This year, I was able to visit Munich Jewellery Week again! And after four days of walking around in the city I've seen so much, met so many interesting designers and have so much to tell that I had to make a selection of the exhibitions I visited. I struggled with the two maps (one was HUGE and the other incomplete :s ) and we even got to visit more than 50 exhibitions and still did not see everything! I've made a list of 12 exhibitions that impressed me the most. In the first place because of the work I saw there, but also because of the presentation. I really liked it when the designers used a smart way of presenting their jewellery. Using the space at its best, a lot of the time with easy, clever and cheap solutions. For some of them exhibiting in Munich is far away from home, and transport is a difficult obstacle that makes it next to impossible to bring a lot of presentation material.
I think there was a big contrast between some of the exhibitions in the quality of the presentation and preparation! Some really did a big effort to present everything well and there where some who did next to nothing to enhance the expo with a better presentation. I also noticed some where not prepared well: not knowing enough info on the pieces like materials and prices... This really is a shame when you have such a huge international audience! Just make clear lists with all of the info and think about how to present your work the best way possible!
Next to visiting all the exhibitions in the city, I also went to one of the AJF talks: AJF in conversation - Collecting. As a young designer and collector it was very interesting to see some more established collectors and hear about the way they present, catalogue, wear... their collections. It was impressive to see how they had huge cupboards built to store the jewellery in and to see the great number of pieces they own! They also talked on how important it is as a collector to do something with your collection like exhibitions! You are a representative of the pieces you own! And of course, during a week like this, I acquired a few additions for our personal collection! ;-) Now it's all over, I'm already looking forward to next years' edition of MJW! See you there?
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On 12 November we visited Sieraad Jewellery Art Fair 2017 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This year, there were over 100 stands! There are huge differences between these stands when you look at the kind of jewellery they show how the pieces are presented. You can find very classical pieces with a lot of gold and gemstones, but also very conceptual pieces out of unusual materials. You can really expect anything at Sieraad! Every year, there's also a main exhibition in the central aisle of the Westergasfabriek. This year, it showed jewellery from students from Idar-Oberstein Hocheschule Trier, Germany that have graduated over the past 15 years. This main expo, called Rockstars, showed a big variety of different pieces of jewellery mainly made out of stones or with stones in them. I think this was a great edition of the fair! A couple of designers caught my eye and from some I was able to bring something home with me to add to our collection. ;-) A list of the artists I particularly loved: - Loukia Richards: she and Christoph Ziegler organized an artist-in-residency-project with different international artists in Athens. Loukia herself presented beautiful hand embroidered portraits, inspired by classic iconography, made into jewellery. -Mia Maichen: she made beautiful pieces with quite graphic pictures of a rat she dissected. -Libby Ward: she used scrap materials from an old ceramic factory to create a brooch we fell in love with! - I finally got the chance to see the work by Die Vier (after unfortunately missing them on Munich Jewellery Week 2017). They're a collective of four designers: Catalina Brenes, Denise Ebert, Pia Groh and Julia Obermaier. This was the last fair they participated in as Die Vier, but I hope we will hear lots more from them in the future! - Primordiale: a brand that can be found on the border of contemporary jewellery and fashion jewellery and uses hardware to create great pieces. - T Squared: an Israeli brand by Tami Eshed that offers interesting, wearable and modern pieces with simple, but very graphical and strong shapes! Other artists I loved and will definitely follow in the future are: Konstanze Prechtl, Rachel Butlin, Francesca Verado, Cleopatra Cosulet and Anna Król. Besides the stands with jewellery, it's also very interesting to visit the stand or Ra Books. Here, you can find a wide variety of books about jewellery. I bought the new book by Marjan Unger and Suzanne Van Leeuwen: Jewellery Matters, a book on the meaning of jewellery. I've only just started reading it, but am already sure this a 'must have' for every jewellery enthusiast! The next edition of Sieraad will be from 8 untill 11 November 2018. Websites:
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