EXPO ‘FROM THE COOLEST CORNER’ – National Museum of Art, Architecture & Design, Oslo (Norway) – 19 janv.-21 Avril 2013
FROM THE COOLEST CORNER - Nordic Jewellery
From the Coolest Corner – Nordic Jewellery presents groundbreaking and fresh jewellery from Northern Europe, a comprehensive selection of current works by artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the Baltic States. The best and most innovative Scandinavian art jewellery is presented, assessing its possibilities and potential at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
The project presented in this publication, culminating in a symposium and a travelling exhibition, challenges stereotypical notions of northern European art jewellery. Do the typical Nordic trends of the nineteen-nineties still apply today? Indeed are there currently any general trends at all in Scandinavian design? Or has the orientation towards international design become so dominant that there are no longer any regional characteristics?
Renowned experts have made a selection of representative works, as a basis for researching the role of northern European jewellery in the context of international art.
With 160 works by artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the Baltic States, this publication considers the significance, strategies and trends of Nordic jewellery art in the early twenty-first century. Expert authors present the backgrounds, developments and characteristics of the contemporary jewellery.
Authors| jury: Liesbeth den Besten (NL) – Widar Halén (NO) – Love Jönsson (SE) – Päivi Ruutiainen (FI) – Jorunn Veiteberg (DK/NO)
Helga Ragnhildur Mogensen, Island, neck piece The Red Thread, 2010, driftwood, thread, sterling silver
Exhibition(s) at
* The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway 19.1. to 21. 4. 2013,
afterwards at the
* Designmuseum Danmark, Copenhagen // The Danish Design Museum, Copenhagen, DK
* the Design Museum, Helsinki // The Design Museum, Helsinki, Finland (nov. 2013-Jan 2014)
* The Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn, Estonia
* the Röhsska Museum of fashion, design & decorative arts, Gothenburg , Sweden
* at Galerie Handwerk, Munich, March 2015 // Galerie Handwerk , München, Germany during ‘Schmuck’ 2015
Further information: www.coolestcorner.no
Touring plan
EXHIBITION
Includes a parallel program with 15 exhibitions and events all over Oslo in the winter of 2013 |
Oslo (NO) Copenhagen (DK) Helsinki (FI) Tallinn (EE) Gothenburg Munich |
19 January – 21 April 2013 28 June – 15 September 2013 29 November 2013 – 12 January 2014 7 March – 11 May 2014 31 May – 21 September 2014 March 2015 |
19th January - 21st April 2013:
Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, Oslo, Norway – Kunstindustrimuseet
www.nasjonalmuseet.no13.06. – 15.09.13:
Designmuseum Danmark, København in Danmark
designmuseum.dk10th October – November 2013:
Design Museum in Helsinki, Helsinki in Finland
www.designmuseum.fiJanuary to April 2014:
Röhsska museet, Göteborg in Sweden
www.designmuseum.seMarch 2015
Galerie Handwerk, München in Germany during „Schmuck“
Participants:
The following 61 artists have been invited to participate in the exhibition:
Denmark: Annette Dam – Marie-Louise Kristensen – Kaori Juzu - Josephine Winther – Julie Bach – Thorkild Thøgersen
Finland: Ami Avellán – Aino Favén – Clarice Finell – Janne Hirvonen – Sirja Knaapi – Mervi Kurvinen – Mirja Marsch – Anna Rikkinen – Janna Syvänoja – Monica Wickström
Iceland: Hulda B. Ágústsdóttir – Ástþór & Kjartan for Orr – Hildur Ýr Jónsdóttir – Helga Ragnhildur Mogensen
Norway: Liv Blåvarp – Sigurd Bronger – Linnea Calder – Lillan Eliassen – Elise Hatlø – Anne Léger – Anna Talbot – Gunnhild Tjåland
Sweden: Tobias Alm – Beatrice Brovia – Nicolas Cheng – Åsa Elmstam – Daniela Hedman – Hanna Hedman – Karin Johansson – Jenny Klemming – Agnieszka Knap – Agnes Larsson – Kajsa Lindberg – Paula Lindblom – Åsa Lockner – Märta Mattsson – Lena Olson – Lina Peterson – Annika Pettersson – Margareth Sandström – Sanna Svedestedt – Anna Unsgaard – Peter de Wit - Sara Borgegård Älgå – Annika Åkerfelt
Estonia: Julia Maria Künnap – Maarja Niimagi – Kristi Paap – Anna-Marie Saar – Tanel Veenre
Guests of Honour :
The jury decided to invite jewellers who had and are still having a great impact on the artistic development of the jewellery scene in their country :
Denmark: Kim Buck // Finland: Helena Lehtinen // Norway: Konrad Mehus // Sweden: Tore Svendson // Estonia: Kadri Mälk
Anna Talbot (NO), necklace Oh My Deer, 2011
Kim Buck (DK) – « Bonsai I-V » 2012 ringer
« Pumpous » 2011 by Kim Buck 
Konrad Mehus (NO) – Birds nest – 2003
Janna Syvänoja, Finland – « untitled »
Lillan Eliassen, Norway – « Every Road Is Just Another Way Home »
Tore Svensson – not classic typology of portrait –medaillon/brooch
Elise Hatlø - Grandma sings the blues 
Agnieszka Knap (SWE) « anatomy of fear » 2011 enamel on copper 
Daniela Hedman – Feet from the Ground Series
Helena Lehtinen (FIN) – Gardens – 2012 halskjede
Hanna Hedmann (SWE) – « While_they_await_extinction » (Spheniscus magellanicus) halskjede 2011
Julia Maria Kunnap (Est.) « from the middle of a dream » brooch 2010
Sigurd Bronger -Norway, Fan Brooch, 2009, gold-plated brass, steel, enamel paint
‘Breaking the Ice’ symposium with theorists, artists and representatives of galleries, museums and other establishments, on the subject of the present and future of jewellery art, to be held in January 2013 in Oslo/Norway.
There will be a wide range of jewellery events taking place in various locations in Oslo in January 2013. We are working with the following galleries:
- Galleri Expo Arte – young graduate jewellery students from abroad
- Galleri Format Oslo – Jewellery from The Netherlands and New Zealand
- RAM galleri – Camilla Luihn ‘The cloud, the wave and the koi remix’
- Kunsthåndverkerne i Kongensgate – ‘Lightspot’
- Kunstnerforbundet – Ingjerd Hanevold
- Vigeland Museet – ‘Aftermath’
- BRUDD – ‘Yours Sincerely’
- Galleri Seilduken – KL!NK presents ‘The Black of Night’
- Window Exhibition at Fritjof Nansens Plass
There will also be arranged several exhibitions at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
More information about the program (pdf)
Lillan Eliassen, Norway, neck piece « Courage », 2012, casting clay, copper
Kadri Mälk, (Guest of Honour Estonia), brooch « Very Guilty », 2010, Siberian jet, black rhodium plated with white gold, spinel, tourmalines
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
The Museum of Decorative Arts and Design
St. Olavs gate 1
Oslo
Martina Kaufmann (Project Leader) : martina.kaufmann@gmail.com
