Art Jewelry: Quo Vadis?
Published: 11.06.2025
The Familiar in the Foreign – Jewelry from the Southern Hemisphere at the Galerie Handwerk. One of over 100 exhibitions in Munich in March 2025. Here, Fran Allison from Australia with her Assorted Titbits collection: brooches in the shape of deceptively real sweets.
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It all began with the special Schmuck exhibition at the Munich Crafts Fair in 1959. Year after year, each March, Bavaria’s “capital city with a heart” becomes the world’s mecca of art jewelry. But what do the artists think of their mega-event, and how do they see their future?
This article is included in the ART AUREA, Issue 60, Summer/June 2025, Ulm, Germany. You can subscribe to the Magazine here.
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