Munich Jewellery Week

Taavi Teevet, ultima fides I, 2024, Bronze object to be grasped. Photographer Margus Elizarov

Opening event: 12.03, Wed 19:00

Event duration: 13-15.03.2025, Thu-Fri 12:00-18:00, Sat 12:00-16:00

FEAST

Shared moments.

Between the done and the undone, between the cooling forge and the warming skin, we gather — not as revellers, not as mourners, but as those who wait, as those who celebrate the passing of time.

The feast is not yet consumed, yet neither is it untouched. Hands have shaped these fragments of time, folded process into form, cast intention into weight and curve. Nothing is whole, and yet everything is full.

Each piece contains its own becoming — the long roads walked, the hesitations, the moment a choice cleaved one path from another.

To wear is to bear witness, to become part of what came before and what is yet to follow. The place matters, the moment matters — the object is a whisper in the silence before speech, a moment before something is revealed.

This is the nature of all things held and passed on, touched and released. We do not own, we do not keep. We pause here, at the edge of time’s turning, knowing the feast is both here and elsewhere, both now and then. The weight of all things rests lightly, just for this moment, before the silence breaks and we move on.

We come together. Everything might change. We come together. Everything might stay the same.

Eve Margus, Don`t Be a Slave to My Heels, 2024, Carved graphite objects. Photographer Margus Elizarov

As a group, Eve Margus, Piret Hirv, Erle Nemvalts, and Taavi Teevet, all based in Tallinn, Estonia, are connected daily through their role as principal mentors and teaching staff for a new generation of jewellery artists at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Eve Margus (1972) deals with the almost invisible boundary between the integrity of material and its complete dispersion.

Piret Hirv (1969) defines the boundary between presence and absence in both personal and open space.

Both artists studied on the same course in the Department of Jewellery and Blacksmithing at Tallinn Art University. They belong to the Estonian Artists’ Association and are the founding members of the nationally and internationally recognised jewellery artist group Castle in the Air (õhuLoss). Together, they have organised exhibitions in galleries, museums and alternative spaces, and published a number of captivating publications.

Erle Nemvalts (1991) is an Estonian jewellery artist. Her creative practice focuses primarily on human behavioural patterns and characteristics. In her work, the artist often employs contrasting symbols and materials, simultaneously expressing lightness and heaviness, hope and despair. Nemvalts was awarded the Young Jewellery Fund’s Special Scholarship, and in 2023, she received the Marzee Gallery’s Graduates Exhibition Prize.

Taavi Teevet (1996) is a metal artist captivated by the symbiosis of materials and technologies, experimental advancements in classical techniques, and the interplay between materials’ memory and charge. Teevet was honoured with the Estonian Academy of Arts’ Young Applied Artist Award at the Master’s level and the Marzee Gallery of Contemporary Jewellery’s Graduates Exhibition Award.

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FEAST

Group Exhibiton