Danish Jewelery Box. Contemporary Jewelery Design
With about 200 selected pieces, the exhibition at the MAKK will provide an impressive panorama of 50 years of contemporary jewellery design from Denmark. The show will also feature about 30 examples from the MAKK鈥檚 significant jewellery collection, which will be integrated to form a dialogic discourse.
Jewellery as an independent art form has a long tradition in Denmark. Based on the influences of the Arts & Crafts movement around 1900, an independent design language developed from the 1916 onwards. It was characterised by a simple yet expressive minimalism that is still considered a hallmark of Danish jewellery design today. But there is so much more to contemporary jewellery design made in Denmark: it independently reflects and interprets the respective epoch against the background of cultural, aesthetic and social issues.
The curators, Mette Saabye (jewellery designer, Copenhagen) and Petra Hesse (Director of the MAKK), have succeeded in playfully highlighting this aspect in the exhibition with thematic juxtapositions: Body and Jewellery, Tradition and Innovation, Status and Power, Ritual & Fetish, Space & Movement, Humour and Sarcasm, or Identity and Diversity provide an intriguing and extraordinary perspective of both the complexity and the development of Danish jewellery design. A total of 59 contemporary Danish jewellery designers are represented in the exhibition, including works by Anne Lahn, Annette Dam, Camilla Prasch, Gerda und Nikolai Monies, Helle Bjerrum, Kim Buck, Knud Erik Andersen, Marie-Louise Christensen, Mette Saabye, Peder Musse, Per Suntum, and Pernille Mouritzen.
The exhibition title refers to the jewellery collection of the Danish Arts Foundation. As a state institution, since 1978, the foundation has been building up a 鈥楯ewellery Box鈥�, which today comprises about 340 pieces that are permanently shown at the Koldinghus Museum in East Jutland. A special aspect of this collection is the Vores Smykker loan scheme, which was developed in 2007 based on the concept that jewellery is created to be worn on the body. Danish citizens, who play an active role at an official public event, may borrow elaborately designed rings, colourful necklaces or experimental brooches for the respective event in Denmark or abroad. The 鈥榡ewellery borrowers鈥� become ambassadors of jewellery art and allow for accessibility and dissemination, by actually wearing the jewellery, thus creating a dialogue with the population.
The MAKK鈥檚 jewellery collection, which will be presented as an independent show collection from 2022, comprises more than 1,500 objects from antiquity to the present. In the Danish Jewellery Box, 27 selected examples from renowned German and international jewellery artists are juxtaposed with Danish jewellery design. In particular, the MAKK will show works by Peter Chang, Wendy Ramshaw, Dieter Roth, Peter Skubic, Falko Marx, Bernhard Schobinger, E.R. Nele and Johanna Dalm.
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With about 200 selected pieces, the exhibition at the MAKK will provide an impressive panorama of 50 years of contemporary jewellery design from Denmark. The show will also feature about 30 examples from the MAKK鈥檚 significant jewellery collection, which will be integrated to form a dialogic discourse.
Jewellery as an independent art form has a long tradition in Denmark. Based on the influences of the Arts & Crafts movement around 1900, an independent design language developed from the 1916 onwards. It was characterised by a simple yet expressive minimalism that is still considered a hallmark of Danish jewellery design today. But there is so much more to contemporary jewellery design made in Denmark: it independently reflects and interprets the respective epoch against the background of cultural, aesthetic and social issues.
The curators, Mette Saabye (jewellery designer, Copenhagen) and Petra Hesse (Director of the MAKK), have succeeded in playfully highlighting this aspect in the exhibition with thematic juxtapositions: Body and Jewellery, Tradition and Innovation, Status and Power, Ritual & Fetish, Space & Movement, Humour and Sarcasm, or Identity and Diversity provide an intriguing and extraordinary perspective of both the complexity and the development of Danish jewellery design. A total of 59 contemporary Danish jewellery designers are represented in the exhibition, including works by Anne Lahn, Annette Dam, Camilla Prasch, Gerda und Nikolai Monies, Helle Bjerrum, Kim Buck, Knud Erik Andersen, Marie-Louise Christensen, Mette Saabye, Peder Musse, Per Suntum, and Pernille Mouritzen.
The exhibition title refers to the jewellery collection of the Danish Arts Foundation. As a state institution, since 1978, the foundation has been building up a 鈥楯ewellery Box鈥�, which today comprises about 340 pieces that are permanently shown at the Koldinghus Museum in East Jutland. A special aspect of this collection is the Vores Smykker loan scheme, which was developed in 2007 based on the concept that jewellery is created to be worn on the body. Danish citizens, who play an active role at an official public event, may borrow elaborately designed rings, colourful necklaces or experimental brooches for the respective event in Denmark or abroad. The 鈥榡ewellery borrowers鈥� become ambassadors of jewellery art and allow for accessibility and dissemination, by actually wearing the jewellery, thus creating a dialogue with the population.
The MAKK鈥檚 jewellery collection, which will be presented as an independent show collection from 2022, comprises more than 1,500 objects from antiquity to the present. In the Danish Jewellery Box, 27 selected examples from renowned German and international jewellery artists are juxtaposed with Danish jewellery design. In particular, the MAKK will show works by Peter Chang, Wendy Ramshaw, Dieter Roth, Peter Skubic, Falko Marx, Bernhard Schobinger, E.R. Nele and Johanna Dalm.
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