Meet Romanian Jewelry Week 2025 designers through More Than Jewelry campaign

Romanian Jewelry Week has always been about people, stories and ideas. The More than jewelry campaign invites us to look beyond materials and techniques, revealing the human voice behind each creation. By asking designers to reinterpret the main visual of #ROJW2025 and share their own narrative, we discover how contemporary jewelry becomes a medium of identity, memory and transformation. This journey introduces the artists who shape the sixth edition of Romanian Jewelry Week, offering a glimpse into the diverse visions that will soon animate Bucharest.


Adriana Mosquera - Sarmiento - Mexico / Colombia
Adriana Mosquera  is a Colombian visual artist and photographer with over 11 years of experience in self-taught jewelry making. She holds a Fine Arts degree from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and a Master’s in Photography from EFTI in Madrid, supported by the Roberto Villagraz Grant. Now based in Cuernavaca, Mexico, she has showcased her work at platforms like Expo Joya, Intermoda, and Design Week Mexico. Her brand has earned national recognition, including awards from México Muy Mexicano, UPS’s Women Exporters Program, and Jalisco’s “Joyas del Diseño.” Her jewelry explores themes of migration, identity, and rebirth, offering each piece as a personal compass.

Adriana Mosquera.


Alessia Prati - Precious Collective
Alessia Prati is an Italian artist born in 1992. After specialising in contemporary jewellery at Alchimia, Florence and a residency experience in Hong Kong, she founded Breccia Studio in Piacenza, also her brand. Her work often addresses social and political themes, advocating self-acceptance and empowerment. Each piece is meant to be experienced as a living entity, capable of evoking reflection on identity and the complexity of human existence. Prati's creative process follows an almost unconscious flow, where she forges and weaves tiny elements with meditative precision, transforming humble materials into unusual and expressive forms. Her unique artistic vision has gained international recognition through exhibitions, public talks and workshops.

Alessia Prati.


Alice Popescu - Italy/România
Alice Popescu, who graduated in architecture in Bucharest, discovered her passion for jewellery-making in Milan, where she studied at the Scuola Orafa Ambrosiana. Her work blends art and craftsmanship, with functionality as an essential part of its aesthetic value. She creates unique pieces that merge beauty and harmony, instinctively reinterpreting traditional techniques such as chasing and repoussé and anticlastic raising and transforming heritage craftsmanship into contemporary design. Each piece is wearable art - light, flowing geometries that come to life through movement, fluidity and the harmony of dance.

Alice Popescu.


Alina Constantinescu - Romania
Alina Constantinescu is a self-taught jewelry designer and maker. She studied film directing and worked in cinematography immediately after graduation, but on a trip to Istanbul, she discovered contemporary jewelry. Thus, in 2017, she participated in the collective exhibition "Camera Lucida", an installation created by Assamblage Association, which was exhibited in Bucharest, Brussels and New York. Since then, Alina Constantinescu has been telling her stories through the jewelry pieces she creates.

Alina Constantinescu.


Ana Petrova – Bulgaria
After studies in ceramics and pedagogy, Ana Petrova’s early career started as an art and textile teacher. During these years, she cultivated a great passion for applied arts, textiles, made-to-measure clothing, and leather accessories, working with commissions in the area. Experiments with genuine leather in the last years naturally brought her to contemporary jewellery. Her medium is manipulated, sculpted and moulded in organic shapes, resembling semi-spheres and vessels. The designs are with minimalist ergonomics, large and voluminous, yet light to wear. Made out of neglected discarded material, Ana’s works continue the conversation around what is precious and valuable in modern jewellery.

Ana Petrova.


Andreia Quelhas Lima – Portugal
Andreia Quelhas Lima is a Portuguese jewellery designer with a close connection to nature since childhood. Through playing with leaves and bugs, collecting branches and funny shaped stones, Andreia created an imaginary world that now comes to life in the form of jewellery. After majoring in Fine Arts, studying Sculpture in Italy and co-founding Alquimia Jewellery School, Andreia created SOPRO Jewellery brand, in 2012. SOPRO Jewellery collections portray nature and its elements as they go through season’s changes - the shapes, the textures and the colours, in a continuous cycle of transformation and renovation. Delicate, feminine and full of charming details, SOPRO Jewellery collections are very versatile, offering different versions and combinations. Every piece is carefully designed and executed to perfection to guarantee its uniqueness.

Andreia Quelhas Lima.


Anna Butcher - UK
Originally from the UK, Asimi started making jewellery in Athens 30 years ago, then continued at London Guildhall University where she also completed a diploma in Gemmology. Over the years she spent several study periods in Africa. Since returning to Greece in 2004, her immersion in nature has infiltrated her work, incorporating unconventional materials into her textured, three dimensional silver & gold pieces. More recently she has become known for her protest jewellery documenting world issues. She has exhibited extensively across Europe including Munich, Rome & Milan Jewellery Weeks, Hungary’s Inflow Expo & in the UK, & continues to make experimental pieces at her studio in South Greece.

Anna Butcher​.


Béatrice Carlson - Precious Collective
Béatrice Carlson is an interdisciplinary artist with a fashion design background. She uses jewellery to explore the function of the body and its proper language and position in society. Her narrative is about attitude towards adornment, non-gender and Covid impact. Since the pandemic her practice focuses on reducing compulsive consumption by recycling, repurposing and rethinking the notion of preciousness. Mostly working with porcelain shards via Mudlarking she researches their circa and provenance, feeling the responsibility to pursue their story or create a new one. She acknowledges her fashion background by adorning the work alongside mending the shards by hand stitching, alongside beer cans and even using some of her own etchings.

Béatrice Carlson.


Claudia Correa - Chile
Claudia Correa Noé is a renowned Chilean jewelry designer and goldsmith, born in 1976. Her work has been showcased in exhibitions across Chile, the USA, and Italy. A two-time recipient of national jewelry awards (2002, 2010), she has directed Chile's most esteemed jewelry school for over 26 years.

Claudia Correa.


Dalija Sega - Slovenian Jewelry Week
Dalija Sega has been designing contemporary jewelry for seventeen years, primarily from the perspective of a sculptor. In October 2023, she became one of the five mentors in the Jewelry Lab in the Rog Center. The Jewelry Lab is intended to educate and pass on goldsmithing skills to new generations. Since the beginning, she has also been part of the team organizing the Slovenian Jewelry Week. 

Dalija Sega.


Dimitra Haratsi - Jewels My Way – Greece
Athens-born designer Dimitra Haratsi left a career in Communications to follow her passion for jewelry, founding Jewels My Way. Her brand blends diverse techniques and materials, inviting women to express their style -their way. Inspired by textures, she handcrafts pieces from satin fabric and silk cocoons, incorporating semi-precious stones such as lava, transforming unconventional materials into poetic, elegant designs. Her work has been showcased in exhibitions and galleries from Greece to Italy, Spain, Melbourne, and Doha.

Dimitra Haratsi.


Elvira Cibotti - Precious Collective
Via Jewellery, Cibotti found both a means of expression and the possibility of dialogue engagement. The bodies that wear her work have their own identity, interpret in their own way and also have something to say. In this exchange she connects with others. After initially working quite conventionally she felt the need to find a more personal form of expression and communication. That's when she started using paper. By repurposing images and publications she was giving them a second chance, a second life. Her goal became to re- signify them, transform them into jewellery pieces that conveyed her perspective and vision of our surroundings.

Elvira Cibotti.


Fabiana Fusco – Italy
After having earned a degree in Art History with a final dissertation on the Greek Goldsmith, the artist attended a Goldsmith School and at the same time a renowned silverware workshop in Rome. In 2002 she started her workshop and spread her creations through personal exhibitions. In recent years she has devoted herself exclusively to contemporary jewelry as the application of classical techniques to the transmission of social messages.. The jewel thus becomes an "wearable" instrument of denunciation, not only an embellishment. From 2019 she was exhibited in several contemporary jewelry exhibitions and events in Europe and in the USA. During last year she was part of Dream Machine 2024 for the New York Jewelry week, New York than at Carlo Lucidi gallery for Frida Kahlo:I paint flower so they will not die and IX contemporary goldsmithing exhibition, Museo national de arts decorativa in Madrid by ADOC - Asociacìon de Disenadores de Orfebrerìa y Joyerìa Contemporàneas, February - March 2025.

Fabiana Fusco.


Fangjing Hu - UK / China
Born in Wuhan, China, Fangjing Hu is a jewellery designer with a layered identity — Chinese, Asian, sensitive, female — and currently an MA Jewellery student at Birmingham City University. With over 10 years of passion for the jewellery industry, she aims to integrate her cultural heritage and sustainable values into her personal work. Rather than merely criticizing waste, she explores practical and accessible ways to embed sustainability into everyday life. She is working toward establishing a sustainable jewellery brand rooted in cultural depth and practical values.

Fangjing Hu. 


Georgia Tasca – Italy
Amàlgama Jewels is founded by Giorgia Tasca, an Italian-American designer and artist that lives and works in Vicenza, Italy. She graduated in fashion design at Iuav University of Venice and after several years consulting as a multi-disciplinary designer and trend forecaster she felt the need to give life to something of her own, an expression that had neither boundaries nor compromises. This is how Amàlgama Jewels was born. Amàlgama Jewels is about creating rigor and disrupting it with gut feeling, about translating a stream of consciousness, a sensation into matter. 

Georgia Tasca.


Iris Saar Isaacs - Australia
Iris Saar Isaacs is a visionary designer and the founder of inSync design, celebrated for redefining contemporary jewellery with bold artistry and innovation. Based in Melbourne, Australia, Iris merges traditional craftsmanship with cutting-edge technology to craft lightweight, hypoallergenic pieces that are timeless, sustainable, and strikingly unique. Her multi-award-winning designs, exhibited in prestigious galleries and museums globally, have attracted thousands of loyal collectors who return for more. Passionate about creativity and sustainability, Iris creates jewellery that transforms everyday fashion into wearable art, inspiring individuality and style.

Iris Saar Isaacs. 


Jennifer Wells - Italy/USA
Jennifer Wells is a studio artist and educator originally from the U.S but currently living in Certaldo, Italy where she has her gallery and studio. She holds an MFA, in Metalsmithing & Jewelry Design and has completed artist-in-residencies at: Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN, Pocosin Arts in Columbia, NC and the Jentel Foundation near Banner, WY. She has worked for several U.S based Craft Schools, in a variety of roles. As an educator, Jennifer has taught for and been a visiting Artist at Universities throughout the U.S and for study abroad programs based in Italy. She is an Instructor for Le Arti Orafe in Florence, Italy, a mentor for Cohorts Arts and teaches short workshops on various enameling and metalsmithing techniques throughout Europe and the U.S. In recent years she has curated multiple international exhibitions focused on jewelry and enameling. In 2020 the Plus One Collective debuted at the first Romanian Jewelry week and in 2025 is entering its 6th year as a rotating collective of enamel artists. 

Jennifer Wells. 


Joanna Muzyka - Poland
Polish artist Joanna Muzyka specializes in lampwork art and jewelry design. Her practice reflects a deep respect for materiality, light, and the transformative power of fire. Joanna received her MA diploma in Glass Art and Design from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, Poland, in 2019. In her jewelry, Joanna explores the delicate interplay of transparency, color and texture, creating pieces that blur the lines between art and adornment. The artist has participated in numerous art and jewelry exhibitions in Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Slovenia and Romania.

Joanna Muzyka.


Livia Zaharia – Romania
Livia Zaharia is a Romanian architect who started developing her interest in jewellery making through digital means around 2018. She wanted to explore the possibilities offered by 3d modelling and how digital creations can come to life. It began with both larger objects like a pavilion 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. It can be called integrating nature via her imagination.

Livia Zaharia.


Tingyan Luo​ - UK
Tingyan Luo is a London-based jewellery designer and MA graduate from Central Saint Martins. Working with recycled glass and silver, Tingyan merges traditional filigree and digital techniques to reframe symbolic forms from Chinese jade culture—such as belts and burial suits—through gestures of fracture, echo, and weave. Rather than reproducing inherited shapes, her work reinterprets cultural memory with sustainable materials and conceptual rigor. Threading material regeneration with cultural re-signification, her practice proposes new dialogues on ecology, identity, and craftsmanship within a global context. 

Tingyan Luo.


Marija Radosavljevic - Serbia
Graduated from the Faculty of applied arts in Belgrade 2004. In 2018 and 2023, she attended the Contemporary Jewellery School Alchimia in Florence. She received a special award for jewelry design. Her work has been published multiple times, including in Lost in Jewellery Magazine, Vicenza Jewelry Magazine, The Hedonist Magazine (USA), The British Vogue. She has also participated in numerous exhibitions and festivals in graphic and jewelry design, such as Belgrade Design Week, Design Festival in Zagreb, Creative Week in Maribor, Artistico in Rovinj, the XV International Baltic Jewelry Show Amber Trip, Tiche Synergia Florence, Slovenian jewelry week, and more. She is a member of LIJW Rome, Italy. She is currently a PhD student in new media design.

Marija Radosavljevic.


Meta Joanknecht - Precious Collective
Meta Joanknecht works with waste, discarded, found and recycled materials. These materials have been weathered and deformed, they have gained their appearance from life’s cycles. Joanknecht is mesmerised by the stories they tell. ‘My materials are like letters fallen from words, dropped out of speech. I give them a new voice’. They are the palette from which she creates new narratives. They become jewellery; necklaces, brooches, objects to adorn. The long tradition of making jewellery is framed in a modern age gatherers ‘use-what-you-find’ mode.

Meta Joanknecht.


Nicole van der Wolf - Ireland/Chile
Born in Santiago, Chile, Nicole van der Wolf is a goldsmith and gemmologist based in Dublin, Ireland. She trained with the School of Jewellery Ireland, the National College of Art & Design (Dublin), and The Gemmological Society of Great Britain (GEM-A), before setting up her studio in 2015. Nicole is a member of the Irish Jewellers and Silversmiths Guild of Ireland, the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland, and the Gem-A. Nicole has exhibited her work internationally at Sieraad Art Fair in Amsterdam and The Forge Space in London. Her work is available from DesignYard Contemporary Jewellery Gallery in Dublin and Mathilde Gallery in Amsterdam, or from her website. Commissions accepted.

Nicole van der Wolf.


Ross Dickinson - UK/Romania
Ross Dickinson is a self taught designer/maker from England who has been creating jewellery in various places around Europe and the United Kingdom for the past eight years. His unique style is recognised for blending different techniques and exploring surrealistic themes - in particular miniature dream catcher inspired pieces. His work has earned Cookson Gold’s Design of the Month Award and has been exhibited and sold internationally in shops, fairs and exhibitions. 

Ross Dickinso.


Sabrina Guerrera - France
Trained as a stylist and pattern maker, I also obtained my"Jewelery" diploma in 2010. Thanks to this passion that drives me, and with years of experience. I chose  in October 2021 to listen to my heart by creating the eponymous brand Sabrina Guerrera. As a creative jeweller, I design, create and shape unique jewelry by working on the traditional techniques of this craft. Each piece is made by hand by myself in my workshop located in Hauts-de-France. My approach is to look for new, often unconventional, forms. Since the creation of my company, I've taken part in various fairs and exhibitions in France, Belgium and Germany.

Sabrina Guerrera.


Simona Materi - Italy
Simona Materi began her career in 2001. Her research has formal and aesthetic roots and particular attention is paid to the "unique piece". The focus is constantly on the contents of contemporary art and the expression of it, through the selection of precious and semi-precious materials and the experimentation of refined craftsmanship techniques. The jewel, in its uniqueness, beyond the intrinsic value of the object, aspires to the status of a work of art to be worn. The technical-aesthetic experimentation of Simona Materi, is realized in unique collections, of classical, thematic or contemporary design inspiration, made with precious or alternative materials in respect of the high artisan quality that is a typical expression of Made in Italy also contemporary.

Simona Materi.


Smaranda Isar - Romania
Smaranda Isar is a versatile artist who combines silversmithing with a variety of ceramic materials and techniques to create contemporary jewelry and art pieces. Her work pushes the boundaries of traditional jewelry-making while remaining grounded in natural materials, transforming them into a medium of artistic expression that conveys emotions, tells stories, and fosters cultural dialogue. Smaranda has exhibited her creations both nationally and internationally, including at Munich Jewelry Week 2024 as part of the Assamblaj group curated by Andreea Gabriela Popescu, and at Slovenian Jewelry Week 2025, where she participated as a member of the ROJW Collective.

Smaranda Isar​.


Thao Bui - Australia
Thao Bui is an emerging artist based in Narrm (Melbourne) Australia. Informed by her interdisciplinary background in psychotherapy and sexology, combined with over a decade of experience in Intensive care nursing, Bui’s practice  explores complex and sensitive themes through wearable forms. Her work investigates cultural memory by weaving fragmented histories into a unified narrative. In 2024, Bui completed an Advanced Diploma in Jewellery and Object Design at Melbourne Polytechnic (2024), receiving the Industry Award from e.g.etal for her graduate collection.  She is currently a participant of Craft Victoria’s Fresh! Fellowship 2025 - a year long creative professional development program designed to further foster the creative potential of recent graduates.

Thao Bui.


Vanessa Ree Jewellery - Ireland
"I use a concept first approach in jewellery design, building on cues from modern day living and my unique Irish environment before transforming these into a 3D form of wearable art. Concepts include Irish Animals, Play, Adversity, and a study of the evolution of symbols, specifically the hashtag. Central to my thought process is that style is a language without words so pieces have meaning for the wearer, are designed to empower and celebrate their individuality. Strong graphic lines and minimalist design ensure the collections have a very modern aesthetic to be worn by both women and men. Sustainability is also at the heart of my work by using recycled precious metals throughout, and crafting jewellery by hand using a combination of traditional goldsmithing skills and modern day product creation."

Vanessa Ree.


Yoonjung Choi - Republic of Korea
Yoonjung Choi (Ph.D., Metal Art & Design, Hongik University, Seoul) is a jewelry artist whose work explores breath as a metaphor for existence—presence and absence, eternity and ephemera. She has exhibited internationally, including Korea Now (New York, 2024), Decorative Digitalism (USA, 2023), and the Cheongju Craft Biennale (Korea, 2023), alongside solo shows in Seoul such as The Breath Pouch. Her awards include the Grand Prize at Romanian Jewelry Week (2024), an Honorable Mention at New Taipei City International Metal Craft Competition (2020), and the Judge’s Choice Award at the ITAMI International Jewellery Exhibition (2019).

Yoonjung Choi.



More about Romanian Jewelry Week VI
From October 1-5, 2025, Bucharest will host the sixth edition of Romanian Jewelry Week, turning the city into an international hub for contemporary jewelry. Over 270 designers from 40 countries will showcase their creations, transforming exhibitions into stories about identity, craftsmanship, and innovation. The event brings together a vibrant mix of galleries, schools, collectives, and independent designers, with its main venue at the National Library of Romania, alongside partner locations including museums, galleries, and cultural spaces across the city.

In addition to the main exhibitions and ROJW2025 jewelry fair, the program features talks, workshops, and special showcases from globally renowned institutions like SCHMUCKmuenchen, Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER, and Slovenian Jewelry Week, among others. This year’s edition also includes a distinguished international jury, a range of special awards, and a spotlight on emerging voices in contemporary jewelry. With its dynamic format and growing international recognition, Romanian Jewelry Week 2025 is not only a celebration of design, but also a key contributor to the global dialogue around contemporary jewelry.
 

About the author

Alexandra Bujenita is the PR manager of Romanian Jewelry Week team, Art developer of Creative team of Imbold Cultural Foundation, PR account at Hello Menthol.