Handwerk & Design

Despite the pandemic and postponement: the «Handwerk & Design» trade fair will take place in 2022 in its tried-and-tested format at the Fairground Munich. The only change: the meeting point this year is in Hall B5, centrally located just behind the eastern main entrance. In an area of 11,000 square meters, almost 400 participants will present the highest quality creative crafts, produced as unique items or in small series. Here, masterful technical execution meets a pronounced awareness of good design. Individually, sustainably produced in local small businesses, the artisanal products incorporate the latest ideas and innovations. Here you can discover things that are not found in any catalogue.

The «Handwerk & Design» exhibition is part of Internationale Handwerksmesse and showcases the high art of skilled craft, top-class handicrafts, and artistic design. The SCHMUCK special exhibition is a major event in the field of contemporary art jewellery. FRAME together with the international exhibitions EXEMPLA and TALENTE is another highlight.


World-class special shows:

The EXEMPLA, SCHMUCK and TALENTE – Meister der Zukunft special shows, organized by the Handwerkskammer für München und Oberbayern chamber of crafts, bring together top international works from the fields of creative crafts and applied arts.  Experts and specialists from all over the world come here to see the most innovative work in the sector.

What's special this year: after several postponements, the EXEMPLA can finally celebrate its 50-year anniversary. In addition to new developments, a "Best Of" of previous trade fairs will be shown: exhibitors who have celebrated particularly great success with the public in recent decades have been invited to the trade fair once again – naturally with further developed products! For example, the glass apparatus maker Sigi Franz from Burghausen impressed visitors several years ago, both with glass apparatus for laboratories as well as glass works of art. He has already handed over his company "Glaspunkt" to younger hands. Now, the successors will be on site, to show how they are shaping the future.

Young designers up to the age of 35 can be discovered at the TALENTE – Meister der Zukunft special show. The most promising artists from 30 countries were selected from hundreds of applications, spanning all fields from glass to textiles, right through to paper and wood, to showcase their fresh ideas, materials discoveries and re-examinations of traditional thinking. Together, they impressively demonstrate the wide range of possibilities that craft and design have to offer.

The SCHMUCK special show still remains the most important show for contemporary artistic jewellery, more than 60 years after it was founded. This year, it is curated by the Australian artist Helen Britton. The traditional small solo exhibition under the auspices of SCHMUCK is dedicated to Robert Baines this year. The Australian is considered a modern alchemist, whose vast knowledge of metal processing forms the basis for his unconventional jewellery.

More international jewellery art can be seen at the stands of FRAME: a dozen of the most important jewellery galleries in the world will come together here, from focal points of the scene such as Galerie Marzee from Amsterdam, Platina from Stockholm or Rosemarie Jäger from Hochheim, right through to completely new galleries from cities such as Paris.


Jewellery events during the special exhibitions in Munich
For SCHMUCK, the trade fair organiser GHM Gesellschaft für Handwerksmessen mbH and the Chamber of Crafts and Trades for Munich and Upper Bavaria will design a special map of the city in which all events in galleries, studios, and museums that take place during the special exhibition in Munich will be listed. Alongside information on SCHMUCK and on «Handwerk & Design» within the framework of the Internationale Handwerksmesse, it lists other venues and events – and, of course, more details on other renowned special exhibitions at the IHM: EXEMPLA, and TALENTE.

The printed city map will be available at the trade fair. The online version will be available from mid-June 2022 on the website www.ihm-handwerk-design.com


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How to get there
Fairground of Messe München, Germany
Location: Hall B1

>> Map of the Fairground 2022

«Handwerk & Design» at Internationale Handwerksmesse will be taking place on the fairground of Messe München. Visitors can reach the trade fair through the main entrance East after taking the underground line U2 to “Messestadt Ost”. Multi-story car parks adjoin directly the trade fairgrounds.