Zwischen Natur und Künstlichkeit – Between Art and Artifice: Jewellery by Daniel Kruger

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Daniel Kruger

Daniel Kruger is a prominent protagonist of contemporary jewellery. The exhibition will be providing an overview of almost forty years of creativity, nurtured by an inexhaustible curiosity about unconventional techniques and materials for creating jewellery. There are not many artists who have taken such an autonomous and open-minded approach and repeatedly created innovative and highly individualized visual universes over the course of their careers. Having grown up in South Africa, Kruger often incorporates elements of African folk art in his jewellery, but he also likes to use all sorts of objects that he finds, or that connote historical shapes and decors. Thanks to Kruger’s unusual material combinations and his reinterpretations of traditional crafting techniques, which often involve textiles, the beholder can always admire his jewellery from new and surprising perspectives.