June 2025, Part 1
These days, we all could use a treat. And it feels so good to get a terrific piece of art jewelry for ourselves while celebrating and supporting artists and the galleries who show them!
Art Jewelry Forum’s international gallery supporters celebrate and exhibit art jewelry. Our bi-monthly On Offer series allows this extensive network of international galleries to showcase extraordinary pieces personally selected to tempt and inspire you. Take a look. You’re sure to find a fantastic piece you simply can’t live without! (Please contact the gallery directly for inquiries.)
Gallery: Galeria Reverso, Lisbon, Portugal (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Paula Crespo (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Beppe Kessler
Retail price: 1,750€
“In 2016, during the climate talk in Paris,” states Beppe Kessler, “I started to work on a small collection of brooches, made of pieces of the weather forecast, cut out of the paper, daily, by my father, and covered by acrylic, shaped like a stone. I inherited his archive and gave it a second life. I dedicated these brooches to my father, who died in 2016.“ The dates of the weather forecast are written on the back of the brooch. Weather: 1998 / 17/10, 18/6, 11/12, 23/1.
Gallery: Galerie Door, Nijmegen, Netherlands (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Doreen Timmers (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Tatjana Giorgadse
Retail price: 885€
Tatjana Giorgadse was trained by Theo Smeets and Ute Eitzenhöfer at the department of gemstone and jewelry design in Idar-Oberstein (Germany). Her wonderful world of art has its roots in a free and carefree childhood in the Georgian countryside. To this she adds her contemporary dreams, her fascination for nature, and the frisky playfulness of her own children. Her work is unconventional, stimulating, and a feast for the eyes.
Gallery: Thereza Pedrosa Gallery, Asolo, Italy (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Thereza Pedrosa (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Hanna Liljenberg
Retail price: 635€
Inspired by Sweden’s west coast and the body’s capacity to both amaze and disturb, Hanna Liljenberg creates pieces that blur the line between natural and human-made forms. Working with paper and thin metal sheets, she builds lightweight, foldable structures defined by sharp, organic shapes, vibrant colors, and fine lines. Her abstract floral forms invite curiosity and reflection on the dual beauty and brutality of nature.
Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, SA, Australia (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Jane Bowden (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Christel van der Laan
Retail price: AUS$1,850
“The idea of preciousness in jewelry and the pursuit of beauty in the discarded and overlooked are enduring themes in my work,” states Christel van der Laan. “Since 2008, I have been experimenting with a refractory material, ceramic honeycomb. Usually a soldering aid on thousands of jeweler’s benches around the globe, this unlikely stuff has become the key focus in my practice. The selection and organization of materials to give form to thoughts and experiences is often the most exhilarating and challenging aspect of the making process. My desire is to create poetic jewelry objects, where each part is transformed by its juxtaposition with another and has a crucial role to play in the final composition.” And the back—van der Laan pays so much attention to the detail on the back of the brooch! The artist takes care to make her pieces as interesting to view from the back as the front. Who can’t resist picking up a brooch and turning it over?!
Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Janna Syvänoja
Retail price: 2,500€
Janna Syvänoja is known for her jewelry made from recycled printed paper, such as newspapers, maps, catalogs, and old books. They are rich by their past, carrying along certain places and accidental meanings. This material also gives the pieces their individual exterior and interior decoration, their ornaments. The artist decides how the results should be, but in the end the piece take a shape of its own. When certain formed components start to follow each other and find their rhythm in the making, the miracle happens. It is a slow, meditative, and very natural process.
Gallery: Galeria Tereza Seabra, Lisbon, Portugal (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Tereza Seabra (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Sofia Björkman
Retail price: 1,968€, plus shipping
“Light Night is a series of jewelry pieces that explore what it means to be born under the zodiac sign Gemini,” states Sofia Björkman. “Duality, movement, and change characterize this sign—Geminis are curious, airy, quick, and playful. Gemini holds contradictions: two sides, constant shifts, an ongoing exploration. I have tried to capture this in both material and form. The pieces are black and white, changing depending on the background they are worn against. Against black, the white emerges; against white, the black becomes visible. In this way, a duality is created that constantly shifts, just like the nature of Gemini. The forms are quickly sketched, airy lines in motion. They are built from interconnected parts that follow the body’s movements. These are not static objects; they are flexible, adapting to the wearer, serving as a reminder that nothing is constant—everything is in perpetual motion. In the flow of everyday life, in the murmur of the festive night, in the meeting with a friend—or with the stranger who is there, listening. Light Night refers to Gemini’s time of year, the brightest period, when days are long and nights are short. In the light, we find shadows; in the night, glimmers of light appear—the visible and the hidden shift and move in parallel and duality.”
This necklace is part of the Rings of Saturn cycle, curated by Halo (Catarina Silva and Marta Costa Reis) at Gallery Tereza Seabra. For millennia, the zodiac has been a mirror in the sky that reflects human characteristics, our charm, and our deep connection with the cosmos. Inspired by the 12 constellations that mark the astrological cycle, Halo is inviting artists brought together by the chance of being born under the same zodiac sign for group exhibitions over 12 months. Between March 2025 and February 2026, each exhibition will explore the essence of a sign, translated through art, symbolism, and spirituality, creating a dialogue between the astrological universe and human expressions. Astrological signs have fascinated and inspired cultures around the world, symbolizing the forces that connect us to the universe and powerful psychological archetypes that continue to question us. In more than superstition, we wanted to use the language of astrology to provoke artistic acts that connect us to what transcends us, asking the guest artists to reflect on the mystery of the human condition. We wanted to create moments of exploration of the present time, a time of crisis in which it is normal to seek to understand the inexplicable. A time of doubt in which we can aspire to poetry and beauty. The sky has always had this effect of reconnecting us to the rhythm of the world and inspiring us to go further. We are made of stardust.
Gallery: Four Gallery, Umeå, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Karin Roy Andersson (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Marianne Schliwinski
Retail price: 100€
In Marianne Schliwinski’s work, you see contrasts playing together. Her language consists of materials and their different qualities. Things might not always be what they seem—light pieces with a heavy look and weighty works with a light appearance. Schliwinski often combines papier-mâché with found objects. Different paints and lacquers accentuate the materials and shapes. The composition, the materials, and the colors tell sensible, political, and sometimes funny stories.
Gallery: Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Allison Gulick (click the name for email)
Artist: Chelsea Nanfelt Rowe
Retail price: US$250
Based in the US, Chelsea Nanfelt Rowe is an artist who transforms everyday materials and detritus into jewelry. She is motivated to highlight the stories infused in, and witnessed by, the things we surround ourselves with. She has her MFA in craft/material studies from Virginia Commonwealth University and works as an artist and educator. An advocate for sustainability in jewelry, Nanfelt Rowe serves on the Advisory Council and EM Education Committee for Ethical Metalsmiths, and also chairs the So Fresh + So Clean Exhibition. Her work has been exhibited at Dransfield Jewelers, the Metal Museum, and Pratt Institute’s Steuben Gallery, and she was honored with NYCJW’s 2025 One for the Future award. She is currently an Emerging Artist Resident at the Baltimore Jewelry Center.
Gallery: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: The Pistachios Team (click the team name for email)
Artist: Ryungjae Jung
Retail price: US$850
An abundance of tangerine 3D-printed chains cascades down from this unique statement brooch by Ryungjae Jung. With effortless movement, this brooch will accentuate any jacket or top while adding a bold pop of color.
Gallery: Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains, Montreal, QC, Canada
Contact: Noel Guyomarc’h (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Seth Papac
Retail price: US$2,000
Seth Papac’s Chrysotile brooch is part of a body of work resulting from a collaborative project with Maria Phillips, during which the two artists exchanged ideas and collected or found materials. Through these jewelry pieces, they give form to an intimate and collective material memory. Their approach evokes an emotional and relational geology.
Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Kate Crankshaw (click the name for email)
Artist: Janine Decresenzo
Retail price: US$15,400
This piece is beautifully textured and unique. The kinetic aspect of the bracelet allows it to sit comfortably on the wrist. Between the mixed golds and the unique stone, this bracelet is a one-of-a-kind and versatile piece of jewelry.
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