Museum of Applied Arts and Design invites to touch and to sense contemporary Latvian jewellery
Exhibition opening at 5 pm Friday, 11 April 2025
Museum of Applied Arts and Design of the LNMA invites to the opening of an exhibition of contemporary Latvian jewellery, Touch- sensitive. The exhibition tells stories of people and their adornments, and of the artists who have designed these pieces. On display are the jewellery collections by the members of the Latvian Jewellery Art Association together with the portraits of their models selected by the artists. The exhibition will be on at the museum until 30 June.
“The exhibition bringing together the strongest jewellery artists in Latvia is the first such scale event of Latvian jewellery in Lithuania since the reestablishment of independence. In Latvia it received a very positive reception and we are happy to present it abroad,” says Ginta Grube, jewellery artist and co-curator of the exhibition, also a member of the Latvian Jewellery Art Association Board.
“A piece of jewellery is a tiny miracle that contains the code of the artist’s biggest secret: their uniqueness, search for individuality and discoveries, memories and dreams. This is what the narratives in the Latvian jewellery exhibition Touch-sensitive are about,” Džiuljeta Žiugždienė, director of the Museum of Applied Arts and Design, says.
The relationship of the jewellery pieces and their owners
We can touch and be touched physically or spiritually. It is this subtle exchange of energy going on between people. There is a unique history behind each of the jewellery pieces, it reflects the experience and emotions of the artist on the way from the conception of an idea to its realization. When this new piece meets its owner, the story goes on.
The exhibition shows jewellery collections produced by 23 members of the Latvian Jewellery Art Association alongside with the portraits of their models selected by the artists. The ornaments were created for doctors, teachers, students, family and colleagues, finally, some of them are artists’ own. By telling their compelling stories, the wearers of these jewellery pieces have voiced their thoughts and feelings, they answered the artists’ questions. These sound recordings with their answers reveal interesting, often unexpected, perspective on the relationship of the jewellery and their owners, reflecting also different aspects in a person. The space of the exhibition is filled with voices, which before were less familiar, unknow or are by someone who did not have any voice. Part of these insights are reflected in the exhibition catalogue.
This exhibition is an opportunity to discover or rediscover the enchanting power of jewellery, its traditional, modern and state-of-the-art forms of it, the diversity of materials and jewellery crafting techniques.
The exhibition Touch-sensitive presented in the spring of 2024 in Riga by the Decorative Arts and Design Museum of the Latvian National Museum of Art has become a splendid example of fruitful collaboration between the artists and the museum and won the prestigious award by the Latvian public media A Kilogramme of Culture 2024. This spring the visitors to the Lithuanian museums can discover in greater detail the contemporary Latvian jewellery art.
The exhibition Touch-sensitive is open for visitors from 11 April through 30 June at the Museum of Applied Arts and Design of the LNMA (Arsenalo St 3-A, Vilnius)
Organizers: Decorative Arts and Design Museum, Latvian Jewellery Art Association
Curators: Ginta Grūbe, Zane Vilka, Latvian Jewellery Art Association
Coordinator Jurgita Ludavičienė
In partnership with the Lithuanian National Museum of Art
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
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.
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3A Arsenalo st, Vilnius, Lithuania
+370 5 212 1813;
+370 5 261 25 48; +370 5 262 80 80.
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