Renate Slavik with Galerie Slavik’s disk sign, 2016, photo: Julia Wesely While visiting Vienna in 2004, I came upon a graceful storefront with a large overhead bronze disk sign and a window display that was so inviting from the street: Galerie Slavik. The appealing architecture attracted my companions and me in, and we were rewarded […]
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Ombré Gallery, front of gallery, photo: Ombré Gallery It’s always exciting to see a new gallery emerge in the art jewelry field. Ombré Gallery opened this past fall and already has an exciting roster of artists. Jenna Shaifer, the gallery’s founder and director, introduces us to her gallery and discusses what excites her about the
Katrin Eitner at the gallery during the exhibition Ulo Florack Smashed Investment on the Wall, Berlin, 2015, photo: Galerie Katrin Eitner Galerie Katrin Eitner is located in Berlin, Germany and experiments with new ways to be a contemporary jewelry gallery in these times of great change. Her model is not focused on a brick-and-mortar location,
Exhibition view, Tribute to Manfred Bischoff, 2017, drawings, Handwerkskammer München, photo: Wilfried Petzi Manfred Bischoff, Tribute to Manfred Bischoff March 9 – April 8, 2017 Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany The first impression of the Tribute to Manfred Bischoff exhibition is dominated by the large photographs on the walls of the Handwerkskammer exhibition space in Munich.
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OHMYBLUE team photo taken outside the gallery, with Alessandro Laita, Bruna Pini, Chiaralice Rizzi, and Elena Rizzi, photo: Riccardo Banfi OH MY BLUE, in Venice, Italy, is a gallery and retail space exhibiting contemporary art jewelry as well as designer housewares and clothing. In this conversation, gallerist Elena Rizzi discusses her bespoke display system, describes
Nora McCarthy, Graphite Drawing by Jordan Lentz, 2017, photo: Lillstreet Art Center Chicago’s Lillstreet Art Center is home to artist studios, art classes in a variety of mediums, an artist-in-residence program, and the multiple exhibition spaces that make up Lillstreet Gallery. In this interview, I speak with Jewelry Curator Nora McCarthy about her role in
Malin Lövgren, Linnéa Eriksson, Karin Roy Andersson, Hanna Liljenberg, 2016, photo: Lasse Karlsson Established in 2010 and located in Gothenburg, Four’s concept combines a contemporary jewelry gallery, shop, and workshop in a creative space that showcases the owners’ own work, as well as artists from around the world. In a vibrant art jewelry city such
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QUOIL’s interior, Wellington, New Zealand, photo: Billie Brook QUOIL is a contemporary jewelry gallery in Wellington, New Zealand, that represents solely New Zealand artists. The breadth of the work represented is refreshing and stands witness to the creative strength of the country. QUOIL’s current exhibition, from December 2016 through January 2017, is LUSTRE, a bright
Exhibition view, Moniek Schrijer, Double Happiness, 2016, The National, Christchurch, New Zealand, photo: The National Moniek Schrijer is a jeweler based in New Zealand. Having first trained in jewelry design and manufacturing, she then spent several years working in a metal arts foundry before obtaining her graduate diploma in jewelry and print making from Whitirea.
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Daniel Kruger, Necklace, 2014, silver, acrylic, pigment, 540 mm long, largest element: 85 x 85 mm, photo Udo W. Beier Olga Zobel is the director of Galerie Biró, a gallery that serves as a benchmark in the field. A pivotal player in the establishment of Munich as the European capital of contemporary jewelry, Zobel is also
Masako Onodera, My Dear, 2015, stole, repurposed fur coat, oxidized parts from silver-plated coffee pot, thread, 305 x 178 x 1,270 mm, photo: artist Shadow Themes, the brainchild of writer and educator Marjorie Simon and jewelry artist Biba Schutz, is a group exhibition at Reinstein|Ross that peers into the intuitive minds and fluid studio practices
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Exhibition view, Ai Weiwei—Rebar in Gold and gallery collaborations, 2016, work in foreground by Ai Weiwei, Elisabetta Cipriani Jewellery by Contemporary Artists, Design Miami/Basel 2016, courtesy of the gallery As a curator of contemporary art, I am used to going to art fairs: Not to collect per se—even though I am always looking for acquisitions
