19.05.17 — 22.10.17
The starting point of the ‘Jewellery. materials craft art’ exhibition at the National Museum Zurich is the comprehensive collection of the Swiss National Museum, supplemented by items on loan from the Museum of Art and History in Geneva, the MUDAC in Lausanne and the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna. The exhibition presents materials and crafts along with core themes in jewellery such as love, rebellion and tradition and always makes the link with the wearer. There is a section dedicated to 20th century jewellery which shows how jewellery is being rediscovered as a form of artistic expression: it features items from the Art Nouveau movement by Lalique and Josef Hoffmann for instance, objects by visual artists Max Bill and Meret Oppenheim, and contemporary jewellery artists such as Bernhard Schobinger, Hans Stofer, Therese Hilbert, Kiko Gianocca, Sophie Hanagarth, Otto Künzli and Andi Gut.
