_Munich Jewellery Week Headquarters_

Headquarters opening hours: 12-16.03.2025, Wed 14:00-18:00, Thu-Sat 10:00-18:00, Sun 10:00-14:00

Opening event: 12.03, Wed 18:00-20:00

Come by any time during the week to say hi 👋🏽, grab a delicious coffee and pick up your copy of the official Munich Jewellery Week Paper.

Thursday through Saturday, join us for morning and afternoon public programming: Social Clubs, presentations, discussions and more.

On Friday, put on your best jewels and come dance with us at the official MJW Party!

Party tickets link (coming soon)

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Munich Jewellery Week Paper 2025 • Graphic design by Sonia Górecka • Cover image Warwick Freeman, Red Shell, 2014 Pearl shell, paint, various dimensions • Photograph by Sam Hartnett • Courtesy of Objectspace

PUBLIC PROGRAMMING
Our beloved Social Club series, offering thoughtful public programming and a pause to connect amidst the hum of jewellery madness!

WEDNESDAY 12.03
18:00-20:00

MJW OPENING AND ARTIST TALK

Join us at MJW HQ to kick off the week with a festive welcome toast, long-awaited reunions, and inspiring conversations! Celebrating our 10th anniversary, we’ll start with warm words before diving into an artist talk featuring Viktoria Gorny, Vincent Hulme, Minjeong Kim & Lilli Malou, moderated by curator Jaemin Lee and Vivian R. Morad.

THURSDAY 13.03
10:00-12:00

BETWEEN HERE AND ELSEWHERE: DIASPORA, CRAFT AND IDENTITY

Join curator Grace Lai from Auckland Museum, Aotearoa New Zealand, and selected guests to explore how diasporic artists navigate connections to cultural heritage in a globalised world.

15:00-17:00

JEWELLERY SPEED DATING

Looking for fresh opportunities and global inspiration? Join us for Business Speed Dating, where MJW sets you up with top Artist Residency Programmes and Open Calls in brisk 10-minute sessions – because we’re asking you out on a business date!

FRIDAY 14.03
10:00-12:00

MAGICAL / MYSTICAL

Alongside special guest, curator Kellie Riggs, we unpack ideas of contemporary mythology and how we shape it through materials, symbolism and our bodies! Got some thoughts on that? Great! Come through!

15:00-17:00

MAD MAKER’S TEA PARTY

The students of PXL-MAD are inviting you to fall into the rabbit hole and explore the with them the Jewellery Wonderland! Join for tea, cake and personal brooch making! Just in time for the Pin Swap later that day!

21:00-02:00

MJW PARTY & PIN SWAP!

Of course, we have a special anniversary surprise! Lost Weekend’s mixologists crafted the perfect glittery cocktail for our MJW Party! Kicking off the Party is the beloved Pin Swap tradition – a much-loved tradition from the jewellery communities Aotearoa and Australia (shoutout to our friends in Nelson and Melbourne!) – to give you the chance to take home a unique piece of jewellery!

Here’s how Pin Swap works:

– Bring a pin or brooch, all wrapped up in mystery (brown paper is available at MJW HQ if you need it).

– It can be a treasure from your collection or something you whipped up – just make sure it’s something you’d be thrilled to unwrap yourself!

– Toss your pin into the lucky dip, and later, you’ll pick out a surprise to take home.

We can’t wait to see what secret gems everyone brings – who knows which maker’s magic will end up in your hands?

Don’t wait in line, get your ticket now! Including Party entry, Pin Swap pass and a free welcome shot on us 😉💃

SATURDAY 15.03

10:00-12:00

KOHĀ kōrero

KOHĀ is a series of activations led by Aotearoa New Zealand adornment practitioners Neke Moa, Sofia Tekela-Smith and Stevei Houkāmau, presented as part of Munich Jewellery Week. ‘Kohā’ references the act of offering a gift or contribution as an expression of gratitude. For these makers, the concept of kohā acknowledges the reciprocity and connection between cultural adornment, makers and wearers. Kohā is also the central theme of the 2025 MJW Paper, guest edited by Zoe Black and Victoria McAdam of Objectspace, featuring contributions by Moa, Tekela-Smith and Houkāmau.

For this final KOHĀ event, McAdam will lead a discussion with all three artists, exploring their work and collaboration towards the MJW Paper, the influence kohā has on their making, and its potential for the contemporary jewellery world.

To conclude, all are invited to participate in kohā exchange, reflecting the relational balance between materials, process, body and others in adornment making.

KOHĀ is supported by Creative New Zealand, Objectspace and Current Obsession as part of Munich Jewellery Week.

15:00- 17:00

RCA Art Performance

RCA’s Jewellery & Metal programme returns to Munich Jewellery Week, where MA students and alumni spark bold conversations through publications, performances, and panels, redefining jewellery in today’s complex world.

KOHĀ kōrero; Neke Moa, Tokerau, 2023. Photographer Sam Hartnett, courtesy of Objectspace

Lost Weekend Meets Young Art – Window Exhibition
Opening event: 12.03, Wed 18:00-20:00
Exhibition duration: 12.03-12.04.2025

In celebration of Munich Jewellery Week’s 10-year anniversary, Lost Weekend meets Young Art is hosting a special collaborative exhibition. For the first time, an open call – created specifically for this milestone event – has selected four emerging artists from Germany and abroad. Their work will be showcased in the project’s distinctive window display space, bringing together diverse artistic voices in contemporary jewellery and art.

LWMA

Lost Weekend meets young art is a non profit art project founded in 2020.

The LWMA model of presentation is an exhibition of two artists side by side, spanning four large showcases open street-side for public viewing. Featuring one artist from within Bavaria and another from abroad, art director Jaemin Lee envisions the project as a bridge between the isolated, island-like Bavarian art scenes and the rest of the world. Moving step by step from within the region to greater Germany, Europe, and beyond.

Lee wishes for young artists to use this platform as a transitional stepping stone between being a student to having a successful professional career. He views the exhibition as a mutual collaboration with the artist, inviting open communication, exchange and networking within the art world. The result, an opportunity to share their work widely in a wunderkamer style showcase.

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No Weight without Weightlessness explores the relationship between our bodies and the space they inhabit. Delving into concepts of weight, mass and balance, Viktoria’s pieces propose questions of what lies in-between; between bodies and space, the internal and the external. Her intention is set on the non-obvious, the unseen.

Viktoria Gorny is a London-based artist whose metalwork blurs the lines between wearable form and sculptural presence.

@viktoriagorny

Vincent Hulme has exhibited at The Institute for Endotic Research (Berlin), Treize (Paris), and Mains D’Oeuvres (Paris). The Long Ball presents the body as an architectural form constructed, manipulated, and reshaped by idolatry and the relentless pursuit of strength and success. Engaging with his youth during baseball’s steroid era, the body’s duality—strength and vulnerability—becomes central to his work.

@chillback4eva

Born in Seoul, Minjeong Kim is a multidisciplinary artist who focuses on the relationship between material and the body. Graduating from RCA Jewellery&Metal in 2024, her work Another Skin, explores the connection between human emotion and the body, examining how sensations shape identity. It visualises the cycle of experiencing, shedding, and rediscovering sensations, revealing the tension between familiarity and compulsion.

@minlykim

Lilli Malou Weinhold is a Düsseldorf-based designer who explores craft and materials through an interdisciplinary approach. Her project Dig In – Jewellery Objects for a Contemporary Dining Culture envisions a future where eating utensils become personalized, emotionally valued objects, shaping a dining culture that cherishes both tradition and innovation while prioritizing sensory perception over mere functionality.

@lilli_malou

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_Munich Jewellery Week Headquarters_

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