15 Years of Jewelry and Design

With noon+, Galerie noonberlin is celebrating a special anniversary this year: for the 15th time, the five jewelry designers Ursula Bonderer, Elgin Fischer, Ulrike Poelk, Monika Glöss, and Julia Reymann are inviting five guest designers from jewelry and product design to show their work alongside their own. The result is an exhibition that brings together distinct creative signatures and opens up a view of the diversity of contemporary design.

Jewelry designers Min-Ji Cho and Karla Schabert from Munich and Tzuri Gueta from Paris each bring their own focus. Min-Ji Cho uses experimental casting techniques to question traditional notions of preciousness. By transforming materials, she creates one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry.

Karla Schabert values craftsmanship over the worth of the material. The mostly minimalist pieces in her crochet series are the result of elaborate, time-consuming processes.

Earrings from Karla Schabert’s crochet series.

Tzuri Gueta has developed his own technique for bonding natural fibers with synthetic polymers. The resulting three-dimensional, lace-like material gives his jewelry an unmistakably textile quality.

Earrings by Tzuri Gueta in silicone, viscose, and brass.

Ring by Min-Ji Cho in silver and cubic zirconia.

Berlin-based Katy Jung presents porcelain from her label feinesweißes. Her timeless, clean design is defined by a restrained formal language and carefully placed details that add accents without demanding attention. In her studio, she produces small series and one-of-a-kind pieces, made entirely by hand from design to finished object.

Glazed porcelain butter dish by Katy Jung for her label feinesweißes.

The Hanover-based label maesh combines clean design with uncompromising functionality. Its bags are made from 90 percent upcycled material and produced in Hanover in a resource-conscious way. The varied colors and surfaces of the repurposed advertising banners give each bag its own character – every piece is unique.

Bag by the Hanover label maesh, made from upcycled material.

The opening reception takes place on Thursday, November 26, from 5 to 9 p.m. noon+ is on view in the gallery’s side room through Sunday, November 29. For the closing on Sunday, noonberlin invites visitors to coffee and cake from 3 p.m.

Most of the works on display will remain at the gallery until Christmas, so noon+ offers a chance to discover individual positions in contemporary jewelry and product design well beyond the exhibition weekend.