Contemporary art jewelry, makers, exhibitions and material craft.
In recent years, the “open call” has become almost unavoidable within contemporary jewelry. Jewelry exhibitions, competitions, residencies, and festival weeks rely on the format as a democratic way of discovering new artists and creating visibility. However, voices critical of the open call have begun to emerge. Why? Behind the rhetoric of openness often lies a [ ]
September 2026, Part 2 Right now, we all could use a treat. It feels good to get a terrific piece of art jewelry for ourselves while celebrating and supporting artists and the galleries who show them! Art Jewelry Forum’s international gallery supporters celebrate and exhibit art jewelry. Our bi-monthly On Offer series allows this extensive network of international galleries to showcase [ ]
Bernhard Schobinger and Dorothea Prühl came to jewelry from opposite sides of a divided Europe. Schobinger came of age in Switzerland s postwar avant-garde, while Prühl developed her practice in East Germany, first as a designer and later as an influential teacher at the art school in Halle where she had trained. In 1962, the year [ ]
September 2026, Part 2 Art Jewelry Forum is pleased to share all jewelry news. If you’re a member of AJF, you may add news and ideas to this bi-monthly report by submitting here. If you aren’t a member, but would like to become one, join AJF here. Some of the news items below have no accompanying [ ]
GUIDELINES FOR THE 2027 LINDA PESHKIN SOLO EXHIBITION AWARD PURPOSE OF AWARD To provide the resources for the development and implementation of a solo exhibition of art jewelry that the artist would not otherwise have the means to undertake. All jewelry artists can apply; applications from artists presenting proposals for their first solo exhibition are [ ]
Marta Costa Reis, Mònica Gaspar, and Patrícia Domingues, eds., Madrugada: A joalharia e a política da Esperança (Daybreak: Jewellery and the Politics of Hope). Lisbon: PIN Portuguese Association of Contemporary Jewellery and CML/MUDE Museu do Design, 2025. (In Portuguese/English) The 3rd Lisbon Contemporary Jewellery Biennial, organized by PIN Portuguese Association for Contemporary Jewellery, [ ]
Open to jewelry artists of any age and nationality, the Linda Peshkin Solo Exhibition Award offers $20,000 to support the creation of a solo exhibition to advance an artist working in the field of art jewelry. Geraldine Fenn won the inaugural award, and she will serve as one of three jurors for the next cycle. [ ]
AJF joined South Africa–based artist Geraldine Fenn, inaugural recipient of AJF s Solo Exhibition Award, for a look back at the research, experimentation, travel, collaboration, and making that culminated in her solo exhibition, Geraldine Fenn: Dispatch from the Colonies, at Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, in Montreal. Fenn takes us inside the development of the exhibition, which explored [ ]
September 2026, Part 1 Right now, we all could use a treat. It feels good to get a terrific piece of art jewelry for ourselves while celebrating and supporting artists and the galleries who show them! Art Jewelry Forum’s international gallery supporters celebrate and exhibit art jewelry. Our bi-monthly On Offer series allows this extensive network of international galleries to showcase [ ]
September 2026, Part 1 Art Jewelry Forum is pleased to share all jewelry news. If you’re a member of AJF, you may add news and ideas to this bi-monthly report by submitting here. If you aren’t a member, but would like to become one, join AJF here. Some of the news items below have no accompanying [ ]
Jürgen Eickhoff’s recent exhibition Netzwerke/Networks, at Galerie V V, has barely faded from memory, yet now only his works and our recollections remain. The exhibition’s subtitle, Boundaries: top and bottom, inside and outside, now resonates as an exploration of the possible. Jürgen has since crossed an irreversible boundary. Jürgen described his work in these words: My [ ]
Damian Skinner, ed., Marzee. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2026. “Ownership is the most intimate relationship one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in you; it is you who lives in them.” —Walter Benjamin This sober, light-blue volume, with its cloth-bound spine, could be described as a comprehensive book on the history of [ ]
Corrina Goutos has been a finalist for the Young Artist Award three times! A graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design, she later did a residency at the Françoise van den Bosch Foundation. Goutos has given lectures at DIVA Museum, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, and for SNAG. Originally from upstate New York, she now [ ]