9.

Christie Schellings

I think we need the word “contemporary” to let the audience know that we are different from the others, and the fact that we need a name to be understood is a pity. Perhaps there will be a time that we don’t need a title to be good in what we do. The only one who can make a difference are the jewellery designers themselves.   

The question, what is contemporary jewelry is easy to answer. Everything what is made these days by a jewellery designer is contemporary.

My piece of jewellery is a poster of all the jewellery that we have made. With the silver frames you can choose the best part of the poster. You'll always make a choice with more than one design in it. You can wear a combination of contemporary jewellery, because we are contemporary!

10.

Anne Büscher

Can we talk about jewellery if a digital picture is the only reference to the physical existence of an object?
The only body-relation we have with the jewellery is looking at it – neither wear nor touch it.
Nowadays we are used to trust in the existence of things we can only access through using screens. However, actually it's nothing more than a lot of “ones and zeros” pretending to be objects.

11.

Joske Schim

Contemporary for me:

It is something of the present. But what happens right now, is no longer present. 

Contemporary is impermanent. Just like food. 

What you ate this morning, will be gone the next day.

Even the next meal.

I made this cupping glass which you can wear to show your impermanence, by carrying your meal with you. Every single day.

12.

Mariska van Dijk

Jewellery is no more only a manufactured handicraft, the computer plays an increasingly important role in the creation of jewellery, and these techniques change fast.

By working with new techniques and materials you can create a new dimension to jewellery, but also to other forms of body related jewellery.

Contemporary jewellery means to me a renewal of techniques, materials and the present moment.

I created a necklace at the time of making, so for me it is the present moment. Instead of printing a jewelry on paper, I printed a necklace directly on the skin, only this necklace doesn't exist long.

At this moment, when you’re watching this series of photo’s the piece is no longer here.

This series gives me the temporary represent of contemporary jewellery in which the necklace in the course of time disappears.

13.

Anika Gwosdz

Contemporary is like a glimpse of light.

  You can try to catch it just for a short moment.

14.

Anne de Vries

Dear Phone,

You are so smart,

you complete me.

Together we are perfect.

I was common to use you only in case of emergency,

but now you have become my alter ego,

my virtual identity, my agenda, my network.

You mean the world to me.

You are the accessory,

I am wearing everydag.

There is no life without you.

I am stuck on you,

we have become one.

Love,

I.Phowner

15.

Rowan Falchi

Feelings are contemporary.
A lot of people use social media to explore their feelings to the outside world.
These feelings are allmost always positive. We get a twisted image from people.
This jewellery is made for those people.
You can write your feelings down with a non-permanent marker. On the outside you can write your good feelings, feelings that you want to share with everyone. On the inside you can write your bad feelings that you don’t want to share with the outside world.  You can update your jewelry every moment, that’s why this is contemporary.

16.

Romina Hermans

'For me Contemporary is anything that is here and now but temporary, 
something that decays.


I am Contemporary.'

17.

Lidwien Deuss

(con)TEMPORARY

This bracelet is the state of mind for the present.

People nowadays love to wear beautiful jewellery and they like to showoff with it, but a year later the ‘new jewellery’ is just an old thing that they used to wear and the modern people want something new.

The stones from the bracelet are made from milk and vinegar, this is a way of making bioplastic. This is not something that wil last forever, and it wil slowly biodegrade itself, so  when the new stones become old, you can just replace them for new things and then you have a whole new bracelet!  It’s environmentally conscious, It’s easy to repoduce it is temporary and mostimportant: CONTEMPORARY

18.

Chrissie Pepels

I am contemporary

I make the timeless temporary

the presence disappear

the living die

Collar made of wool and sternocera beetle wings

19.

Maartje de Kam

Goudkoers 12-03-2012 €41,80 per gram

20.

Ilona Brand

Contemporary. Digital and fast. I went back to the basics of the digital world. Binary codes, only ones and zeros. That’s the communication of now. Simple but effective. On the broche I designed you can see the word ‘Contemporary’ in binary code.

 Material: Silver and transparent acrylate.

21.

Artur Ziaja

concept: 

Jewellery is food for the soul

working method: 

intuitive coincidence

Material: 

Aluminum

22.

Babs Zwanink

‘Gebakken lucht’

For me contemporary jewellery is everything and nothing at the same time. It doesn’t have a definition and because of that it will never become clear on what’s it all about.

Because of these confusions I came up with a Dutch phrase: 
‘Gebakken lucht’  
(literal translation is baked air). It’s something what’s actually real but made bigger and unclear then the real essence of contemporary jewellery.

In a broche I attempted to catch the baked air and store it. In the end it turned out that it was as unreachable as contemporary jewellery itself.  

23.

Kari Bosch

Nowadays, everything has to be ecologically sound. It has become a trend to live your life as 'green' as possible, as if it's some kind of competition. What's even better; making other people aware of the fact that we, humans, have to save our delicate planet from the slowly impending doom which we have brought upon it ourselves. This 'Green Piece' of jewelry allows you to do just that. While wearing it around your neck, everywhere you go you will be able to leave a Mobius Loop, which is generally understood to be the international sign for recycling. Take that, pollution!

We are contemporary