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Die Neue Sammlung Presents
Hook Hand Heart Star, Warwick Freeman, Solo Exhibition / Mindful Meaning, Kookmin Universität in Seoul, Group Exhibition / Engelhorn Schmuck, Caroline Broadhead, Lecture
Pinakothek der Moderne, Barer Str. 40, 80333 München, Germany
Warwick Freeman, Pendant Cutter, 2010, Jaspis, Polyester strap. Photo courtesy of the artist
Hook Hand Heart Star
Opening event: 14.03, Fri 19:00
Event duration: 15.03-15.06.2025, Tue-Sun 10:00-18:00
Warwick Freeman’s emblematic jewelry pursues meaning. Across five decades the New Zealand jeweller has built a lexicon of signs: from the cultural symbolism of the hook and the star to the heart redrawn in the volcanic scoria of Rangitoto island. When worn, his jewelry communicates something of who we are and how we have lived. Throughout his career Freeman has never tired of exploring what it means to make jewelry in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Freeman’s work reflects a depth of thinking about the construction of identity that weaves together the big with the small. He has explored forms found in the detritus of daily life, the influence of New Zealand’s colonization, and the rich geology of the land, all of which have provided him with an abundant supply of materials and narratives to draw from.
Hook Hand Heart Star includes key installation works, emblematic groupings and a number of suites of emblems, described by Freeman as Sentences. Composed of arrangements of individual works, these groupings evidence Freeman’s practice as always in motion, building on itself iteratively over many years.
The four nouns that form the title of this exhibition are inspired by Freeman’s first stand-alone grouping of emblems from 1987, the four-piece ‘poem’, Fern Fish Feather Rose. This significant work catalyzed Freeman’s thinking about the power of assembling recognizable forms that could communicate their stories in lieu of words.
Warwick Freeman (b.1953, Nelson) began making jewellery in 1972. As a prominent member of Auckland Jewellery Co-operative, Fingers, he was at the forefront of a rethinking of New Zealand contemporary jewellery practice that began in the 1980s. He has exhibited internationally since that time. In 2002 he was made a Laureate by the Francoise van den Bosch Foundation based at the Stedelijk Museum. In the same year Freeman received a laureate award from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand. In 2014, Freeman co-curated the exhibition Wunderrūma, with jeweller, Karl Fritsch. Wunderrūma was presented at Galerie Handwerk in Munich, and on its return to New Zealand at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Freeman has also been involved in governance and curatorial activities: in 2004 he became the inaugural Chair of Objectspace, a public gallery dedicated to the exhibition of craft, design and architecture. His works are held in public and private collections in New Zealand and internationally including the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the V&A, London, the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, LACMA, Los Angeles, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
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Mindful Mining
Opening event: 14.03, Fri 19:00
Event duration: 15.03.-21.04.2025; Mon closed, Tue-Wed 10:00-18:00, Thu 10:00-20:00, Fri-Sun 10:00-18:00
Department of Metalwork and Jewelry – College of Design at Kookmin University in Seoul
The exhibition title is a metaphor for the creation of a world of its own. Designing artistically means discovering something in nature or in the everyday environment that you usually pay little attention to and then give it a new meaning. The young artists at Kookmin University do nothing else. The procedure is similar to that of a miner when looking for precious ores and minerals. The finds became objects, symbols and finally again part of our world or things.
Artists: Chae-hyeon Ahn, Yerin An, Eunji Cho, Dayoung Choi, Yeonwoo Eom, Laura Iochins Grisci, Shihwa Jeong, Sunmin Jeong, Xinyi Jiang, Ara Jo, Yejin Kang, Eunseo Kim, Gyuri Kim, Hayeon Kim, Minseok Kim, Sang-mi Kim, Soo-young Kim, Chaewon Lee, Gang-yeon Lee, Gueun Lee, Hanhwi Lee, Haseo Lee, Heeseo Lee, Hyungchan Lee, Sojeong Lee, Yesung Lee, Jewoon Lim, Yoojin Na, Ivan Nalivaiko, Subeen Oh, Jongrok Park, Jaekwan Shim, Eunji Shin, Yewon Sim, Ran-ran Zhang, Yeonjoo Son, Misong Yeo, Seunghyeok Yoo, Seonyoung Yoo
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Engelhorn Schmuck Lecture by Caroline Broadhead
Lecture: 16.03.2025, 11:00 (Lecture in English)
Location: Ernst-von-Siemens Auditorium, Pinakothek der Moderne
„For more than fifty years, I have been concerned with objects that come into contact with and interact with the body. Recurrent themes are the boundaries of an individual or object; be that between surface and interior, presence and absence, public and private, or the definition of a sense of territory and personal space. The work has also explored outer extents of the body as seen through light, shadows, reflections and movement. Larger scale and collaborative working with ideas about space and boundaries between people develop atmospheres that elicit subjective, emotional responses.” – Caroline Broadhead
Caroline Broadhead trained at the Central School of Art and Design, London. Public collections that hold examples of her work include the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She was the winner of the Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts: Textiles in 1997, and has held major retrospectives at CODA, The Netherlands in 2018, and at the Lethaby Gallery, London in 2019. Broadhead held the positions of Jewellery and Textiles Programme Director and BA Jewellery Design Course Leader for nearly ten years at the College until her retirement in 2018. She continues to teach on the course and is a guest lecturer at various institutions in and outside the UK.
Supported by the Museum Foundation for the Promotion of the State Bavarian Museums – Legacy of Christof and Ursula Engelhorn
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