PIN. Portuguese Association for Contemporary Jewellery

In order to achieve its aims, PIN has set out plans:

- To promote training courses and other pedagogical activities;
- To organize conferences, seminars, masterclasses, artistic residencies and exhibitions;
- To undertake actions that appeal to new audiences;
- To set up partnerships and projects for artistic and cultural interchanges;
- To publish articles, books, catalogues and videos;
- To disseminate the work and activities of PIN members as well as others of interest, and to provide technical and consulting support.

In September 2004 PIN was born within the community of jewelers who, for a long time, longed for an association where they could create projects, develop exchanges and launch new platforms for a discipline that increasingly calls for encounters with other arts. Many of the people who dedicate their lives to jewellery, their study and teaching are present at PIN - Associação Portuguesa de Joalharia Contemporânea.

As a cultural association, PIN aims to promote contemporary jewelery, triggering on a collective basis the exchange of information and experiences, and the realization of theoretical and practical projects in the scope of the arts, with a special focus on jewellery.

Like a pin, PIN is concerned with the promotion of workshops, training activities and other activities of a pedagogical nature related to contemporary art and jewelery, with the organization of meetings, debates, seminars, artistic residencies, exhibitions and other cultural initiatives, national and international.

At the heart of what is the dissemination of its actions, PIN also wants to establish new audiences for contemporary jewelery, and also wants to establish and promote partnerships and exchange projects, particularly through national and international networks of cultural and artistic scope.

After 18 years of leadership by Cristina Filipe, one of the founders, PIN is, since early 2023 managed by a new team led by Marta Costa Reis.
 
In 2024 PIN  organized the 2nd Lisbon Contemporary Jewellery Biennial with the title “Madrugada” (Daybreak) dedicated to political jewellery and jewellery of power on the 50th anniversary of Portuguese Democracy. In 2026 PIN is organizing the 3rd Biennial dedicated to the way we interact with the different natural and artificial worlds around us with the title “Coexistences”.

PIN is a member of the Conselho Consultivo de Ourivesaria [Goldsmiths Consultative Council] at the Imprensa Nacional–Casa da Moeda / Contrastaria [the Portuguese Mint and Official Printing Office – Essay Office].


Honorary members of PIN:
Ar.Co – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual.
Designer Fernando Brízio.
Art historian and curator Rui Afonso Santos.
Jewellery artist, gallerist and professor Tereza Seabra.
Jewellery artist and professor Filomeno Pereira de Sousa.
Jewellery artist and gallerist Paula Crespo.
Full professor and art historian Gonçalo de Vasconcelos e Sousa.
Art historian Madalena Braz Teixeira (1938-2026).
Artist Maria José Oliveira.
Jewellery Designer Kukas (1928-2026).
 
Social Entities – Triennium 2026–2028
 
General Meeting
President: Tereza Seabra.
Secretary: Ana Margarida Carvalho.
Secretary: Catarina Silva.
 
Direction
President: Marta Costa Reis.
Secretary: Carlos Silva.
Treasurer: Paula Zerbes.
 
Fiscal Council:
President: Elisabete Ruivo.
Secretary: Lúcia Abdenur.
Secretary: Maria Simões de Carvalho.