Schmuck der Südlichen Hemisphäre / Jewellery from the Southern Hemisphere
Galerie Handwerk – opening 12. März 2025, 19 Uhr / 12 March 2025, 7pm
Max-Joseph-Straße 4, Eingang Ottostraße, 80333 München
From the Galerie Handwerk flyer:
We are celebrating ‘Southern Hemisphere Spring’ in Munich! Parallel to the major retrospective of the New Zealand jewellery artist Warwick Freeman at Die Neue Sammlung- The Design Museum, we are presenting jewellery by artists from the Southern Hemisphere. Works from Australia, the Pacific Islands and Aotearoa New Zealand will travel to us and we will show you an exciting range of jewellery made from man-made and locally sourced materials that celebrates and renews traditions. Our aim is to show a world of jewellery that is largely unknown in Europe. An exciting range of diverse works created under different conditions and cultural contexts: Jewellery from representatives of the First Nations to artistic jewellery with Western influences, which explores pressing social issues and whose aesthetics have been honed in intensive discussions, through visits to exhibitions or international universities. The colourful works inspire us and show that the path to each other via jewellery is very short. We show internationally renowned stars and delve into the depths of the scene. In our Galerie Handwerk, we have been fostering this cultural exchange for many years with themes such as ‘Treasure Room Australia’ and ‘Wunderruma’.
We would like to thank the Australian Design Centre, Sydney, for their constructive and trusting collaboration across vast distances. Lisa Cahill, the director, in collaboration with the artist Helen Britton, has selected a contribution full of intensity. Big thanks also go to the Director of the Dowse Museum in Lower Hutt, Karl Chitham and his dedicated team. He curated marvellous works from Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific Islands from the museum‘s collection. The New Zealand Ambassador H.E. Craig John Hawke will be the patron and will open the exhibition with us.
As mentioned, I’m going to be in Munich tomorrow night for the opening (currently coming to you live from a hotel room in Zürich) alongside what I’m reliably informed will be a large contingent of Ao/NZ jewellers. My first trip to Schmuck back in 2011 was at the same time as Fran Allison, Alan Preston and a decent supporting southern cohort, so I’m looking forward to catching up with them again 😉
