Current and former teachers as well as alumni of Konstfack's Jewellery and Corpus programme, participate in this international exhibition.
Where does usefulness end, and where does experimenting far beyond functionality begin? After all, it's not a new thing anymore that some contemporary gold and silversmiths question the classical canon of their respective genre, as well as their historical roots and traditions, and create wildly unusual things that violate taboos of their trade and bear witness to disobedience and to breaking rules. They unhinge golden rules and challenge or satirise aesthetic norms, transmuting jewellery, utensils and other objects into paraphrases of their craft.
The show will be spotlighting jewellery, utensils and other objects created by 29 artists who question conventional perspectives. They all work in an in-between space that allows intercultural links to be created. Their objects and inventive forms and shapes can be located on this fine line where definitions and traditional concepts serve as the foundation for highly intelligent, complex thinking about utensils,
vessels and jewellery, but at the same time are always being abandoned or modified.
Artists featured:
Tobias Alm, Sawa Aso, Astrid Becksteiner-Rasche, Naama Bergman, Tobias Birgersson, Beatrice Brovia, Nicolas Cheng, David Clarke, Kanako Ebisawa, Ute Eitzenhöfer, Åsa Elmstam, Anne Fischer, Karolina Hägg, Nils Hint, Kateřina Jirsová, Junwon Jung, Anders Ljungberg, Kateřina Michálková, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Eija Mustonen, Markus Pollinger, Karen Pontoppidan, Anna Rikkinen, Hans Stofer, Vivi Touloumidi, Tarja Tuupanen, Luzia Vogt, Stella Wanisch, Jing Yang
The exhibition is curated by Dr. Ellen Maurer Zilioli, and will also be on view at the CODA Museum in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, from 19 May through 22 September 2024.