Touch-Sensitive
11 April – 30 June 2025
This exhibition narrates the stories of people, their jewellery, and the artists behind the adornments. Touch–Sensitive takes its idea from the word touch, reflecting the nature of jewellery – to be in contact with people.
Contact is both physical and spiritual, a delicate exchange of energy between individuals. Every piece of jewellery holds a unique story, capturing the experience and emotions of its creator throughout the creative process, from the conception to completion. Finally, there comes a moment when an adornment finds its new owner and the rest of the story is told by the wearer.
The exhibition features jewellery collections created by 23 artists from the Latvian Jewellery Art Association, alongside portraits of the models they selected. The artists have created jewellery for doctors, diplomats, philologists, painters, teachers, students, and even themselves, their relatives, and colleagues. In addition to the rich stories, the jewellery owners have shared their thoughts and feelings by answering to questions posed by the artists. Their responses, recorded in audio, reveal engaging and often unexpected perspectives on the relationship between jewellery and its wearers, shedding light on the many facets of their personalities. The exhibition space becomes filled with voices that were previously less familiar, or completely unknown and unheard. A selection of these insights is also published in the exhibition catalogue.
Through this intricate combination of expressive media, Touch-Sensitive offers an opportunity to discover or re-experience the enchanting power of jewellery in all of its traditional, modern, and innovative forms, diverse materials, and techniques.
The exhibition Touch-sensitive, held at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Riga (Latvian National Museum of Art) in spring 2024, has been an excellent example of fruitful cooperation between artists and the museum, and has earned us the honour of receiving the Latvian public media annual award, A Kilogram of Culture 2024. Now, in spring 2025, the Lithuanian audience will have an opportunity to discover more about contemporary jewellery art in Latvia. We would like to thank our colleagues from the Lithuanian National Museum of Art for making it possible to present the exhibition at the Museum of Applied Arts and Design in Vilnius.
Artists: Māris Auniņš, Jānis Brants, Valdis Brože, Vladislavs Čistjakovs, Anna Fanigina, Aleksandra Federika Krastiņa, Ginta Grūbe, Andris Lauders, Guntis Lauders, Una Mikuda, Rasma Pušpure, Pēteris Ripa, Mārīte Rudzāte, Anita Savicka, Laura Selecka, Gints Strēlis, Jelizaveta Suska, Daria Svirel, Māris Šustiņš, Paula Treimane, Zane Vilka, Jānis Vilks, Maija Vītola-Zitmane
Curators: Ginta Grūbe, Zane Vilka, Latvian Jewellery Art Association
Scenography: Ilze Ķēniņa, Uldis Timoško
Photography: Mārtiņš Cīrulis
Sound installation: Pēteris Pass
Graphic design: Eltons Kūns
Exhibition team, Museum of Decorative Arts and Design:
Inese Baranovska, Līga Brice, Modris Esserts, Līva Kubulniece, Dace Ļaviņa
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3A Arsenalo st, Vilnius, Lithuania
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