Decouverte : Benedikt FISCHER

Benedikt FISCHER :

« As a student of the Jewellery Department (Gerrit Rietveld Academie) , I try to gain full understanding of my subject. In order to do that, it is important to go back to the origins. This is also the method I use when approaching a problem. Jewellery is a complex field where on each end someone is trying to push the boundaries of what we consider jewellery. This fact raised the urge in me to find out where jewellery came from in order to understand what it really is.
Considering the extensive history of adornment through the ages, it is hard to think of donning jewellery as anything less than a human need. It appears embedded across religions, cultures, rites, and throughout human activity. It is worn as adornment, to show status or belonging, as a memento and so on. In some instances, societal prescriptions about not wearing any jewellery, or restrictions around the type of ornament a person is allowed to wear, tell an equally strong story about the power and impact of jewellery. The drive goes deeper than the individual reasons that a certain country or religion might produce a given ornament. My belief, supported by historical examples and anecdotes, is that the motivation for jewellery making and wearing is actually quite primal and that this creative instinct speaks to our animalistic nature. In exploring these ideas, I also delve into my own desire to be part of this ongoing history and to create wearable pieces. I am interested in things that endure for long periods, that are maintained in our culture without question, and which are established in our lives as axioms.
Another theme for me is animals. There are similarities of character between Man and animals. Man learned from animals. When we compare the purely visible aspect of jewellery to the most obvious example in animal kingdom, the peacock, it is clear that visual attraction is of major importance. Perhaps we adopted this behaviour from our animal friends. The lion has his mane, the deer his antlers and the peacock tries to impress his female companions with its amazing range of feathers. Man’s power is also related to visual display. The ability to consume, to drive fast cars, to wear sharp clothing, is directly related to the sexual virility or a man or woman. Those who do not have this power, who lack money, become faceless. In his Theory of Evolution, Darwin states that it is more likely for a more attractive male to mate with a female than for one who is physically stronger. To this day you get a pin if you are a brave fighter in a war, the mayor gets a special kind of chain around his neck, top sportsmen are being visually underlined with gold, silver or bronze. What fascinates me most about animals is that they are entirely led by their instincts. When making jewellery I am aiming to get into that state as well. »

Benedikt Fischer presented at Galerie Rob Koudijs – brooch ‘Ibex ibex’ – plastic, remanium – 2011

Benedikt Fischer – (Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation 2011)

Benedikt Fischer – (Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation 2011) – brooch (back side) ‘Stador’ – plastic, epoxy, remanium – 2011

Benedikt Fischer

Benedikt Fischer – (Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation 2011)

brooch ‘linx linx’ – plastic, remanium – 2011

 

Benedikt Fischer
1984 Eferding, Austria
Lives and works in Vienna, AT
Education
1998-2003
Techn. School for Arts and Crafts, Steyr, AT
2008
Summer Academy with Florian Ladtstätter, Salzburg, AT
2010
Exchange semester at Konstfack, Stockholm, SE
2008 – 2011
Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL

 

Annual MARZEE selection of GRADUATE WORK JEWELLERY 2011 (NL) – 7 Aout-24 Sept. 2011

SELECTION of WORKS to see HERE

Jade Drakes and her dogs – Brooch, electroformed copper. Gold plated

Satita Rojpojjanarat and her « Thai clouds »

 Nadege Roscoe’s intimacies

(THANKS to Alchimia blog for pictures !)

Alla Malova Guy - necklace Post Fossil 2011, ceramics, metal chain, flocking, epoxy resin, iron, magnet – Switzerland, Geneva, HEAD

Antje Stolz – necklace Steinlos I (Stoneless) 2010, stone veneer, enamel lacquer, oxidised silver, lead, coral cement  – Germany, Idar-Oberstein, Fachhochschule Trier

Agata Bartos – necklace Storytellers – Precious Buttons 2011, porcelain, epoxy resin  – Netherlands, Arnhem, ArtEZ

Bell Zhou – necklace Protect 2011, glass, silver, gems, paint, seed, copper, yellow plastic thread, steel  – Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology

Andrêa Martins - brooch Shadow of Truth 2011, silver, cord, fishing line  – Portugal, Senhora da Hora, ESAD

Marine Stampfli - bracelet Paradoxes 2011, silver, cotton, resin  – Switzerland, Geneva, HEAD

Satita Rojpojjanarat – brooch 2011, silk, nylon, magnet  – Italy, Florence, Alchimia, Scuola di Gioielleria

Hanna Liljenberg (MA) – brooch 2011, black paper, shellac, silver  – Sweden, Gothenburg, HDK

Alice Bo-Wen Chang (MFA) – necklace Bodyspace/bodyscape series 2011, silver, gold plated copper, copper  – UK, Edinburgh College of Art

Mariko Sumioka (BA) – necklace Bamboo Necklace 2011, oxidised copper, enamel on copper, kimono, gold-plated steel cable  – UK, Edinburgh College of Art

David Choi (MA) – brooch 2011, steel, oxidised silver  – USA, New Palz, State University of New York (SUNY)

Younghee Hong – brooch Drawn to Nature #2 2011, polymer filament, plastic price tags, silver – USA, Bloomfield Hills, Cranbrook Academy of Art

Anne Achenbach - necklace Kuh (Cow) 2011, zinc coated steel  – Germany, Dusseldorf, Fachhochschule

Sachiyo Higaki – necklace 2010, wood, thread  – Germany, Idar-Oberstein, Fachhochschule Trier

and ………..

Marcos Guzman (BA), Catherine Da Costa (BA), Inari Kiuru (BA), Bin Dixon-Ward (BA), from Australia, Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)  –  Marleen Henot, Sofie De Bakker, Hannes Groffy, from  Belgium, Hasselt, Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg — Ren Kai, Liu Xiao, from China, Beijing, Central Academy of Arts — Alena Hesounová, Karla Olsáková, from  Czech Republic, Prague, AAAD Academy of Art, Architecture and Design — Kadi Kübarsepp, Liina Lõõbas, Katrin Kosenkranius, Kadi Kübarsepp, from  Estonia, Tallinn, Eesti Kunstakadeemia — Krista Ruohonen, from Finland, Lappeenranta, South Carelia Polytechnic — Marie Masson, from France, Limoges-Aubusson, l’École Nationale Supérieure d’Art (ENSA) — Julie Connellan (MA), from  Ireland, Dublin, The National College of Art and Design (NCAD) — Laura Alvarado, Ricarda Tesch, from  Germany, Dusseldorf, Fachhochschule — Sabine Conrad, from Germany, Idar-Oberstein, Fachhochschule Trier –  Hyoun Jung Sung, from Germany, Halle, Burg Giebichenstein, Hochschule für Kunst und Design –  Stefan Heuser, from Germany, Munich, Akademie der Bildenden Künste — Laura Rittlinger (BA), Michaela Prange (BA), Yasutaka Okamura (BA), from Germany, Pforzheim, Fachhochschule — Yael Nissan, Rotem Fishler, from Israel, Ramat-Gan, Shenkar College of Engeneering and Design — Keren Grinfeld, Shir Pins, from Israel, Jerusalem, Bezalel — Carissa Hsu, from Italy, Florence, Alchimia, Scuola di Gioielleria — Makoto Tachihara, Koji Toyama, Haruka Masuda, from Japan, Tokyo, Hiko Mizuno College of Jewelry — Morgane de Klerk, Atsuno Takase, Benedikt Fischer, Marina Elenskaya, from Netherlands, Amsterdam, Rietveld Academie — Jie Sun, from Nederlands, Amsterdam, Sandberg Instituut — Iris Verstappen, from Netherlands, Maastricht, Academie Beeldende Kunsten — Jessica Winchcombe, Julia Middleton, from New Zealand, Porirua, Whitireia Polytechnic –  Ilse-Marie Erl, from New Zealand, Auckland, Aotearoa, Unitec — Typhaine Le Monnier (MA), Maria Emília Martinho (BA), from Portugal, Lisbon, AR.CO — Ji-hye Lee, Jihyun Lee, Heon-Joo Ji, Heejoo Kim, from South Korea, Seoul, Kookmin University — María Saura Estruch, María Sol González Martínez, from Spain, Barcelona, Escola Massana — Barbora Hainzová, from Slovakia, Bratislava, Academy of Fine Arts and Design — Malin Peter (BA), Xiang Dai (MA), Charlotte Maslov (BA), Mikael Sellersjö (MA), from Sweden, Gothenburg, HDK — Katrin Spranger (MA), from Sweden, Stockholm, Konstfack — Hannah Fewtrell-Bolton, Xiaohan Ren, from UK, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design BIAD — Jenny Laidlaw (MA), Vershali Jain (MA), from UK, Edinburgh College of Art — Ruth Reifen, Mariah Tuttle, from USA, Providence, RISD — Allyson Bone (MA), Allison Ullmer (MA), from USA, New Palz, State University of New York (SUNY) –

many mant THANKS to Gallery Marzee for their pictures !!!

Galerie Marzee
Lage Markt 3
6511 VK Nijmegen
The Netherlands

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The Graduation Show 2011 – Gerrit Rietveld academie, Amsterdam (NL) – 6-11 Juill 2011

Over 200 students from the departments Architectural Design, Fine Arts, VAV, Fashion, Textile, Ceramics, designLAB, Image&Language, Jewellery, Dogtime, Graphic Design and Photography will present their works to the public.

On Saturday July 9th the winners of the GRA Awards will be made public. An external jury will announce which students are the most remarkable ones of 2011.

From Jewellery department : 

• Atsuno Takase
• Benedikt Fischer
• Boris de Beijer
• Cath Doyle
• Marina Elenskaya
• Morgane de Klerk
• Nhat-Vu Dang
• Willemijn van der Sloot

Benedikt Fischer

Morgane de Klerk

Morgane de Klerk

Marina Elenskaya – graduation work 2011

Marina Elenskaya – Look: I’m Engaged! – bracelets -2009 – wood, spray paint

Boris de Beijer

Atsuno Takase

Catherine Doyle

Nhat-Vu Dang (voir VIDEO)

Willemijn van der Sloot
 

 

Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Frederik Roeskestraat 96
Amsterdam, Netherlands

COUP de … ROUGE avec Réka FEKETE

« In my work I use zinc plates as “building stones” by randomly sawing and assembling them. Each plate has its special texture, colour and shape. It connects my fascination for spaces and old objects. My recent work includes a collection of wearable objects made out of zinc, additional woven elements and lately I have started using paint and shrinking plastic. From these different materials spaces and imaginary figures arise.
Small details give the pieces character/personality. Details of a journey between inside-oudside, showing- hiding. The wearer decides what to show and what to hide. Who do you let in your world? »  (Réka FEKETE)

2005-2010 : Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Jewellery Design in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

EXPO / EXHIBITION Galerie Louise Smit : Space fragments 
27 Nov. 2010 – 13 Janv. 2011:  

Réka FEKETE -  Brooch ‘Red woven window’ – zinc , iron wire, textile, silver

Réka FEKETE -  Brooch ‘The horse of Don Quichot’ – zinc, silver, iron wire, paint, shrink plastic

Réka FEKETE -  Brooch ‘red window’ - zinc, iron wire, paint, silver

Réka FEKETE -  New red – brooch – zinc, iron wire, paint, silver

« In my work I use old etchingplates of other artists. These etchingplates are full of the marks, drawings and skrechtes that those artists made. Sometimes there is even some colour remains of the printing. The presence of history/time in the material brings us closer to the world of another, to a world that also could be ours. The tracks in the material are like the tracks that are left behind in a house by the occupant. By the obtained colour and patina personality and intimacy will arise.
Like a house tells the story of its occupant a jewel tells the story of the wearer without words. By wearing an object one can build up a more personal link with it.
You move together with the object, it becomes a part of yourself. »

 

B-Side Jewellery Festival, Amsterdam (NL) – 4-7 Nov. 2010

B-Side Downtown Jewellery Festival in Amsterdam.

B-side’s jewellery route is yellow and ready !

http://bsidefestival.wordpress.com/

download B side Festival Poster

 

 

* “A-MUZE” - If you’re looking for refreshment for your eyes, taste and mind, you’re more than welcome to visit us and our creations, exhibited spectacularly at the Muzenplein 2. A picturesque and breathtaking bridge house, built in the style of the ‘Amsterdamse school’ in the beautiful south of Amsterdam.

Fanny Agnier, Bas Bouman, Yu-Chun Chen, Jantje Fleischhut, Ursula Guttmann, Jeannette Jansen, Zsolt Kamaras, Beate Klockmann, Gitte Nygaard, Ulrich Reithofer, Nina Sajet, Philip Sajet, Cay Schröder, Q Hisashi Shibata, Dana Seachuga, Wouter Nieuwendijk

at  Muzenplein 2  -     open thursday-sunday 14:00-20:00

 

* We are very happy to announce you that the well-known jewellery artist Ruudt Peters is showing Lingam at B-side Festival. You can visit his works in an installation at Stout, Berenstraat 9 in Amsterdam between the 4th. and the 7th. of November.

 
Ruudt Peters - Lingam 1 – 200 x 160 x 170 mm, Glass, wood, foam, horn
Lingam 10 – 360 x 300 x 170 mm, Glass, wood, foam, malachite

 

 

* Min-Association : Noémie Doge (CH), Iris Tsante (GR), Maaike Ebbinge (NL)

min-association is a group of three jewellery makers that decided to join their strength and motivate each other within the field of artistic jewellery. The three studied together at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and graduated between 2007 and 2008. They enjoy to stay connected despite the fact that they don’t always live in the same country. With this exhibition they will show their joy of communication.

 at  Weteringschans 151  
open thursday-sunday 14:00-20:00

 

* students of Gerrit Rietveld’s Jewellery Department

on different location throughout the city of Amsterdam:
 - Sieraad Art fair: opening on the 4th. of November: 2am – 9pm
 - Rietveld Uncut at De Brakke Grond: 12th of November from 7 – 11pm & 13th of November from 1am – 11pm

“xxx Jewels”
The first thing you see when you arrive in Amsterdam Schiphol is a huge poster with a woman showing her bare breast.
‘Sex Sells’ is an overused concept.
Students of the Jewelry Department Het Sieraad of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie use this principle to show their work. They made collages combining pornography with their jewelry pieces. The explicit character of the pornography is transformed into a new image; a dialogue between body and jewel.
“xxx Jewels”, is a jewelry presentation in form of posters and a magazine.
The posters will be spread around the city during the time of the festival. The magazine is for sale and will be shown at the different locations of the B-side Festival; it also will be presented at the opening of the jewelry fair Sieraad, the 4th. of November between 2am and 9pm.

 

 

* Claire Baloge & Monika Zampa : “Stalagmite & Stalactite”

at 19 Pieter Jacobszstraat, (near Nes), Amsterdam
Open Thursday 18.00 – 21.00, Friday 14.00 – 20.00,
Saturday 14.00 – 20.00, Sunday 14.00 – 18.00

We invite the public to enter our private space, “cave”, where they can discover our personal world. Where not only jewellery is growing but also other forms and shapes of artistic expression take place. It is a continuous process of growth, like stalagmites and stalactites.

 

*  “Valuables – the weight of ideas”

Beatrice Brovia, Nicolas Cheng, Dana Hakim, Susanne Wolbers
at Keerpunt 12, Amsterdam 

(voir article  EXPO ‘VALUABLES – The weight of ideas’ – B-Side Jewellery Festival, Amsterdam (NL) – 4-7 Nov. 2010)

 

* Ursula Guttmann : “What Waiters Wear”

at Café de Jaren
Nieuwe Doelenstraat 20-22, Amsterdam
Relax with a cup of coffee at the great Café de Jaren and look at the jewellery objects worn by the waiters there.

Ursula Guttmann – ‘tatoo’
‘Container Sweetie’ – Latex, Nylon; latex, nylon, 2000 ( Photo: E. Grebe)

 

 

EXPO ‘Noon Passama’ – Galerie RA, Amsterdam (NL) – 18 Sept.-20 Oct. 2010

« Noon Passama from Thailand graduated this year in jewellery design from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. She is strikingly talented and professional in equal measure. As well as unique works, she designs and produces serial work and collections of fashion jewellery.
In this opening exhibition at Ra, she is showing a selection of her graduation work, supplemented by new pieces, as well as jewellery from her ‘Momento Mori’ and ‘Buttons’ collections. It is with great pride that I introduce such a promising young artist to the gallery ! »

brooch – fur, silver

new edition of the Extra Button. At Galerie RA

 

locket – horse skin

galerie RA
Paul DERREZ
NES 120
1012 KE Amsterdam (Nederland)
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Have a look at this blog : « Come Closer« , Rietveld jewellery Designers !

JOYA Barcelona 2010 – ECOLES/SCHOOLS/ESCUELAS – Premio ENJOIA’T

SCHOOLS presented at JOYA : 

ESCOLA ARSENAL
La Font 43
Vilafranca del Penedès
08720 Barcelona
Spain
www.arsenal.cat
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Creativity and thirst for innovation are and have always been essential attributes for developing any kind of professional activity. Arsenal Escola d’Art has always taught its students according to those teaching guidelines.
For more than 35, the School has been a place to learn, work experience and also research of new resources in the field of plastic arts and design.
Companies and institutions, both public and private, have taken advantage of the School since it is a place for creation deeply rooted in the region that provides ideas, designs and products that are given birth inside the School.

Alba Olivella

« Alba Olivella presenta su proyecto final para la escuela Arsenal: Reykjavik. El objetivo es realizar joyas a partir de la fotografía: mediante un estudio previo, Alba realiza una ficha informativa de cada encargo con los recuerdos, emociones y sentimientos que se desprenden de la imagen y hace una “joya abierta” con piezas extraíbles que conforman la colección. « 

ESCOLA D´ART DEL TREBALL
Comte d´Urgell 187
08036 Barcelona (Spain)
www.artdeltreball.cat
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 The “Escola d’Art del Treball” is a public local school located in the very centre of the Eixample in Barcelona (in the premises of the Escola Industrial) where courses on plastic arts and design are taught.
Its main goal is to provide the students with all necessary theoretical and task-related knowledge and to enhance their creative and conceptual abilities, as well as to offer them all the essential tools so as to enable them to develop a prospective professional career.
The School is an open space in touch with its environment and the current trends in art, as well as a place that stays engaged with the professional world.

Ingrid Ventura

 1999 Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts (Barcelona) – 2007 Design jewellery at the Escola d’Art del Treball.
She took part in a number of solo and collective exhibitions, the latest at the Museu del Càntir (Argentona, Spain).
Volume, body, overwhelmingness, expressiveness, heaviness, power… all these concepts are closely related to sculpture and transferred to jewellery. Ventura approaches the jewel as if it were a sculpture through combining iron with a precious metal. Iron stays inside silver and comes to the surface through roughness and rust. Then rust starts merging into the softness and brightness of silver.

Volumen, cuerpo, contundencia, expresividad, peso, fuerza… conceptos relacionados estrechamente con la escultura y traspasados a la joya. Ventura trabaja la pieza como si fuera una escultura mediante la combinación del hierro y el metal noble. El hierro está dentro de la plata y se manifiesta sobre ella a través de la rugosidad i el color del óxido que se va fusionando hasta dar paso a la suavidad i el brillo de la plata.

 

ESCOLA LLOTJA
Ciutat de Balaguer 17
08022 Barcelona
Spain
www.xtec.es/ea-llotja [e-mail]
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 Llotja Superior School of Art and Design is a public school that falls under the auspices of the Education Department of the Generalitat of Catalunya. Heir to the Escuela Gratuita de Diseño, established in 1715 by the Barcelona Board of Commerce, Llotja is the oldest school of design in Spain..
Its long history has resulted into a school of long tradition, which offers a wide range of specialties and educational levels, of subjects and theoretical, historical, technological, legal, experimental, project-based and practical modules, which make the Llotja Superior School of Art and Design one of the few examples of the interrelationship between different fields of knowledge and artistic creation.

 Aila Jubany

 

 

 » Aila Jubany studied jewellery at Escola Llotja. Awarded in the contest “Insignia del Maestro Artesano 2009” organized by Artesania Catalunya (2009). Travelling exhibition by Artesania Catalunya 2009-2010. Sirk Gener exhibibition at GenLlotja Hall (2009).
Sirk is the result of squeezing emotions, new and old pieces of knowledge, playing with materials and taking risks from an alternative point of view. Her work is inspired in the change that Cirque du Soleil introduced in the traditional patterns of circus: physically different but at the same time, aiming to fascinate the audience. Her pieces are big but also light and flexible, physically and visually, that create a space full of subtle movements, surrounded by light and colour. »

 

 

ESCOLA D´ART I DISSENY DE TARRAGONA
Ctra. De Valls s/n
Zona Educacional
43007 Tarragona
Spain
www.dipta.cat/eadt
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The Diputació de Tarragona has been giving its support to artistic education for more than 60 years, providing a range of services to many people that has been and are indeed showing interest towards artistic creation and design.
The School provides the students with a wide range of conceptual, visual, technical and artistic aspects that are essential to understand an increasingly demanding and unstable World.
Its identity is built on the basis of working hand by hand with the students, thirst for experimentation and meeting job market demands regarding art and design.

Maria Teresa PIÉ

Maria teresa Pié decided to change her life at the age of 50 and start studying jewellery at the EADT in Tarragona. Since then, she has participated in the photography exhibition of the Diputació de Tarragona in 2007, in Inhorgenta fair in Munich in 2007and 2008 and the Sebima Fair in Mahón (Spain) in 2007 among other events.
Maria Teresa took her inspiration from the four seasons of the Mediterranean countries (spring, summer, autumn and winter) and also the music that Antonio Vivaldi created on the same topic to build her work, which adds certain artistic power to her work.

 

Setmana de la Joieria Contemporània de Barcelona

Dolors Serveto, alumna del taller de joieria, ha estat convidada a participar a “Joyas à la carte”, la plataforma de la Setmana de la Joieria Contemporània de Barcelona que presenta artistes nous al costat de consagrats. Els responsables d’aquest certamen van escollir el projecte final de Serveto per la versatilitat del seu disseny, per la innovació tècnica del mecanisme, per la originalitat de la col·lecció i pels acabats.

 

Per altra banda, la peça Joies en moviment d’Eva Ortín va ser finalista dels Premis Enjoia’t que organitza Orfebres-FAD. Ortín, que ha cursat 1r curs de Joieria Artística, es va inspirar en fotografies d’Edward Muybridge per a la realització del seu disseny.

La Setmana de Joieria Contemporània de Barcelona és l’esdeveniment més rellevant a Catalunya pel que fa a joieria contemporània

 

 

PREMIO ENJOIA’T  / Awards :

Enjoia’t is an activity born 15 years ago with the intention of spreading among the general public, the world of contemporary jewellery making. It is an initiative aimed at giving support and diffusion to the younger generations of emergent creators and to grant recognition to professionals.
It has been, from its origins, a launching platform for many designers since it has awarded them  recognition for their work as well as establishing links with relevant companies in the jewellery making industry.
This event, which is held annually, is the only initiative of its kind in Spain, which strives to diffuse the art of jewellery and encourage fair practices among its creators.
Applicants for the Students Award are Catalina Gibert (Spain, 1973), Olga Vilarrasa (Spain, 1984), María Liliana Ruiz (Colombia, 1974), Begoña Prats (Spain, 1977), Dalia Jurado (Spain, 1979), Almudena Díaz (Spain, 1986), Edu Tarín (Spain, 1984), Aline Berdichevsky (Mexico, 1977), Carolina Martínez (Colombia, 1982), Eva Ortín-Alpiste (Spain, 1984), Jordi Aparicio (Spain, 1982), Laura Gualda (Spain, 1982) and María Díez (Spain, 1980);

and artists applying for the Professional Award are Anna Puig (Spain, 1979), Luís Acosta (Argentina, 1952), Emanuela Deyanova (Netherlands, 1979), Sara Engberg (Sweden, 1969), Nuria Torrente (Spain, 1973) and Marie Niel (France, 1982).

Pamela Pérez Masferrer -  Enjoia´t 2009 Student Award Winner

Pamela Masferrer discovered the jewellery world almost by chance at Massana school thanks to professor Ramon Puig Cuyas and was granted an Erasmus scholarship to study at Escuela Superior de Artes e Design in Porto.
Until now her research has focused on identity and the search for the “self”, analysing the borders between reality and unreality.
Although she is still very young, she has exhibited her work in “La Capella” at Escola Massana (2005), in Artesania Catalunya (2009) and recently with the workgroup Off Massana at Poble Espanyol, through which she obtained a postgraduate scholarship. She has worked in London and nowadays she is established in Barcelona and works for the designer Nuria Ruiz.

Marie-José Hoeboer – Enjoia´t 2009 Professional Award Winner

Marie-José Hoeboer has been creating design jewellery ever since 1991, the year she graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
She uses a wide range of materials and techniques to create surprising jewels. Her works have been exhibited in many galleries, mainly in the Netherlands although also internationally.
The jewellery piece for which she has been awarded with the professional Award in the last edition of ENJOIA’T is a ring with 650 brilliant cut diamonds « sugar ring », her first work with shiny stones and the most successful.