Contemporary Jewellery

Gijs Bakker recently developed the MASieraad foundation that initiated Challenging Jewellery; a temporary Master’s at the Sandberg Instituut. TLmag caught up with Bakker to talk about the programme in the current changing field of design.

TLmag caught up with Betty de Stefano, founder of Brussels based Collectors Gallery, to get her take on Belgian style and innovation in contemporary jewellery making.

Galerie Marzee’s latest exhibition features jewellery collections of and works by the gallery’s artists and close friends. TLmag sat down with founder Marie-José van den Hout to learn more about Marzee’s oeuvre, ethos, and the person behind it all.

The design studio collaborated with the jewellery house and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris to create When Elegance Meets Art, an exhibition in Beijing’s Today Art Museum

Brussels’ Collectors Gallery is presenting Zero Carat, a line of sculptural, fantasy-like jewellery devised by the French polymath

Organised by the WCC•BF, Françoise Vanderauwera for Belgium, Brune Boyer for France and Sofia Björkman for Sweden are the three curators for this sixth edition of the European Triennial for Contemporary Jewellery. Discover their highlighted pieces on show until 4 February at Les Anciens Abattoirs in Mons.

Christa Reniers designs jewellery with one person in mind: herself. And yet, some of her pieces have become timeless classics for women of several generations. How come?