Metamorphoses

Artist list

Miki Asai, Volker Atrops, Karl Fritsch, Kira Fritsch, Franceca Guarnieri, Marilena Karagkiozi, Masumi Kataoka, Unk Kraus, Yolanda Ky, Criselda Lopez, Margarita Malliri, Christina Panagiotopoulou, Constance Marie Pretorius, Daniel Ramos, Loukia Richards, Alison Shelton Brown, Jason Stein, Maja Stojkovska, Peter Vermandere, Anna Watson, Christoph Ziegler, Daniel von Weinberger

From Homer and Ovid to Moses’ burning bush or Christ’s Transfiguration, the djinnis of 1001 Nights and Brother Grimm's folk tales, Goethe's Faust, Rabbi Loew's Golem, or the Japanesemedieval legends, the message is clear: A sublime power shows its omnipresence through transformation and mutation, and enchants humanity with promise and hope.

Franz Kafka's famous novel Metamorphosis departs from the spiritual tradition of pre-modernity and ominously foreshadows a society obsessed with order, segregation, and racial hygiene on its way to the war tragedy.

The alchemists expressed humankind’s desire for endless knowledge, wealth, and immortality by seeking to convert waste into gold. Nowadays, up cycling is a common practice. Fashion and luxury brands proudly advertise the pre-used origin of their raw materials. It is ethical and kind, indeed, to recycle; but is it not void of existential meaning? Does it also help us to make contact with something bigger than us, such as nature, humanity, the common good, or even God?

Does contemporary jewellery need to be spiritual? Is the quest for something that stays alive forever just a psychological side effect of mutating Covid-19 or are we being led to our archaic roots by the search for a talisman against fear, disease, and loss?

Soft Opening: Friday, 25 February 2022 from 4.00 to 6.00 p.m.
Duration: 25 February - 2 April 2022 
Opening Hours: Monday - Saturday  10.00 AM - 6.00 PM (CET)


LIVE Online Show of the exhibition:
The Metamorphoses Zoom live online show will present the artists, works and videos of the exhibition which runs from 25 February to 2 April at Bayerischer Kunstgewerberein Munich. The show will be enriched with interviews with the artists, live reporting from Munich Schmuck 2022.

>> Zoom meeting link

Meeting-ID: 998 026 4362
Password: Meta-M
Hours:  Sunday, 6 March 2022, 3.00 to 4.30 p.m (CET).


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