Site Effects 2020
Co-curator for Exhibition Site Effects at the Bavarian Craft Society in Munich, also shown at the Baltimore Jewelry Center.
Press Release:
Curators Anja Eichler (EU) and Katja Toporski (USA) illuminate the relationship of Europe and the US from an esthetic perspective. Their starting point was the question if jewelry is considered a form of communication, do people speak the same language on either side of the Atlantic?
Observations from the last century suggest that the differences in styles on both sides of the Atlantic were pronounced. The American style was perceived as opulent and ornamented while the European seemed to be more reductivist and less playful.
But is the situation in the 21st century? Have esthetic differences been blurred in the wake of globalization? If not, then what differences are there currently? To what extent does one only perceive a difference because knowledge of an artist’s name and location results in cultural stereotyping?
Anja Eichler and Katja Toporski aim to shed a light on these questions in their exhibition SITE EFFECTS with the work of 24 jewelry artists from Europe and the US. Additionally they would like to invite the visitors to an experiment: What do you see if you have no background knowledge? Does the Atlantic then exist as a dividing line or are there more similarities than we think?
Participating artists
Kristen Beeler, Sofia Björkman, Caroline Broadhead, Liesbet Bussche, Thea Clark, Nikki Couppee, Emily Culver, Anja Eichler, Rebekah Frank, Maria Rosa Franzin, Don Friedlich, Sara Gackowska, Lena Grabher, Peter Hoogeboom, Holland Houdek, Anastasia Kandaraki, Anya Kivarkis, Kristiina Laurits, Nanna Melland, Seth Papac, Estela Saez, Sondra Sherman, Marjorie Simon, Katja Toporski.