The Pinakothek der Moderne shows jewellery 
by Warwick Freeman.

The exhibition runs from 15 March 2025 to 15 June 2025.
It is open from Tuesday to Sunday
from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
On Thursdays, it is even open until 8 p.m. 
On Mondays, the exhibition is closed.

The opening is on 14 March 2025 at 7 p.m. at:

Pinakothek der Moderne
Barer Straße 40
80333 Munich

Warwick Freeman from New Zealand influences
many jewellery artists from all over the world.
He is convinced that symbols and shapes
are more powerful than words.
For 50 years, he has worked on a dictionary of symbols that
exist in the world.
Hook, Hand, Heart and Star are examples of these symbols.
You can find them in almost all cultures,
but they do not have the same meaning everywhere.

For his jewellery work, Warwick Freeman explores
the culture and history of New Zealand.
The Māori word for New Zealand is: Aotearoa.
The Māori are the native people of New Zealand.
The Māori call the descendants of European immigrants Pākehā.
Warwick Freeman is also a Pākehā.

Today, New Zealand’s culture is
a mix of the different cultures in the southern Pacific area.
The Pacific is one of the world’s large oceans.
The cultures include those of the Māori and the Pākehā.

Therefore, Warwick Freeman thinks a lot about these questions:
How does the mix of different cultures
influence the personal lives of the people in New Zealand?
And how do they see themselves?
You can see these thoughts in Warwick Freeman’s jewellery.

For his jewellery, he uses shapes from everyday life,
from the past and from New Zealand’s landscape.
Warwick Freeman finds many materials in nature.
For example: the mother-of-pearl from a pearl oyster or
the inside of a paua shell.
Or he uses a special green stone from the island.
He is also inspired by old stories from the Māori.

Who is Warwick Freeman?
Warwick Freeman was born in New Zealand in 1953.
He creates jewellery since 1972.
In 1982, he took part in a training.
Hermann Jünger from Munich gave the training in New Zealand.
He was a goldsmith and a professor at
the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

At the time, Warwick Freeman was
an important member of Fingers.
Fingers is a group of jewellery artists in
the city of Auckland in New Zealand.
For Warwick Freeman, the redesign of jewellery from New Zealand
was particularly important.
Since then, he takes part in international exhibitions.
In 2002, he won 2 very important art awards for his jewellery.

Die Neue Sammlung invited him in 2013.
He gave a fantastic speech about his artistic work at
the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.
In 2014, he organised an exhibition together with
the jewellery artist Karl Fritsch.
At first, the exhibition was at Galerie Handwerk in Munich.
This is German and means handicraft gallery.
Later, the exhibition was shown at
the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki in New Zealand.

In 2004, Warwick Freeman became the first chairman of
the public gallery Objectspace in Auckland.
It displays design, art and architecture.

You can find the artistic work of Warwick Freeman
in public and private collections in New Zealand and
in other countries.
You can also see his work in many museums around the world.
The exhibition at Die Neue Sammlung is a collaboration of:
• Objectspace, New Zealand
• Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, Munich

For the Pinakothek der Moderne, it is the first exhibition of
a jewellery artist from New Zealand.
These people organised the exhibition together:
• Warwick Freeman
• Kim Paton, director of Objectspace
• Dr. Bronwyn Llyod, employee of Objectspace
• Dr. Petra Hölscher, employee of Die Neue Sammlung

We want to thank these institutions 
for their generous support:
• Creative New Zealand
• Museumsstiftung zur Förderung der Staatlichen Bayerischen Museen – Vermächtnis Christof und Ursula Engelhorn
• Stout Trust, New Zealand

The exhibition on the second floor is wheelchair accessible. 

If you have a visual impairment, please bring a companion.

There is a tour in German and in Easy German.
You can find information about these tours
on your mobile phone in the Pinakothek der Moderne app.
You can download the app here. 

However, the information in the app is not in Easy-to-read.

There is a catalogue with many pictures to go with the exhibition.
It is published by arnoldsche Art Publishers in Stuttgart.
Inhouse designed the catalogue.
Inhouse is a design studio in the city of Auckland in New Zealand.

When and where else can you attend the exhibition?
• In December 2025, you can see the exhibitionat Objectspace in the city of Auckland in New Zealand.
• In July 2026, the exhibition will be at The Dowse Art Museum in
the city of Wellington in New Zealand.

Where can you get more information?
• In the press office of Pinakothek der Moderne.
This is their email address: presse@pinakothek.de
• From Dr. Petra Hölscher from Die Neue Sammlung.

This is her email address: Petra.Hoelscher@die-neue-sammlung.de
• From Victoria McAdam from Objectspace.
This is her email address: victoria@objectspace.org.nz