CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY

Every two years, jewellery objects by contemporary artists are exhibited in the MAK Metal Study Collection. Once again the Austrian jewellery art is explored in the context of fashion and design - this time by means of the twenty works shortlisted for the “Elegius Jewellery Award of the Federal State of Salzburg” 2010. A chance the MAK was able to use with the assumption of an exhibition originally shown at Salzburg’s Galerie im Trakelhaus. Some of the artists - including award winner Petra Zimmer as well as Sonja Bischur, Andrea MAXA Halmschlager, Gabriele Kutschera, Margareta Niel, Kurt Rudolf and Ina Seidl - are already represented in the collection of the MAK.
Also on view will be works by Elisabeth Altenburg, Andrea Auer, Susanne Blin, Lioba-Angela Buttinger, Agnes Czifra, Petr Dvorak, Ursula Guttmann, Beatrix Kaufmann, Doris Maninger, Martina Mühlfellner, Ulrich Reithofer, Melanie Sinnhofer and Claudia Steiner.

On Thursday, 2 December, 5pm, Elisabeth Schmuttermeier, MAK Cuartor Metal and Wiener Werkstätte Archive will guide visitors through the exhibition as part of MAK’s Experts guide tours.