Worn Narratives

Makiko Mitsunari, About Fox 03, 2018, Wood, Brass, Hemp, Elastic, Cotton. Photography Makiko Mitsunari

Opening Event: 04.03, Wed 16:00-19:00
Event Duration: 04-08.03.2026, Wed 16:00-19:00, Thu-Sat 11:00-18:00, Sun 12:00-15:00

Location: Schnorrstraße 1 – Hofeingang Rear building / access via courtyard gate

Worn Narratives presents the work of Diana Silva, Makiko Mitsunari, and Sunhi Jaeger—three jewellery artists from Portugal, Japan, and Germany respectively, whose practices emerge from different cultural contexts and are connected by a shared engagement with material, form, and meaning.

The works explore how experience, memory, and myth become embedded in material, and how material itself can carry narrative and operate as part of an artistic language. Through close attention to the qualities and behaviour of their chosen materials, the artists approach jewellery as a relational practice between object and body, through which meaning is formed.

In the dialogue between these three positions, jewellery is situated between applied art and conceptual inquiry. Within this interplay, meaning unfolds through a process of poiesis inherent in the material—shaped through making, shaping and transformation.

Diana Silva, Dalmatic Saudades, 2024, Terylene fabric, São Miguel quartz's. Photography Laurent Simões

Diana Silva, Sacred Heart, 1999, Wood, Velvet. Photography Diana Silva

Diana Silva, The construction worker, 2019, Latex fabric, Hand-dyed cotton netting. Photography Alexandra Cabral

Sunhi Jaeger, Bangle, 2021, Gampi Bark. Photography Sunhi Jaeger

Sunhi Jaeger, Poems of you, 2020, Kozo Bark. Photography Sunhi Jaeger

Sunhi Jaeger, Mitate, 2023, Flax, Pine, Gold. Photography Sunhi Jaeger

Makiko Mitsunari, About Fox 03, 2018, Wood, Brass, Hemp, Elastic, Cotton. Photography Makiko Mitsunari

Makiko Mitsunari, Collection 01, 2024, Tree bark, Brass, Stainless steel. Photography Shugin Kobayashi

Worn Narratives, Exhibition Poster, 2026

Diana Silva is living and working in Portalegre, Portugal. She studied jewellery design at Ar.Co in Lisbon, and refined her craft through courses in Italy, Germany, and England, exploring microcasting, gemstone carving, and experimental design. In 2008, she earned her master’s degree in Jewellery, Silversmithing & Related Products at the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design. Her work, exhibited worldwide, blends creativity and sustainability. She founded Portalegre’s 1st Biennial of Contemporary Jewellery and creates pieces at aguAmae Atelier de Joalharia Contemporânea Sustentável.

Makiko Mitsunari is based in Hyogo, Japan. She studied Gold and Silversmithing at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia and completed her Masters in Jewellery at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle, Germany in 2018. Inspired by nature’s mysteries and stories passed down, she creates jewellery shaped by experience. Guided by unseen sensations and presences, she brings together industrial and organic materials to deepen her dialogue with nature, expressing reverence for what cannot be seen and translating it into forms worn close to the body.

Sunhi Jaeger lives and works in Berlin. She holds a Diploma in Design and a Diploma in Fine Art / Jewellery, and completed a Master’s degree at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle. Her practice is interdisciplinary and process-oriented, combining traditional craftsmanship with contemporary techniques. Through contrasting materials and ritual symbolism, her work explores time, memory, and cultural exchange, expanding jewellery toward objects that invite reflection, contemplation, and dialogue between permanence and impermanence. The works emphasise balance, tactility, and quiet presence.

Artists:
Diana Silva, Makiko Mitsunari & Sunhi Jaeger

@dianasilva9897
@makiko_mitsunari
@sunhijaeger

sunhijaeger.de
artnet.com/artists/diana-silva

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