Curator
Norman Weber, jewellery artist and artistic director of the vocational school for glass and jewellery in Neugablonz/Kaufbeuren, was able to select from more than 600 applications for 2024.
He selected 61 works by artists from 23 countries for the SCHMUCK 2024.
“I was totally impressed by the incredible variety and creativity of the works submitted,” he says. His selection for the exhibition reflects the broad spectrum of jewellery art.
Winners of the Herbert-Hofmann-Prize 2024
Azin Soltani, Iran
In the formal language of architecture, the artist refers to the current situation of global insecurity. The classically set brick hides the view of the vibrancy of its painted reverse side. We see the façade and share the longing for colour and we know: Our lives all too often split into an inside and outside.
Empar Juanes Sanchis, Spain
Her works with stone claim that it takes no effort to work grown stone as if it would never break, as if it would offer no resistance to reveal its inherent beauty. In this transcendence of the material, an elementary volcanic rock finds elegance and unexpected dynamism. The stone appears to adopt the language of form and does not subordinate itself to the formal thinking of our expectations of heaviness.
Takayoshi Terajima, Japan
Your own portrait is created by an imaging AI. Traditional hand-crafted engraving turns it into a sparkling ornament. The oval shape refers to the classic portrait of the bourgeoisie. The works reflect a technological revolution that will change our society more than any innovation before.
Winner of the Bavarian State Prize 2024
Georg Dobler, “Moon + Satelite” pin ornament
Georg Dobler measures geometric space, conquers the moon, analyses flora and discovers minerals. These impulses coagulate under his hands into wearable and signaling jewellery. As a professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Hildesheim, he inspired generations with his view of things. We honour him for his life’s work.
Michael Berger, Kinetic pin-on jewellery
The kinetic objects create unseen light effects when in motion. The technically sophisticated and ingenious works captivate with their form, movement and play of light.
