Events

Work on permanent view at the Die Neue Sammlung, Danner Rotunda
Mar
14
to Dec 14

Work on permanent view at the Die Neue Sammlung, Danner Rotunda

The Danner Rotunda – the Jewelry Space at Pinakothek der Moderne

Opens March 13, 2020

New curation by Mikiko Minewaki, Hiko Mizuno College, Tokyo, and Hans Stofer, Burg Giebichenstein, Halle and Alexander Blank, Munich

After Karl Fritsch’s colorful concept for the Danner Rotunda and the one in subdued white by Otto Künzli – both globally active jewelry artists and professors of goldsmithing – it is time, as we fast approach the 2020s, once again to submit the Danner Rotunda to a creative and critical new curation. It is an occasion to review elective affinities, present newly acquired or gifted objects, and surprise and thrill viewers with undreamt-of, fascinating compositions for the third time after the first curation of the Danner Rotunda by Hermann Jünger back in 2004.

For this reason, the Danner Rotunda will remain closed to the public from January 21, 2019 through to March 13, 2020.

Mikiko Minewaki is a lecturer at Hiko Mizuno College in Tokyo, who was invited by Die Neue Sammlung in 2015 to hold her exhibition “Harebutai” – which featured her students and was realized in collaboration with Professor Kimiaki Kageyama – at Pinakothek der Moderne, Professor Hans Stofer, who was head of the Jewelry class at the Royal College of Art and Design in London, was recently appointed professor at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle, and Alexander Blank, a jewelry artist from Munich. The three jewelry artists of international renown are members of a younger generation and we are delighted that they will be taking up our invitation to re-interpret the Danner Rotunda. This will be the first time that a curator team – spanning the worlds of Asia and Europe – will be selecting the objects. It will be exciting to see the images that arise from what is in itself always fascinating task and to which we invite guest curators roughly every five years.

At the same time, we are happy to report that we have persuaded Munich-based Flavia Thumshirn, a lighting designer of world-wide repute, to develop a new lighting concept for the jewelry space at Pinakothek der Moderne. The changeover from halogen lamps to LED technology will take center stage in the planning. Together with designer Yang Liu, who lives and works in Berlin and who was applauded for her light guidance system for Dresden’s Albertinum, an installation featuring neon writing will be created that will quite literally present the entrance area of the Danner Rotunda in a new light.

None of this would have been possible without the close collaboration with Benno und Therese Danner’sche Kunstgewerbestiftung, or Danner-Stiftung for short, founded in 1920 and at home in Munich. We are delighted that the re-opening of the Danner Rotunda, planned for March 13, 2020, will kick off the program of events celebrating the foundation’s 100th anniversary that will take place in the course of the year.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a PUBLICATION brought out by Arnoldsche Art Publishers and designed by Frederik Linke, Zurich.

Pinakothek der Moderne Exhibition Starting March 14, 2020

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CHARMED
Jun
1
to Jun 30

CHARMED

In celebration of our 20th Anniversary we asked 80 of the artists we have worked with to make two charms. To commemorate the occasion, one charm has become part of a massive charm bracelet which will go into the collection of a major art museum.

The other charm is for you.

Whether you want to start a collection of artist made jewelry,

add to the one you already have, gift a fantastic piece, or wear it yourself — you’ll be charmed.

Each charm comes with a 130 page full-color book detailing the project with introductions by art historian, writer, and curator, Liesbeth den Besten and Emily Stoehrer, Ph.D. the Rita J. Kaplan and Susan B. Kaplan Curator of Jewelry, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The charms are available online and in the gallery on exhibit through June 30, shipping the first week of July.

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Digital Original
May
20
to Jun 9

Digital Original

This exhibition will feature work which is created primarily in the digital realm and then output as physical objects which are presented as two- and three-dimensional pieces of art in the traditional gallery setting. The goal of the exhibition is to introduce the viewer to work that may feel familiar in its presentation, but has been created using digital media which is less familiar. In this way, an opportunity for dialogue around the use of digital media and how it interacts with our established patterns of experiencing art is opened.

May 20 to June 9

Opening reception: Sunday, May 20, 2-4pm

Exhibiting Artists: Doug Bucci, Juan Dimida, Dan Hoffacker, Jonathan Laidacker, Rea RossiMichelle Rothwell, Jane Schultz, Lori SpencerErik Van Horn and Jen Zaylea

Curated by Michelle Rothwell and Paul Downie

There are three workshops associated with this exhibition.    Digital Original artist Jane Schultzclick here for Art on your iPhone Part 1(portraits/landscapes), click here for Part 2(collage/abstraction) and click here for Digital Painting with Digital Original artist Jonathan Laidacker

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SCHMUCK MUNICH 2018: WORKS FROM AMERICA
Mar
6
to Mar 13

SCHMUCK MUNICH 2018: WORKS FROM AMERICA

WITTENBRINK FUENFHOEFE
PRESENTSWORKS FROM AMERICA

Jamie Bennett • Doug Bucci • Sharon Church • Thomas Gentille •
William Harper • Robin Kranitzky/Kim Overstreet •
Stanley Lechtzin/Daniella Kerner • Eleanor Moty • Judy Onofrio •
Albert Paley • Marjorie Schick • Helen Shirk • Kiff Slemmons

EXHIBITION FROM  6th MARCH TILL 13th MARCH 2018
OPENING HOURS  MO – SA 10 – 19 UHR
CURATED BY HELEN DRUTT AND MATTHEW DRUTT

 

WITTENBRINKFUENFHOEFE
Theatinerstrasse 14
80333 München
089. 255 419 33
GalerieWittenbrink/FünfHöfe.de
Öffnungszeiten Mo – Sa   10 – 19 Uhr

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Dec
29
to Dec 31

Acclaimed Artist Doug Bucci Reveals His Studio — And His Medical Data-Inspired Art Jewelry

As celebrated artist Doug Bucci debuts his Islet Necklace at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum this week, we’re proud to bring you a behind-the-scenes look at the necklace’s creation. Bucci’s ingenious creative process was inspired by a deeply meaningful, if unlikely source: his own diabetes-related medical data. Learn about how the artist turns that data into art jewelry and how Shapeways has played a part in bringing his work to life. Plus, get a rare view of the acclaimed necklace as it travels from powder bed to museum exhibition. See interview: https://youtu.be/nF2xosPQIlg

For a deeper look at how Bucci creates the gradient dye effect on the Islet Necklace, make sure to check out his expert tutorial on dyeing Strong & Flexible nylon plastic jewelry. And don’t miss the full range of the artist’s work on his website.

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Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection
Nov
17
to May 28

Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection

Featuring nearly 150 brooches, necklaces, bracelets, and rings created by seminal designers from Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America, Jewelry of Ideas illuminates the radical conceptual and material developments in jewelry design that have transformed the field. Beginning with mid-20th-century American and European pioneers who pushed the boundaries of form and material, the exhibition traces the evolution of jewelry up to the avant-garde developments of the 1980s and through to the most recent innovations.

The works on view show how jewelry has moved far beyond its aesthetic considerations to stake out new creative territories through a mastery of materials, innovative techniques, and conceptual inquiry. In the collection are many of the field’s most experimental designers, including Joyce Scott, Friedrich Becker, Ted Noten, Kiff Slemmons, Otto Künzli, Ramona Solberg, Arline Fisch, Thomas Gentille, Attai Chen, Doug Bucci, and Jamie Bennett.

Exhibition Catalog
Illustrated with full-color photographs of the nearly 150 pieces of jewelry, this hardcover book also includes essays by curator and educator Ursula Ilse-Neuman on the evolution of contemporary jewelry from the mid-century to the present day. Process statements from the more than 100 jewelers represented in the collection further illuminate the groundbreaking materials and techniques, as well as conceptual scope, of these diverse jewelers’ achievements.

Available from SHOP Cooper Hewitt.

 

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Channeling Nature by Design
Apr
22
to Jul 16

Channeling Nature by Design

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Our ever-changing relationship to nature as seen through the eyes of great designers

From the botanical wallpaper of William Morris to the streamlined cutlery of Zaha Hadid, design has always found inspiration in nature. This exhibition examines how designers of handmade and industrial objects—including furniture, pottery, kitchenware, and even a 3-D printed neckpiece—have responded to the beauty and fragility of the natural world.

By bringing together nature-inspired objects from the past century and a half—and examining the forces that shaped them—this exhibition offers a fresh look at the power of design.

In the last few decades, Marc Newson, Zaha Hadid, Doug Bucci, and others have grappled with what nature means in our tech-driven world through varied approaches. Some designers allude to a loose concept of the organic through playful forms that suggest living organisms, while others emphasize the responsible use of materials and energy. More recently, artists have taken advantage of 3-D printing and computer algorithms to create works rooted in the principles of nature.

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Work on view at the Museo del Gioiello Vicenza
Jan
1
to Jan 1

Work on view at the Museo del Gioiello Vicenza

The Jewellery Museum inaugurates its 2nd edition 2017-2018
with new international curators

"Jewellery is art, for me, is different because each piece is made by an individual, it is not made by industry, it is made by an artist who has a unique vision and who has the ability to inquire about a range of aesthetic ideas and to incorporate a particular personal concept. Since we decided to curate or organize an exhibition of American work, there was a definite obligation on my part to research and to carefully examine the field, and to try to select twenty-five or twenty-six works that would illustrate the range of aesthetic, you know, or the range of… the broad range of creative aesthetic work that existed in the United States, from the late twentieth century to the early twenty-first century."

- Helen W. Drutt

During the 20th century, numerous sculptors dedicated themselves to making jewellery, transferring their figurative skills, sometimes in the form of simple miniaturization or by working with the minute scale of jewellery itself. Jewellery, for everyone, can represent a sculpture for the body, transmitting concepts and desires, especially in terms of artistic research. Helen Drutt’s selection present jewellery by US artists who, like Alexander Calder or Art Smith, have renewed the relationship between jewellery and art.

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