Current Jewellery Exhibitions
This list of current and forthcoming jewellery exhibitions is provided as a service to our members. We have no means of checking the accuracy of the information, and cannot take responsibility for any mistakes. Please check in advance before visiting an exhibition to avoid disappointment.
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UK
Aberdeen
The Galloway Hoard: Viking-age Treasure
Ending soon
aberdeencity.gov.uk/AAGMThe Galloway Hoard brings together the richest collection of rare and unique Viking-age objects ever found in Britain or Ireland. It is of international significance and will transform our understanding of this period of Scottish history. Buried at the beginning of the tenth century, the Hoard comprises in excess of 100 gold, silver and other items, some of which are unique. This exhibition will display the key elements of the hoard, place it in a wider historical context and showcase the conservation and research work which is being undertaken to understand the hoard and its secrets.
30/07/2022 - 23/10/2022
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Schoolhill, Aberdeen AB11 5BY
Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 11am-4pm
Admission free
Barnstaple
The Partridge Family of Barnstaple: Ethel Mairet, Fred Partridge and the Arts and Craft Movement
Ending soon
barnstaplemuseum.org.uk/whatson 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
Monday to Saturday, 10:00am - 5:00pm
Admission free
Bedford
Blunt Blades
Ending soon
thehigginsbedford.org.uk/Exhibitions Leading jeweller Arabel Lebrusan explores our complex relationships with knives and their variety of roles in this display.
Informed by years of research after Arabel received three crates of confiscated knives and weapons from Bedfordshire Police in 2013, this display explores whether the meaning of an object can be re-established and transformed to evoke different emotions.
The display features seven new works in a variety of mediums, including photography, sculpture, jewellery, drawings and audio, delving into the commonly held perception of knives from specialised tools in everyday jobs to status symbols and deadly weapons, and transforming their meanings.
Drawing from a selection of over 40 historic examples of blades from The Higgins Bedford’s collections, the display is accompanied by Tales of Blunt Blades, a publication of short stories. Members of the public and amateur writers were invited to pen new histories and narratives for the culturally significant objects, giving a voice to individuals in the community with a story to tell, as well as encouraging them to consider the varied roles of knives. You can pick up a free copy of Tales of Blunt Blades at The Higgins Bedford.
11/11/2021 - 30/10/2022
The Higgins Bedford
Castle Lane, Bedford, MK40 3XD
Tuesday - Saturday: 11am - 5pm, Sunday: 2pm - 5pm
Admission free
Belfast
Elements
Extended to 4 December 2022.
nmni.com/whats-on/elements-exhibitionFrom Actinium to Zirconium, it’s time to get switched on to science with a journey along the periodic table! Get set for an odyssey that will take you from the rocks beneath your feet to the most distant and ancient reaches of the Universe. Everything from microscopic viruses to vast galaxies – and you too – is made from elements. In this spectacular and unique exhibition, the only one of its kind in Europe, you can find out what the elements look like, where they were made, how they occur naturally, how we use them, and why they can be dangerous!
3/07/2014 - 4/12/2022
Ulster Museum
Botanic Gardens, Belfast BT9 5AB
Tuesday-Sunday 10:00 – 17:00
Bristol
The Gratest Nutmeg Collection
Ending soon
grey-harris.co.uk This year Grey-Harris & Co will be exhibiting well over 500 nutmeg graters from around the world, substantially in silver, gold, enamel and treen, with the addition of the illustrated reference book, 'Nutmeg. Graters, Pomanders and Spice Boxes', by Dr John Reckless. Containing over 4,000 photographs and associated information on the history of the nutmeg grater, it will be available for reference during the exhibition. The book, over 10 years in the writing, follows the author's quarter of a century of collecting.
This is a rare opportunity for the public to view such an important collection of graters, pomanders and ephemera drawn from private collections, many not previously exhibited. It's especially interesting as the nutmeg and the grater have such a fascinating history. Once, nutmeg was worth its weight in gold. For much of human history, the tiny Banda Islands in the deep oceans of eastern Indonesia were the only source of this esteemed spice. During the 16th century apothecaries used it extensively as a basis for many remedies. By the 17th century its use as a spice in drinks and food became fashionable. Nutmeg was often carried in pocket-sized silver containers, equipped with a grater so it could be added to punch.
7/10/2022 - 22/10/2022
Grey-Harris & Co
12 Princess Victoria St, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 4BP
10:00 – 16:00
Admission free, but pre-booking encouraged at grey-harris.co.uk.
London
The Art of Movement, Van Cleef & Arpels
Ending soon
designmuseum.org/exhibitions/the-art-of-movement-van-cleef-arpelsVan Cleef & Arpels has constantly blended the excellence of its High Jewellery savoir-faire with great delicacy of vision in order to imbue the most precious materials with lightness and dynamism. Notable for their unique designs, their three-dimensional volume and their composition, the creations showcased stand out as manifestos of the Art of Movement.
This artistic journey is divided into four themes: Nature Alive, Dance, Elegance and Abstract Movements. Each highlights a facet of motion explored by Van Cleef & Arpels since its foundation in 1906.
Featuring almost a hundred creations from Van Cleef & Arpels' patrimonial collection, numerous archive documents and lender masterpieces, this exhibition illustrates the French High Jewellery Maison's constant quest to impart movement into precious materials.
23/09/2022 - 20/10/2022
The Design Museum
224-238 Kensington High Street, London W8 6AG
Sunday – Thursday, 10.00 – 18.00, Friday – Saturday, 10.00 – 21.00
Admission free.
London
Spain and the Hispanic World. Treasures from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library
royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/spain-hispanic-world
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
Tuesday – Sunday: 10am–6pm
Windsor
Platinum Jubilee: The Queen’s Coronation
Closed due to the death of HM the Queen
rct.uk/collection/themes/exhibitions In celebration of The Queen's historic Platinum Jubilee in 2022, Windsor Castle is hosting a special display commemorating Her Majesty's Coronation at Westminster Abbey on 2 June 1953.
On display is the Coronation Dress and Robe of Estate worn by The Queen that day, and an elegant collection of Her Majesty's jewellery worn for the historic occasion.
7/07/2022 - 26/09/2023
Windsor Castle
Windsor SL4 1NJ
Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10am-6pm
Adults £26.50/£28.50, Young Person (18-24) £17.50/£18.50, Child (5-17) £14.50/£15.50
Wirral
Pure Brilliance: The Boodles Story
liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/boodles
This exquisite exhibition of jewellery will mesmerise visitors to Lady Lever Art Gallery this autumn as part of the gallery’s centenary year celebrations. It will showcase the jewellery brand’s 200-year story and show how Liverpool has helped shape the company’s growth, from a family jewellery business to purveyors of some of the most stunning jewels in the world.
See how the heritage of Liverpool’s vibrant and creative jewellery industry in the late 19th century created a market for good quality jewellery and metalwork, for which Boodles soon acquired a reputation. Stunning pieces of historic jewellery from Liverpool makers and racing trophies made by Boodles will illustrate the early years of the firm, previously known as Boodle & Dunthorne. The company’s rise from city jeweller to the pinnacle of high-end jewellery design and manufacture can be seen through the breath-taking contemporary jewellery on display, each piece a unique work of art.
Explore the awe-inspiring craftmanship behind the pieces, from the sourcing of precious stones and metals through to the design and the manufacture of the pieces. See how the famous Boodles brand was created and venture into the glamourous world of luxury jewellery. It’s an opportunity to get close to some of the most imaginative and lavish jewellery in the world, created by a family firm which still has its flagship store in Liverpool today.
The skill, creativity and craftsmanship of the jewellery on display is of the highest quality, resonating with the craftsmanship shown in the collections of the Lady Lever Art Gallery, which celebrates its 100 year anniversary in December 2022.
22/10/2022 - 5/03/2023
Lady Lever Art Gallery
Port Sunlight Village, Wirral, UK CH62 5EQ
Tuesday to Sunday 10am-6pm
Admission free
EUROPE EX-UK
AUSTRIA
Thalheim bei Wels
Mit Eigensinn* Schmuck aus Österreich. Künstlerinnen im fokus
With obstinacy* Jewellery from Austria. Artists in focus
Ending soon
ooemuseen-at.translate.goog/museen-in-ooe/veranstaltungen 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
Saturday 14:00 - 18:00, Sunday 10:00 - 18:00
Adults: €12, Concessions: €10
Vienna
Eligius award 2022 - Jewellery Art in Austria
Ending soon
mak.at/en/eligius2022With 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
Tuesday 10 am–9 pm, Wednesday to Sunday 10 am–6 pm
Adults: €15, Concessions: €12
DENMARK
Copenhagen
En Dronnings Smykkeskrin – 50 år på tronen fortalt i smykker
A Queen’s Jewellery Box: 50 Years on the Throne Told in Jewellery
Ending soon
kongernessamling.dk This special exhibition will mark the 50th anniversary in 2022 of Her Majesty the Queen's reign.
The Queen has a very large jewellery collection, which she uses very consciously and actively - and with care and consideration. For Her Majesty, jewels are not just jewellery. They are symbols and bearers of memories, friendships, and continuity, of life as Denmark's monarch through 50 years and 50 years of Danish history.
For the first time ever, the exhibition presents over 200 well-known and lesser-known pieces of jewellery from The Queen's collection. Each jewel in the exhibition carries a story and refers to one or more private or official events during The Queen's 50-year reign.
As a very special experience in the exhibition, The Queen herself has agreed to provide a voice for the audio guide that visitors are given. With the audio guide in hand, visitors can hear The Queen herself talk about selected jewellery and events throughout the exhibition.
14/01/2022 - 23/10/2022
Amalienborg Palace
Christian VIII's Palace, 1257 Copenhagen K
Daily 10am - 17pm
Adults: 125 dkk, Students: 80 dkk
Sønderborg
Makabre Mesterværker
Macabre Masterpieces
Ending soon
msj.dk/udstillinger/makabre-mestervaerker Makabre Mesterværker tackles an often taboo but eternally topical subject, namely the staging and artistic treatment of death.
The exhibition presents a selection of exclusive jewellery created by leading Danish and foreign goldsmiths, silversmiths and jewellery designers in a surprising encounter with prehistoric and historic objects from the museum's own collection and on loan from museums at home and abroad.
The works on display together form a journey into the dimensions of death, with narratives that begin violently and with the triumph of death. The journey moves around many cultures and different times, following its own trail where time inevitably runs out, the body perishes, and where grief and ritual find a place alongside notions of an afterlife and resurrection. Join us on a thought-provoking journey studded with chains, body parts, skulls, crosses and precious objects.
The exhibition is the result of a collaboration between Museum Sønderjylland, jewellery writer Nina Hald, who has curated the exhibition, and jeweller Bodil Binner. Most of the modern jewellery was created especially for the exhibition.
8/04/2022 - 23/10/2022
Museum Sønderjylland
Sønderborg Slot, Sønderbro 1, 6400 Sønderborg
Daily 10am - 17pm
Adults: 95 dkk, Students: 76 dkk
Vejle
Strength and gold - Vikings in the east
vejlemuseerne.dk
The enormous gold treasure hoard from Vindelev, consisting of almost 1 kg of gold, including some huge medallions the size of saucers, which was excavated in September 2021, plays the main role in this exhibition. It displays the magnificent find for the first time and tells the story of the prelude to the Viking Age and Harald Bluetooth's alliances in present-day Poland. "The stories of the Vikings' pillaging raids in England have been told countless times. We want to tell the story in depth and explore the fascinating cultural encounters and alliances that created the Danish Viking kings' power base" says Charlotta Lindblom, Archaeologist and Curator at the Vejle Museums, and continues: "This exhibition shows the very latest knowledge about the run-up to the Viking Age as well as Harald Bluetooth's eastern connections. These connections are shown in the exhibition's many fantastic finds from Denmark and Poland."
The exhibition is a collaboration with Moesgaard Museum, which will have an exhibition about other aspects of the Vikings' travels to the east.
17/02/2022 - 18/12/2022
Vejle Art Museum
Flegborg 16-18, Vejle
Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 - 17:00
Admission free
FRANCE
Paris
Cameos, intaglios and rings from the Guy Ladrière Collection
Ending soon
lecolevancleefarpels.com/fr/en/exhibition This exhibition will present the story of the art of engraved gems from antiquity to the 19th century. It brings together Greek and neoclassical intaglios, antique and mediaeval cameos, small sculptures from the imperial period, Merovingian signet rings, and episcopal rings to explore every facet of the long history of glyptic art.
Through the study of the magnificent Guy Ladrière private collection, the public can embark on an introduction to the history of glyptic art at L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts in Paris. Approximately two hundred pieces will be on display, ranging from Greek Antiquity to the 19th century, thereby providing a panorama of techniques and styles.
12/05/2022 - 1/10/2022
L'École des Arts Joailliers
31 rue Danielle Casanova, 75001 Paris
Tuesday – Saturday, 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Thursday until 8:00 pm
Admission free, by reservation.
Paris
Gulbenkian par lui-même : dans l’intimité d’un collectionneur
Gulbenkian Revealed: In the Collector’s Private Realm
Ending soon
thealthanicollection.com/exhibitions This exhibition is presented in association with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and showcases treasures from the museum in Lisbon which houses the private collection of its eponymous founder, one of the most celebrated art collectors of the early 20th century. The exhibition is organised as part of the Saison France-Portugal 2022. This is the second in a series of biannual temporary loan exhibitions to be shown at The Al Thani Collection at the Hôtel de la Marine, alongside Treasures of The Al Thani Collection.
'Gulbenkian Revealed: In the Collector’s Private Realm' presents a carefully selected group of 90 works of art, principally small in scale and made to be carefully handled and privately cherished by the connoisseur-collector. Through these objects, the exhibition explores five key principles which guided Calouste Gulbenkian (1869-1955) as a collector: preciousness, intimate scale, craftsmanship, provenance and rarity. Reflecting the diversity of artworks which appealed to Gulbenkian, the exhibition also highlights his fascination with the material quality of the objects that the collected.
10/06/2022 - 2/10/2022
Hôtel de la Marine
2 Pl. de la Concorde, 75008 Paris
Daily 10.30am - 7.00pm
GERMANY
Berlin
Die Krone von Kertsch. Schätze aus Europas Frühzeit
The Crown of Kerch. Treasures from the Dawn of European History
Ending soon
smb.museum/en/exhibitionsGold jewellery from the migration period found near the Black Sea, silver brooches and magnificent belts from early medieval graves in France, Italy, Spain, and Germany: selections from the collection of Johannes von Diergardt will be on view again in Berlin for the first time in 80 years, re-turning to the city where they were displayed until 1934. Following the death of the collector and art lover, these works moved to the Römisch-Germanisches Museum in Cologne. Construction work in the Cologne museum now offers a prime opportunity to present the treasures to the Berlin public again for the first time in many years. An exhibition by the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, in collaboration with the Römisch-Germanisches Museum der Stadt Köln.
19/06/2020 - 25/09/2022
Neues Museum
James-Simon-Galerie, Bodestraße, 10178 Berlin
Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m
Adults €12, Concessions €6
Berlin
Jewellery & Garment
broehan-museum.de/en/exhibition/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
Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Adults €8, Concessions €5
Hanau
Friedrich Becker - Zum Spielen geboren
Ending soon
goldschmiedehaus.com/enFriedrich Becker’s (1922–1997) extraordinary jewellery creations are characterized by invisible settings with interchangeable stones, variable brooches and pins, and stainless steel combined with synthetic gemstones, through to kinetic jewellery and objects.
24/07/2022 - 16/10/2022
Deutsche Goldschmiedehaus Hanau
Altstädter Markt 6, 63450 Hanau
Hanau
Zart wie Eisen
goldschmiedehaus.com/en
Iron jewellery was a fashionable accessory during the first half of the 19th century. The brittle material was frequently designed along floral motifs; one centre of production was Berlin. Alongside selected pieces from the collection of Klaus-Peter und Judith Thomé from the Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, works by the Hanauer Eisenkunstguss foundry are also on show.
19/05/2022 - 31/12/2022
Deutsche Goldschmiedehaus Hanau
Altstädter Markt 6, 63450 Hanau
Hanau
“Diamonds are not only a girl’s best friend”: Diamonds in industry – 100 year anniversary of Hanau’s long-established company LACH DIAMANT
goldschmiedehaus.com/en
6/10/2022 - 25/10/2022
Deutsche Goldschmiedehaus Hanau
Altstädter Markt 6, 63450 Hanau
Leipzig
Jewellery & Image. The GRASSI Adorns You
Ending soon
grassimak.de/en/museumAlmost unnoticed, a collection of contemporary jewellery has grown in the museum over the last decades, which is now coming into the public eye. The objects attest to the gradual emancipation of jewellery design as an autonomous form of artistic expression. But what are brooches, rings, and necklaces without one to wear them? Jewellery can only be realised on the body, as a representation of the self and/or as a symbol of perception to the outside world. Thus, it is only logical to understand people and jewellery as a unity, and to photograph them with ‘their’ piece of jewellery. Personalities who are connected to the museum in various ways are ‘adorned’ and brought into the frame by aspiring and established photographers. In the exhibition, the pieces of jewellery correspond with the photographic works, making possible a deeper and more mutual perception.
5/05/2022 - 25/09/2022
GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts
Johannisplatz 5–11, 04103 Leipzig
Tuesday – Sunday 10 am – 6 pm
Adults €8, Concessions €5.50
Mannheim
Die Normannen
The Normans
rem-mannheim.de/en/exhibitions
The history of the Normans continues to astonish and surprise to the present day: starting out as highly mobile warriors, mercenaries or minor aristocracy, Normans became powerful princes and rulers who left their traces all over Europe and beyond. Their history is a story of interconnectedness, which influenced in a long-lasting way the cultural and political development of Europe and the Mediterranean.
For the first time in such a comprehensive fashion, the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen and their partners will dedicate an exciting exhibition project under German-French aegis to the “men from the North”. In a presentation with around 300 outstanding exhibition-pieces from more than 10 countries, the exhibition tells a multifaceted story and ties together different and highly fascinating threads of a history spanning the 8th - 13th centuries. Precious works of art, including handicrafts made of gold and ivory, jewellery and valuables such as the crown of Roger II, encounter other treasures, weapons and manuscripts coming from North-, East- and West-Europe as well as the Mediterranean. These exhibits are complemented by the latest digital reconstructions which provide innovative ways of displaying and transferring knowledge.
18/9/2022 - 26/02/2023
Museum Zeughaus
8159 Mannheim
Tuesday – Sunday 11 am – 6 pm
Adults €3, Students €2
Pforzheim
Elegantly meaningful – Signs and symbols in jewellery, graphic and printed works. Exhibition to mark the anniversary of Johannes Reuchlin’s death
schmuckmuseum.de/en/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions
When we think of language, jewellery is not the first thing that comes to mind. However, jewellery is a precious manifestation of many and varied systems of signs and symbols – as precious as the message itself. Jewellery serves as a means of communication, and hence is quite literally a "carrier of meaning". The Jewellery Museum has been inspired by this aspect to mark the 500th anniversary of Johannes Reuchlin’s death with an exhibition of calligraphy to highlight the humanist’s appreciation of languages and, concomitantly, of tolerance and peaceful understanding. In addition, video installations in several rooms will be showing texts from various eras of human history, and the theme of "language in jewellery" will be running like a leitmotif throughout the permanent exhibition. After all, jewellery has been playing an important role across different epochs and cultures as one of the many ways to express ourselves. Not least due to its high symbolic value, it is also a precious gift, for example for the birth of a child or on a wedding day. Quite often, jewellery accompanies its owner to their grave and thus even after death.
25/06/2022 - 6/11/2022
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim
Jahnstraße 42, 75173 Pforzheim
Tuesday - Sunday 10.00 - 17.00 p.m.
Adults €10, Concessions €8.50
Pforzheim
Pforzheim revisited – Creating contemporary jewellery using manufactory-style techniques
schmuckmuseum.de/en/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions
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.
10/12/2022 - 16/04/2023
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim
Jahnstraße 42, 75173 Pforzheim
Tuesday - Sunday 10.00 - 17.00 p.m.
Free with general admission (€ 4.50, concessions € 2.50)
Pforzheim
Margit Jäschke – Kairos
schmuckmuseum.de/en/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions
The artist Margit Jäschke describes herself as a wanderer between art worlds. Transcending the boundaries of the common genres, such as installation, painting, sculpture and art jewellery, she has created an oeuvre that is in a league of its own. Purposefully blurring the distinction between wearable pieces of jewellery and autonomous works of art, she emphasizes details that evoke different associations in different viewers. The exhibition will be showcasing the multifaceted, multiple prize-winning oeuvre created by Margit Jäschke over the course of the past 30 years, and will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Arnoldsche Art publishers.
10/12/2022 - 16/04/2023
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim
Jahnstraße 42, 75173 Pforzheim
Tuesday - Sunday 10.00 - 17.00 p.m.
Adults €6, Concessions €3.50
Pforzheim
What Is Jewellery? Criss-cross through the Jewellery Museum's collections
museumspass.com/en/exhibitions
The Pforzheim-based couple Eva and Peter Herion, who acquired a wide variety of adornments on their travels between 1970 and 2006, were fascinated by jewellery in all its diversity. Their primarily ethnographic collection was originally given to the Jewellery Museum as a permanent loan, and has meanwhile passed into the museum’s ownership. When the remodelled museum opened in 2006, parts of the Herion collection were set up with a special focus on Africa and Asia. Conceived as a semi-permanent exhibition back then, it is now being redesigned on the basis of a fundamentally new approach, based on their cultural and historical context as much as the artistic aspirations involved. They also need to be regarded within the framework of global jewellery history. Objects from all of the museum’s collections, whether from the historical, the modern or the ethnographic collection, will therefore be exhibited in a manner that allows them to enter into dialogue with each other. This will give visitors an opportunity to immerse themselves in a wide variety of jewellery, allowing them to discover diverse new perspectives or even come up with their own.
5/12/2021 - 31/12/2025
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim
Jahnstraße 42, 75173 Pforzheim
Tuesday - Sunday 10.00 - 17.00 p.m.
Free with general admission (€ 4.50, concessions € 2.50)
GREECE
Athens
Form Follows Function 200 + 200 Decorative and Applied Arts 1621 – 2021
lalaounis-jewelrymuseum.gr
The Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire (1821-1829), was a cataclysmic event which, however, gave birth to a new nation-state: Modern Hellas, simply known as ‘Greece’ at the present time. It was an all-out war fought both on land and at sea, a valiant struggle in the name of freedom, justice and, as a corollary, modernity. As such, it harnessed the resources of a deep-rooted tradition of liberal thinking and cultural expression.
The exhibition does not merely divulge the story of the ‘Greek Revolution,’ but illuminates the material culture that comprised the communities which eventually rose against the mighty Ottomans. Undoubtedly, rural, and urban Greeks of the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, employed the material culture of their despots. At the same time, they also turned their gaze westwards, as they were fascinated by the arts and styles that they discovered in ‘Europe’. Following the Renaissance, the Baroque and the Rococo movements, arts were influenced by their style, travelled to Greece to apply to the local needs and tastes. Thus, the exhibition reveals the story of the material culture spanning from 200 years prior to the Greek liberation until its modern-day aftermath.
Functions of attire and jewellery in men and women from the Greek mainland occupy an important component of Greek Traditional Crafts history. In a continuously changing society, dress becomes a principal symbol of local societies with innumerable combinations of local habits and ethnographic traditions. “Greek traditional jewellery” follows grooming or ceremonial use, through an incredible embracement of the human body’s most focal parts. Large pieces are kept today as precious artefacts commemorating traditional functions of the 18th and the 19th centuries and truly manifest an important chapter of Greece’s ethnographic history.
Bejewelled snuff boxes, seals, storage boxes narrate daily life activities, indicate social standing, and testify daily routines. Nowadays, these small objects are debased works of art and are often granted insufficient space in museum displays. Although our investigation has uncovered thousands of these precious decorative arts together with their making, mechanics, and many other secrets, a selection has been meticulously chosen to display accountable highly elite social activities such as smoking and writing.
16/05/2022 – 30/11/2022
Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum
Kallisperi 12 & Karyatidon Str., Acropolis 11742, Athens
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 9.00 – 15.00, Wednesday & Saturday: 9.00 – 21.00
Adults €5, Concessions €4
ITALY
Casalmaggiore
Vetro. Gioielli italiani fra '800 e '900
Glass. Italian jewellery in the 19th and 20th centuries
Ending soon
museodelbijou.it/it/mostre/2022 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 – 9/10/2022
Museo del Bijou di Casalmaggiore
Via Porzio, 9 - 26041 Casalmaggiore
Tuesday to Saturday: 10.00-12.00 and 15.00-18.00; Sunday and holidays: 15.00-19.00
Adults €3, Concessions €2.50
Padua
Gioiello Devozionale
Devotional Jewellery
agc-it.org/en/events
This exhibition is the 17th in an annual competition entitled 'Pensieri Preziosi' organised by the AGC (Associazione gioiello contemporaneo).
The theme proposed for the competition was not intended as "religious devotion", but as a broad vision of the concept and meaning of "Loss" intended as a sudden, total and permanent loss of a beloved person, as shown for example, in the jewels of the so-called Mourning Jewellery production of the Victorian era, or of a loss that involves the vital system of our planet.
The project proposed by the AGC member Elena Alfonsi, has sparked great interest, shown through the international participation of artists from Europe, Japan, United States, Korea, South Africa and China.
26/11/2022 – 16/02/2023
Oratorio di San Rocco
Via Santa Lucia, 59, 35139 Padova
Tuesday to Sunday: 09.30 - 12.30, 15.30 - 19.00
LIECHTENSTEIN
Vaduz
Kopfschmuck, Tracht und Identität – Europa, Asien, Afrika
Headdress, costume and identity - Europe, Asia, Africa
Ending soon
landesmuseum-liHistorical headgear from the Lake Constance area and over 35 countries in Europe, Asia and Africa can be seen for the first time in a new concept. The more than 300 objects date from the 18th to the 21st century. Across the world, headdresses indicate social status and origin. The variety of textile and metal head ornaments includes bonnets, shackles, hair ornaments and other rare forms. A special focus is on wheel and gold bonnets from Liechtenstein and Austria, including individual items from the archive of the Liechtenstein Traditional Costume Association. Numerous complete costumes from Europe with their headdresses give an impression of the variety of regional clothing styles. The face of the costume comes to life in costume biographies. One focus is on the individual wearing of traditional costumes in historical use.
25/06/2022 – 30/10/2022
Liechtenstein National Museum
Städtle 43, Postfach 1216, 9490 Vaduz
Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, Wednesday 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Adults CHF 15, concessions CHF 7
NETHERLANDS
Assen
Under the spell of Mount Ararat. Treasures from ancient Armenia
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drentsmuseum.nl/en/exhibitions/under-spell-mount-ararat Visitors to this exhibition will go on a journey through the rich history of Armenia. From the Stone Age, in which homo erectus travelled from Africa to Eurasia to settle in what is now Armenia, via the first important leaders who had themselves buried in monumental mounds around 1500 BC, and the Kingdom of Urartu, to the great realm of King Tiridates III (AD 287-330), who made Christianity the state religion.
Gold and silver ornaments, weapons, pottery, and bronze figurines in the shape of animals and warriors – around 170 in total – will provide an impression of the impressive archaeological wealth of Armenia, from the earliest times until the arrival of Christianity. Many of these valuable objects will be on display in the Netherlands for the first time.
One of the exhibition’s highlights will be a relic of Noah’s Ark. Saint Jacob of Nisibis is said to have found this piece of wood from the Ark at the foot of Mount Ararat in the 4th century AD. The relic is kept in the oldest cathedral in the world: Etchmiadzin Cathedral in Armenia.
11/05/2022 – 30/10/2022
The Drents Museum
Brink 1, 9401 HS, Assen
Monday to Sunday 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, Friday 10 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Adults €15
Leiden
5,000 Years of Beads
rmo.nl/en/exhibitions
The national archaeological museum of the Netherlands will show a small but densely packed exhibition on excavated beads, that range from the first prehistoric beads through Roman jewellery until the large-scale production of beads in Venice and Amsterdam in the 17th century.
There is an abundance of strings of beads from the early-medieval period, the heyday of beads, but prayer beads from the Later Middle Ages feature heavily as well. Most objects come from the extensive stores of the Museum and have never been shown before. These are complemented by favourite strings of beads from private individuals, that include a 16th-century rosary made of skull beads, plus a spectacular medieval manuscript from the University Library of the Free University of Amsterdam (only on show for the first months) and equally spectacular modern bead art by world champion Floor Kaspers.
23/01/2022 – 7/05/2023
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
Rapenburg 28, 2311 EW Leiden
Tuesday to Sunday, 10.00 am to 5.00 pm
Adults €12.50, Children under 18 €4
SPAIN
Girona
Silverware and Jewelry in Mascort Collection
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fundaciomascort.com/en/exhibitionsThis exhibition includes more than 300 works, several of which are of exceptional quality. It is divided into three sections: the first is dedicated to jewellery and the other two to religious and civil goldwork, covering a period that stretches from the 14th to the 19th century. The pieces are presented by type and chronology and room 6 contains the best creations by the most highly qualified makers.
11/06/2022 – 16/10/2022
Fundació Mascort
Casa Galibern Carrer de l'Església, 9, 17257 Torroella de Montgrí. Girona
Monday 10 - 14, 17 - 21, Wednesday to Friday 17 - 21, Saturday 10 - 14, 17 - 21, Sunday and holidays 10 - 14
Madrid
Proyecto Denísova. Pasado y presente a través de las joyas
Denísova Project. Past and present through jewelry
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culturaydeporte.gob.esThe 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
C/ Montalbán Nº 12, 28014 Madrid
Tuesday - Saturday, 9.30 to 15:00, Sunday 10 to 15:00
Adults €3, Concessions €1.50
AMERICAS
USA
Atlanta, GA
Making an Impression. The Art and Craft of Ancient Engraved Gemstones
carlos.emory.edu/exhibition/making-impression
This exhibition draws on the museum’s collection of Greek and Roman gems, the majority of which have never been displayed publicly. Carved from semi-precious stones with miniature images of various subjects, including gods, emperors, animals, and characters from myth, engraved gems in the Greek and Roman worlds were used as signets, amulets, and personal ornaments, typically mounted in rings. They were admired as luxury artworks, treasured as antiques and heirlooms, and worn as statements of status, wealth, sophistication, and learning. The stones themselves were also believed to have magical and medicinal properties.
Exploring the material, production, and function of these small but significant ancient artworks, the exhibition considers how engraved gems were constructed, protected, and promoted the identity of their wearer, and draws attention to the people who interacted with them — from the enslaved miners who quarried the stones, to the engravers who carved them, to the individuals who wore them, and the viewers impressed by their lustre. This is the first exhibition of ancient gems in the southeastern United States.
27/08/2022 – 27/11/2022
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
571 South Kilgo Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322
Tuesday - Friday, 10 a.m. — 4 p.m, Saturday, 10 a.m. — 5 p.m, Sunday Noon — 5 p.m.
Adults $8, Concessions $6
Brockton, MA
Daniel Jocz: Permission Granted
fullercraft.org/event/daniel-jocz
The career of Massachusetts artist Daniel Jocz has been marked by shape-shifting and playful irreverence, resulting in an energetically diverse body of work. In his jewellery over the past four decades, he has mastered the art of innovation and assumed a remarkably broad range of formal and conceptual positions. Incorporating aspects of sculpture, painting, architecture, and the decorative arts, his small-scale objects also reveal Jocz’s technical virtuosity and passion for ideas. The exhibition, 'Daniel Jocz: Permission Granted', will survey the artist’s dynamic career through some 50 pieces of jewellery along with a selection of related sculptural pieces.
17/09/2022 – 14/05/2023
Fuller Craft Museum
455 Oak Street, Brockton, MA 02301
Tuesday - Sunday, 10:00AM - 5:00PM
FREE Admission
Chicago, IL
Kingfisher Headdresses from China
artic.edu/exhibitions
Since ancient times, Chinese poets have praised the plumage of the kingfisher, a bird widely found in the tropical regions of Asia.
By the Song dynasty (960–1278), portraits of empresses showed them wearing headdresses adorned with kingfisher ornaments. Few examples of this fragile artistry have survived, and the earliest ones come from the tomb of the Wanli Emperor (reigned 1572–1620), in which archaeologists found four elaborate kingfisher crowns worn by his empresses.
The vivid feathers were expensive, with the most prized specimens imported from Cambodia and Vietnam. Artisans cut them to shape before painstakingly pasting the feathers onto gilded metal backing that formed the structure of the headdresses. Precious and semiprecious stones such as rubies, agate, and jadeite as well as other valuable materials including amber, coral, and pearls added to the splendid effect. Popular motifs — bats, butterflies, dragons, and phoenixes — symbolized various aspects of good fortune.
This exhibition brings together over 20 objects crafted from these extraordinarily beautiful feathers, all promised gifts from Barbara and David Kipper. They include ornate headdresses as well as smaller pieces of jewellery and hairpins, which provided a less cumbersome touch of glamour.
21/05/2022 – 21/05/2023
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60603
Thursday - Monday, 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Thursday: 11:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Adults $25, Concessions $19
Eugene, OR
A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver
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jsma.uoregon.edu/ClaraBarckWellesClara Barck Welles has long been recognised as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago, famous for its elegant Arts & Craft silver hollowware, flatware, and jewellery. Under her tutelage, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generations of designers, jewellers and silversmiths from its heyday from the early 1900s through the depression, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally formed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other women graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago, the Kalo Shop was incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her, it was, as Darling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths, “the city’s most influential concern producing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor, manager, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939, when she moved to San Diego. In 1959, at the age of 91 years old, she gave the business to its remaining four employees.
Focusing on a select number of stellar works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit, and complementing the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns, "A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles, Inspiration and Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver" will document an important chapter in the history of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibition catalogue will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view, and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their centre.
9/10/2021 – 2/10/2022
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
University of Oregon
1430 Johnson Lane, Eugene, OR 97403
Thursday - Sunday: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m, Wednesday: 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Adults: $5, Seniors (62+): $3.
Goldendale, WA
Navajo and Pueblo Jewelry: Silver, Turquoise, Coral, and Shell
maryhillmuseum.org/events
Turquoise has been known for centuries in Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and throughout the ancient world. In the Western Hemisphere, the Aztecs utilized quantities of it, and, in the American Southwest, Indigenous peoples have worked with turquoise for more than a millennium. During the last quarter of the 19th century, Diné (Navajo) and Pueblo artists began creating jewellery combining turquoise stones with silver settings — work that is now synonymous with Southwestern artistic expression. Maryhill’s 2022 exhibition of silver and turquoise jewellery features late 20th-century examples drawn from private collections.
15/03/2022 – 15/11/2022
Maryhill Museum of Art
35 Maryhill Museum Drive, Goldendale, WA 98620
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Daily
Adults $12, Seniors (65 and older) $10, College (with school I.D.) $9, Youth (ages 7–18) $5
Houston, TX
Dreher Masterworks
hmns.org/exhibits/special-exhibitions
This exhibition showcases the most highly sought after masterpieces of the gem carver’s art.
Created by four generations of masters from the Dreher family in Idar-Oberstein, Germany these exquisite pieces are brought to life using ruby, sapphire, aquamarine, topaz and other rare gemstones.
3/06/2022 – 29/05/2023
Houston Museum of Natural Science
5555 Hermann Park Drive, Houston Texas 77030
Monday – Sunday: 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Adults $25.00, Concessions $16.00
Kansas City, MO
Family Ties
nelson-atkins.org/exhibitions/family-ties
Portraits bind families together creating visual mementoes. Sometimes they also connect families through the artistic practice itself. This installation features both types of portrait miniatures!
In eighteenth-century Europe and America, it was a portrait painting age. Formerly associated with royalty and heads of state, by the mid-1700s, everyone wanted their portrait painted. Scores of artists were there to answer the call, painting mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, uncles, aunts, and cousins. These keepsakes that once adorned the family walls, or as in the case with portrait miniatures, were often worn as jewellery, or close to the body, served as visual reminders connecting family history. This installation features several portraits of siblings, such as Richard Grosvenor and his sister, Maria Deborah Grosvenor, painted in 1770 by Samuel Cotes (1733-1818), himself part of an artistic family. Over time, many family miniatures were dispersed among relatives or sold off thus breaking family ties. Although no longer owned by the sitters’ descendants, these portraits have miraculously remained together over 250 years later.
Family portraiture takes on a different meaning on the other side of the case, as the profession of artist often extended to multiple individuals within the same household. With no professional school to learn the art of miniature painting, the tradition and knowledge of this practice frequently passed from one generation to the next. One spectacular example of this includes America’s first well-known family of artists, the Peales. This installation features examples by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), as well as portraits by his brother James Peale, Sr. (1749-1831), and niece Anna Claypoole Peale (1791–1878), as well as a selection of their near 18th-century/early 19th-century English and European contemporaries.
25/03/2022 – 27/03/2023
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, MO 64111
Thursday to Monday: 10 am to 5 pm, Friday: 10 am to 9 pm
Admission FREE
Los Angeles, CA
Nubia: Jewels of Ancient Sudan
getty.edu/visit/exhibitions/future
For nearly 3,000 years a series of kingdoms flourished in ancient Nubia (present-day southern Egypt and northern Sudan). The region was rich in sought-after resources such as gold and ivory and its trade networks reached Egypt, Greece, Rome, and central Africa. This exhibition presents highlights from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's extensive collection of Nubian objects and features superbly crafted jewelry, metalwork, and sculpture exhibiting the wealth and splendor of Nubian society.
12/10/2022 – 3/04/2023
Getty Villa Museum
Getty Villa Dr, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
Wednesday to Sunday: 10 am to 5 pm
Admission FREE
New Haven, CT
American Jewelry: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection
artgallery.yale.edu/newsCollector and author Susan Grant Lewin recently donated over two dozen pieces of jewellery by artists and makers working in the United States. These are featured in the installation 'American Jewelry: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection' at the Yale University Art Gallery, on view through fall 2022. The collection underscores Lewin’s commitment to promoting and preserving important advancements in the studio-jewellery field and offers a glimpse into the relationships she forged with many of the jewellers.
April 2022 – Autumn 2022
Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street (at York Street) New Haven, Connecticut
Tuesday – Friday 10:00 am–5:00 pm, Saturday – Sunday 11:00 am–5:00 pm
Admission free
New York, NY
Jewelry Stories
MAD was an early advocate of jewellery as a form of artistic expression. Its 1956 inaugural exhibition, 'Craftsmanship in a Changing World', gave many Americans their first exposure to metalsmiths who were challenging the norms of conventional jewellery design and creating works rooted in sculptural experimentation. Because of the support of MAD and like-minded institutions, makers, and collectors around the world, the concept of jewellery as an art form took hold and flourished. To date, the Museum has presented more than 150 exhibitions featuring art jewellery and there are more than 950 pieces in the Museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition highlights the Museum of Arts and Design’s contributions to the field’s advancements and contextualises the bold experimental practices of its most compelling artists within the key historical moments that ultimately broadened the scope and reach of art as a wearable medium.
Selected by an advisory committee to represent significant developments in art jewellery since the mid-century, the featured pieces showcase jewellery artists for whom anything can serve as inspiration — from a material or found object to the pressing social and political issues of our time. Unlike costume and precious jewellery, it is the concept that takes centre stage in these works.
12/07/2022 - 16/04/2023
Museum of Arts and Design (MAD)
2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 11001
Tuesday – Sunday 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Adults: $18, Seniors: $14, Students: $12
Phoenix, AZ
Southwest Silverwork, 1850-1940
Ending soon
heard.org/exhibits/southwest-silverwork-1850-1940 Exploring rarely seen works from the Heard Museum’s collection, this exhibition documents nearly a century of the evolution of Native silverwork from its earliest years through the decades prior to World War II. A number of unique pieces of Navajo and Pueblo jewellery and other silver items from the museum are on view, tracing stylistic and technical developmental advances and the effect those changes had on silverwork produced in the Southwest.
To stay current with ongoing studies, the exhibit also re-examines and update some of the previously published writings on the subject with the expectation that the exhibit will help answer questions on how to accurately date Southwestern jewellery and other silver items as well as where pieces fit in a chronological history of the craft.
19/02/2022 – 31/10/2022
Heard Museum
2301 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004
Tuesday – Sunday, 10 AM – 4 PM.
Adults $23, Seniors (65+) $20, Students $9, Children 6-17 years $9
Racine, WI
Quiet Elegance: The Jewelry of Eleanor Moty
ramart.org/exhibit/quiet-elegance-eleanor-moty
Whether referencing the landscape or architecture or both, metalsmith Eleanor Moty creates distinctive jewellery that poetically encompasses both wearer and viewer. Moty first gained recognition in the 1960s and 1970s for using cutting-edge fabrication techniques, such as electroplating and photo-etching—in adornment. She shifted her focus toward including stones in her work and the large-scale brooches she has been creating over the last couple of decades exemplify her dialogue with the “linear imagery” of quartz stones.
With 12 pieces currently in the collection, including an early photo-etched hand mirror and brooches containing large quartzes, RAM ranks Moty as an archive artist. Featuring over 35 works, including several from RAM’s holdings as well as recently finished pieces, this exhibition owes its name to a recently-published monograph on the artist. It follows a similar arc to the book in representing Moty’s working career to date — over 50 years of making.
In addition to examples of her jewellery, the exhibition will include a video where Moty describes her process in-depth as well as sketches borrowed from the artist.
17/08/2022 – 28/01/2023
Racine Art Museum (RAM)
441 Main Street, Racine, WI 53403
Wednesday – Saturday, 12:00 to 4:00 pm
Adults $7, Concessions $5
San Francisco CA
Iris Eichenberg: Where Words Fail
sfmcd.org/exhibitions/iris-eichenberg
Since the mid-1970s, artists worldwide have reacted against the age-old exclusivity and preciousness of jewellery, advocating for conceptual statements creatively fabricated primarily from a wide assortment of nonprecious materials. With a thirty-year and counting studio practice centred first in Europe and now in America, German artist Iris Eichenberg is one of the most influential contributors to this discourse. Because of her tireless interrogation into materiality, Eichenberg exemplifies what noted critic and curator Glenn Adamson calls the “post-disciplinary” artist. Instead of focusing on one medium and process, Eichenberg continually seeks to find the craft processes and combination of materials that best suit the idea at hand. An educator and prolific artist who lectures and conducts workshops worldwide, she imparts this methodology — a direct outcome of the open, creatively tolerant environment she enjoyed while working in Amsterdam — to the numerous international jewellery artists who come to study with her.
25/06/2022 - 30/10/2022
Museum of Craft and Design
2569 Third Street, San Francisco CA 94107
Wednesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–5:00 PM, Sunday: 12:00 PM–5:00 PM
Adults $10, Concessions $8
San Francisco CA
Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs
famsf.org/press-room/fine-arts-museums-san-francisco-announce-2022-exhibitions
Ramses II was the third pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty in Egypt and is regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the New Kingdom — Egypt’s Golden Age — when it was a wealthy and powerful empire. The multisensory exhibition is filled with exquisite sculptures and objects related to this pharaoh, who was not only worshipped as a god during his lifetime but was venerated far into the future. Within the exhibition, there is a dazzling display of gold jewellery and other objects that demonstrate the fabulous wealth of the pharaohs, the extravagance and the luxuriousness of their tombs, and the superb workmanship of Egyptian artists.
20/08/2022 - 12/02/2023
Legion of Honor
100 34th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94121
Tuesday – Sunday, 9:30 am – 5:15 pm
Adults: $15, Seniors (65+): $12, Students (w/ valid ID): $6, Youth (17 and under): Free
Worcester, MA
Jewels of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Treasures from the Worcester Art Museum
worcesterart.org/exhibitions
This exhibition puts the Museum’s collection of early Egyptian jewellery on view for the first time in a century. Remarkable for both its breadth and quality, this collection was assembled by Kingsmill Marrs (d. 1912) and Laura Norcross Marrs (1845 – 1926) and given to WAM by Mrs. Marrs.
'Jewels of the Nile' showcases 300 objects, ranging from tiny beads and gems to large sculptures from the Museum’s other Egyptian holdings. Through the singular story of Kingsmill and Laura Marrs and their friendship with British archaeologist Howard Carter, the exhibition also delves into the materials and techniques used in the creation of personal adornments, the evolution of style over the centuries, and the early twentieth-century phenomenon of Egyptomania sparked by archaeological exploration in the region. Interactive components and interpretive programmes will allow visitors of all ages to explore and experience themselves this fascinating aspect of ancient Egyptian culture.
18/06/2022 - 29/01/2023
Worcester Art Museum,
55 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA 01609
Wednesday – Sunday, 10am-4pm
Adults $18, Concessions $14
ASIA
ISRAEL
Ramat Hasharon
The Truth - Mine and Yours
klimt02.net/events/exhibitions
The exhibition displays the works of twelve contemporary jewellers who present their interpretation of the idea of "truth".
13/05/2022 – 1/11/2022
The Geological Museum
Ha-Palmakh St 12, Ramat Hasharon
Sunday - Thursday, 08.30 - 13:00. Friday - Saturday, 10.00 – 14.00
AUSTRALASIA
AUSTRALIA
Brisbane
World of Wonder: Margot McKinney
museumofbrisbane.com.au
With a lifetime dedicated to luxury, Australian jewellery designer Margot McKinney is one of the world’s boldest talents. The very definition of timeless elegance and bespoke excellence, Margot’s extraordinary pieces are a celebration of the world’s rarest gems.
From the coral reef in our own backyard to the rich palette of colours found on safari in Tanzania, this exhibition will be a mesmerising celebration of the complex and profoundly beautiful environments and materials that have inspired her designs. Here you’ll find opulent opals, lustrous pearls and rare gems like the intensely blue tanzanite, lilac amethyst and pink tourmalines.
This is the fourth exhibition in MoB’s identity series that celebrates creative greats who call Brisbane home. Join us as we journey through a treasure trove of memories and mastery and let Margot’s designs and inspiration transport you to a world of wonder.
18/06/2022 – 6/11/2022
Museum of Brisbane
Level 3, Brisbane City Hall, 64 Adelaide St, Brisbane 4000
Daily 10:00am - 5:00pm
Adults AU$15, Concessions AU$12
Melbourne
Jewellery and Body Adornment from the NGV Collection
ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition
Presenting an exquisite selection of jewellery and body adornment from antiquity to the present day, this exhibition reflects a wide variety of making traditions and practices across different material, cultural and geographical contexts. Defined by a relationship with the body, jewellery and body adornment are among the world’s oldest known artforms.
Ranging from the ceremonial and talismanic, to the decorative and conceptual, the exhibition features work composed of dazzling, highly prized materials, such as precious gems, metals, and iridescent seashells, as well as unexpected materials, such as hair, plastic, and rubber, which challenge conventional thinking of what constitutes jewellery and its significance.
All the works in the display have been drawn exclusively from the NGV Collection across multiple collecting areas, including Indigenous Art, Antiquities, Decorative Art, Australian Art, Asian Art, Fashion and Textiles, and Contemporary Design. Presented across four themes – Identity and Place, Status and Aspiration, Ceremony and Ritual, and Values and Sentiment – the pieces in this display provide insight into body adornment as a shared global practice.
27/08/2022 – 12/06/2023
NGV International
180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Daily 10:00am - 5:00pm
Entry to NGV International is free