July 02, 2018

On tour. Jewelry. Bröhan-Museum. 2 x 68

Author:

Petra Hölscher

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Invitationcards, „Jablonec 68. Der Ost-West-Schmuckgipfel“ and „Das französische Grafikerkollektiv Grapus“, Bröhan-Museum, 2018.
Design: Gerwin Schmidt
With “2 × 68”, the Bröhan Museum is focussing on the impact of the ’68 movement on design after 50 years.

Jablonec ’68. The East-West-Jewelry-Summit

The exhibition is part of the double exhibition “2 × 68”.

In collaboration with Die Neue Sammlung the Bröhan-Museum dedicates an exhibition to this unique moment in the history of studio jewelry and for the first time since 1968 will display works that were created at the time.

Due to the Prague Spring of 1968, jewelry artists from eastern and Western europe alike were able to follow the invitation of the Czechoslovakian Artists’ Association to come together in the North-Bohemian city of Jablonec nad nisou for the first summit of european jewelry artists; artists that today are celebrated as the originators of studio jewelry. In the course of the four-week symposium, they created exceptional and visionary works out of silver, glass, slate, and semi-precious stones.
Half a century after Jablonec ’68, seventy pieces of jewelry will be displayed that the Muzeum skla a bižuterie (Museum for glass and jewelry) in Jablonec nad Nisou has preserved until today.

The exhibition at Bröhan-Museum
Left: Invitation card "Jablonec 68: Der Ost-West-Schmuckgipfel" (Jablonec 68: The East-West Jewellery Summit): Jewellery object framed by a white painted frame, box with handwritten information about the exhibition at the bottom. On the right, invitation card "Das französische Grafikerkollektiv Grapus" with colourful superimposed photograph of a man with 2 speech bubbles: "ich bin ein Pariser" and "ALLEZ-Y DE MA PART!..."
Invitationcards, „Jablonec 68. Der Ost-West-Schmuckgipfel“ and „Das französische Grafikerkollektiv Grapus“, Bröhan-Museum, 2018.
Design: Gerwin Schmidt
Exterior view of the Bröhan-Museum in Berlin.
Bröhan-Museum in Berlin.
Photo: Bröhan-Museum

Exhibition:
2 x 68
Location: Bröhan-Museum, Berlin

July 05 – October 17 2018
Jablonec 68 – Der Ost-West-Schmuckgipfel

July 05 – October 3 2018
Das Französische Grafikerkollektiv Grapus

External exhibitions

View of the exhibition. Objects on a light-coloured pedestal with circular floor plans (green container, red metal shelf, brown wooden side table, behind it an ‘advertising pillar’ (a pillar placed on the pavement of streets to which posters are stuck) and a cast iron stove.
View of objects from the exhibition Double up!, 2022.
Photo: Annette Kradisch

Double Up!

The new exhibition on the ground floor continues the partnership between the Neues Museum and the Neue Sammlung. Art and design meet, complement one another, and multiply the ways of looking at a theme: design objects, sculptures, photographs, paintings, ceramics and textiles enter into correspondence and shape new content:

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  • Curated by:

    Dr. Petra Hölscher, Die Neue Sammlung

  • Exhibition design at Bröhan-Museum:

    Katleen Arthen