NEO-GEMSTONES
12.-15.3.2025
Vernissage
11.3./ 17 Uhr- 21 Uhr
Dachauer Straße 54
Öffnungszeiten
12.-15.3. / 11-18 Uhr
special:
Sa/Sat 15.03./ 11-12:30
Talk by writer and academic Julia Wild, crystal grower Daniel Rytz and jewellery artist Sofie Boons
Die Ausstellung NEO-GEMSTONES ist ein Kooperationsprojekt von Sofie Boons von der University of the West of England in Bristol mit jungen Künstler:innen des GABRIELE SPACE, dem KÜR und Studierendender Hochschule Trier im Fachbereich Edelstein und Schmuck und ist Teil der Munich Jewellery Week.
We live in a material world, where some are deemed desirable, genuine, and useful, and others are dismissed as cheap, fake, and disposable.
Inspired by the themes investigated in Sofie Boons’ practice-based research on Neo-gemstones, this exhibition centres the practice of urban mining, transmutational re-use and the social construct of value to provoke.
When waste rubies can be grown in-situ in jewellery, garnets can be engineered to glow in the dark and diamonds can be mined from industry to bling things, shouldn’t we look beyond labels and rethink what we consider unvaluable?
Positioning Sofie’s artistic outcomes in conversation with the work of students and starting artists of the Department of Gemstone and Jewellery TUAS, GABRIELE SPACE and KÜR Project, you are invited to inspect these objects as productive objections and expand your own material-realisations.
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open studios @GABRIELE SPACE am 25.5. / 15-18 Uhr
