The Dutch maker and gallerist asks what do we make, collect, or wear—which choices do we make? AJF held 16 talks over five days in Munich. Saabye gave this presentation as part of the 2026 “AJF Speaker Series: Jewelry that Makes You Think.” Most of the series took place in the booth AJF shared with […]
Paul Derrez. Jewelry: Beauty or Activism? Read More »
The Danish maker and curator examines jewelry as a language for entering into dialogue with people. AJF held 16 talks over five days in Munich. Saabye gave this presentation as part of the 2026 “AJF Speaker Series: Jewelry that Makes You Think.” Most of the series took place in the booth AJF shared with Arnoldsche Art
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The Australian editor of Garland magazine poses the question: What does it mean to make jewelry for the “more than human”? Murray gave this presentation as part of the 2026 “AJF Speaker Series: Jewelry that Makes You Think,” which featured 16 talks over five days. Most of the series took place in the booth AJF shared with
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The Italian-British editor of the Journal of Jewellery Research reframes jewelry as (dis)obedient bodymatter—an active agent rather than a passively worn object. Bernabei gave this presentation as part of the 2026 “AJF Speaker Series: Jewelry that Makes You Think,” which featured 16 talks over five days. Most of the series took place in the booth
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The educator, artist, and writer from Belarus/Portugal reflects on how to see the contemporary jewelry scene in a broader context—and why we all need, from time to time, to climb up a ladder so that the “furrows” in the ground, when viewed from above, turn into meaningful shapes. Karpilova gave this presentation as part of
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The American jeweler asks, is art jewelry just another niche, and if so, what does it serve? Decker gave this presentation as part of the 2026 “AJF Speaker Series: Jewelry that Makes You Think,” which featured 16 talks over five days. Most of the series took place in the booth AJF shared with Arnoldsche Art
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Large exhibitions of contemporary jewelry are rare. A well-stocked bookshelf might include dozens of books that present generous selections of lavishly photographed jewelry from the 1940s to the present (the period that the term “contemporary jewelry” covers). But seeing a lot of contemporary jewelry in person is an uncommon experience, which makes Constellations: Contemporary Jewelry
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Project Bawra speaks with Aiza Mahmood, Mahvash Salim, and Dua Fatima Baig about their art jewelry practices since their graduation from the Gemstones and Jewellery program in Idar-Oberstein, Germany. Project Bawra: Tell us a bit about your background and the main issues addressed in your work. Aiza Mahmood: Since childhood, I have been fascinated by
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, Art Jewelry Forum has expanded its efforts to connect more directly with the jewelry community by regularly hosting live chats online. These feature artist studio visits, talks with gallerists about shows they’re hosting, interviews with curators and authors, and other programming tied to various jewelry weeks from around the
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Over the last year, The Body Collective has presented exhibitions and talks, underpinned by the body as a subject for interrogation. The jewelers Katja Prins, Chequita Nahar, and Anke Huyben make up the collective. For them, the body is rarely the central focus for jewelers, but “rather serves primarily as a ‘carrier’ of the jewelry.”
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AJF’s annual panel took place at The Jewelry Library’s new venue, Maison 10. This year’s topic focused on shaping museum jewelry collections. The panelists for “AJF in Conversation: Shaping Museum Jewelry Collections” were Julia Hirsch, Joanne Hyppolite, AJF member John Stewart Gordon, and Ulysses Grant Dietz. AJF member Toni Greenbaum moderated. TJL is also a
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Roberta Bernabei: Your background is fascinating. From studying Biology to earning a PhD in Architecture (by design) from RMIT Melbourne, and then making a radical career change in December 2022, when you decided to embark on independent curatorial work merging Fine Art and Applied Art. This gave birth to Objects Beautiful in April 2023—a flexible
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