AJF returns to Munich for jewelry week 2026. Here's what we've planned—please join us!

We will once again have a booth in the Messe, in the Frame section, and will share it with Arnoldsche Art Publishers.

We'll give free tickets to the Messe to members of AJF
• Members at Pewter ($50) get two free tickets
• Members at Bronze ($150) or above get four free tickets
• Get your tickets here.

For AJF members only. Not a member? Join here. Unsure of your membership level? Find your name here.

AJF will deliver digital tickets to your email on Monday, March 2, before the fair. If you do not receive your tickets, please email danielle@artjewelryforum.org.

The events we've planned for Munich include:
• The presentation of the 2026 AJF Young Artist Award, supported by Karen and Michael Rotenberg, on the main stage of the Messe on Saturday, March 7, 2026, 5:15 pm
• Our annual members-only dinner. Join us in the warm, convivial atmosphere of Conti restaurant for a kitchen party that includes your choice of appetizer, entrée, dessert, and coffee—plus two glasses of wine as you meet and toast the winner and finalists of the 2026 Young Artist Award, supported by Karen and Michael Rotenberg. Takes place Saturday, March 7, 2026, at 7 pm. Get more information and register here
• A speaker series consisting of more than a dozen talks on controversial topics in the field. A selection of talks will occur every day in our booth in the Frame area of the Messe. See the schedule below
• A presentation by Susan Cummins about the new book Marzee. Takes place at Galerie Handwerk on Friday, March 6, 2026, 10 am–12.30 pm. Copies of the book will be for sale in our booth at the Messe and in the Arnoldsche pop-up bookstore at Galerie Handwerk
• An afternoon-long jaunt to see the exhibition David Bielander: Chiaroscuro. We'll take a chartered coach to Galerie Zink, in Seubersdorf, Germany. The artist will be present with us on the bus, and the gallery will treat us all to refreshments. Departure from Galerie Handwerk at about 12:30 pm on Friday, March 6, 2026, after the book presentations held there that morning wrap up. The coach will bring us back to Galerie Handwerk; we hope to return in time for evening lectures, but cannot guarantee it. Seats are limited. Free and open to all, but registration is required; register here
• A photo booth to create a digital scrapbook for this year’s jewelry week, in our booth
• Giveaways of jewelry coloring cards by Jimena Ríos, also in the booth
• A schedule of AJF member events across the city. Submit here to be included in it

Many—but not all—of our events will take place in our booth. There, Arnoldsche will display approximately two dozen of its latest jewelry titles. The books will be available to purchase on the afternoon of Sunday, March 8. We will also be selling copies of the new Marzee book in our booth.

We have additional programs in the works, and will share more information in the coming weeks.

Schedule for AJF Speaker Series 2026: Jewelry That Makes You Think
Our Speaker Series takes place all five days of Munich’s jewelry week. The talks happen in our booth in the Frame section of the Messe. Free, and open to all.

We will continually update this section as we learn titles and descriptions of the talks.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2026
11 am Aaron Decker, Call It a Niche
1 pm Elena Karpilova, To Climb Up a Ladder
2 pm Roberta Bernabei, Re-Conceptualizing [Dis]obedient Jewelry Material Agency and the Disruption of Normative Expectations

THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2026
11 am Kevin Murray, Re-Wilding Jewelry: Contemporary Adornment for the “More than Human”
1 pm Mette Saabye, Jewelry Dialogues
2 pm Paul Derrez, Jewelry: Beauty or Activism?

FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2026
1 pm Mike Holmes, William Clark Jewelry: Lost & Found
2 pm Caroline Broadhead, Rebellious Beads
3 pm Cindi Strauss, Flashpoint: Contemporary Jewelry in the Museum

SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2026
11 am Veronika Fabian, Is It Worth It?
1 pm Keith Lewis, Partly Miscible: My Uneasy Relationship with European Studio Jewelry
2 pm Tanel Veenre, Beauty as a Simulacrum, the Artist as a Fraudster

SUNDAY, MARCH 8
3 pm Dirk Allgaier, Thoughts on Jewelry and International Women’s Day on March 8: Three Impressive Female Artists from the Last 100 Years

 

Watch the recordings of AJF's Speaker Series 2025
This fascinating series, which featured 16 talks over five days, took place from March 12–16, 2025, in the booth AJF shared with Arnoldsche Art Publishers at Munich's Messe. You'll find the recordings below.

The speakers included makers, collectors, curators, educators, and gallerists:
• Otto Künzli
• Liesbeth den Besten
• Khanya Mthethwa
• Chequita Nahar
• Ellen Maurer Zilioli
• Deedie Rose and Sarah Schleuning
• Geraldine Fenn
• Christoph Zellweger
• matt lambert
• Susan Lewin
• Jorunn Veiteberg
• Evert Nijland
• Mònica Gaspar and Patricia Domingues
• Ilaria Ruggiero
• Marta Costa Reis
• Atty Tantivit