Norwegian Crafts’ annual crafts seminar is an important and popular date in the Baltic craft calendar: It has proved a fertile ground, in the past, for speakers to wrestle with specific themes, and a great means for Norwegian Crafts to participate in craft discussions at an international level. (The annual conferences tend to engage with […]
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In October 2015, acclaimed Norwegian craft theorist and historian Jorunn Veiteberg delivered a 40-minute lecture at the Danish Design Museum, in Copenhagen. Her lecture used Susan Cohn’s Unexpected Pleasures exhibition (Design Museum London, 2012–2013) as a point of departure to recontextualize the New Jewelry movement in contemporary terms and signal how current practice has “liberated”
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What the hell is “reporting on contemporary practice” about? Who’s reporting on contemporary craft or contemporary jewelry, and what, exactly, is their goal? It turns out that there are a number of online and print platforms that promote, discuss, and critically report on the field of contemporary jewelry, and that we had a chance to
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The audience at The Meet, 2016, a symposium organized by Art Jewelry Forum in partnership with Current Obsession and Norwegian Crafts; Villa Stück, Munich, photo: Benjamin Lignel Why do collectors pick an artist over another? Or choose this piece by an artist, when that other piece is clearly more spectacular? How do curators select works
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(left) Caroline Slotte, Round Piece, from the Landscape Multiple series, 2012, reworked second-hand ceramics, 245 mm in diameter; Anna Talbot, Blue Wolf, 2012 brooch, old box, anodized aluminum, brass, wood veneer, steel, 80 x 80 x 20 mm, private collection, photo: artists It is universally acknowledged that contemporary jewelry subverted completely the “hierarchy of materials”[1]
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Exhibition view, Germany’s Upcoming Talents—GUT, 2016, work in foreground by Nadja Soloviev, Galerie Biró Junior at Galerie Royal, Munich, photo: Benjamin Lignel Art Jewelry Forum has just published three reviews, one video, and four Best of articles dedicated to Munich Jewelry Week (MJW): That adds up to eight pieces of writing, out of the roughly
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Last, but not least, we would like to share our best moments of Schmuck 2016. For those of you who couldn’t come this year, and for those of you who need a reminder—what happens in Munich doesn’t always stay in Munich! With the participation of Berndt Arell, Klara Brynge, Sally Collins, Mike Holmes, Agnieszka Knap,
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Schmuck has become a golden opportunity for new talents to reach out to a diverse, international audience. This category is pretty self-explanatory. Here we asked the jury to search for new talents in the field—a student, a new graduate, or an artist who still hasn’t gotten the recognition they deserve. With the participation of Berndt
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For this “Best Of” section, we told our jury members to look for pieces that made their heart skip a beat. We asked them to select an outstanding jewelry artwork that, due to craftsmanship and/or concept, carries its own weight regardless of whether it is placed on a plinth or on a person. We hoped
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Schmuck 2016 offered more than 70 exhibitions and events. How do you find the best of the best and give justice to this eclectic palette of jewelry expressions? Even though we had energetic jury members involved, there was no chance we could all see everything on show. But our strategy was to assemble a diverse
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2016 AJF limited-edition pin by Hanna Hedman, 2016, stainless steel, gold plate, photo: Aniya Dunkley Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) is sending a stunning gold-plated version of its 2016 limited-edition pin by Swedish jeweler Hanna Hedman on a grand tour around the world—and we invite you to come along! The one-of-a-kind pin begins its yearlong journey
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Visitors to A Sense of Jewellery, 2015, the Goldsmiths’ Centre, London, photo: Julia Kupney On January 3, 2016, Art Jewelry Forum published a review of A Sense of Jewellery, an exhibition of British work made over the last 50 years curated by Amanda Game and Professor Dorothy Hogg for the Goldsmiths’ Centre, London. The difficult
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