_Munich Jewellery Week Headquarters_

Current Obsession Paper for Munich Jewellery Week 2026 • Graphic design by Minhu Jun • Cover image by Taiichiro Yoshida, Decorative Clouds, 2023 • Photograph by Yoshiaki Oshiro

Headquarters opening hours:
04-08.03.2026, Wed 14:00-18:00, Thu-Sat 10:00-18:00, Sun 10:00-14:00

Wednesday 04.03, 18:00-20:00
Opening Event & Artist Talk

Thursday 05.03, 9:30-11:00
Social Club: Perspectives on Japanese Craftsmanship – Exhibitions in Dialogue

15:00-17:00

Opportunities Session and Networking

Friday, 06.03, 9:30-11:00
Social Club: Uteba Hibiku – When an Impulse Triggers Resonance

15:00-17:00

Let’s Get Phygital – From bench to browser, gems to gigabytes and craft to code. A presentation and panel on phygital approaches in jewellery.

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Lost Weekend Meets Art – Window Exhibition
Artist talk: 04.03, Wed 18:00-20:00
Exhibition duration: 04.03-30.04.2026, Visible 27/4

Lost Weekend Meets Art (LWMA) is an exhibition platform based in Munich, Germany. LWMA’s mode of presentation employs the format of showcase display windows, expanding the visual interface between the street and its audiences.

The core structure of LWMA is a dual exhibition between one artist from Bavaria and one working outside the Bavarian region, bringing into dialogue two distinct urban and cultural contexts. During Munich Jewellery Week this format is expanded to four artists – based in Germany and worldwide – dedicating the exhibition space to contemporary jewellery.

Beginning with Munich Jewellery Week, and in celebration of LWMA’s fifth anniversary, they revisit the platform’s original function and meaning, with a year-long series of six exhibitions under the theme SHOPS.

The idea of the shop has evolved from physical to online marketplaces, extending beyond place into experience. Reflecting this, the project reimagines the showcase window as a shop-like structure for art; becoming not a site of commerce, but a space for encounter and reflection, as audiences discover each artist’s world in everyday urban life.

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Lorena Rode, The Devil Wears Our Marks, 2025, Borosilicate Glass. Photography Lorena Rode

Hiyu Hamasaki, Sentai, 2025, Artificial flower, Stainless steel pin. Photography Hiyu Hamasaki

Adèle Andrée Joseph, Sexshops! - Devil's Tongue, 2025, Glass, Galuchat, Copper, Brass. Photography Alicia Gardès

Adèle Andrée Joseph, Sexshops! - Horny project, 2025, Glass, Brass, Lapis-lazuli. Photography Alicia Gardès

Myu Kumasaka, What the Ocean Left Behind - Wall object), 2025, Aluminium, Copper, Silver, Stainless steel, Gold. Photo courtesy of the artist

Myu Kumasaka, Along with Ocean 10 - Brooch, 2025 Aluminium, Silver, Stainless steel, Gold. Photo courtesy of the artist

Lorena Rode is a multidisciplinary artist creating jewellery and objects that explore belonging, care, and coexistence. Working with glass, ceramics, and wool, she crafts tactile ‘unlikely neighbours’ that reflect on how living beings connect, protect, and sustain each other.

The Devil Wears Our Marks examines the belief that consumption is a way of becoming; we buy products to construct identity and compensate for perceived lack. The window installation contrasts this idea with a jewellery collection inspired by birthmarks and natural skin blemishes: our unique signs of being that we are born with. The shop is a site of becoming, while the birthmark is a site of being.

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HIYU HAMASAKI is a jewellery artist based in Osaka, having graduated from Hiko Mizuno College of Jewellery. Hamasaki works across jewellery, installation, curation, and education, lecturing at Hiko Mizuno, Vantan Design Institute, and Kobe Design University.

Artificial flowers are transformed through heat and pressure, reshaped into unpredictable forms and colours. Reimagined as jewellery, these altered materials blur the boundary between artificial and organic, inviting wearers to reconsider urban nature and rediscover an embodied connection to it.

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Adèle Andrée Joseph is an artist duo formed by jewellery artist Zoé Kiner-Wolff and artist and glassblower François Briand. Together they create body-related objects to explore relations between bodies, and to create hybrid beings, between animal, plant, machine and thingamajig.

Sexshop! brings together several projects linked to broader artistic research and reflection on masturbation and sexuality as unspeakable and shameful topics. This project is about sex, masturbation and desire, and also about gender and transformation of the body through sexual practices and speeches.

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Myu Kumasaka is a Tokyo-based metal artist creating works ranging from jewellery to objects using traditional Japanese engraving techniques. Through carved textures, she explore themes of time, memory, and impermanence, creating works that connect material, human experience, and quiet emotional traces shaped by the passage of time.

Along with Ocean explores the sea as a metaphor for life, moving between light and darkness, presence and disappearance. By engraving aluminium line by line, she records fleeting moments and memories, transforming the act of carving into a process of preserving time and emotional traces within material.

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Thursday 05.03

9:30-11:00

Perspectives on Japanese Craftsmanship – Exhibitions in Dialogue

Three exhibitions, three vantage points, one shared question: how does Japanese craftsmanship translate across contexts? Brooch, From Line to Form and Catching the fleeting bubbles meet in conversation, bringing together curators and makers to unpack material intelligence, lineage, and the subtle shifts that occur over time and through changing geographies. Moderated by Marina Elenskaya, this session sets the tone for a dialogue rooted in respect, nuance and curiosity.

Speakers:

From Line to Form – Myu Kumasaka, Yo Ichimaru, Akari Takahashi

Brooch – Hiyu Hamasaki, Hayate Miyazaki

Catching the fleeting bubbles – Arisa Inoue, Louane schneider, Helen Hemsley

Moderator:
Marina Elenskaya – Creative Director of Current Obsession

15:00-17:00

Opportunities Session and Networking

Looking outward, looking ahead. This session gathers key international initiatives – from Amsterdam to Venice, Lisbon and Pforzheim – to map out concrete opportunities for established makers and recent graduates alike. Expect practical insights, open calls, and pathways into festivals, biennials and talent programmes, followed by time to connect, exchange and spark future collaborations.

Speakers:

– GEMZ, OBSESSED! Jewellery Festival, Current Obsession – Marina Elenskaya
– Venice Glass Week and Venice Design Week – Eleonora Varotto
– Lisbon Jewellery Biennial – Marta Costa Reis
– Almut Benkert – Pforzheim Design

Friday 06.03

9:30-11:00
Uteba Hibiku – When an Impulse Triggers Resonance

What happens when a gesture reverberates beyond itself? Inspired by the Japanese notion of resonance, this panel explores how craft carries impulse – across bodies and geographies. With voices from Kyoto, Munich and Saitama, the conversation moves between curatorial perspectives and lived practice, tracing how meaning is activated, shared and amplified.

Speakers:
Tomomi Miyagawa – Curator at MoMAK museum in Kyoto, Mari Ishikawa – Jewellery artist based in Munich and educator at KOBE Design University, Misaki Nomoto – Jewellery artist based in Saitama, Arisa Inoua – Jewellery artist and student at the Munich Academy (AdBK)

Moderator:
Marina Elenskaya – Creative Director of Current Obsession

15:00-17:00
Let’s Get Pyhgital – From bench to browser, gems to gigabytes and craft to code. A presentation and panel on phygital approaches in jewellery.

Speakers:
Mala Siamptani (London College of Fashion), Timothy Veske-McMahon (Rhode Island School of Design), Anneleen Swillen (PXL-MAD School of Arts Hasselt) and invited speakers: Sofie Boons, Patricia Domingues, and Jonathan Mathew Boyd.

The project organisers present an overview of the initiative alongside a selection of works developed over the past five years. A panel discussion with invited guests explores phygital approaches in jewellery – its creation, meaning and future possibilities – reflecting on how the digital, images and screens reshape our understanding of materiality, body and craft. Attendees are invited to encounter the works firsthand, celebrate the launch of the project’s new website, and connect with institutions and prospective students interested in future collaboration.

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