Fountain of Time. Fountain of Colours by Kaori Juzu

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Kaori Juzu

Be here now
Look into the darkness. Slowly your eyes get used to the darkness and begin to sense things you couldn’t see, but that already exist. As the light shines through the room, shape and colours begin to emerge. Just being there for a few minutes, simply seeing what is there, and becoming synchronized with the surrounding atmosphere – a real relationship between the viewer and the pieces arises.


About the artist
Japanese goldsmith Kaori Juzu lives on Bornholm, one of the Danish pearls of the Baltic Sea. An eternal islander, Kaori Juzu is an artist on the fringe who is forging her own path. In her hands the enamelled piece is no longer a two-dimensional surface, strictly divided by metal strips. Instead, the artist abolishes all boundaries to let the abstract forms, be they geometric or organic, unfold in space and play with the variations of light. She then applies enamel powder to their surface, interrupting the fusion just in time to preserve the brilliance and texture of the grains, according to a process she has developed herself. To both respectful and bold appropriation of this ancestral technique, Kaori Juzu adds the consummate skill of a colourist, playing with contrasts and the refinement of a colour palette borrowed from the delicate shades of Nature. The enamelled treasures of Kaori Juzu are micro-revelations whose attraction never fades away. These are works of an intense simplicity that seem to draw us far from the echoes and clatter of the world.
/ By Céline Robin - Exhibition curator at the Robert Mazlo Endowment Fund for Art and Contemporary Art Jewellery - Paris.

Since 2007, Kaori Juzu has exhibited internationally.
She was a finalist of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2023 at the Isamu Noguchi Museum in New York. In 2025 she received Påskønnelseslegat (The Recognition Grant) from The Danmarks Nationalbank’s Anniversary Foundation of 1986, also The Legnica Silver Festival Award at the Romaninan Jewelry Week. She is invited by the Chamber of Crafts for Munich and Upper Bavaria to EXEMPLAmünchen 2026 for a live presentation at the messe during the Munich Jewellery Week 2026.


Exhibition’s period: November 28 through December 19, 2025
Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday 12 - 6 pm. Artist in attendance

The exhibition is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation, Grosserer L.F. Foghts Fond, TOYOTA-FONDEN and The Danmarks Nationalbank’s Anniversary Foundation of 1986.
The exhibition programt 2025 at Officinet is supported by Augustinus Fonden.