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November 2025, Half 1
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FINAL WEEK TO APPLY FOR THE 2026 AJF YOUNG ARTIST AWARD!!!
Supported by Michael and Karen Rotenberg, this competitors acknowledges modern work created by an early-career jewellery artist (age 35 and underneath). For the fourth cycle in a row, it’s generously supported by the collectors Karen and Michael Rotenberg, whose assortment focuses on the modern use of other supplies by rising and mid-career artists. Prizes: US$7,500 for the winner; US$1,000 awards for every of the 4 finalists; a journey allowance of US$1,000 every for the winner and the finalists who journey to Munich to obtain their award; exhibit at Platina throughout Schmuck 2026 for the winner and 4 finalists. Be daring, be seen! Apply by November 9, 2025. Information.
JOIN US IN DALLAS FOR COCKTAILS: NOVEMBER 7, 2025!
AJF is touring to Texas to have a good time the opening of Constellations. Whereas there, we’ll host a meet-up for native jewellery fanatics! You’re invited to return chat over cocktails, and you must attempt our customized cocktail: The Mint Jewelep (groannnnn)! At Atlas—Bishop Arts, 6–8 pm. Open to all, meals is free, registration required. Register right here.
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DARK SKY OF IMAGINATION: JEWELRY BY KADRI MÄLK
This retrospective, opening November 6, 2025, on the Estonian Museum of Utilized Artwork and Design, focuses on Mälk as an artist and a passionate collector. For the primary time, a physique of almost 200 jewellery works from 4 a long time, 1986–2022, can be displayed. The exhibition may even function her private assortment of latest jewellery and associated objects representing each Estonian and worldwide artists. Curated by Krista Kodres and Kai Lobjakas, and by the curators of Mälk’s up to date jewellery assortment, Kristiina Laurits and Tanel Veenre. Accompanied by a particular set up of õhuLoss, a bunch of jewellery artists Mälk initiated in 1999, consisting of her and her former college students Piret Hirv, Eve Margus, Villu Plink, and Laurits and Veenre. Museum web site.
NEW CITY ART REVIEWED THINGS UNSAID, AT PISTACHIOS
Stated the reviewer, “Right here is a world neighborhood of makers who discover themselves current inside the world of artwork jewellery, as if they made a deliberate option to advance the revolution from inside, like a Malicious program stuffed with distinctive collectibles, which—as they spill from the horse’s stomach—make you out of the blue understand that jewellery could be a weapon too. As a result of what better weapon is there than one thing which efficiently challenges what you thought you knew?” Extra.
22+22 MUDANZAS—AT GALERIE NOEL GUYOMARC’H THROUGH NOVEMBER 22, 2025
Born from an encounter between Argentine poet Marina Burman and Catalan jeweler and gallery proprietor Grego García Tebar, this interdisciplinary exhibition gives a dialogue between jewellery and poetry—a fragile weaving between two disciplines. For the curators, jewellery is a poem, and a poem, a chunk of jewellery. Each share the identical alchemy: the artwork of reworking matter, taking part in with metaphors, inventing a brand new language, transferring us, and permitting us to indicate the world in a different way. Extra.
CONNECTOR: JEWELRY AS A LANGUAGE OF CONNECTION, AT GALLERY LOUPE NOVEMBER 15–DECEMBER 20, 2025
This exhibition and podcast sequence amplifies the various voices of Colombian jewellery artists by means of adornment and storytelling. Co-curated by Osage American artist and podcast host Sarah Rachel Brown and Colombian artist Ana María Jiménez, founding father of Taller sin Borde, this exhibition is each a visible and narrative exploration of how jewellery serves as a bridge between cultures. Opening reception November 15, 6–8 p.m. Extra.
UTE DECKER’S WORK WILL APPEAR IN CONSTELLATIONS
The landmark exhibition of latest jewellery, on the Dallas Museum of Artwork November 9, 2025–Could 3, 2026, will showcase 350+ wearable works, surveying almost a century. Many items can be on view for the primary time. The exhibition encompasses a particular fee by London-based AJF member Ute Decker: a totally traceable fairtrade gold assertion hand sculpture from her Calligraphy sequence, which covers your entire size of the hand. This wearable sculpture is the primary absolutely traceable fairtrade gold piece within the DMA’s jewellery assortment, and it finds expression each on the hand and as a neck pendant, embodying one in every of Decker’s core ideas of inviting the wearer’s inventive participation. The exhibition will embody many celebrated masters of studio jewellery—Hermann Jünger, William Harper, Giovanni Corvaja, Karl Fritsch, Wendy Ramshaw, Francesco Pavan, and Bruno Martinazzi amongst them. The accompanying publication gives an attractive documentation of this important up to date jewellery survey. Extra.
UTE DECKER WILL ALSO SHOW AT SALON ART + DESIGN
Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery returns to the Park Avenue Armory in New York for this honest, which takes place November 6–10, 2025. Decker, an AJF member, can be a part of the gallery’s presentation of sculptural, wearable artwork that includes Fernandez Arman, Francesco Area, Giampaolo Babetto, Pleasure BC, Carol Bove, Pol Bury, Roberto and Haroldo Burle Marx, Paolo Canevari, Faust Cardinali, Enrico Castellani, EC X EC LAB, Pietro Consagra, Carlos Cruz Diez, André Derain, Aigana Gali, Kendell Geers, Melanie Grant, Ania Guillaume, Rebecca Horn, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Jannis Kounellis, Claude Lalanne, Liliane Lijn, Alba Lisca, Gigi Mariani, Satta Matturi, Yue Minjun, John Moore, Maria Nepomuceno, Michele Oka Doner, Meret Oppenheim, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Arnaldo Pomodoro, David Rodriguez Caballero, Elsa Sarantidou, Chiharu Shiota, Artwork Smith, Sissi Daniela Olivieri, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Sophia Vari, Giorgio Vigna, Invoice Woodrow, and Erwin Wurm. Extra.
JEWELRY CODE: DATA AS WEARABLE ART, THROUGH DECEMBER 2, 2025
Sixty+ artists from 28 nations—together with Doug Bucci, Zhanna Assanova, and AJF member Erika Novak—current jewellery and wearable objects primarily based on information, from local weather change and gender inequality to private tales and collective reminiscence. The exhibition, curated by Syldyr Undertaking, highlights how information may be reworked into significant, wearable artwork. It’s the primary worldwide information artwork exhibition in Central Asia. On the Nationwide Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Astana. Information.
WATER, AT MOBILIA THROUGH NOVEMBER 15, 2025
Cynthia Toops mixes polymer clay like paint, creating limitless hues. She then rolls the polymer into threads, slicing and forming minute tile beads to inlay. Toops’s course of is exclusive and distinctive. Her intricate micro mosaic polymer clay brooches, beads, and necklaces are “miniature marvels. She typically collaborates together with her husband, Dan Adams. Extra.
OPEN CALL: LEGNICA JEWELLERY FESTIVAL SILVER
The Gallery of Artwork in Legnica (Poland) invitations artists, goldsmiths, designers, {and professional} and newbie jewellery makers from all around the world to take part in its thirty fourth worldwide jewellery competitors. Artists have full freedom of method and materials. The one requirement is a transparent reference to the competitors theme: Each Physique. Utilizing silver within the submitted work—whereas it stays a suggestion of the organizers—shouldn’t be required. The grand opening of the Legnica Jewelry Competition SILVER and the announcement of the winners will happen Could 8–9, 2026. Jurors: Paul Derrez (Netherlands), Sławomir Fijałkowski (Poland), Sergiusz Kuchczyński (Poland), Andreia Gabriela Popescu (Romania), Helena Renner (Germany). Deadline: January 8, 2026. Extra.
EXTRANALITIES—THE FIRST, THE WORST, THE BEST & THE REST
Extranalities is a European jewellery collective—which incorporates AJF members Sofia Björkman and Felieke van der Leest—that explores and investigates jewellery by means of dialogue and collaborative follow. For this exhibition, the members got entry to the Jakob Bengel Basis’s galalith assortment, which resulted in some colourful creations. “Misplaced in Lust” was the inspiring working title. Moreover, works from numerous earlier Extranalities exhibitions are on show. Some completely match all of the phrases within the exhibition title, others don’t match any … you by no means know with Extranalities. At Villa Bengel, Idar-Oberstein, Germany, by means of January 12, 2026. Extra.
WAM! ISN’T DEFINED BY WALLS—IT’S CURATED BY VISION
The Wearable Artwork Museum extends past geography, curating exhibitions, collaborations, and academic applications throughout cultures, communities, and continents. Till an anchor location is established, it’s energetic by means of touring exhibitions, inventive alliances, digital storytelling, and academic initiatives. WAM! can be a part of NYCJW2025. Extra.
SEBASTIAN GRANT WRITES ABOUT BODY ADORNMENT AND THE SPIRIT
“At a time when a lot of the West is descending into authoritarianism, emotions of chaos and uncertainty have triggered many to show away from materialism seeking extra meditative and esoteric methods of residing, together with inside creative practices,” states Grant in Metalsmith. “In some ways, the artwork of the esoteric world has helped increase the consciousness of creative chance, and lots of African and African Diasporic artists have critiqued the spiritualism of Western ideology whereas exploring this sacred territory of their metalwork.” Extra.
GOING TO ART JEWELRY GALLERIES IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH!
The primary examine of its form has discovered that viewing authentic artworks can relieve stress, reduce the danger of coronary heart illness danger, and enhance the immune system. … As if you happen to wanted an excuse to go to your favourite gallery, however right here’s all of the extra purpose! Extra.
CONTEMPORARY JEWELERY SYMPOSIUM TOKYO—NOVEMBER 3, 2025
The main target: “Contemplating the Way forward for Up to date Jewellery.” To take part within the Zoom webinar: Create an account on CJST’s web site. Allow auto-reply emails, or examine your spam folder. After logging in to your account, click on the Zoom URL on the “Up to date Jewelry Symposium Tokyo 2025” web page to enter the webinar. Entry begins at 12:30 pm on the day of the occasion.
ONLINE AUCTION NOVEMBER 7, 2025
Rago has items by Artwork Smith, Henning Koppel for Georg Jensen, Sally Yazzie, Jeff and Susan Smart, Jennifer Kalled, some Bakelite, and an entire lotta bling-bling. Extra.
SKY SERIES: PAINTING THE HEAVENS WITH GLASS
Zoë Veness employs an open cloisonné method to make pendants that seize fleeting skies on Dharawl Nation. Extra in Garland. The work was created for the exhibition Issues of Time: Up to date Steel Practices, at UNSW Galleries.
GET A 20% DISCOUNT ON THE BOOK CREATING STEEL JEWELRY
Its writer, Artisan Concepts, is providing AJF readers a 20% low cost on this guide by Bette Barnett. US buyers, order your discounted copy right here. Individuals residing elsewhere on the earth, order right here.
FULLHOUSE, AT WEARHOUSE NOVEMBER 7–9, 2025
The exhibition, throughout Obsessed!, reimagines the boundaries between private house and creative expression. By means of a world open name, artists have been invited to replicate on the thought of house as each a bodily and emotional house. The exhibition transforms your entire three-floor WearHouse right into a dynamic surroundings the place jewellery engages with themes of residing, human connection, and the intimate tales embedded in wearable objects. Information.
2025 ITAMI INTERNATIONAL JEWELRY EXHIBITION OPENS SOON
It’s going to current 98 chosen works from a complete of 302 submissions (947 items in complete), of which 155 works got here from 27 nations abroad. The present takes place November 15–December 21, 2025, at Itami Metropolis Museum of Artwork, Historical past and Tradition, in Japan. Extra.
UPSTAIRS, A NEW SPACE IN AMSTERDAM
Based by Alisdair Mills and Jantje Fleischhut, it’s going to showcase and promote jewellery, product design, and artwork. For its first exhibition, college students and alumni from the New Craft Object Design Division, Hochschule Düsseldorf, will present within the house as a part of the Obsessive about Jewelry occasions, November 7–8, 2025. Extra.
KRISTINE ERVIK: OH, THIS OLD THING?
On this present, at Format, in Norway, Ervik attracts consideration to society’s dismissive attitudes towards the pure and the unaltered physique, introducing another perspective on what is taken into account fascinating and exquisite. By means of an historic craft custom rooted in each jewellery making and the metalwork of the battlefield, she highlights a robust and storied physique—an armor that carries marks of life expertise—inviting the viewer to strategy course of and transformation with recognition, acceptance, and anticipation. November 6–December 21, 2025. Extra.
OPEN CALL EXTENDED: NOT ONLY DECORATION MAG
The theme: Group. Numerous varieties exist. They’ll present stability, transcend boundaries, or outline territories. Some span generations, others are non permanent. Seen insignia, buttons, flags, or tattoos typically mark these bonds and make belonging tangible. Jewellery particularly features as a marker of identification, as code, as nonverbal language. Translate your thought of neighborhood into jewellery. Deadline is now November 14, 2025. Extra.
AN INTERVIEW WITH MELANIE GRANT
The editor of The Jewellery E-book described how vital the guide’s advisory panel was, and the way difficult it was to decide on solely 300 designers, makers, and different jewelry-related personalities to fill its pages with. Extra.
NEW YORK CITY JEWELRY WEEK—NOVEMBER 17–23, 2025
A hybrid program of digital experiences and immersive in-person occasions brings collectively essentially the most gifted and influential figures within the jewellery trade, who curate quite a lot of experiences. Attendees can discover exhibitions, bask in unique purchasing alternatives, and partake in thrilling retail collaborations. As well as, panel discussions present insights into the newest traits, challenges, and improvements inside the trade. Every occasion is crafted to supply distinctive and unforgettable jewellery moments. Extra.
JELO6 PROJECT CYPRUS: NOVEMBER 12–16, 2025
The theme is “Adorning Change: Jewellery as a Catalyst for Peaceable Activism.” The occasion will happen in Nicosia. Web site. A JELO6 Undertaking Athens is scheduled for 2026.
OBSESSED JEWELLERY FESTIVAL: NOVEMBER 1–30, 2025
This 12 months’s theme, Glow-Up, embraces the ability of transformation—each in and out—by means of the ritual of decoration. Whether or not delicate or daring, everlasting or fleeting, jewellery has lengthy been a solution to specific take care of ourselves and others, symbolizing development, change, and empowerment. Takes place within the Netherlands and Belgium. Web site.
CLUSTER CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY FAIR: NOVEMBER 21–23, 2025
In a world unsettled by ecological and cultural shifts, these crafted objects pulse with quiet defiance. They’re vessels of inheritance, but in addition seeds of what’s but to return. Every bit carries the imprint of the maker and the burden of histories, whispered and worn. Shifting past adornment, jewellery turns into a talisman, a rise up in opposition to the ephemeral. In London. Extra.
CONSTELLATIONS: CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY AT THE DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART
Curator Sarah Schleuning examines of how up to date jewellery pushes the boundary between decoration and artwork. This exploration of greater than 950 works from the up to date jewellery assortment on the Dallas Museum of Artwork spans almost a century, up till the current, and consists of work by a few of the area’s most modern and genre-defying makers. These masterpieces—from worldwide artists—assert the centrality of concepts past features of materiality and performance. A worthwhile useful resource for jewellery students and fanatics alike. Extra. See a flip-through of the guide on this video.
HABLA JOYA, HABLA. TEORÍA Y PRÁCTICA DEL CONCEPTO EN JOYERÍA Y ESCULTURA
Mar Juan Tortosa’s guide—the title interprets as Talks Jewel, Talks: Idea and Follow of the Idea in Jewellery and Sculpture—explores the communicative potential of jewellery as a medium for adornment, expression, and creative creation. She proposes a concept that integrates the parameters of jewellery and sculpture, defining each a inventive system and an analytical framework for understanding and deciphering the visible language generated by these objects. By means of a mixture of theoretical reflection and sensible examine, the guide gives a coherent basis for creating items with formal and linguistic unity, serving as each an essay and a handbook for creators, in addition to for anybody curious about deciphering and delving deeper into jewellery that talks. In Spanish. Extra.
GEMZ: WET
A plunge into fluidity, guided by Min Dai, whose instruments—constructed images and synthetic intelligence—conjure dreamscapes the place adornment glistens like pores and skin after rain, melting into new types of being. This version was born from the practices of the GEMZ skills, every one tracing fluid traces between intimacy and extra, artifice and nature, digital matter and residing contact. Their shared attraction to the otherworldly and the surprising carried this guide ahead, pulling jewellery out of its conventional frames and into speculative worlds soaked with need and chance. Extra.
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