EXPO ‘Lina Peterson : Imagined Objects of Desire’ – Röhsska Museet, Gothenburg (Sweden) – 11 Oct.-4 Dec. 2011

Lina Peterson: Imagined Objects of Desire

The  pieces made for the exhibition were made between March and August 2010 as part of a museumaker commission for the University of Nottingham Museum of  Archaeology. They were inspired by objects from the museum’s  collection, which holds a wide variety of artefacts covering a 500 000 year  period.
I chose to work with both beautifully preserved pieces on display in the museum  and with unrecognisable fragments kept in the museum’s basement. The museum objects help us understand the lives of our ancestors, but they can  also confuse and lead us astray. I was interested in highlighting this  idea of the unknown and the feeling of discovery associated with archaeology. By placing my objects next to the museum pieces it is my hope that the viewer will look at the museum artefacts in a different light  and to take a deeper interest in them.
The  final objects are what I call ‘hybrid-artefacts’, part ancient, part new. I hope that they are intriguing, humorous and playful, with each piece in a sense a collaboration between the original maker and myself.
Lina Peterson, September  2010

Lina Peterson – Necklace: Imagined Objects of Desire 2010 – Bronze, painted wood, acrylic, enamel on silver, thread

Lina Peterson – Brooch: Imagined Objects of Desire 2010 – Brass, wool, silk thread

 

Lina Peterson creates objects of desire using archaeological fragments
The University of Nottingham Museum holds archaeological artefacts from the Palaeolithic age to the Post Medieval period, excavated in the East Midlands and from the Mediterranean. They reflect the everyday lives of people, including jewellery, hairpins, Roman shoes; and a Roman pottery collection of international significance. 
Lina Peterson created imaginative pieces of contemporary jewellery, ‘hybrid-objects’, taking the University’s collections as a starting point. The pieces were both thoughtfully researched and playful. Lina’s items were replicas of ancient objects, with contemporary additions. She worked with beautifully preserved artefacts on display in the University of Nottingham Museum and also with incomplete fragments, often with an unknown function, from the stores. Lina took casts from the originals to recreate them in bronze and silver, using the lost-wax technique. She then added new elements in a variety of materials. Exhibited in cases beside the ancient objects that inspired them, the work that Lina produced offers a new and individual interpretation of items in this museum.
The University of Nottingham Museum was named Museum of the Year 2010 at the annual Nottinghamshire Renaissance Heritage Awards. The awards are held annually and supported by Renaissance East Midlands. The Museum of the Year is awarded to a museum that has excelled in all areas of museum work and development. The University Museum was also shortlisted for the best exhibition, best event, and for its work with children and young people in the county.
Lina exhibited her project alongside pieces for sale at Lustre the annual Craft Fair at the Lakeside Art Gallery on the same campus at Nottingham University as the museum. Lakeside has been an active partner with the Museum in the museumaker project. Lina held two workshops on 13 and the 14 November during Lustre at Lakeside arts centre. Most of the participants had no previous experience of jewellery making and only two of the participants had heard of or visited the museum before. The sessions worked well as a quick induction to simple jewellery making techniques that could be carried on at home and gave the participants new skills and confidence in using them.
During Lustre Lina was also invited by CraftNet to talk with Lesley Beale from Lakeside about the museumaker commission: 20 craft curators.
The Objects of Desire commission will travel to Sweden to be exhibited at one of the main Museums of decorative arts, the Rohsska Museum in Gothenburg, in 2011.

 

Röhsska Museet
Vasagatan 37 – 39
411 37 – Gothenburg
Sweden
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EXPO ‘Animalia’ – Two little birds galleri, Göteborg (SE) – 24 Sept.-19 Oct. 2011

Lisa Björke visar sin nya smyckeserie « Animalia » i Two little birds galleri

Lisa Björke- Animalia objects

« Is there a borderline between reality and fantasy? Can we tell the difference?
Is it straight or floating, vague or sharp?
What is real and what is not? Do we really need to know?
….
The pieces can be seen as a micro cosmos on the border. They represent a portal to either of the two worlds – the real or the fantasy world. Only if I dare cross the border and drop the control, I can start a travel within the mind to a land where reality and dream blend in with each other and the order of things is subverted and unpredictable.
Enjoy your journey!«   (Konstfack degree exhibition 2010)

Lisa Björke

 

Two Little Birds, Café och Konsthantverk
Andra Långgatan 5, 413 03 Göteborg, Sweden
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031-12 12 60
http://www.twolittlebirds.se

EXPO ‘Märta Mattsson: Rebirth’ – Four, Göteborg (Sweden) – 24 Sept.-15 Oct. 2011

Four is proud to present jewellery artist Märta Mattsson. Her exceptional skill to find balance on the edge between the beautiful and the disgusting has made her work well known internationally.

« Sometimes I see beauty in things that other people find strange or are even repulsed by. I become fascinated when there is something you do not want to see and the feeling you get when you do not want to look at something, yet you still do. My jewellery deals with the tension that lies between attraction and repulsion. I take seemingly inappropriate materials, making ordinary and familiar objects seem extraordinary and unfamiliar.« Märta Mattsson

In the 18th century many new breeds of animals and plants were discovered and it was the main era of cabinets of curiosities. People collected rarities because it gave them the feeling of being in the presence of something extraordinary and marvellous. The cabinets of curiosities were not meant to sympathize with the creatures on display, only marvel over their oddity. In a world where not many new and exotic breeds are discovered I use dead creatures in my pieces to evoke wonder. The creatures are transformed and reborn; given a new life as objects of astonishment.

Märta Mattsson – Brooch: Fossil 2011 – Cicadas, crushed copper ore, azurit and malakit, silver, From the series ‘Fossil’

Märta Mattsson – Fossil Brooch – Moths, crushed copper ore, azurit, resin, silver – From the series ‘Fossil’

Märta Mattsson – earrings From the series ‘Inside’ – Copper electroformed beetle, cubic zirconias, lacquer, silver

Märta Mattsson – brooch: Brown ‘beetle’ From the series ‘Inside’ – 2011 – Electroformed Rhino beetle, lacquer, cubic zirconias, silver

Märta Mattsson – necklace Fossil 2011 – crushed pyrite, resin, cicadas, silver, From the series ‘Fossil’

 

 

Four
Nordhemsgatan 74
41309 – Göteborg
Sweden
website: www.foursweden.com
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EXPO ‘THE RING – jewel forever’ – Hnoss Gallery, Gothenburg (Sweden) – 9 Sept.-9 Oct. 2011

THE RING – the most common piece of jewellery can be full of meaning, a personal statement sometimes showing itself as a technical miracle or purely decorative and beautiful. It can demand attention, be an invitation to play, be filled with tears and secrets – and is to be worn for one day or for ever.
In homage to the ring Galleri Hnoss has invited all the jewellery artists exhibited in the gallery since the start in 1997 to produce one ring each. The result is now to be seen in the exhibition THE RING – jewel forever. The show consisting of over one hundred rings is a vibrant collection of different expressions, thoughts and forms

In connection with the exhibition on September 9 we are also arranging aseminar : The Ring – jewel forever. The theme is the ring seen from different perspectives. We are very proud to announce the speakers: Anna Schetelich from Galerie Oona, Germany, Professor Otto Kunzli, Germany, and Manuel Vilhena, jewellery artist from Portugal. Moderator is Love Jönsson, crafts critic and guest lecturer at HDK, University of Gothenburg. The seminar is a collaboration between Galleri Hnoss and the Department of Jewellery Art at HDK, with support from Gothenburg Crafts Association, Estrid Ericsson’s Foundation, Wilhelm and Martina Lundgren Fund, and the family Wikanders Foundation.

Artist list:
Ingierd Hanevold, Norway — Lena Bergestad–Jonsson, Sweden — Per Suntum, Denmark — Kim Buck, Denmark — Christer G. Jonsson, Sweden — Peter De Wit, Sweden — Otto Künzli, Germany — Andreas Treykorn, Germany — Verena Siber-Fuchs, Swizerland — Margareth Sandström, Sweden — Karin Johansson, Sweden – Sigurd Bronger, Norway — Esther Knobel, Israel — Tore Svensson, Sweden — Anette Kraen, Denmark — Beppe Kessler, Netherlands — Mona Wallström, Sweden — Ari Turunen, Finland — Synnøve Korssjøen, Norway — Konrad Mehus, Norway — Onno Boekhoudt, Netherlands — Ulrika Swärd, Sweden — Rian de Jong, Netherlands — Christoph Zellweger, Switzerland — Helena Lehtinen, Finland — Helena Sandström, Sweden — Jamie Bennett, USA — Lotta Åström, Sweden — Karen Ihle/ Jens Eliasen, Denmark — Johanna Dahm, Switzerland — Petra Schou, Sweden — Adam Paxon, Scotland — Bruce Metcalf, USA — Eva Dora Lamm, Denmark — Ruudt Peters, Netherlands — Barbara Paganin, Italy — Kasia Gasparski, Denmark — Annelies Planteydt, Netherlands — Kadri Mälk, Estonia — Lena Olson, Sweden — Tarja Tuppanen, Finland — Manuel Vilhena, Portugal — Castello Hansen, Denmark/Sweden — Gijs Bakker, Netherlands — Cecilia Johansson, Sweden — Gunilla Grahn, Sweden — Vera Siemund, Germany — Karl Fritsch, Germany — Nel Linssen, Netherlands — Margaret West, Australia — Lars Sture, Norway — Kerstin Ringedal, Sweden — Fabrice Schaefer, Switzerland — Lucy Sarneel, Netherlands — Elise-Ann Hochlin, Norway — Georg Dobler, Germany — Katja Prins, Netherlands — Ramon Puig Cuyás, Spain — Xavier Monclús, Spain — Mah Rana, England — Peter Bauhuis, Germany — Silke Trekel, Germany — Terhi Tolvanen Finland/Netherlands — Svenja John, Germany — Jivan Astflack, England — Anna Unsgaard, Sweden — Charlotte Sinding, Sweden — Sonia Morel, Switzerland — Pia Aleborg, Sweden — Marc Monzó, Spain — Andi Gut, Switzerland — Anna Martinsson, Sweden — Ulrich Reithofer, Austria/Netherlands — Peter Hoogeboom, Netherlands — Mari Ishikawa, Japan/Germany — Annika Åkerfelt, Sweden — Karin Seufert, Germany — Peter Scubic, Austria — Lina Petersson, Sweden/England — Sara Borgegård, Sweden — Erik Kuiper, Netherlands — Ineke Heerkens, Netherlands — Bettina Speckner, Germany — Sebastian Buescher, England/Tyskland — Warwick Freeman, New Zealand — Iris Neuwenburg, Netherlands — Jiro Kamata, Germany/Japan — Anne-Marie Bernhardt, Sweden — Hanna Hedman Sweden — Lin Cheung, England — Bas Bouman, Netherlands — Birgit Laken, Netherlands — Norman Weber, Germany — Gemma Draper, Spain — Kristi Paap, Estonia — Alexander Blank, Germany — Klara Brynge, Sweden — Mia Maljojoki, Finland/Germany — Jenny Klemming Sweden — Jantje Fleischhut, Netherlands — Mikiko Minewaki, Japan — Carolina Claesson, Sweden — Linda Marie Karlsson, Sweden — Maria Ylander, Sweden — Åsa Christensson Sweden

Onno Boekhoudt (NL) – ring – Mixed media

Peter Hoogeboom  –  Bruce Metcalf  

 Jiro Kamata  –  Gijs Bakker

Ramon Puig Cuyas  —   Ruudt Peters

Bettina Speckner –  Johanna Dahm

Marc Monzo  –  Synnove Korssjoen

Jenny Klemming  –  Nel Linssen

Annika Åkerfelt  –    Katja Prins

Barbara Paganin  –  Ineke Heerkens

Fabrice Schaefer  —   Birgit Laken

Beppe Kessler  –   Christoph Zellweger

 

Esther Knobel  —   Hanna Hedman

Anette Kræn  –  Kim Buck

Manuel Vilhena  —   Lena Olson

Mia Maljojoki  —   Otto Künzli

Mari Ishikawa  –  Petra Schou

Sigurd Bronger  —   Terhi Tolvanen

Rian de Jong  --  Verena Sieber-Fuchs

 
Tore Svensson  —   Kerstin Ringedal

Andreas Treykorn  —   Andi Gut

Carolina Claesson  –  Charlotte Ho Sook Sinding

Annelies Planteydt  –  Castello Hansen

Ingjerd Hanevold  –  Eva Dora Lamm

Helena Sandström  –  Helena Lehtinen

Jens Eliasen  –  Kare Ihle

Kristi Paap  –  Mona Wallstöm

Lucy Sarneel  —   Jivan Astfalck

Lina Peterson  –  Karin Seufert

Lotta Åström  —   Kasia Gasparski

Mikiko Minewaki  —   Linda Marie Karlsson

Norman Weber  —   Per Suntum

Pia Aleborg  —   Silke Trekel

Peter Bauhuis  —   Peter de Wit

Sara Borgegård Älgå  —   Tarja Tuupanen

Erik Kuiper —   Xavier Monclús

Kadri-Mälk  —   Ulrika Swärd

Anne-Marie-Bernhardt  —   Alexander Blank

Georg Dobler   —   Peter Skubic

Jantje Fleischhut  –  Adam Paxon

Gemma Draper  –  Lin Cheung

Hnoss Gallery
Konstepidemin
413 14 – Gothenburg
Sweden
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EXPO ‘Four: One of a Kind’ – Four, Göteborg (Sweden) – 3-18 Sept. 2011

Four is turning one year old. It has been a year full of experiences, new acquaintances and a lot of jewellery.  To celebrate we are showing 10 rings made by 10 jewellers especially for this occasion.

Welcome to celebrate our birthday with us.

 

Participants:
Lisa Björke, Linnea Eriksson, Ellen Jacobsen Holvik, Hanna Liljenberg, Malin Lövgren, Nina Mårtensson, Pernilla Persson, Anna Rongedal, Karin Roy Andersson, Sanna Svedestedt

Linnea Eriksson – ring: Spread 2011 – Steel, silver, spray paint

Karin Roy Andersson – ring: Matrix 2011 – Silver, titanium

Hanna Liljenberg – ring 2011 – Iron 

 

Four
Nordhemsgatan 74
41309 – Göteborg
Sweden
website: www.foursweden.com
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EXPO ‘FOUR Escapes’ – Lilla Galleriet, Klädesholmen (Sweden) – 2-3 Juill. 2011

Summer is here – time for escapes
Lilla Galleriet was founded in  2009 by Lisa Holvik and has since then regularly been showing exhibitions. Klädesholmen is situated north of Göteborg. It is a beautiful island with its characteristic penurious west coast scenery.
Changing location, breaking the everyday rhythm – getting exposed to unfamiliar situations and aesthetics. For a routine addicted person like me this can, at first, be quite frightening but once the first few steps are taken; there is nothing like a short escape.

- Karin Roy Andersson :
« I want to captivate the magic in nature forms by creating a space in between and inside of my jewellery. By repeating small pieces, like microscopic cells, I build structures and miniatures of nature »

- Malin Lövgren :
« Inspired by the beautiful brutality of nature I want to give shape to my own growth. A paper made vegetation to put on your body. I see a beauty in being able to give my time to this fragile and ordinary material and make it into something present and portable. »

 

Participants:
Ellen Jacobsen Holvik – Hanna Liljenberg — Malin Lövgren — Karin Roy Andersson

 

Hanna Liljenberg - brooch: Paper Work 2011Paper, silver, steel

Hanna Liljenberg -  Pieces of sleep

Hanna Liljenberg -   brooch

Malin Lövgren – ‘captivate’

Karin Roy Andersson-  ‘bomb’  rings, silver, pearlsilk

Karin Roy Andersson- Black Creature, bracelet, silver, titanium

Karin Roy Andersson- Chaos II, necklace, silver, pearl thread

Ellen Jacobsen Holvik  – In my dreams – 2010

Ellen Jacobsen Holvik  -Air – 2010 – Rings and pendants in blackburned iron and enamel.

 

 

 

 

Lilla Galleriet
Skomakaregatan 33
471 51 – Klädesholmen
Sweden
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COUP de COEUR : Malin LÖVGREN

Malin LÖVGREN
HDK konsthantverk (Université de Göteborg, Suede) – smyckekonst (section bijou)
« Une réunion, un événement, un moment qui est passé, tout cela sont des mots. Les mots sont souvent les pensées et les réflexions sur notre existence. Préoccupations qui forment souvent la base de mon travail.  Il s’agit de savoir qui je suis, d’où je viens, où je vais, ce que je fais, à voir et à faire preuve de vigilance. Je suis à la recherche d’un équilibre entre le matériel et le mental, le poétique et le fonctionnel. Mes bijoux sont conçus pour le corps et le porteur. Cela parle de la répétition, des roulements et des dimensions qui composent l’ensemble.  »
quels matériaux utilisez-vous ?
« Je travaille avec des bas de nylon, de l’argent, de la porcelaine, et des perles.« 

Elle fait partie du groupe « FOUR »

Malin Lövgren, Ring – silver – 2011

Malin Lövgren – Brooch

EXPO ‘Tanel Veenre – Paradise regained’ – PLATINA Gallery, Stockholm (SE) – 21 Mai-18 Juin 2011

 Tanel Veenre – Paradise regained
Opening night Saturday 21st May 2011, 16-19

« There are moments when one experiences a feeling of exceptional clarity. Everything instantly seems possible and, for a time, all the threads of doubt weave together to form an invincible rope of conviction, able to carry even the heaviest of burdens. The entire world and every single universe combined can be fastened to that rope.
That is Paradise regained. »

Platina welcomes Tanel Veenre to his first solo exhibition, Paradise regained, in the gallery. The exhibition has previously been shown in Tallin (Gallery Marz) and in Munich (Historische Baumaterialien).
Tanel Veenre was born into an art and music loving family. His city grandfather played piano in cafes and accordion at home, his other grandfather from Põlva County played the Estonian zither. His father and brother are violinists. But Tanel Veenre didn’t become a musician eventhough the music plays a roll in his works. Instead, he found a path that his mother would have perhaps chosen if life had been different- to create visual art. He decided to enrol in the jewellery programme at the Academy of Arts. These studies led him to Kadri Mälk, who taught him to see the big picture – the biggest picture.
With that in mind Tanel Veenre has developed a very personal style, not like any other. To wear his jewellery is to step into another world in which reality is erased and becomes a dreamy landscape. His collection of jewellery is like a collection of poems. No wonder he got great success worldwide. « Jewellery is crystallized poetry, a precious, compact genre with a finelyhoned vocabulary of patterns. Spare but taut. Art requires to be oneeis own storyteller.
Jewellery is a triumph of the imagination; the world of two people – the artist and the spectator – that has congealed, for an instant, into one.«  -Tanel Veenre

Tanel Veenre lives and works in Estonia as a freelance jewellery artist. He has also worked as a fashion and advertisement photographer, fashion editor of « Eesti Ekspress », editor-in-chief of cultural magazine « Muusa » and cultural editor of « Eesti Päevaleht ». Tanel Veenre is working since 2005 as a teacher in Estonian Academy of Arts.

 

Tanel Veenre – Heart cross

Tanel Veenre -  Ametist necklace         —            « Majestic »

Tanel Veenre – « LesFleurs du mal »   —        « Arrival »  —            « Winter »
 

 

PLATINA
Odengatan 68
Stockholm, Sweden

EXPO ‘Ozay Emert’ – Galleri Sintra, Göteborg (SE)- 7-31 mai 2011

Ozay Emert solo exhibition at Galleri Sintra, Göteborg

Özay Emert draws inspiration from her Turkish cultural heritage. As a starting point she focused on objects used by Sufi dervishes during their meditation. Sufism is a mystical movement that emerged from Islam seeking divine love.
« I have chosen the meditation tools because of their aesthetic value. I think our preoccupation with material rather than spiritual things has made us neglect to appreciate the beauty of religion. »

Özay Emert – brooch: Either seem as you are or be as you seem 2008 Oxidized silver, coral beads, silk thread – (Photos by Johannes Holmberg  )

Özay Emert – brooch: Either seem as you are or be as you seem 2008 Oxidized silver

 

 

Galleri Sintra, Göteborg (SE)
SINTRA KONSTHANTVERK
Landsvägsgatan 5,
413 04Göteborg
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EXPO ‘Mikiko Minewaki, Japan’ – Galleri Hnoss, Göteborg (Sweden) – 7-29 Mai 2011

Gallery Hnoss proudly presents the Japanese jewellery artist Mikiko Minewaki.

Mikiko Minewaki was born in Akita, Japan in 1967 and is currently living and working in Tokyo. Her work has been exhibited throughout Europe, including at Schmuck jewellery fair in Munich and in the exhibition Contemporary Japanese Jewellery at the Crafts Council Gallery in London.

Mikiko Minewaki is one of the pioneers of the new Japanese jewellery art scene. Untouched by trends, she stood outside the Modernist tendencies in Japan in the 1980s and has instead always been closer to a Japanese craft tradition in which the making process is more important than the concept and theory.

Mikiko Minewaki bases her work on mass produced plastic products that she finds and put together into new forms. In this way, she shows that unique jewellery can come from everyday materials, the invisible objects that surround us. She believes that in every shape and form lies an opportunity. You just have to find it, pick it out and make it your own.

Gallery Hnoss will show Kids Room, a series of jewellery inspired and partly made up of fragments from children’s discarded toys.

The exhibition runs until 29 May

Mikiko Minewaki- ‘toy-camera’ necklace

 

 

Galleri Hnoss
Konstepidemins väg 6
413 14 Göteborg, Sweden
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