Unwearable. Still a Jewel? Spotlight Artworks by Klimt02
Published: 02.06.2024
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Ted: Do you remember the bag I made with golden rings in it? That was at the Schmuck in 2011. They intended to give me the first price. But suddenly, a member of the jury opposed to it and said: THIS IS NOT JEWELLERY BECAUSE YOU CANNOT WEAR IT.
Ana: The question is wearability. It is returning as a main subject of contemporary jewellery.
Ted: That is not a criterion to me. It should be about jewellery. But to be functional or not, it is not a matter to me. I think that everything that has a relation with the body, physically or mentally, is jewellery. It is not only earrings, brooches or bracelet.
Words from Ted Noten and Ana Campos extracted from Ted Noten interview.
In this article, we present a selection of pieces that question the concept of wearability and, indeed, of jewellery.
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David Huycke new coordinator Jewellery Design at PXL-MAD
16Feb2026 -
Gold is Cheap
15Feb2026 -
Yuxiao Zhu: The Storyteller in Matter Folklore, Memory, and Wearable Narratives.
12Feb2026 -
Poutama and Pūkana #2 by Keri-Mei Zagrobelna. A Future Classic in Contemporary Jewellery
06Feb2026 -
Curatorial statement of Sam Tho Duong, Curator of SCHMUCK münchen 2026
05Feb2026 -
Acquisitions Françoise van den Bosch Collection 2025
02Feb2026 -
Building Space, Wearing Structure. Talking Architecture Through Jewellery. Spotlight Artworks by Klimt02
31Jan2026 -
Minerva Skyttä, Floor Berkhout and Hanna-Katri Eskelinen are Selected for the International Scholarship Program Designe...
20Jan2026 -
Donald Friedlich First Foray into Jewelry with a Political Point of View
19Jan2026 -
Form Fitters by Katie Kameen. Future Classic by Jennifer Altmann
14Jan2026 -
Exploring notions of Time, Craft and Design to approach jewellery.
13Jan2026 -
Wearing Worlds: Contemporary Jewellery as a Cultural Interface in a Global - Digital Era
07Jan2026 -
Hermann Jünger: Authorial Identity and the Goldsmith’s Self-Fashioning Through Artistic Practice, Visual Language and...
05Jan2026 -
Ziqi Yuan. Cranbrook Academy of Art. New Talents Award Nominee 2025
02Jan2026 -
Marta Bosch Valentí, Escola Massana Centre d'Art i Disseny New Talents Award Nominee 2025
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