The Fragile Body: The Language of Healing

Renner Helena, Wounded, 2024. Photo courtesy of the artist

Opening event: 05.03, Thu 14:30-16:00; Artists present: 04-06.03.2026, Wed-Fri 14:00-17:00
Event Duration: 04.03-28.04.2026, Mon-Sun 24/7

Location: Donner wie Blitz – Donnersbergerstraße 20 a

The Fragile Body: The Language of Healing is an art and jewellery exhibition curated by Clodagh Molloy that explores the relationship between art, health, and the human body as a site of vulnerability and communication. Bringing together artists, makers, and writers, the exhibition considers creative practice as an act of care, reflection, and embodied knowledge.

Through jewellery, sculpture, body adornment, photography, and text, the exhibition examines how materials can speak to experiences of illness, resilience, repair, and emotional labour. Jewellery is approached not only as adornment, but as a language—one that communicates tenderness, protection, memory, and the desire to heal.

Central to the project is a reflection on the female body and the historically gendered roles of women as caregivers, mothers, and nurturers, while also acknowledging the pressures, complexities, and choices that accompany these identities, including the decision not to mother. The exhibition creates space for nuanced conversations around fertility, care, and the often-invisible labour of sustaining bodies and lives.

Presented during Munich Jewellery Week, The Fragile Body invites audiences to engage with works that sit at the intersection of fragility and strength, intimacy and endurance. Selected works are displayed in the gallery windows and documented in a publication, extending the exhibition’s reach and encouraging ongoing reflection on how art can articulate, hold, and transform experiences of vulnerability.

Erosky Esteban, Pure.inside.pure.outside, 2025, Enamel. Photo courtesy of the artist

Jeanne Sophie, A as, 2021, Glassism. Photo courtesy of the artist

Daye Kim, This relationship is, 2023. Photo courtesy of the artist

Kalman Lauren, Device 10, 2017. Photo courtesy of the artist

Colley Rachael, Melon Colley, 2025, Round Galia Ring. Photo courtesy of the artist

Renner Helena, Wounded, 2024. Photo courtesy of the artist

Sayaka Ito, 4worn. Photo courtesy of the artist

Janne Peltokangas, Sieidi No7, Sculpture, 2022. Photo courtesy of the artist

Ute van der Plaats, Layers of fragility, 2025. Photo courtesy of the artist

rit-Ute Zille, Just want to see you happy, 2025. Photo courtesy of the artist

The Fragile Body, Exhibition Poster, 2026

Clodagh Molloy is an Irish artist jeweller and curator whose practice sits at the intersection of contemporary jewellery, art, and health. Her work explores the body as a site of vulnerability, care, and transformation, using jewellery and object-making as forms of embodied communication. Through material, process, and scale, Molloy considers how making can function as an act of attentiveness, reflection, and healing.

As both an artist and a mother, Molloy navigates overlapping roles that profoundly shape her practice. Motherhood has introduced a heightened sensitivity to care, endurance, and the quiet labour of sustaining life. Insights that inform her approach to materials, time, and the body. These experiences have led her to develop projects that foreground nurturing, resilience, and the often-unseen emotional and physical work embedded in care practices.

Molloy’s work in arts and health engages with themes of wellbeing, empathy, and lived bodily experience, positioning jewellery as a language through which personal and collective narratives of health can be expressed. Her curatorial projects create space for artists and writers to reflect on these themes, fostering dialogue across disciplines.

Curated by Clodagh Molloy with the support of Donner wie Blitz, Munich, The Fragile Body runs throughout March and April 2026, coinciding with Munich Jewellery Week/Schmuck. The exhibition brings together 46 international artists, makers, and writers to explore creation, nurturing, and transformation across jewellery, sculpture, body adornment, and writing, inviting reflection on fertility in its biological, intellectual, and environmental forms.

Artists:
Aino-Astrid Gaedtke, Anne Blok, Ayla Tur, Barbara Schwager, Bernie Leahy, Cindy Zhaohan Li, Clodagh Molloy, Da Ye Kim, Dimitra Papamerkouri, Elena Eftodi, Esteban Erosky, Eva Lynch, Grit-Ute Zille, Helena Renner, Henrike Altes, HIlde Dramstad, Himani Aggarwal, Janne Peltokangas, Jeanne-Sophie Aas, Julia Boix-Vives, Karin van Paassen, Lauren Kalman, Lena Grewenig, Lorenz Mager, Lucia Whelan, Maria Benedita, Minjeong Kim, Natasha Heaslip, Niamh Wright, Olga van Doorn, Pamela Fernanda Suárez Iturrieta, Rachael Colley, Roberta Modulo, Rosa Nogués Freixas, Sarah Vassø, Sayaka Ito, Sophia Zobel, Sophie Lowe, Stephie Morawetz, Teresa Faris, Teresa Milheiro, Ute van der Plaats, Virág Luca Boncz, Yingying Qiu, Yuqi Fan & Ziqi Yuan

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The Fragile Body: The Language of Healing

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