Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School
Published: 22.10.2019

There cannot be any true innovation without the knowledge of what came before. Tradition and innovation, like mind and hand, need to move together.
Statement
Alchimia contemporary jewellery school was founded in 1998 by Lucia Massei and Doris Maninger. The expansive two-year BFA and MFA programs have been developed over more than a decade of experience in close collaboration with a team of international teachers and advisors, all leaders in their respective creative realms.Alchimia’s objective is to teach students to express their creativity through contemporary jewelry, developing high-quality technical and theoretical skills. By adopting the technological developments of our time and the most experimental cultural trends, Alchimia encourages its students to enhance their talents. Its focus draws on the revision and adoption of traditional techniques and carefully selected materials combined with experimental and groundbreaking approaches to design, teaching students how to transform ideas and research paths in jewelry and design objects, and how to access the working context.
The students of Alchimia are mentored and tutored by a team of experts in jewellery, design, and the visual arts. While using their own experiences as reference, tutors profess techniques, tendencies, and developments in the field of contemporary jewellery and propound emergences in personal creativity by offering tailored guidance and evaluation over the course of the students’s academic years.
The school has obtained full accreditation of its artistic and pedagogic values and is officially qualified for Europen Bachelor of Fine Arts & European Master of Fine Arts by the European Accreditation Board of Higher Education EABHES.
Management Person: Lucia Massei
Master program permanent team:
Tutors: Evert Nijland, Lucy Sarneel.
Teachers: Lucia Massei, Sana Khalil, David Clarke, Benjamin Lignel, Akis Goumas,
Riccardo Lami, Antonio Marsala, Federico Cavicchioli.
Lectures / Workshops
2005 Charon Kransen - 2006/11 Giovanni Corvaja - 2006 Peter Skubic - 2007 Iris Eichenberg - 2007 Stefano Marchetti - 2008 Bernhard Schobinger - 2009 Mari Ishikawa - 2009/14 Lucy Sarneel - 2010 Robert Smit - 2010/15/17 Ruudt Peters - 2010 Deganit Schocken - 2011/12/13/14/15/16 Christoph Zellweger - 2011/12/13 Sung-Ho Cho - 2012- Nikolas Kirchner - 2013 Jamie Bennett - 2013 Evert Nijland - 2014 Ferran Iglesias -2014 Myra Mimlitsch Gray - 2014 Andronikos Sagiannos - 2014 Daniela Malev - 2015 Pravu Mazumdar - 2015 Ulo Florak - 2015 Uly Reithofer – 2015/16 Silvia Weidenbach - 2016/17/18 Akis Goumas – 2016/17/18 Attai Chen - 2017 Georgia Gremouti - 2017/18 David Clarke - 2018 Giampaolo Babetto - 2018 Marta Mattson – 2018 Nedda el Asmar - 2019 Benedikt Fischer – 2019 Patrick Davison - 2019 Yuka Oyama – 2019 Kimiaki Kageyama
Transaction MFA II 2018, Work in progress exhibition in Amsterdam, curated by Lucy Sarneel.
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Necklace: In Conflict, 2016
Wood, leather, iron.
18 x 8 x 8 cm
From series: In Conflict
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Brooch: Nomen Nescio, 2016
Iron, steel.
12 x 6 x 5 cm
From series: Nomen Nescio
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Brooch: Look Gently Series No.14, 2018
Paper, silver, stainless steel pin, cold enamel, varnish.
10.3 x 9.6 x 5.6 cm
From series: Look Gently
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Necklace: Controlled Freedom, 2015
Glass, aegirine.
From series: True Lies
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Ring: Fortezza, 2017
Shibuichi, black coral, silver, melted amber.
5.3 x 3.3 cm
From series: Gimmel
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Drawing Class at Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School
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