Eva Van Kempen

Jeweller / MunichJewelleryWeek2020

Published: 09.03.2020

Eva Van Kempen, photo: Museum de Fundatie.

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Eva Van Kempen
Women on Web
Piece: Liberate Abortion Pills, 2020

Face filter/digital replica of "Lady Liberty", a crown with abortion pill packs
AR designer: Chloe Karayiannis.
To use the filter on Facebook via the link.

Eva Van Kempen
Crown: Lady Liberty, 2020
Expired abortion pills, PVC film, artificial leather, spring steel, steel.
31 x 45 x 8 cm
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: Freedom as Luxury
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Eva Van Kempen
Collier: Weg Mit §219a, 2020
Expired abortion pills, PVC film, artificial leather, silver, German instruction leaflet for medical abortion.
42 cm long x 7cm
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: Freedom as Luxury
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Back view

Detail

On Body

Eva Van Kempen
Earrings: Timeless Classic, 2020
Expired abortion pills, PVC film, artificial leather, silver.
7 x 2 x 0.5 cm
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: Freedom as Luxury
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Eva Van Kempen
Earrings: Timeless Classic, 2020
Expired abortion pills, PVC film, artificial leather, silver.
7 x 2 x 0.5 cm
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: Freedom as Luxury

Back view

Eva Van Kempen
Bracelet: Timeless Classic, 2020
Expired abortion pills, PVC film, artificial leather, silver.
19 x 1.5 x 0.5 cm
Photo by: Eva Van Kempen
From series: Freedom as Luxury
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Eva Van Kempen
Bracelet: In case of Emergency 2, 2019
Expired abortion pills, PVC film, artificial leather, silver.
Photo by: Eva Van Kempen
From series: Planned Parenthood
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Eva Van Kempen
Bracelet: mon-tue-wed-thu-fri-sat-sun, 2019
Superfluous contraceptive pills, PVC film, artificial leather, silver.
Photo by: Eva Van Kempen
From series: Planned Parenthood

Donated in Challenging Jewellery's fundraising event "Slow reveal: the Lottery".

Eva Van Kempen
Bracelet: lun-mar-mer-jeu-ven-sam-dim, 2019
Superfluous contraceptive pills, PVC film, artificial leather, silver.
Photo by: Eva Van Kempen
From series: Planned Parenthood
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Eva Van Kempen
Bangle: In Case of Emergency, 2019
NorLevo morning after pill (EXP: 02/2023), pvc film, artificial leather, faceted citrine, silk, 14K red gold, 18K yellow gold.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
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On model.

Eva Van Kempen
Choker: Her body, her choice, 2018
Expired mifepristone and misoprostol / abortion pills in blisters, pvc film, silk, silver, hematite.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: Planned Parenthood
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Alternative view.

Eva Van Kempen
Choker: mon/tue/wed/thu/fri/sat/sun, 2018
Used contraceptive pill strips, forgotten contraceptive pills, fresh water pearls, pvc film, artificial leather, silver.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: Planned Parenthood
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Alternative view.

Eva Van Kempen
Ring: One condition, 2018
Expired contraceptive pill strip, 24 ct. gold plated silver, pvc film.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: Planned Parenthood
Engagement ring.
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Eva Van Kempen
Ring: One condition, 2018
Expired contraceptive pill strip, 24 ct. gold plated silver, pvc film.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: Planned Parenthood

Alternative view.

Engagement ring.
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Eva Van Kempen
Choker: Angled slices, 2017
Medical leads, silver, freshwater pearls.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: Ready-to-Bear
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Eva Van Kempen
Body piece: She decides, 2017
Superfluous birth control pill strips, freshwater pearls, 18 karat yellow gold, 14 karat red gold, steel, brass, PVC film, leatherette.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
Part of: Museum de Fundatie

Belly jewel.

Chastity belt.

Eva Van Kempen
Necklace: Lithium-heparin, 2017
Plastic blood tubes with freshwater pearls in lithium-heparin gel, dichroïc film, blood tube caps, opal, pencil cap needles, 60 mm intravenous needles, plexiglass, Herkimer diamond, freshwater pearls, nylon
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
Part of: Museum de Fundatie
From series: Ready-to-Bear
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Back view on model

Detail view on model

Detail view

Eva Van Kempen
Necklace: Neonatology, 2017
Parts of ventilator and feeding system for premature babies, hypodermic needles, catheter, freshwater pearls, chrysoprase, rose quartz, silver, silk.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
Part of: Museum de Fundatie
From series: Ready-to-Bear
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Back view on model.

Detachable piece of necklace.

Necklace detail front.

Necklace detail back.

Eva Van Kempen
Necklace: Decapeptyl, 2017
Glass syringes for hormone injections when preparing for IVF treatment, plastic dispersion sticks, 14 and 18 karat yellow gold, 14 karat red gold, freshwater pearls.

Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: Ready-to-Bear
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On model

Eva Van Kempen
Necklace: T-Safe, 2017
Copper IUD, cameo (agathe), freshwater pearls, hand cut roses of mother of pearl, faceted sunstone, 14 karat yellow and red gold.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: Ready-to-Bear

On model

Detail view

Eva Van Kempen
Ring: For better or worse, 2017
Stent, glass fuse, silver.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: Ready-to-Bear
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Eva Van Kempen
Ring: For better or worse, 2017
Stent, glass fuse, silver.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: Ready-to-Bear

Side view.

Eva Van Kempen
Necklace: H5 Soft Med, Iodine, Dettol, 2017
Glass, purple suture thread, plastic needle, 24 ct gold plated silver, cotton roll, dettol (hospital scent).
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: LifeLines for Scents of Life
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Eva Van Kempen
Necklace: Dettol, 2017
Glass, purple suture thread, plastic needle, 24 ct gold plated silver, cotton roll, dettol (hospital scent).
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: LifeLines for Scents of Life
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Detail view.

Eva Van Kempen
Necklace: H5 Soft Med, 2017
Glass, blue suture thread, needles, 24 ct gold plated silver, cotton roll, h5 soft med (hospital scent).
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: LifeLines for Scents of Life
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Detail view.

Eva Van Kempen
Necklace: Iodine, 2017
Glass, transparent suture thread, needle, 24 ct gold plated silver, cotton roll, Iodine (hospital scent).
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: LifeLines for Scents of Life
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Detail view.

Eva Van Kempen
Neckpiece: Neolus, 2015
Syringe needles, intravenous lines, fresh water pearls.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: LifeLines
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Eva Van Kempen
Piece: Medication Port, 2015
Medication ports, fresh water pearls and imitation blood coral, traditionally handtied with silk, silver.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: LifeLines
Necklace, back- and shoulder jewel.
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Eva Van Kempen
Piece: Slices, 2015
Intravenous line, moving freshwater pearls, magnets.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: LifeLines
Necklace and Bracelet
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Eva Van Kempen
Bracelet: String of pearls, 2015
Intravenous line, moving fresh water pearls, magnets.
Photo by: Barbara Boots
From series: LifeLines

Connecting 4 or more pieces makes a necklace.

Eva Van Kempen
Neckpiece: String of pearls, 2015
Intravenous line, moving fresh water pearls, magnets.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: LifeLines
Disconnecting makes seperate bracelets.

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Eva Van Kempen
Ring: String of pearls, 2015
Intravenous line, fresh water pearls.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: LifeLines
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Eva Van Kempen
Piece: Open/close clamp, 2014
Intravenous line, imitation blood coral, fresh water pearls, polyurethane, silver.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: LifeLines

Necklace, shoulder and back jewel, cast silver cap engraved with Eva's patient number and barcode

Eva Van Kempen
Piece: Open/close clamp, 2014
Intravenous line, imitation blood coral, fresh water pearls, polyurethane, silver.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: LifeLines

Necklace, shoulder and back jewel, cast silver cap engraved with Eva's patient number and barcode

Eva Van Kempen
Necklace: String of pearls long, 2015
Intravenous line, partly filled with fresh water pearls.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: LifeLines
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Eva Van Kempen
Necklace: String of pearls large, 2015
Tube, moving fresh water pearls.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: LifeLines
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Eva Van Kempen
Neckpiece: Smartslip technology, 2015
Syringe needles, plastic, silver, fresh water pearls.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: LifeLines
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Eva Van Kempen
Piece: Combination of lines, 2015
Intravenous line, drain line, oxygen line, fresh water pearls.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: LifeLines
Necklace and shoulder jewel.
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Eva Van Kempen
Piece: CO + O2, 2015
Oxygen line, loose diamonds, magnets.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: LifeLines
Necklace combined with 3 bracelets.
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Eva Van Kempen
Earrings: Neolus-Eclipse, 2015
Plastic, pearls.
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: LifeLines
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Eva Van Kempen
Necklace: Cotton Roll, 2015
Cotton rolls, polyurethane, spaghetti fresh water pearls, silk
Photo by: Hugo Rompa
From series: LifeLines
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Eva van Kempen (Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1976) is an Amsterdam based jewellery designer. She studied at the vocational school of Goldsmiths in Schoonhoven and Amsterdam. Her work evolved drastically when she was confronted with illness. In 2015 Eva van Kempen presented her jewellery line LifeLines made from safe medical waste. She did so in a solo-exhibition in the Amsterdam Medical Centre, the hospital where she used to be a patient. At the invitation of Museum de Fundatie Eva van Kempen designed jewellery for busts and portraits of sculptors whose work the museum aquired down the years. With the exhibition Ready-To-Bear the artist has managed to "inject" some sparkle underpinned by a sense of wryness into the often paradoxical themes of illness, fertility, life and death. Currently Eva is participating in "Challenging Jewellery", a temporary Master Programme at Sandberg Instituut, initiated by Ted Noten, Gijs Bakker, Ruudt Peters and Liesbeth den Besten, coordinator Sarah Mesritz, head tutors BLESS. The programme aims to look at the most pressing issues of our time, in order to allow "healing".

Statement

The inspiration for the series "LifeLines" (2015), "Scents of Life" (2017), "Ready-To-Bear" (2017), “Planned Parenthood" (2018-2020) and "Freedom as Luxury” (2020) finds its origin in medical materials and medicine. I am fascinated by what manmade medical materials and medicine can mean for a human life and for humanity as a whole. Designed for the human body, I feel that these materials have the perfect scale to become jewels. Driven by an urge to reanimate safe hospital waste - expired intravenous systems, syringes and medicine - I aim to honour and restore these materials to what they could have meant. The works invite the viewer to look with new eyes and rethink prevailing notions on medical materials, societal or even humanitarian issues.

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Publications

Article: Arts en activist Rebecca Gomperts (53) is pas tevreden wanneer voor alle vrouwen ter wereld de abortuspil verkrijgbaar is. Tot die tijd trekt ze ten strijde met de door haar opgerichte abortusboot en Women on Web. PS Parool: 2020
February 8, 2020, P. 10-15

Online Article: Instagram has banned a pro-choice filter featuring abortion pills. Dawson, Brit. DAZED: London, 2020

Online Article: Instagram Rejected a Pro-Choice Face Filter. Solis, Marie. Vice: New York, 2020

Online Article: Eva van Kempen. Doornbosch, Esther. Hedendaagse sieraden: Amsterdam, 2020

Video: Abortion: life-saving packages. Arte: Strasbourg, 2020

Article: Bijoutiers ou plasticiens?. DNA: 2019
June 18, 2019, P.16

Catalogue: LIÉ.E.S / LINKED Exhibition of Art Jewelry. Strasbourg, 2019
June 2019, P.5, 38

Article: Ready-To-Bear. Inside-Outside Jewellery by Eva Van Kempen. Delfos, Martine France. Klimt02: Barcelona, 2018

Magazine: Klaar om te dragen, levensreddende broosheid. Boukje Mulder. 2018
p.55-59 and coverphoto Metier Magazine, Spring 2018.

Magazine: Opzij, Klaar om te dragen. 2018

Newspaper: Kunst im Doppelpack. Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung: Germany, 2017
March 24

Magazine: LifeLines, een ode aan ziekenhuismaterialen. Korsse, S.. 2017
De jonge Specialist

Newspaper: Een spiraaltje om je hals. Amsterdam, 2017
Telegraaf /VROUW, M. v. Es, 23 Aug. 2017

Show: Radio EenVandaag item "Optimist". 2017

Newspaper: Sieraden van de wetenschap. Groenewoud, M.. Stentor: 2017

Book: Sieraden van ziekenhuismaterialen. R. Keja, Utrecht. Olijfschrift: 2016
April, p.11

Magazine: Levensreddende schoonheid. R. Keja. 2016
Utrecht, Olijfschrift: December, p.14-15.

Catalogue: Torenkamer Festival, 70 talentvolle kunstenaars. 2015
F. de Boeck, Amsterdam, p. 30

Magazine: Juweel van een Infuus. 2015
PS Het Parool, L. Hekman, Amsterdam, May 19

Catalogue: LifeLines, De Vitrines AMC. E. van Kempen. 2015
Amsterdam

Magazine: Ode aan ziekenhuismaterialen. J. Sants. 2015
Edelmetaal: Voorburg, July-Aug, p.28, 29

Magazine: Infuusslangen krijgen tweede leven. S. Smets. 2015
Amsterdam, July p.3

Catalogue: Torenkamer Festival, 70 talentvolle kunstenaars. F. de Boeck. 2015
Amsterdam, June, p. 30

Newspaper: Juweel van een Infuus. L. Hekman. 2015
PS Het Parool, Amsterdam, May 19

Magazine: Goudsmid Eva van Kempen na tegenslag weer aan de slag. J. Sants. 2014
Voorburg, Edelmetaal: November, p. 47-49

Magazine: Vijftig jaar dans gesmeed tot een uniek halssieraad. S. van Vugt. 2011
Dansen met de blik naar binnen, 50 jaar Internationaal Danstheater: December, Amsterdam, p. 82,83

Book: Alchemie van de liefde. L.Thooft. 2008
Scriptum, Schiedam p.143

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Eva Van Kempen, photo: Museum de Fundatie.

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