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Might 2026, Half 1
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AJF WEEKEND: MONTREAL—JUNE 12–13, 2026
AJF Weekends are a brand new strategy to collect with Artwork Jewellery Discussion board: shorter, extra accessible applications that protect the depth of trade, entry, and dialog that outline AJF journey. Open to members and nonmembers alike. Cohosted with gallerist Noel Guyomarc’h, our first two-day, small-group program, in Montreal, will heart across the opening of Dispatch from the Colonies, a brand new exhibition by South Africa–based mostly artist Geraldine Fenn at Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h. Developed by way of the AJF Solo Exhibition Award, this exhibition represents the fruits of an prolonged interval of analysis and making. Additionally: go to Aurélie Guillaume’s studio; curator-led tour of Wearable Artwork, at Musée des métiers d’artwork du Québec; curator-led go to to the newly reinstalled nationwide museum galleries; celebratory dinner; and extra. Data.
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MAD ABOUT JEWELRY: MAY 5–9, 2026
Now in its twenty sixth 12 months, the pop-up brings collectively 45 creators from greater than 20 international locations, together with England, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, Argentina, Scandinavia, the Center East, and past. As the one American museum with a gallery devoted completely to jewellery, MAD has spent over a quarter-century championing this medium. Data.
MATRICES, WORK BY ROBIN DERIAZ, AT BORAX
A cage and a nest share the identical anatomy: an empty area delimited by a cloth boundary, able to defending simply as a lot as of enclosing. This exhibition will discover the purpose the place these two ideas intertwine and merge, and it takes place in a disused jail. There, Deriaz will query the way in which the situations of an area affect how we really feel about it. Silver, copper, metal, aluminum meet natural matter comparable to resin or fibers. This combine references each the language of the nest and of the cage. It’s a research of the empathy of matter: aggressive buildings making an attempt to guard fragile interiors, and vice versa. The cage and the nest are not opposites however equals. The physique turns into the territory. Each bit exists as an autonomous ecosystem resting upon the pores and skin. The wearer turns into the guardian of those areas, the host who permits the thing to exist. Might 30–31 and June 6–7, 2026,13:00–18:00. Opening reception with the artist on Might 30 at 18:00. Extra.
3RD LISBON CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY BIENNIAL—SEPTEMBER 17–27, 2026
With Coexistências/Coexistences, the biennial will mirror on how jewellery expresses and represents the online of relationships between people and the Earth’s ecology within the broadest sense. This version focuses on an urgently related theme: our ecological survival and the place of the human within the twenty first century. Artists discover utopian areas and various realities, combining fiction and spirituality to counsel new and radical types of coexistence. Activating the ability of creativeness turns into a liberating train in cosmopolitics, proposing connections to different programs of data—comparable to mysticism, magic, and Indigenous epistemologies—in addition to to synthetic intelligence as a brand new approach of organizing and understanding the world. Registration is now open for the masterclasses with Ted Noten and Sofia Bjorkman. Data.
NACRE AND THE GRAIN: CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY AND THE SCOTTISH LANDSCAPE
At V&A Dundee, Might 29, 2026, 10:30–11:15. On this free presentation, Kristin Beeler and Professor Emeritus Dr Sandra Wilson discover how Scotland’s landscapes encourage up to date jewellery. From the sourcing there of pure supplies comparable to pearls (nacre) to scientific strategies to get well treasured metals from digital waste (grain), study in regards to the underlying connections between panorama and up to date jewellery. Meet Scotland-based jewelers and see a showcase of their work. In collaboration with AJF and Craft Scotland. Extra.
HEATHER GUIDERO: MOSAIC, AT JEWELERS’WERK GALERIE
Formally skilled at RISD, Guidero labored as a goldsmith for famend jewellery firm Reinstein/Ross in New York earlier than launching her namesake assortment in 2005. The exhibition runs by way of Might 30, 2026. Extra.
LEGNICA JEWELLERY FESTIVAL SILVER 2026 GRAND OPENING MAY 8–9, 2026
The city of Legnica, Poland, will quickly as soon as once more grow to be a European heart of up to date jewellery as this extremely anticipated occasion brings collectively artists, designers, and audiences from all over the world. Through the opening weekend, guests will expertise a dynamic program unfold throughout a number of venues within the city heart, together with exhibition openings, conferences, performances, and the ceremonial spotlight—the awards gala of the thirty fourth Worldwide Jewelry Competitors EVERY BODY. Extra info together with the schedule and exhibition program right here. Normal data right here.
TEREZA SEABRA’S COLLECTION GOES ON VIEW THIS YEAR
Will probably be proven at Lisbon’s MUDE. The exhibition opens September 17, 2026, along side the third Lisbon Up to date Jewelry Biennial.
JELO6 ATHENS ANNOUNCES ITS PROGRAM
The pageant takes place Might 13–17, 2026. Discover the listing of occasions right here, and see the individuals right here.
RÉKA FEKETE HAS PASSED AWAY
The Hungarian visible artist and jewellery maker (1982–2026) was ailing with most cancers for the final six years. She had lived in Amsterdam since 2004. CODA’s director, Carin Reinders, remembers her right here. Be taught extra about her work in AJF’s evaluate of the monograph A Dance of Mild and Shadow right here.
OPENING CELEBRATION FOR MYSTIC MEADOWS, AT PISTACHIOS—YOU’RE INVITED!
June 6, 2026, 4–7 pm. Get pleasure from champagne and charcuterie on the downtown Chicago gallery as you mingle with fellow jewellery lovers or chat with the educated workforce to study extra about these unbelievable works of wearable artwork. Mystic Meadows is an ethereal exhibition with darkish undertones. That includes nature-inspired work from 4 Swedish artists—Hanna Liljenberg, Karin Roy Andersson, Märta Mattsson, and Sofia Bjorkman—the exhibition addresses themes of transience, rebirth, and the stress that lies between magnificence and decay. Extra.
GLITTERY AND SMOKY POP-UP
At Galerie Viceversa, although Might 30, 2026, with work by Sophie Hanagarth and Takashi Kojima. Hanagarth traveled all through Japan to review artisanal instruments and strategies. “Right here,” she declares, “objects have a soul; sword blades tackle human traits to attraction to a feminine viewers. My formal universe world feels each acquainted and distant; I discover a bestiary-like realm, utilizing photographs from astral mythologies as intermediaries for prayers and superstitions.” Kojima arranges faceted stones into vertical sculptures. These intertwine in a play of acrobatic tensions, with mild and coloration guiding our gaze. Extra.
AUCTION: MAY 7, 2026
Rago’s Spring Jewels + Watches sale incudes work by Paul Derrez, Tone Vigeland, Andrea Wagner, Ford Forlano, Bettina Speckner, Earl Pardon, Joyce J. Scott, Erich Zimmerman, Ibram Lassaw, Michael Good, Ulla and Martin Kaufmann, Gijs Bakker, Giampaolo Babetto, Manfred Bischoff, Emily Cobb, Peter Chang, Svenja John, Esther Brinkmann, Märta Mattsson, Doug Bucci, Bruno Martinazzi, and others. There’s additionally loads of lovely however typical bling. Extra.
EJAN PRESENTS A NEW EXPERIMENTAL ART JEWELRY PROJECT
Utilizing caramelized sugar as a sculptural and symbolic materials, the work investigates fragility, transformation, preservation, and want by way of wearable types that blur the boundary between natural matter, decoration, and up to date artwork. Through the use of a cloth not often related to jewellery, the mission opens a dialogue on impermanence, sensory reminiscence, and the emotional worth of ephemeral substances. The initiative is developed by Gianluigi Ruju, artist, designer, and inventive director based mostly in Milan. Extra.
SUBTILE SCHÖNHEIT
Yūgen—that mysterious grace which alludes to the invisible or inexplicable and constitutes a elementary precept of Japanese aesthetics—might be discerned in Maria Rosa Franzin and Kazumi Nagano’s works: tiny flecks of gold, as if painted upon blackened silver, and ethereal types created by way of folding. At Galerie Slavik by way of Might 30, 2026.
MAMDANI CALLS FOR RETURN OF KOH-I-NOOR DIAMOND
On the event of King Charles III’s go to to the US, the mayor of New York mentioned the UK ought to return the colonial plunder. Extra.
BEAD PROJECT TRUNK SHOW, MAY 20, 2026, 3–6 PM
The Bead Mission is a scholarship program which helps economically deprived ladies, femmes, and gender non-conforming people in NYC. Take part celebrating the Spring 2026 cohort on the trunk present. Store small to help these artists! Data.
FREE WEBINAR: INTRODUCTION TO COST CALCULATION FOR ARTISANS
Might 19, 2026, 12:00-13:00 (Netherlands). Utilizing sensible worksheets, find out how, as a craftsperson, to calculate an excellent workshop or hourly charge. You’ll perceive the way you derived the speed and be capable to clarify it to your purchasers. Taught by Paul Hartgers. Register right here.
BENEDIKT FISCHER WINS FRANÇOISE VAN DEN BOSCH AWARD 2026
Congratulations! The jewellery maker, who could also be finest recognized for his Pearly White brooches, explores the interaction between nature and tradition, a theme deeply rooted in his upbringing on a farm in Austria. His work is within the collections of MAK Vienna, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Auckland Museum, the Dallas Museum of Artwork, and the Nationwide Gallery of Victoria. Extra.
EDWARD LANE MCCARTNEY AT HCCC
On April 30, 2026, the artwork jeweler was the visitor speaker on the Houston Middle for Up to date Craft’s Spring Luncheon program, which celebrated the group’s silver anniversary and honored it co-founder.
US MINT DISSIMULATES GOLD PROVENANCE
The US authorities requires that its investment-grade cash be made from 100% American gold. The US Mint’s web site declares that the cash have a good time America’s heritage and ideas. But the NY Occasions has discovered that the US Mint is the “final hyperlink in a sequence that launders international gold, a lot of it illegally mined.” There’s American heritage and ideas for you. The Mint has appeared the opposite approach for many years as gold enters its plant from international sources. Many are unethical and foster human rights abuses: a mine owned by a Colombian drug cartel, a Congolese mine owned by the Chinese language authorities, a Honduran mine that dug up an Indigenous graveyard to get to the gold beneath it. Bravo. Extra.
ANGELA SIMONE: EMOTIONAL PAPER JEWEL 2004 | 2024
Angela Simone, a graphic designer and artist, has been absolutely devoted to creating up to date paper jewellery since 2003, quickly turning into considered one of Italy’s main figures within the area and gaining worldwide recognition. Inside meditation, the philosophy of coloration and kind, sustainability, and respect for nature are key themes. Curated by jewellery historian Bianca Cappello, with contributions from distinguished artists, intellectuals, and entrepreneurs within the paper trade. Be enchanted by the expressive potential of corrugated cardboard and cellulose pulp. Extra.
QUEER CRAFTS: MATERIAL PRACTICES AND THE MAKING OF IDENTITY
A nuanced research of the dynamic intersection of queerness and craft, this guide examines steel, textiles, ceramics, wooden, paper, and glass. Writer Daniel Fountain demonstrates how LGBTQ+ practitioners—together with Hansel Tai and Have an effect on Metals—use these supplies as highly effective automobiles for self-expression, group constructing, and social critique. Reframing craft by way of a queer and trans theoretical lens, the guide analyzes how these practitioners reclaim histories, rewrite narratives, disrupt hierarchies, and craft their very own worlds. Get 20% off your copy by utilizing promo code AJFQUEERCRAFTS when prompted at checkout: https://www.bloomsbury.com/queer-crafts-9781350359352/. Provide expires midnight Might 19, 2026.
PREZIOSA YOUNG 2026
Preziosa Younger is an exhibition devoted to rising jewellery artists chosen by way of a global competitors organized by Le Arti Orafe. This digital catalog presents the works of the 4 winners, Lois Lo, Nga Ching Ko, Lulu Tian, and Jiangling Wang. Extra (scroll down the web page for the catalog).
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