»BEYOND ADORNMENT – A Korean-Austrian Contemporary Jewellery Showcase«

Eröffnung: 27.5.2024, 16.00 Uhr; Ausstellung bis 28.7.2024 Seoul Museum of Craft Art, 4 Yulgok-ro 3-gil, Jongno-District, Seoul,

Ausstellungsbeteiligung von Andrea Auer, Elisabeth Altenburg, Ursula Guttmann, Beatrix Kaufmann, Ina Seidl; 
Co-Kuratorin: Ursula Guttmann

Beyond Adornmen presents contemporary jewellery as a vehicle for powerful voices in the midst of social chaos and absence of communication. 
During global crises such as climate change and pandemic risks, mankind has had to reassess the significance of materialistic value and communication. As we become non-materialistic and emotionally isolated in a society divided into excess and shortage, outrage and indifference, there is a need to stimulate our dried up emotions and observe new potentials arising in jewellery as an alternative medium for communication. 
Once confined to the role of elevating beauty or symbolizing wealth and power, jewellery has now been established as an art form that has a voice of art, philosophy, and society. This exhibition introduces the experiments of various forms and conceptual avant-garde in contemporary jewellery of Korea and Austria. On exhibit are works by 111 artist/artist teams that embody observations of different relations with the body, the use of nature for imagery, and various discourses on time and space. We hope this exhibition becomes an opportunity to experience contemporary jewellery not only as an ornament, but also an art form that epitomizes the identity and characteristic of both the artist and wearer.  
craftmuseum.seoul.go.kr/eng/exhibit