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KOTI KORU
Group Exibition, Gallery Presentation
Barer Str. 49, 80799 München-Maxvorstadt, Germany
Anna Heino, Prototype1-2Brooch1 2024, 925 Silver, Diamond. Photographer Anna Heino
Opening event: 12.03, Wed 19:00
Event duration: 12-16.03.2025, 12:00-19:00
This exhibition combines architectural design and jewellery design by using them in a new scale and context, joining together subjects that are often very meaningful and personal to all of us. Homes are our large and stationary shelters, which we are normally forced to leave behind when we are on the move. Jewellery, meanwhile, is what we carry with us, and which can show our values and identity. Despite their very different sizes, both tend to have a very special and important meaning in our lives. Wearing this object, the home, close to your heart can give you comfort and a feeling of safety in anxious and difficult situations. It may help you in hard times, knowing that you are carrying your happy place with you, even if you’re far away from the actual one. Home is the place where you can be your true self. With this jewellery, you always have your dearest place along with you.
The foundation of this exhibition is architectural drawings, which are the inspiration for the wearable jewellery pieces. Seeing the drawings in physical form as a piece of metal, and in an unexpected size and material, makes these beautiful designs come alive, reflected by artful mirror objects. You don’t necessarily realise their context right away, providing the opportunity to enjoy them as a thing of beauty. The name of this exhibition comes from the Finnish language, where the word KOTI means home, and the word KORU means jewellery.
Finnish designer Anna Talvitie graduated from Lahti Institute of Design, Finland in 2005, specialising in jewellery design, and furthered her studies to obtain an MA in Design 2015. Anna founded her own brand in 2003, which designs and creates both unique pieces of jewellery and entire collections in a simple Scandinavian style. Several jewellery collections are provided to satisfy different urban trends; Anna defines her style as “insightfully simplistic”. What mostly appeals to Anna’s eye is simple yet bold surfaces and patterns, and her designs also often include very functional characteristics. Since 2014 Anna has been living in Munich, continuing in her unique style to influence the way people are wearing jewellery.
A shared design approach led her to a collaboration with Martina Gallant, born in Bavaria and inspired by the world. After studying Innenarchitektur, she has been a freelance interior designer and a member of the Bavarian Chamber of Architects since 1995. After inventing the product ‘Wandtattoo’ and successfully founding and running silbensalon GmbH, she is now the head of the studio ‘gallant gestaltet’ since 2014, where she develops new spatial concepts and visual communication, curates art and objects. Martina prefers to combine different design disciplines. Always looking for quality in simplicity, with an eye for special details and pragmatic solutions, she likes the beautiful and the useful, and most of all the beautiful in the useful.
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