From Louise Bourgeois to Yoko Ono. Jewellery by Female Artists
Exhibition
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21 Nov 2025
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26 Apr 2026
Published: 22.04.2025
MAKK. Museum of Applied Arts Cologne
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- Christine Drabe
Louise Bougeois Spider Brooch, 1996 / 2005, @VG Bild-Kunst Bonn 2025 (Foto: © Galerie 1900-2000, Paris).
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From Louise Bourgeois to Yoko Ono presents around 60 jewellery works by some 40 internationally renowned female visual artists from the 1920s to the present day.
Artist list
Louise Bourgeois, Sonja Delaunay, Aube Elléouet, Claire Frankenstein, Jenny Holzer, Rebecca Horn, Leiko Ikemura, Jaqueline de Jong, Yayoi Kusama, Alicia Kwade, Lilian Lijn, Rita McBride, Eva Renée Nele, Yoko Ono, Meret Oppenheim, Niki de Saint Phalle, Kiki Smith, Dorothea Tanning, Rosemarie Trockel, Joana Vasconcelos, Zhou Yiyan
Their jewellery pieces open up new, often surprising perspectives on their artistic production. Some pieces captivate with minimalist elegance, others with their expressive, sculptural presence or playful humour, with each unique work consolidating an artistic vision into a small personal statement.
Starting in the Middle Ages, important artists, primarily painters and sculptors, have dedicated themselves to the art of jewellery to this day. Until now, the so-called artists' jewellery of the 20th and 21st centuries seemed to be dominated primarily by the works of male representatives such as Picasso, Max Ernst, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Lucio Fontana etc.
With this exhibition, the MAKK deliberately focuses on female standpoints, thus breaking with the male-dominated perception of avant-garde art jewellery.
When: 21st November 2025 until 26th April 2026.
Starting in the Middle Ages, important artists, primarily painters and sculptors, have dedicated themselves to the art of jewellery to this day. Until now, the so-called artists' jewellery of the 20th and 21st centuries seemed to be dominated primarily by the works of male representatives such as Picasso, Max Ernst, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Lucio Fontana etc.
With this exhibition, the MAKK deliberately focuses on female standpoints, thus breaking with the male-dominated perception of avant-garde art jewellery.
When: 21st November 2025 until 26th April 2026.
MAKK. Museum of Applied Arts Cologne
- Mail:
- makk
stadt-koeln.de
- Phone:
- +4922122123860
- Management:
- Christine Drabe
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