A Sunday Talk with Noon Passama. Kinship & Co

With a background spanning jewellery, fashion and design, Noon Passama represents a generation of makers who transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries. Their work consists of handmade collections in small series with high-quality finishes, some of which are created for the luxury market. This versatility is reflected in their talent for collaboration, which lies at the core of their practice. For their new body of work, OTHERSELVES, Passama partnered with illustrator Suthipa Kamyam and glyptic artist Detelina Ivanova, delving into the cross-cultural meanings of zodiac signs. Through this collaboration, they continue their exploration of the chain and the intersection of jewellery and industrially produced aesthetics.


Speakers are Ben Lignel and Clem Edwards.
Performance by Isabel Wang Pontoppidan.

Event, award ceremony and drinks:
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
November 9, from 2:00 to 5:30 pm.
Tickets via website Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam: https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/events/Sunday-Talk-with-Noon-Passama-ENG


Clem Edwards
Clem Edwards is a Rotterdam-based artist from Naarm/Melbourne whose practice moves between sculpture and language. Holding space for enchantment, their work brings into conversation the possibility of the glittering dream castle and the deep knowing that the Disney story cannot exist without the labour, gender and land conditions that produced it.

Ben Lignel
Ben Lignel is a craft thinker, educator, publisher and maker living in Montreuil (France). He is guest teacher at Alchimia (Italy), HDK-Valand (Sweden), and was core faculty at the MA in Critical Craft Studies (U.S), and editor of Art Jewelry Forum. Lignel co-curated several exhibitions among which Medusa, Jewellery and Taboos (2017) at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris and Tableau Vivant (2018) at the Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich). Ben’s current creative focus is on ceramic cookware.

Isabel Wang Pontoppidan
Isabel Wang Pontoppidan is a Danish-Chinese artist, writer and jewellery maker living in Amsterdam. Her practice is multi-pronged, combining writing, performance, research and jewellery in a variety of over-lapping cross sections. Thematically, she utilises her own life as a point of departure to investigate the interlocking of identity, culture, aesthetics and story-telling. She holds a BFA from the VAV—moving image department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and an MA in Artistic Research from the University of Amsterdam.


- The Sunday Talk is organised in collaboration with Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
- Funded by Creative Industries Fund NL and Stichting Stockroos.

This event is part of OBSESSED! Jewellery Festival.