 20th century. It is divided into five sections and shows publicly for the first time 120 jewels which represent the main production characteristics of the goldsmith, focusing on different areas of stylistic influences: from Art Nouveau to Artist's Jewellery, from comparisons with the sculptures of Pomodoro and Lucio Fontana to the neo-Baroque period, from dialogues with the works of Umberto Mastroianni to the universal aesthetic influences of the brilliant architect Carlo Mollino. To enrich the exhibition there is also a constant reference to works of art, drawings, books, and archive photographs that place the objects on display in their accurate historical context. Accompanying the exhibition is a catalogue published by Silvana Editoriale, with texts by Paola Stroppiana and a rich iconography, made possible thanks to the valuable contribution of Gian Enzo Sperone.

6/05/2016 – 12/09/2016

Palazzo Madama, Museo Civico d’Arte Antica, Piazza Castello, 10122 Torino, Italy

Bellissima. Italy and High Fashion 1945-1968

This exhibition is not a history of high fashion, but, rather, the attempt to reassemble, through the lens of today, the complex and ever-changing image of Italian fashion, in a choral account made up of many exemplary stories that are the very fabric that will give shape and consistency to the great success of the “made in Italy” label. The exhibition also features the creations of Bulgari, the most famous Italian jeweller around the world, with a selection of unique pieces displaying great experimentation and stylistic innovation.

2/12/2014 - 3/05/2015

MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts, via Guido Reni, 4 A, 00196 Roma, Italy

Indossare la Bellezza: La grande bigiotteria italiana

An unprecedented selection of Italian jewellery from the late nineteenth century to the early years of the millennium, from prestigious private collections, archives and company museums, public institutions, and also the Museum of Jewellery at Casalmaggiore itself, curated by Bianca Cappello. Includes work by Angela Caputi–Giuggiù, Armani, Artigiana Fiorentina Bigiotteria, Bijoux Bozart, Bijoux Cascio, Clotilde Silva, Corbella, Ugo Correani, Coppola e Toppo, De Liguoro, Ferenaz, Gattinoni, Fendi, Giuliano Fratti, Lo.Sa, Luciana de Reutern, Ken Scott, Mazzucco Romano, Ercole Moretti, Moschino, Ornella Bijoux, Ottavio Re, Sharra Pagano, Pellini Bijoux, Sorelle Sent, Fratelli Traversari, Unger & Carlo Zini. Catalogue available.

19/03/2016 – 29/05/2016

Museo del Bijou, Via Azzo Porzio, 9 - 26041 - Casalmaggiore (CR), Italy

Grandi Bigiottieri Italiani - Ornella Bijoux
Great Italian Costume Jewellers - Ornella Bijoux

Founded in 1944 by Piera Albani and his daughter Maria Vittoria, Ornella Bijoux is one of the most famous companies making handmade jewellery, accredited to the Bottega Storica di Milano. This exhibition, in the Zaffanella Hall of the Museum, will present more than 200 pieces, which will relate, over sixty years of Italian creativity, the progress of fashion through the original writings, elegant and unique, of Maria Vittoria Albani. This important exhibition, organized in collaboration with the jewellery historian and critic Bianca Cappello, is intended to be the first in a series of monographs dedicated to the great protagonists of 'Made in Italy' jewellery, a fascinating chapter in the history of costume jewellery yet to be uncovered. The exhibition is accompanied by a selection of vintage cocktail dresses by Biki from the collection of Cavalli e Nastri of Milan, a fashion house with which Ornella Bijoux worked extensively in the 1960s.

21/03/2015 - 17/05/2015

Museo del Bijou, Via Azzo Porzio, 9 - 26041 - Casalmaggiore (CR), Italy

Gioielli d'artista. La tradizione nella modernità

This exhibition, curated by Ornella Casazza and Laura Felici, and promoted and organized by OMA, is dedicated to Tuscan and foreign painters and sculptors who practice the jewellery arts and, in particular, are turning their attention to sculpture intended to wear as jewellery. It takes place in two locations in Florence, and is accompanied by a catalogue

30/04/2014 – 15/10/2014,

Museo Horne

via de’ Benci 6 Firenze, Italy

Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze

Spazio Mostre, Via Bufalini n. 6, Firenze, Italy

Il Tesoro dei Longobardi
Lombard treasure

This exhibition, the second in a series of exhibitions dedicated to the processing of gold and precious metals in the ancient world, will display ancient Lombard objects from the Duchy of Cividale, the National Archaeological Museum of Florence, the Academy of Cortona and the Diocese of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, in comparison with a special section dedicated to contemporary jewellery crafts. The goldsmiths' association Confartigianato Arezzo offers contemporary creations inspired by the shapes of the ancient Lombard goldsmiths. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue.

12/04/2013 – 30/06/2013

MAEC – Museo dell’Accademia Etrusca e della Città di Cortona, Palazzo Casali, piazza Signorelli, 9 – 52044 Cortona (AR), Italy

I grandi capolavori del Corallo. I coralli di Trapani del XVII e XVIII secolo
Masterpieces of coral. Trapanese corals from the 17th and 18th centuries

From chalices and monstrances, cribs and chests, salt cellars and frames to gaming tables and trophies for the palaces of nobles and kings: this exhibition gathers together the best of Trapani coral art from that historical period. Curated by Valeria Vigni Li, director of the Pepoli Museum, it is a collaborative effort between the Puglisi Cosentino Foundation and Fondazione Roma Mediterraneo and houses historical collections belonging to the Banca Popolare di Novara, the Pepoli Museum, the Whitaker Foundation and the Diocesan Museum of Monreale, as well as individual pieces from private collections, both Italian and foreign. During the exhibition, the Goldsmiths Jewellers Association of Trapani, in collaboration with Federpreziosi-Confcommercio and the Art School of Design in Trapani, will set up a laboratory where students will show how coral is currently worked in useful and important initiatives for promoting this charming old trade to the new generation.

3/03/2013 – 5/05/2013

Fondazione Puglisi Cosentino per l'arte, Palazzo Valle, Viale Vittorio Emanuele 122 - 95131 Catania, Italy

18/05/2013 – 30/06/2013

Museo Pepoli, Via Conte Agostino Pepoli 180, Trapani, Italy

L'Oro e la memoria

This exhibition contains around 200 pieces of jewellery, mostly coming from the Valle del Cervo and a fair number from Biella itself, the steady accumulation of "small hoards" passed from one generation to another within families. Their collection is the result of a methodical research process that takes its cue from that set up in the territory of Biella by Alessandro Roccavilla more than a century ago. The whole is a complete and documented - by types, shapes, materials and techniques - account of the use of precious ornaments by women from the early nineteenth century until the First World War. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, published in Biella, of about 270 pages, richly illustrated in colour and accompanied by essays by the curator, Lia Lenti, as well as Patrizia Bellardone, Danilo Craveia, Alessandra Montanera.

2/12/2012 – 6/01/2013

Museo del Territorio Biellese, Chiostro di San Sebastiano, Via Quintino Sella, Biella, Italy

Lux in Arcana. Documents from the Vatican Secret Archives

An unprecedented cultural and media event: 100 original documents, preserved for 400 years in the Popes’ Archive, will leave the confines of the Vatican City walls for the first time in history. The documents include part of the Archivio Borghese, the most substantial family archive held by the Vatican Secret Archives, made up of nearly 9,000 items mainly referring to the administration of the Borghese family’s wealth. In one of the last boxes, hidden among various accounts and expense notes, numerous watercolor plates are attached to a manuscript inventory of the family’s hereditary jewels. In 1834 prince Francesco (1776-1839) commissioned famous Roman goldsmith Fortunato Pio Castellani to survey the gems possessed by the Borghese household. Even though at the time he was continuously sought-after by the most famous families of the Roman aristocracy for his archaic-looking artefacts, the artisan drew numerous sketches of the jewels, among which some belonged to Pauline Bonaparte, who received them as a gift by brother Napoleon when she married Camillo Borghese, prince Francesco’s brother, in 1803; the emerald tiara and earrings described here are practically identical with those worn by Pauline Bonaparte for the 1807 marriage of Jerome Bonaparte and Catherine of Württemberg and captured by Jean-Baptiste Regnault in his painting which now hangs in Versailles. Subsequently, Pauline’s magnificent jewels were dismembered and remounted according to the time’s fashion for the marriage between Francesco’s son, Marcantonio, and Gwendoline Talbot, the Duke of Shrewsbury’s daughter, in 1835.

1/03/2012 - 9/09/2012

Musei Capitolini, Piazza del Campidoglio 1 - 00186 Roma, Italy

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

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

The Voyage of a Contemporary Italian Goldsmith in the Classical World: Golden Treasures by Akelo

This exhibition shows jewellery designed by master goldsmith Andrea Cagnetti, who is also known as Akelo. The pieces include unique 22-c gold necklaces, cuffs, earrings, pins, bowls and boxes whose design is based on the shapes and patterns used by the ancient inhabitants of what is now Tuscany. Akelo conducted research into the goldsmithing techniques employed by the ancient Etruscans and managed to master one of these, granulation, to produce this latest collection.

5/06/2010 – 26/09/2010

Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

7/10/2010 – 11/03/2011

The GIA Museum, Carlsbad, 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

Pulcherrima Res. Precious jewellery of the past

Exhibition of Sicilian jewellery of 8000 years, from the Mesolithic to the Byzantine age, from the medal collections of the Archaeological Museum Antonio Salinas in Palermo.

19/12/2009 – 23/05/2010

Chiesa San Francesco Borgia, Catania, Italy

Royal diadems and jewellery: Masterpieces of Italian goldsmiths' art of the Court of Savoy

This exhibition displays the court jewellery of Savoy, created by the best Italian goldsmiths of the 19th century, preserved intact in the Sanctuary of Oropa, with splendid works of 17th and 18th century. There are also “civil” jewels – representing the devotion during centuries of the common people, aristocracy and royal family to the Madonna d’Oropa, a major sanctuary in the mountains of Biella that dominates physically and spiritually all other parts of the Piedmont region.

26/07/2009 – 10/01/2010

Reggia di Venaria, Turin, Italy

Oro dai Visconti agli Sforza. Smalti e oreficeria nel Ducato di Milan
Gold from the Visconti to the Sforza. Enamels and goldsmith's work in the Duchty of Milan

For the first time, an exhibition will trace the history of goldsmith's work in the Duchy of Milan between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, testifying to its quality and predominant role, through 60 masterpieces from the most prestigious collections both public and private, Italian and international, including the German Essen Cathedral, the Louvre in Paris and the National Gallery in Washington. A catalogue produced by Silvana Editoriale will accompany the exhibition.

30/09/2011 – 29/01/2012

Museo Diocesano, Milano, Italy

Maltese

Jewellery in Malta: Vanity, Profanity and Prayer

For the first time in Malta, this exhibition will bring together spectacular pieces of jewellery loaned from Maltese private and church collections which rarely, if ever, are seen in public. It will be a unique opportunity to view such a collection of artistic and historic jewellery under the same roof. Over five hundred jewellery items will be exhibited and this will provide a thorough survey of what jewellery in Malta looked like from ancient times to the present. Jewellery sheds light on the beliefs, customs and fashions of a people and this exhibition will highlight all these aspects. The exhibition is being organised by Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti, a Maltese not-for profit organisation which has organised landmark exhibitions in the decorative and fine arts in Malta for more than two decades.

31/03/2013 – 26/05/2013

Casino Maltese, 247, Republic Street Valletta VLT1114, Malta

Filigree - Tradition & Innovation - An Exhibition of Handmade Maltese Filigree

The exhibition includes varied pieces of handmade Maltese filigree in both the traditional styles and in the more audacious and innovative forms. The aim of this public showcase of filigree is to highlight the flexibility of this Maltese form of silversmithing, as well as to reveal the more artistic aspect of filigree design. In fact, during the period of the exhibition, filigree jewellery designer Kevin Attard will be collaborating with a number of established and upcoming Maltese artists to develop a jewellery creation - pendant or earrings to their artistic design. Visitors to this exhibition may meet filigree makers and ask questions about the jewellery, observe filigree being made, meet an artist and eventually see each artist's design on display as the days go by.

08/10/2009 – 13/11/2009

Palazzo Castellania, Valletta, Malta

Nordic

ModernistJewellery

Discover a generation of designers and makers who embraced innovative and diverse influences, from the natural environment to non-precious materials. This small display will highlight pieces from British and Nordic designers, that would go on to influence a new wave of jewellery production.

1/12/2017 – 29/04/2018

National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF, UK

Tone Vigeland. Schmuck - Objekt - Skulptur

Scandinavian studio jewellery is quite inconceivable without Tone Vigeland and her oeuvre. Already in the early 1960s, Tone Vigeland’s jewellery featured regularly in what are today considered legendary exhibitions and publications, for example, in the 1961 “International Exhibition of Modern Jewellery” at Goldsmiths' Hall London, which first presented to the public the emerging studio jewellery movement. Now Die Neue Sammlung is devoting to the grande dame of Scandinavian studio jewellery the first solo show on the European continent outside Scandinavia – 50 years after her first solo presentation took place 1967 in Kunstnerneshus in Oslo. The exhibition has been produced in close collaboration with the artist. Featuring some 150 works it provides an overview of Tone Vigeland’s studio jewellery from the years 1958 to 1995, an overview accompanied by a selection of objects and sculptures from 1998 until today.

11/03/2017 - 11/06/2017

Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, Barer Straße 40, 80333 München, Germany

From The Coolest Corner

The exhibition showcases experimental and boundary-breaking contemporary jewellery from sixty of the foremost Nordic and Baltic designers. Some of the most cutting-edge and sophisticated examples of Nordic jewellery design will be on display. The spotlight will be on jewellery as an art form, featuring a varied, dazzling, and challenging display of modern jewellery that discusses both the contemporary age it embodies and the tradition of jewellery it follows. The works of recognised masters such as Sigurd Bronger (N), Kim Buck (DK), Konrad Mehus (N), Helena Lehtinen (FIN), and Tore Svendson (S) are displayed alongside works by a younger generation of jewellery designers, such as Sirja Knaapi (FIN), Helga Ragnhildur Mogensen (IS), and Anna Talbot (N). The exhibition provides unique insight into the preoccupations of contemporary Nordic jewellery designers and highlights their prominent standing both at home and abroad. The works in the exhibition have been selected by an international jury.

19/01/2013 - 21/04/2013

Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, St. Olavs gate 1, Oslo, Norway

28/06/2013 - 15/09/2013

Designmuseum Danmark, Bredgade 68 / 1260 København K, Denmark

11/10/2013 - 12/01/2014

Design Museum, Korkeavuorenkatu 23, 00130 Helsinki, Finland

7/03/2014 - 11/05/2014

Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, 17 Lai Street, 10133 Tallinn, Estonia

3/06/2014 – 21/09/2014

Röhsska Museum, Vasagatan 37-39, Göteborg, Sweden

8/03/2014 - 11/05/2015

The Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, 17 Lai Street, 10133 Tallinn, Estonia

Polish

Cosmos Lem Jewellery

Cosmos Lem Jewellery is an international project organized by the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, including works of more than 100 artists. The project creators submit to its participants to use different ideas of the Universe and the literary output of Stanistaw Lem, the great Polish artist: writer, philosopher and futurologist, as a source of inspiration. The project materialised a unique collection of objects of a broadly understood jewellery nature, which will be presented successively in specially selected places. The project originators hope that in the discourse of contemporary art, which in recent years was directed towards the past and the present, this statement will become, a look into the future, an important declaration to inspire also other artists to look in this direction, and therefore to have art and artists once again assume the role of a vanguard: the avant-garde of culture.

26/11/2022 – 8/01/2023

Museum of Gdansk,  Main Town Hall, Dluga 46/47, 80-831 Gdańsk, Poland

To Rule and to Dazzle. Jewels and Jewellery in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th and 17th centuries

’Jewels’ is a word which defines extremely valuable and unique items. Both categories may refer to insignia of power, signs of office, valuables of sentimental importance and ceremonial costume decorations. The exhibition at the Royal Castle represents a unique opportunity to see miniatures of the masterpieces from the private treasuries of Bona Sforza and Zygmunt August which have been brought in from Munich, Bern, Milan and New York. The idea behind the exhibition is to show the art of jewellery from the Vasa dynasty when the local craftsmen achieved true mastery. Some of these old Polish valuables, primarily regalia from the Crown Treasury, suffered damage. The secular jewels survived, since they had been hidden in the ground or donated as votive offerings to Marian sanctuaries. The phenomenon of Sarmatian piety is best illustrated by a priceless set of jewels on loan for the first time from the Jasna Góra Monastery of the Pauline Order. These artefacts tell more about the power of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the exceptional artistic taste of their elites than documents preserved in archives do.

30/05/2019 - 4/08/2019

The Royal Castle in Warsaw, plac Zamkowy 4, 00-277 Warsaw, Poland

Treasures of the Middle Ages: Archaeological Finds from Poland

Schätze des Mittelalters – Schmuck aus dem Staatlichen Archäologischen Museum Warschau

The exhibition, a travelling exhibition from the State Archaeological Museum in Warsaw, includes bracelets, rings, earrings, buckles, brooches, pendants and necklaces. Items worn by the nobility were made from gold, silver, bronze and glass while other people often wore objects made from copper, tin and even lead. In medieval times the type of jewellery a person possessed often indicated their status in society as well as their wealth and this topic is dealt with in the exhibition. As well as detailing the different types of jewellery worn and its decorative and practical function, the exhibition shows the various processes involved in the making of certain examples of the items on display. This provides an insight into the sophisticated techniques of those who produced the jewellery. The exhibition also includes information on how the designs incorporated into the jewellery reflected the beliefs and culture of the time. Some pieces on display are associated with worship of the sun or moon or elements in nature and some designs are particularly associated with men or women. One of the highlights of the exhibition is the section on the Borucin hoard which was discovered in northern Poland in 1856. The objects found date to about 1050 and include a total of 36 objects, ranging from gold and silver beads to disc pendants, a ‘lunula’ or moon-shaped pendant, and an amulet case.

16/10/2012 - 10/03/2013

Archäologisches Landesmuseum Brandenburg im Paulikloster, Neustädtische Heidestr. 28, 14776 Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany

13/06/2013 – 22/09/2013

Down County Museum, The Mall, Downpatrick, County Down, BT30 6AH, UK

05/10/2013 – 6/01/2014

The Braid, Ballymena Town Hall, Museum & Arts Centre, 1 - 29 Bridge Street, Ballymena BT43 5EJ, UK

Portuguese

Lords of the Ocean. Treasures of the Portuguese Empire of the 16th - 18th Centuries

More than two hundred artifacts from museums and private collections in Portugal, Russia and other countries will help to demonstrate, on the one hand, the magnificence of the Portuguese court, the traditions of Portuguese navigation, science and culture. On the other hand, they will present vivid evidence of mutual influence and cultural exchange between the metropolitan power and its dominions in India, China, Japan, Africa and Brazil. Exhibits include portraits and items which belonged to the rulers, military commanders, explorers, who played an important role in the history of the Portuguese colonial empire, ceremonial objects from palaces, jewellery, coins, liturgical objects, weapons and armour, documents, engravings, atlases, maps, navigation instruments and tools, manuscripts and books of the 16th–17th centuries. Of great interest are works of local art, which depict Europeans.

8/12/2017 – 25/02/2018

The Moscow Kremlin Museums, 103132 Russia, Moscow, Kremlin, Russia

Russian

Treasures of Ancient Russia from the Russian Museum Collection

The exhibition presents unique jewellery of gold and silver dated to the XIth-XIIIth centuries and from most rich treasures that were hidden mostly in 1237-1240, in the period when Mongol-Tatar armies attacked Russian towns. The exposition brings together over 400 works that present different techniques and styles of the Pre-Mongolian jewellery craft. The Russian Museum collection treasures is one of the richest in the world and includes many masterpieces. The most significant of them are the objects made of gold with cloisonné enamel, of silver with niello and engraving, and also adornments decorated with tiniest granulating: precious ceremonial attires of the princes (knyaz) and members of their families, boyars and warriors from Kiev, Chernigov and Old Ryazan. The most prominent are the adornments from Kiev treasures: pendants ornamented with depictions of the Sirin bird and the "ryasny" chains (the best examples of this kind ever found in Russia) and also a golden diadem with the depiction of Deisis that was used as a bridal crown. In the silver jewellery treasures the true masterpieces are the wide folding bracelets with depiction of animals and birds and the scenes of the pagan folk festivities - "rousalii". All these exhibits provide an opportunity to know the artistic tastes of the townsfolk and also the jewellers' skill and show the richness of jewellery adornments of people in the Ancient Rus. The special section of exhibition shows the tools of jewellers that executed the adornments. The exposition also includes the tribal jewellery attires of Russia, Byzantium, Volga Bulgaria and Scandinavia to let see the originality of the Old Russian goldwork that is presented by the embellishments from the hidden treasures.

12/11/2015 – 10/01/2016

The Russian Museum, Mikhailovsky Castle, 2 Sadovaya Str., St Petersburg, Russia

Im Glanz der Zaren. Die Romanows, Württemberg und Europa
The glory of the Tsars. The Romanovs, Württemberg and Europe

Five marriages, four generations, one story. No other dynasty has maintained as close a family relationship with the Romanovs as the house of Württemberg. For the first time the five women, whose marriages laid the basis for the extraordinary common history, are at the centre of a major national exhibition. At the same time, their impact on the European power stages is illuminated. This exhibition tells of pomp, splendour and glory, but also of homesickness and everyday life, of faith and myth, and the exchange between Russia and Württemberg in education, science and economy. Outstanding exhibits, some shown outside Russia for the first time, bring the richness of the Tsars' court back to Stuttgart. High-profile Russian museums, such as the Kremlin, the State Historical Museum and the Pavlovsk Reserve have contributed magnificent objects.

5/10/2013 – 23/03/2014

Landesmuseum Württemberg, Altes Schloss, Schillerplatz 6, 70173 Stuttgart

Krim - Goldene Insel im Schwarzen Meer. Griechen - Skythen - Goten
The Crimea - a golden island in the Black Sea. Greeks, Scythians, Goths

Located at the end point of the Eurasian steppes, the Crimea was for many centuries a unique cultural hub between Asia and the civilizations of the Mediterranean. The tension between the urban centres on the coast and the equestrian nomadic peoples is at the center of this exhibition. It is based on a cultural richness that is reflected not only in numerous ornate gold works, but the whole spectrum of Greek architecture, sculpture and ceramics up to the nomadic equestrian burials discovered in Kurgan grave mounds. Singular evidence of the wide-ranging contacts of the peoples of the Crimea is a Chinese lacquer box from the cemetery of Ust'Alma that is currently being restored in Japan with enormous effort and is being made accessible to the public for the first time here in Bonn. The Landesmuseum Bonn has obtained the co-operation of the most important museums in the Crimea for this project, and many objects are shown for the first time outside the Ukraine.

4/07/2013 - 19/01/2014

LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn, Colmantstr. 14-16, 53115 Bonn, Germany

Treasures of the Royal Courts. Tudors , Stuarts and the Russian Tsars

This exhibition reveals the majesty of the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I to Ivan the Terrible and the early Romanovs in a major exhibition celebrating 500 years of exchange between Britain and Russia. Comprising more than 150 objects, from royal portraits, jewellery and luxury goods to processional armour and heraldry, Treasures of the Royal Courts chronicles the close relationship between the English monarchy and the Russian Tsars. At the heart of the exhibition is a showcase of spectacular silver given to successive Russian Tsars, on exclusive loan from the Moscow Kremlin Museums. Highlights also include a rarely shown portrait of Elizabeth I and the legendary ruby-studded Drake Star, providing a stunning insight into the ritual and chivalry of the royal courts.

9/03/2013 - 14/07/2013

Victoria & Albert Museum/V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL, UK

Between Orient and Occident. Treasures of the Kremlin from Ivan the Terrible to Peter the Great

In 2006 the Grünes Gewölbe presented an exhibition at the Moscow Kremlin Museums under the title “The Jewel Cabinet of August the Strong”. Now, six years later, the host museums are paying a return visit to Dresden: Around 140 masterpieces from the Moscow Kremlin Museums are on show in a special exhibition in the State Apartments of Dresden’s former Royal Palace (Residenzschloss). They include items from the collection of European silver from the Kremlin Armoury, sumptuous garments, precious jewellery and vessels, as well as arms produced by Turkish and Persian craftsmen. These objects will be complemented by 23 items on loan from the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen and the Saxon State and University Library (SLUB), and also from the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel.

1/12/2012 - 4/03/2013

Green Vault (Grünes Gewölbe), Royal Palace (Residenzschloss), Taschenberg 2, D-01067 Dresden, Germany

Carl Fabergé & Feodor Rückert. Masterpieces of Russian Enamel

This exhibition presents about 400 masterpieces made by Russian jewellery firms of the 19th – early 20th century. The key exhibits are art pieces produced by the eminent Moscow 'enamel artist' Feodor Rückert (1851-1918) and the world-famous Royal Court firm lead by Carl Fabergé (1846-1920), mainly by its Moscow branch. F. Rückert supplied the house of C. Fabergé and other enterprises purveyors to the Royal Household with his production, i.e. the firms of I. Khlebnikov and P. Ovchinnikov, as well as Moscow shops of O. Kurlyukov, V. Bolin, and a Kievan firm of I. Marshak. These objects present all the enamel techniques — cloisonné, champlevé, plique-á-jour, guilloché and painted enamel. Jewellers often adorned their creations with miniature replicas based on paintings of renowned artists of that day. Russian silversmiths were inspired by V. Vasnetsov, K. Makovsky, I. Kulikov, F. Sychkov, V. Vereshchagin, S. Solomko and E. Boehm. Visitors to the exhibition will have a unique opportunity to see the paintings and their replicas in the painted enamel technique side by side. In addition enamel masterpieces made by masters of Usolie (a town in Siberia renowned for its 17th c. enamels) and works by the Kremlin workshops jewellers, as well as Chinese porcelain artists of the 16th-17th centuries — are presented for the first time next to their reproductions created by the firms of P. Ovchinnikov, I. Khlebnikov, P. Sazikov and F. Rückert.

9/10/2020 – 14/02/2021

Exhibition hall of the Assumption Belfry and Exhibition hall of the Patriarch's Palace, The Moscow Kremlin State Historical and Cultural Museum and Heritage Site, 103132 Russia, Moscow, Kremlin

Fabergé: Imperial Jeweler to the Tsars

Discover the spectacular designs of Carl Fabergé, a master goldsmith and legendary jeweler who is still celebrated for his inventive design and meticulous craftsmanship. Perhaps best known for the Imperial Easter Eggs created for the Russian Royal family, the House of Fabergé also fashioned jewelry and luxurious gifts for many ruling families of Europe as well as other wealthy patrons.

13/11/2009 - 4/04/2010

Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX, USA

Scottish

Scotland's Early Silver

Today gold is more valuable than silver, but in the first millennium AD silver was the most powerful material in Scotland. Scotland’s earliest silver arrived with the Roman army and had a lasting impact on local society, quickly becoming associated with prestige and power. In the centuries that followed, Roman silver objects were hacked and melted down to make iconic early medieval treasures like the massive silver chains. By AD700 the silver had been recycled many times and was used to make powerful objects such as the famous Hunterston Brooch. Featuring spectacular objects dating from AD75 to AD1000, and supported by The Glenmorangie Research Project on Early Medieval Scotland, Scotland’s Early Silver explores the part that silver played in the transformation of society in Scotland throughout the first millennium AD.

13/10/2017 – 25/02/2018

National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF, UK

Silver of the Stars + Comtemporary Jewellery

The Dick is delighted to host ‘Silver of the Stars’, an exhibition which pairs ten Scottish silversmiths with ten Scottish international celebrities for the purpose of creating a striking range of silver drinking vessels. The exhibition also includes a selection of contemporary jewellery chosen from the collections of the National Museum of Scotland, featuring work made during the last ten years by leading jewellers from across the world. Makers include Peter Chang, Dorothy Hogg, Andrew Lamb, Helen McPherson and Sarah Keay. This exhibition will celebrate contemporary silver and jewellery, demonstrating its rich diversity and breadth of skill by makers currently working in Scotland, the UK, and beyond.

11/09/2009 – 18/12/2010

Dick Institute Art Gallery, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, UK

Scottish Jewelry

Features 27 antique pieces including crest and kilt pins, brooches and bracelets. This unique lapidary art form was popularized by Queen Victoria in 1848. The jewelry emphasizes Scottish symbolism and gemstones in handmade silver work.

1/01/2009 - 10/05/2009

Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art, Elmhurst, IL, USA

Hidden Gems: Scotland’s Agates

The deceptively simple exteriors of agates conceal an enormous spectrum of colour and texture. Discover how and why these beautiful semi-precious Scottish gems have captivated collectors past and present.

4/05/2018 – 6/01/2019

National Museum of Scotland, Exhibition Gallery 3, Level 1, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF, UK

Spanish

Melting Point. Joyería contemporánea València

'Melting Point' is a biennial of contemporary jewellery organised by the Escola d'Art i Superior de Disseny de València, launched in 2012 for creators, professionals and students, which promotes jewellery as a form of innovative expression, and positions this Valencian art internationally. Renowned jewellers of national and international prestige take part, together with students from the Escola d'Art i Superior de Disseny de València.

27/04/2023 – 28/05/2023

Museo Nacional de Cerámica y Artes Suntuarias "González Martí", c/ Poeta Querol, 246002 Valencia, Spain

Spain and the Hispanic World. Treasures from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library

This landmark exhibition, with over 150 dazzling and fascinating pieces, explores the art and culture of the Hispanic world.
Discover the rich story of Spanish and Hispanic art and culture from antiquity to the 20th century: from masterpieces by Goya, Velázquez, Zurbarán and El Greco to paintings, sculptures, silk textiles, ceramics, lustreware, silverwork, precious jewellery, maps, drawings, illuminated manuscripts and stunning decorative lacquerware from Latin America.
The exhibition features the famous World Map of 1526 by Giovanni Vespucci, and culminates with Sorolla’s colourful, large-scale study for his monumental series of 14 paintings, Vision of Spain.
Founded in New York in 1904, the Hispanic Society Museum & Library is home to the most extensive collection of Spanish art outside of Spain. Presented for the first time in the UK, it will offer visitors a chance to trace the cultural and religious influences that shaped Spanish culture, from Celtic, Islamic, Jewish and Christian to American, African and Asian.

21/01/2023 - 10/04/2023

The Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BD, UK

Proyecto Denísova. Pasado y presente a través de las joyas
Denísova Project. Past and present through jewelry

The Denísova Project is an exhibition project whose aim is to tell history through jewellery, uniting the creators of the past with the creators of the present, interpreting jewellery from different cultures and civilizations. To this end, a selection of 59 artists have chosen a jewel from history and have interpreted it by creating the most unique versions.

6/09/2022 – 9/10/2022

Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Montalbán Nº 12, 28014 Madrid, Spain

VI Muestra de orfebrería contemporánea
6th Exhibition of Contemporary Goldsmiths

Extraperlo is a curatorial platform that aims to offer a critical perspective and promotes alternative paths within contemporary design culture.
The objective of this new edition is to show the hidden faces of the design industry. The idea is not only to reveal what lies behind the practice of the leading offices around the globe but also to give voice to those who, very often, are not in the spot light.
The participants have been asked to generate a project with the Museo Nacional de las Artes Decorativas as a starting point. We believe this context is an interesting opportunity to analyse what has been the role of this type of museum in the past, but above all, offer an insight of what could they become in the future.

3/02/2022 – 20/03/2022

Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Montalbán Nº 12, 28014 Madrid, Spain

Joaquim Capdevila. Jewellery 1959-2019

Joaquim Capdevila (1944), well versed in the different jewellery trades, is a creator who expresses himself through the visual language of jewellery. His creations, unique items, go well beyond the traditional concept of jewellery, not only by dispensing with precious metals and applying new materials – plastic, hide, fabric, stones, wood, rubber, copper – but also by using gold and silver jointly with acrylic paint or Japanese lacquer to provide them with great chromatic uniqueness. Capdevila's pieces are unmistakeable for their visual quality, halfway between painting and sculpture. Art jewels, object jewels, experiment jewels, personalised jewels and unique jewels are labels that may apply to his work. He has experimented with every type of material and their uniqueness lies to a great extent in the application of colour to his pieces through painting. However, Capdevila does not make painted jewels, but rather merges the two art forms in a single work. His jewels are just a visual expression of critical reflections and lived experiences, compositions with a free and personal format.

28/09/2019 – 17/11/2019

Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, Pl. de les Glòries Catalanes, 37-38 08018 Barcelona, Spain

Oro y Plata. Lujo y distinción en la Antigüedad Hispana. Colecciones de orfebrería del Museo Arqueológico Nacional
Gold and silver. Luxury and distinction in ancient Hispania. Treasures from the National Archaeological Museum

This exhibition will offer visitors the opportunity to view a selection of the treasures of gold before the Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula preserved in the National Archaeological Museum, which by their nature, have rarely left the same and never in such quantities and wealth. Treasures important not only in the strict sense, but also by the knowledge provided from a distant time in which the accumulation of luxury items was assimilated to social distinction and political power or religious. The nearly 300 pieces that make up the exhibition have been selected for their aesthetic quality and its ability to explain the technology, behavior and tastes of the societies that lived in the Peninsula from prehistory to the Romanization.

12/05/2011 - 26/06/2011

Centro Cultural Las Claras Cajamurcia, Murcia, Spain

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

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

Swedish

Sofia Björkman - Landscapes

Sofia Björkman is a jewellery artist from Stockholm in Sweden. After graduation from Konstfack 1998 she started PLATINA, a gallery and studio for art jewellery. Since then, she has been working as an artist, gallery owner and curator combined with all kinds of activities and projects within the jewellery field. In the profession she meets a lot of people that comment on what they see. This influences her and affects her artistic practice, often the comments form the basis for future work. This is a way for her to understand works and to express the experience of being an artist and a curator at the same time. She says that wearable jewellery can easily be moved from one context to another and can therefore cause other reactions than exhibited in art environments. Mobility and flexibility make jewellery art unique as an artform and broadens the potential for a piece to have impact and elicit various reactions. At Bornholms Center for Kunsthåndværk & Design, Grønbechs Gård, she will show jewellery and three-dimensional objects that move between body-related works, installations, drawings and paintings. The work is based on comments on jewellery, crafts and artworks, landscapes, and human behaviour in nature. The human body can be seen as a landscape for jewellery, the exhibition space as the environment for the exhibited objects and together they all form part of a larger landscape.

11/09/2021 - 30/01/2022

Bornholms Center for Kunsthåndværk, Grønbechs Gård 4, 3790 Hasle, Denmark

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

Swiss

Gilbert Albert: Jeweller of Nature

Taking after the movements initiated around the turn of the 20th century, heralding the advent of contemporary craft jewellery with his use of novel materials, the Geneva-based jeweller Gilbert Albert (born 1930) developed a style deeply rooted in nature. The exhibition proposes to explore this connection through a selection of “naturalistic” collections (crystals, corals, fossils, unpolished stones and gems, scarabs, etc.), as well as prominent examples of modern jewellery (Art Nouveau jewellery, Geneva School of Industrial Arts, etc.), all part of the MAH collections. These pieces re-contextualise Gilbert Albert’s work within the frame of evident infl uences and less obvious inspirations. Though the master was known as a very critical witness of his time, famous for his “swiping claws” as much as for his “interchangeable beads”, the multiplicity of his vocabulary (beading, wrinkling, organic chasework, navette cut and fi ngerprinting, etc.) offers a new take on jewellery sets, both baroque and highly cultured. The exhibition relies on an extensive body of works donated to the museum in 2016 by the Gilbert Albert Foundation and will mark the master’s 90th birthday. To echo his favourite theme, the scenography will evoke luxuriant greenery.

10/07/2020 – 15/11/2020

Musée d’art et d’histoire, Rue Charles-Galland 2, 1206 Genève, Switzerland

Zug ist Schmuck. 400 Jahre Gold und Silber aus Zuger Werkstätten
Hear of Zug - Think of Jewellery. 400 Years of Gold- and Silver-smithing

Besides Fribourg, Zug was once one of the main centres of goldsmithing within the Catholic areas of the Swiss Confederacy. This exhibition brings together the most important works from the period of the ancien régime and ties them in with the latest trends in Zug jewellery making. In 1798 fundamental political and social upheaval put a swift end to traditional craftsmanship. Because of a lack of commissions goldsmithing disappeared from Zug for the next 100 years. This opulent display of some 300 exhibiits introduces the public to silver artworks from the 16th to the 18th centuries that have never before been shown on such a broad scale. They stand in striking contrast to the variety of shapes and colours displayed by 20th and 21st-century jewellery making.

29/03/2015 – 27/09/2015

Museum Burg Zug, Kirchenstrasse 11, CH-6300 Zug, Switzerland

Archaeology: Treasures of the Swiss National Museum

For the first time in French-speaking Switzerland, the Château de Prangins is exhibiting masterpieces from the archaeological collection of the Swiss National Museum. First established back in the 19th century, this exceptional collection spans the millennia, from 100,000 BC to 800 AD: the Palaeolithic Era to the Early Middle Ages. It is also unique in Switzerland in that it illustrates the archaeology of all the country's regions. It includes the 4th century BC Erstfeld Treasure of gold torcs and bracelets, and the 3rd century Lunnern Treasure of gold jewellery.

27/04/2012 – 14/10/2012

Musée national suisse – Château de Prangins, Switzerland

Ukrainian

Gold Rush: Treasures of the Ukraine

On loan from the National Museum of the History of Ukraine and the Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine, this collection of 260 pieces of jewellery, weapons, coins, and household and religious artefacts, dating from 8th century BCE to 19th century CE, explores the significance of gold as used by the nomadic Scythians through to the golden age of Kievan Rus’ and as crafted in the decorative arts tradition of Ukraine. Accompanying the Ukrainian display is a showcase of gold from Southeast Asia and Singapore. Selected from the National Heritage Board collection, this set of 14th to 20th century jewellery illustrates gold as a symbol of wealth, status and power, and serves as an entry point to appreciating the development of goldsmithing and the flourishing of goldsmith shops in 20th century Singapore.

29/05/2011 - 26/08/2012

National Museum of Singapore, 93 Stamford Road Singapore 178897, Singapopre

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