Jewelry on sight. Part I. Romanian Designers from Romanian Jewelry Week 4.0

The central exhibition of Romanian Jewelry Week will open on Wednesday, October 4th, at 18:30 at the National Library of Romania and will be complemented by eight collective exhibitions, schools, and renowned international associations: Slovenian Jewelry Week, Plus One Collective, Legnica Silver Festival in Poland, ArtsThread in collaboration with Gucci, One and Three Collective, Precious Collective, and The Sense of Beauty Gallery, as well as the winners of the Timeless Jewelry competition organized by the National Art Museum in Brașov. During October 7th-8th, these creations can also be purchased at the Romanian Jewelry Week Fair 2023, held at the National Library of Romania, featuring more than 60 contemporary jewelry designers.


Alexandra Vlad
Alexandra Vlad has a background in business and marketing, in psychology and most recently she is a student of Assamblage. She crafts ideas and stories of the human experience in the shape of jewelry.

Stelian Gagiu
With a passion for creating unique and beautiful handcrafted jewelry, his interests include not only traditional jewelry-making techniques but also experimental methods. He enjoys pushing the boundaries of what is considered "normal" in his craft and exploring new ways of creating pieces that are not only visually stunning but also thought-provoking. He has a background in fine arts, having studied painting in high school and at the University of Arts, where he also completed a master's degree. In addition to his formal education, Stelian has been honing his craft in jewelry making for over 15 years. His interests and inspirations range from music and avant-garde art to photography, and he often incorporates these elements into his work. With a keen eye for detail and a commitment to quality, he strives to create pieces that are not only beautiful but also meaningful and timeless.



Bianca Badescu 
Passionate about art & design, Bianca Badescu found a way to express her creativity by painting and playing with jewelry in her free time. After a near to death experience and coming back from a coma, her past years were about rebuilding herself and her life. She started attending Assamblage, The Institute of Art & Design in order to study different techniques used in creating contemporary jewelry. She fell in love with designing and handcrafting jewelry, fulfilling her desire of having absolute freedom to manifest her creativity. That’s how KORU Concept was born.



Diana Tobosaru
As a scenographer, she has always been fascinated by the transformation of abstract ideas into sets or costumes, and this interest has led her to contemporary jewelry, another form of creative expression. When creating jewelry, she always tries to tell a story, conveys a feeling or an emotion. For her, jewelry is more than just a decorative element, it has its own voice and can say a lot about the person who wears it.
She uses a variety of materials, from silver and bronze to leather, resin or semi-precious stones, but she always aims for a beautiful and aesthetic result. For her, art and beauty are a refuge, a break from the everyday hustle and bustle. When she wears beautiful jewelry, she feels better and she hopes that they can bring a touch of beauty and light to the world of those who wear them.

Diana Diacon 
Diana Diacon is a 3D artist specializing in creating content for real time applications. She started designing jewelry in the digital environment, later developing a taste for physical jewelry and experimenting with different materials as a way to explore the creative process and self-expression. Still, her main interest is the jewelry experience in the virtual environment, as it promises much-needed freedom.



Diana Iordache 
Diana Iordache is the founder of The Sense of Beauty, a digital jewellery gallery founded in the Netherlands to showcase the work of independent designers. It offers a curated line-up of handcrafted jewellery, selected to inspire emotions, and celebrate individuality. 
The Sense of Beauty jewellery gallery works with artists from all over the world, honouring the bond between a woman and her jewellery’ wardrobe through their vision and creativity. It aims to promote the values of its artisans built upon the age-old pillars of skill, craftsmanship and quality and to encourage them to stay focused on their creative activity by offering them an international platform to be seen and discovered and eventually purchased.

Gabriela Stoleriu 
She graduated from Textile Engineering University from Iasi. Being really passionate, she studied at Popular School of Art from Iasi (Fashion Design). She took an evening course at Assamblage School and more international workshops (Plsen - Czech Republic, Ingelmunster -Belgium. She loves to create jewelry with different techniques, playing with materials, having in mind the joy of creation.

Gena Tudor
Jewelries are one of the most essential ways for self-expression and enhancement of our personality. Bearing this in mind, each collection I create starts from a narrative that is carefully integrated into the pieces I present. I adamantly believe in designing and creating unique and one of a kind pieces of jewelry for all the art lovers that seek and understand the importance of expressing one’s identity. My materials of choice range from the conventional such as silver, gold, copper, brass, precious and semi-precious stones, as well as unconventional ones you would never think of pairing, which perfectly blend into the bold and unique jewelries I create.



Ioana Andreea Sora 
I do not have a background in fine arts but I love art in all its forms. I did not study design but I discovered that with a lot of dedication there are no boundaries to what you may accomplish by yourself. I think my curiosity, the pleasure of handcrafting, experimenting and trying to learn new things has led me to the path of jewelry creation. I first started melting glass, then began melting metal and combining these two mediums to create unique jewelry. Time will tell where my creative passion will lead as I start to include other sustainable, recyclable materials in my jewelry.

Laura Moisa
I was born and raised in Romania, and I really love this country. I’ve been passionate about art in all its forms for my entire life, having studied both Interior Design and Jewelry Design. When the pandemic started, I began working on my dream of creating jewelry and I founded Allegra Jewelry Collection. Ever since then my brain has been bursting with ideas. My soul is full of emotions which can always be found in my work. Each piece of jewelry I create is unique and each one is meant for a special person. And, because when I work - I think of that person - my creation becomes a mirror of their soul. Each of my pieces has its own, unique story and people always want to discover it. Choosing a jewelry that has a story, means being part of that story.



Livia Zaharia
Livia Zaharia is a Romanian architect who started developing her interest in jewelry making through digital means around 2018. She wanted to explore the possibilities offered by 3d modeling and how digital creations can come to life. It began with larger objects like the Spotlight pavilion of 2019 and smaller ones like engagement rings for friends going simultaneously. Since then, she has opened up to the public on social media and the Internet. Nowadays, her pieces can be considered unique in each case, featuring shape or setting challenges, movement, or interchangeability.



Marie Jianu 
Marie Jianu has been studying contemporary jewelry at Assamblage-School of Contemporary Jewelry with her mentors, David Sandu and Andreia Gabriela Popescu, since 2012, experimenting with different techniques. In 2020, alongside Maestro Aquafresca, she started to learn the Chasing and Repoussé technique which she adores and which she uses in her collections. Her pieces are made entirely by hand using different techniques depending on the desired concept and design. The materials she uses in her jewelry are fine silver, sterling silver and 14k gold. She has been attending Romanian Jewellery Week since 2020. She exhibited as a student of Assamblage School in 2022 at Milano Jewelry Week Talent Show.



Mihaela Grama 
Mihaela Grama is an artist from Romania, addicted to shape, color and texture. With an IT and mathematics background, but with an obsession for everything organic, works with dried plants, resin and metal. She progressed mainly self-taught, experimenting, and more recently enjoyed the help of several jewelry courses at Assamblage School of Contemporary Jewelry in Romania.



Mihaela Ciocâlteu
I am Mihaela Ciocalteu, I am Semper Argentum, I am the wealth of my experiences, carved through both joys and tears.I am all the steps whose footprints left their mark, from which I learned, to a much or less extent.My connection with the act of jewelry Creation is deep, from other times, archaic times... It nourishes me and continually helps me discover myself, thus I am constantly learning love, tolerance, dedication and, pragmatically, it guides me to an inner order and discipline.



Tana Enedi
Life in Mono is a contemporary jewelry studio created by Tana Enedi. Scaling the idea of a conceptualized emotion, Tana always felt the need of designing and crafting pieces of jewelry that convey feelings as an expression of one’s personal identity. Besides the ready-to-wear Life in Mono collections, Tana loved the challenges of designing several capsule collections like Mended (launched in 2017) or Supersize (launched in 2018). Those were on display in contemporary jewelry exhibitions around the world like Romanian Design Week 2017 & 2018 editions, DesignBlok Prague, Boz’Art Bruxelles, UN Headquarters New York, Galateca Art Gallery, Design Fair Vienna or Romanian National History Museum. In a nutshell, that’s what Life in Mono Jewelry stands for: blending emotions into shapes.



Romanian Jewelry Week 4.0 will also take a tour of contemporary jewelry in four other cultural locations in Bucharest: The National Museum of Romanian Literature - the Jewelry and Literature exhibition (Tincal lab, Portugal), AlbAlb - Romanian Jewelry Focus, the Cotroceni National Museum, and the Assamblage Jewelry Gallery. The special program of Romanian Jewelry Week this year will also include a series of workshops and conferences supported by professors, designers, curators, and professionals from around the world.
The complete schedule of Romanian Jewelry Week and all details are available on the website https://www.romanianjewelryweek.com/.