Substance / Reimagined at Slovenian Jewelry Week 2026

Artist list

Jeanne-Sophie Aas, Luis Acosta, Aleksandra Atanasovski, Michael Berger, Heather Blake, Alessandro Boscolo, Aleksandra Dedić, Nico Delaide, Robin Deriaz, Nataša Druškovič, Katarina Ekart, Nadezhda Elkina, Arijana Gadžijev, Mojca Gazič, Nataša Grandovec, Renzhi Guo, Itamar Harari, Patrícia Harsány, Chu-Hsien Huang, Weixin Huang, Yuka Ishikawa, Park Junghee, Jung Ki Min, Daye Kim, Hanna Kivelä, Maja Licul, Rikke Lunnemann, Katja Marolt, Sara Mermal, Teresa Milheiro, Lee Minseo, Srečko Molk, Anže Mrak, Isil Ozcam, Anna Paparella, Dodo Paruznik, Tanja Podbevšek, Nina Podobnikar, Andreia Gabriela Popescu, Konstanze Prechtl, Alain Roggeman, Dalija Sega, Jana Seliškar, Shane / Shi Yan, Yuxin Song, Olja Todosijević, Ayla Tur, Luca Virág Boncz, Qian-Qian Xing, Ziqi Yuan, Cindy Zhaohan Li, Lela van Dam, Mariana von Atzingen Gorga, Nataša Šarić

Slovenian Jewelry Week is an internationally recognized central platform dedicated to contemporary jewelry design. It functions as a space for creativity, innovation, and professional exchange, bridging past, present, and future while celebrating craftsmanship, artistic vision, and the personal languages of designers from Slovenia and around the world.


The theme Substance / Reimagined explores materiality and the shifting boundaries between the physical, symbolic, and digital worlds. It addresses questions of origin, essence, and transformation of matter, examining how substance is understood, perceived, and redefined within contemporary jewelry today.

In a time shaped by digitization, artificial intelligence, and virtual realities, the exhibition asks:
What is substance today? Where does its essence reside? When does reimagining begin?

The exhibition highlights the dialogue between tradition and modern technologies, bodily experience and virtual space, intuition and algorithmic logic. Substance is not approached merely as tangible matter, but as a carrier of memory, vibration, narrative, and meaning—a field where the material and immaterial meet.

Artists are invited to explore tensions and convergences between the physical and the virtual, the material and the spiritual, form and essence. Within this context, substance may also become a quiet form of rebellion: a return to slowness, authenticity, sensory intelligence, imagination, and embodied experience in a world of replication and acceleration.

Jury: 
Martina Lončar (Head of the Jury) – Contemporary jewelry designer based in Florence, known for her dialogue between classical goldsmithing and experimental contemporary design.
Petra Bole – Theorist, curator, and artist specializing in contemporary jewelry, design, and visual culture.
Tanja Pak – International artist and professor working at the intersection of glass, space, and contemplative experience.
Olga Košica – Designer and founder of Slovenian Jewelry Week, actively connecting local and international jewelry scenes.
Nichka Marobin – Art historian and independent curator focusing on contemporary jewelry in dialogue with art and humanities.
Giò Carbone – Pioneer of contemporary goldsmithing and founder of Le Arti Orafe, Florence.
Arata Fuchi – International contemporary art jewelry artist combining Japanese sensibility with European goldsmithing tradition.

Curators: Olga Košica, architect Katarina Čakš, Rok Marinšek, Dalija Sega, Katarina Šporar Češarek, Nina Podobnikar, Metka Mikuletič
Exhibition Coordinator (Center Rog): Anja Radovič 


Guest Organizations & Participants: 
JOYEROS ARGENTINOS (Argentina)
Adriana Gomez, Ana Lavarello, Carmen Romero, Cecilia Fergero, Gabriela Nirino (Argentina/USA), Graciela Lescano, Hebe Argentieri, Laura Giusti, Laura Leyt, Leda Daverio, Lena Echelle, Patricia Mogni, Paula Isola, Sol Flores, Vanesa Perez Cepeda

ULUPUH – Croatian Association of Artists (Croatia)
Andreja Krušelj, Benjamin Kavazović (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Božica Petković, Carlos Ignacio Bellante (Argentina/Croatia), Christoph Steidl Porenta (Slovenia), Dunja Naerlović, Ines Delač, Julijana Rodić Ozimec, Lazer Rok Lumezi, Luka Petrinjak, Marijana Pišanić, Petra Podnarčuk, Sabina Kolonić, Smiljka Franjić, Sonja Turner Fegić, Zlatko Odrčić

PIN – Portuguese Association of Contemporary Jewelry (Portugal)
Caio Mahin (Brazil/Portugal), Carlos Silva, Kaia Ansip (Estonia/Portugal), Miguel Matos, Paola Castro, Paula Zerbes, Viviane Kiritani (Brazil/Portugal)

PREZIOSA YOUNG by LAO – Le Arti Orafe, Florence (Italy)
Hasan Kurd (Palestine/Germany), Maria Camera-Smith (USA), Xi Li (United Kingdom), Xinyi Chen (United Kingdom), YeJin Choi (South Korea)

Romanian Jewelry Week (ROJW)
Alexandrina Remescu-Simo, Andreea Radu, David Sandu, Huda Mahdi (Iraq/Romania), Marie Jianu, Romana Mateiaș

Birmingham School of Jewelry (United Kingdom)
BA: Bowen Song (China/UK), Xiaoyan Chen (China/UK), Chenyang Zhao (China/UK)
MA: Xiaoxue Zhang (China/UK), Cho Nam Tsang (Hong Kong SAR/UK), Hao Zheng (China/UK)


Selected Slovenian Students:
Korina Kotnik, Rogaška Slatina school center (Slovenia)
Neža Mia  Andlovic, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Tia Štefančič, Faculty of Education, University of Primorska in Koper (Slovenia)


​The official opening of the main exhibition will take place on Friday, 27 March 2026, at 19:00, at Center Rog, Ljubljana.