In celebration of our 20th Anniversary we asked 80 of the artists we have worked with to make two charms. To commemorate the occasion, one charm has become part of a massive charm bracelet which will go into the collection of a major art museum.

The other charm is for you.

Whether you want to start a collection of artist made jewelry,

add to the one you already have, gift a fantastic piece, or wear it yourself — you’ll be charmed.

Each charm comes with a 130 page full-color book detailing the project with introductions by art historian, writer, and curator, Liesbeth den Besten and Emily Stoehrer, Ph.D. the Rita J. Kaplan and Susan B. Kaplan Curator of Jewelry, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The charms are available online and in the gallery on exhibit through June 30, shipping the first week of July.

This exhibition will feature work which is created primarily in the digital realm and then output as physical objects which are presented as two- and three-dimensional pieces of art in the traditional gallery setting. The goal of the exhibition is to introduce the viewer to work that may feel familiar in its presentation, but has been created using digital media which is less familiar. In this way, an opportunity for dialogue around the use of digital media and how it interacts with our established patterns of experiencing art is opened.

May 20 to June 9

Opening reception: Sunday, May 20, 2-4pm

Exhibiting Artists: Doug Bucci, Juan Dimida, Dan Hoffacker, Jonathan Laidacker, Rea Rossi, Michelle Rothwell, Jane Schultz, Lori Spencer, Erik Van Horn and Jen Zaylea

Curated by Michelle Rothwell and Paul Downie

There are three workshops associated with this exhibition.    Digital Original artist Jane Schultz, click here for Art on your iPhone Part 1(portraits/landscapes), click here for Part 2(collage/abstraction) and click here for Digital Painting with Digital Original artist Jonathan Laidacker

WITTENBRINK FUENFHOEFE
PRESENTSWORKS FROM AMERICA

Jamie Bennett • Doug Bucci • Sharon Church • Thomas Gentille •
William Harper • Robin Kranitzky/Kim Overstreet •
Stanley Lechtzin/Daniella Kerner • Eleanor Moty • Judy Onofrio •
Albert Paley • Marjorie Schick • Helen Shirk • Kiff Slemmons

EXHIBITION FROM  6th MARCH TILL 13th MARCH 2018
OPENING HOURS  MO – SA 10 – 19 UHR
CURATED BY HELEN DRUTT AND MATTHEW DRUTT
 

WITTENBRINKFUENFHOEFE
Theatinerstrasse 14
80333 München
089. 255 419 33
GalerieWittenbrink/FünfHöfe.de
Öffnungszeiten Mo – Sa   10 – 19 Uhr

Featuring nearly 150 brooches, necklaces, bracelets, and rings created by seminal designers from Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America, Jewelry of Ideas illuminates the radical conceptual and material developments in jewelry design that have transformed the field. Beginning with mid-20th-century American and European pioneers who pushed the boundaries of form and material, the exhibition traces the evolution of jewelry up to the avant-garde developments of the 1980s and through to the most recent innovations.

The works on view show how jewelry has moved far beyond its aesthetic considerations to stake out new creative territories through a mastery of materials, innovative techniques, and conceptual inquiry. In the collection are many of the field’s most experimental designers, including Joyce Scott, Friedrich Becker, Ted Noten, Kiff Slemmons, Otto Künzli, Ramona Solberg, Arline Fisch, Thomas Gentille, Attai Chen, Doug Bucci, and Jamie Bennett.

Exhibition Catalog
Illustrated with full-color photographs of the nearly 150 pieces of jewelry, this hardcover book also includes essays by curator and educator Ursula Ilse-Neuman on the evolution of contemporary jewelry from the mid-century to the present day. Process statements from the more than 100 jewelers represented in the collection further illuminate the groundbreaking materials and techniques, as well as conceptual scope, of these diverse jewelers’ achievements.

Available from SHOP Cooper Hewitt.

Our ever-changing relationship to nature as seen through the eyes of great designers

From the botanical wallpaper of William Morris to the streamlined cutlery of Zaha Hadid, design has always found inspiration in nature. This exhibition examines how designers of handmade and industrial objects—including furniture, pottery, kitchenware, and even a 3-D printed neckpiece—have responded to the beauty and fragility of the natural world.

By bringing together nature-inspired objects from the past century and a half—and examining the forces that shaped them—this exhibition offers a fresh look at the power of design.

In the last few decades, Marc Newson, Zaha Hadid, Doug Bucci, and others have grappled with what nature means in our tech-driven world through varied approaches. Some designers allude to a loose concept of the organic through playful forms that suggest living organisms, while others emphasize the responsible use of materials and energy. More recently, artists have taken advantage of 3-D printing and computer algorithms to create works rooted in the principles of nature.

The Jewellery Museum inaugurates its 2nd edition 2017-2018
with new international curators

"Jewellery is art, for me, is different because each piece is made by an individual, it is not made by industry, it is made by an artist who has a unique vision and who has the ability to inquire about a range of aesthetic ideas and to incorporate a particular personal concept. Since we decided to curate or organize an exhibition of American work, there was a definite obligation on my part to research and to carefully examine the field, and to try to select twenty-five or twenty-six works that would illustrate the range of aesthetic, you know, or the range of… the broad range of creative aesthetic work that existed in the United States, from the late twentieth century to the early twenty-first century."

- Helen W. Drutt

During the 20th century, numerous sculptors dedicated themselves to making jewellery, transferring their figurative skills, sometimes in the form of simple miniaturization or by working with the minute scale of jewellery itself. Jewellery, for everyone, can represent a sculpture for the body, transmitting concepts and desires, especially in terms of artistic research. Helen Drutt’s selection present jewellery by US artists who, like Alexander Calder or Art Smith, have renewed the relationship between jewellery and art.