#1 WKND: 31 October – 2 November
#2 WKND: 7 – 9 November
#3 WKND: 14 – 16 November
#4 WKND: 21 – 23 November
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OBSESSED! Jewellery Festival
OBSESSED! focuses on jewellery-related exhibitions, lectures, workshops and open studios – in a programme put together by Current Obsession.
OBSESSED! runs 1—30 November in various cities across the Netherlands and Belgium, accompanied by a free newspaper edition and an interactive webpage.
A bit of history
OBSESSED! began as an attempt to connect a number of significant, yet uncoordinated jewellery events (exhibitions, fairs and symposia) occurring throughout The Netherlands in November 2017.
The aim was to achieve a larger cultural impact by uniting these events and institutions (such as Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk Museum, CODA Museum, Design Museum Den Bosch, among others) into one programme under one name, and inviting local and international artists and public to join in.
With the guidance and support of Marjan Unger (art historian, author of the book Jewellery Matters), Ruudt Peters (internationally renown jewellery artist) and other members of the community, Current Obsession began setting up the festival’s framework.
The Festival aims to boost public interest towards the local artistic jewellery scene and to help re-establish The Netherlands as a leading creative force in the field of contemporary jewellery, underpinning rich history of innovation, experimentation and fresh ideas.
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Plan Your Trip
There are so many ways to do OBSESSED!, with truly something for every palate. Short on time? Spend a Day in a Workshop! Prefer to promenade? Hop on the Museum Path! You can jump in and Get Involved with events designed for a participatory and hands-on experience, or shed the white cube and explore jewellery in informal and intimate surroundings, with Impromptu Encounters. Let us be your guide for a personalised take on OBSESSED!
Coming soon! The OBSESSED! guides ✨
Talk to us!
Email: obsessed@current-obsession.com
OBSESSED! Team:
Marina Elenskaya — Creative Direction
Maritte Joseph — Project Management
Nadine Helmy – Communications Manager & Obsessed Coordinator
Margaret Munchheimer — Obsessed! Paper Editor
Sonia Grecka — Graphic Design
Sven Raju & Ranno Ait — Website Design
Frank Verkade — Partnerships
Babette Kolff — Business Coordinator
Jake Finan — Business Administrator
Vincent Wagner — Visuals and Identity
Matthias Kispert — Sound Design
Programme Management:
isabel wang pontoppidan, Kalkidan Hoex, Jonathan Ho — Core Work Group
Astrid Ubbink, Hannah van den Elzen, Kelly van Gemert — Festival Ambassadors
We thank all the participants!
Keen to know more about the OBSESSED! selection guidelines?
OBSESSED! Jewellery Festival is an initiative that carefully strings together various jewellery related events throughout the Netherlands and Belgium. In order to create as widely accessible a programme as possible, we reserve the option to include or prioritise applications, which are in alignment with the OBSESSED! spirit and the following ideals:
- Multidisciplinarity: The festival programming invites a multidisciplinary approach, including all manner of events from the full spectrum of the jewellery universe.
- Accessibility: We encourage events which allow accessibility for the general public, and reserve the right not to include proposals which focus too narrowly in any niche of interest as to discourage participation on a wider scale.
- Community: The festival aims to foster and strengthen a sense of community from within the field of jewellery. Therefore, we encourage and may prioritise group exhibitions, collective practices, collaboration and cooperation between multiple artists, etc.
- Relevance: In keeping with the festival’s objective to respond to and amplify voices within the field, we actively work to address common themes which we observe to be of particular urgency and interest to broad segments of the jewellery community at a given time.
As facilitators and coordinators, our main focus and attention goes toward providing digital and printed communication, and providing the information necessary to connect all interested parties, to give the visitors the best possible festival. For this reason, we will also prioritise those artists who have a secured location or leads for locations for their event first, before providing whatever assistance we may be able to offer to less comprehensive proposals.
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