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Galerie Marzee – contemporary art jewellery

Saturday 12 September 2026 at 4pm

Join us for the opening of 40th edition of the Marzee International Graduate Show

Saturday 12 September 2026 at 4pm

94 participants from 40 schools ... click here for more in depth information...

Galerie Marzee invites you to the opening of the 40th Marzee International Graduate Show.

Join us on Saturday 12 September 2026 at 16:00 to celebrate a new generation of international jewellery artists. This anniversary edition brings together recent graduates from academies and universities around the world, presenting new  perspectives on contemporary jewellery.

For four decades, the Marzee International Graduate Show has offered an important first international platform to emerging makers. We look forward to welcoming the participating artists, their teachers, friends, collectors, colleagues, and all those interested in discovering new talent. 

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The 40th Marzee International Graduate Show

The Marzee International Graduate Show is Galerie Marzee’s annual survey of emerging contemporary jewellery artists. It is both an exhibition and an early-career platform: selected recent graduates gain international visibility, meet peers, present their work publicly, and may be considered for the Marzee Graduate Prize. Rather than merely displaying degree-show outcomes, the exhibition puts emerging makers into contact with collectors, curators, galleries, fellow artists, and the specialist public. Its aim is to support a new generation of jewellery artists, broaden public exposure, and prompt dialogue between makers and wearers.

Participating graduates also take part in a one-day symposium, where they introduce their work and discuss inspirations, ambitions, and the transition from the supportive environment of art school into professional practice.

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Selection and participation

The selection focuses on the strongest graduating work from jewellery, metal, and related object courses internationally. The 2026 participant list included schools across Australia, Belgium, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, South Korea, the United Kingdom, United States and many other countries. Over 90 graduates from 40 academies will participate in this anniversary edition of the Marzee International Graduate Show.

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Graduate Prize

Each year, Marzee awards the Marzee Graduate Prize to several participants judged especially promising. Prize recipients receive a one-week residency at the Ravary estate in Belgium; work made there is subsequently exhibited in the following year’s Graduate Show.

For the 2025 show, Marzee Graduate Prize recipients included Chun Chang, Won-Young Choi, Jeong-Min Han, Susie Heuberger, Chidimma Omeke, Marleen Wysocki, and Jinjin Zhang.

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The 40th Marzee International Graduate Show opens on Saturday 12 September 2026 at 16:00 and runs until 17 November 2026.

It would be a pleasure to welcome you to the opening of this anniversary edition of the Marzee International Graduate Show.

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Previous exhibitions in Galerie Marzee

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Upcoming exhibitions in 2026:

12 September until 17 November 2026: Marzee Graduate Show 2026
31 October until 7 November 2026: PAN Amsterdam (fair)
21 November 2026 until 2 February 2027:
- group-exhibition remembering Marjan Unger - Bij twijfel doen! (When in doubt, do it!)
- Carmen Hauser
- Alumni Wismar - then and now
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Ted Noten presenting his exhibition

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Dorothea Prühl concept for the necklace 'Small Birds' 2026

This video is a brief explanation by Dorothea Prühl of the concept behind her necklace Kleine Vögel (Small Birds) to Marie-José van den Hout of Galerie Marzee. The necklace has been presented for the first time during FRAME – SCHMUCK 2026 in Munich from 4 to 8 March 2026. Two months prior to the final version Dorothea Prühl lays out the idea for the necklace with the main elements of the necklace. The final necklace remains the same, only the final arrangement and number of birds is different from the initial concept, with four small birds instead of five. The birds’ mutual movement, as if rushing through each other to quickly eat food from the ground (or table because that is where Dorothea places the food when she is in her workshop in Augustenberg) is the cental idea. A photo of the finished necklace can be seen at the end of the video.
Please note that native subtitles of this video are in German which can be auto-translated to  English.

Juliane Brandes' exhibition The Noise of Time

…a man who leaves with a suitcase is a man with a chance of returning… Juliane Brandes’ exhibition ‘The Noise of Time’ which is on display at Galerie Marzee from 31 January until 7 April 2026, is inspired by the novel with the same name by Julian Barnes, written in 2016. The book by Julian Barnes is a fictional novel about the life of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich who lived under the dictatorship of Stalin and Khrushchev. The book covers many subjects like art, politics, totalitarianism, terror and freedom.
“Art belongs to everybody and nobody. Art belongs to all time and no time. Art belongs to those who create it and those who savour it. Art no more belongs to the People and the Party than it once belonged to the aristocracy and the patron. Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.”
Both jewellery and sculpture, Juliane Brandes’ work has a spirited, naturalistic quality but always with a twist. The inventive wit of the surreal, small creatures and objects of much of her earlier work have now metamorphosed into something at once more earthy and more other-worldly.
Juliane Brandes was born in Hamburg in Germany in 1962. After completing her goldsmiths’ training, she studied jewellery at Hochschule Pforzheim and has taught at the city’s Berufskolleg für Design, Schmuck und Gerät since 1991. Her work is widely exhibited and can be seen in the collections of the Schmuckmuseum in Pforzheim, the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt, Dallas Museum of Art, the Alice and Louis Koch collection at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich, The Rotasa Collection in the US as well as in the Marzee Collection.

Hares exhibition in the Glass House 31.1 until 7.4.2026

The hare is a widely used symbol in art and literature. The hare of Albrecht Dürer from 1502 is probably the most famous depiction of a hare. Joseph Beuys also used the symbolism of the hare in his influential 1965 performance entitled ‘Wie man dem toten Hasen die Bilder erklärt’. In the Marzee Collection there are many pieces of jewellery depicting hares and for this exhibition we have asked our artists for an object or jewellery with this theme.
The exhibition features new work, made especially for this exhibition and already existing work from the Marzee Collection.
You can see work by, among others: Lili Barglowska, Ela Bauer, Nicole Beck, Iris Bodemer, Jonathan Boyd, Juliane Brandes, Antje Bräuer, Tim Carson, David Clarke, Katrin Feulner, Kathleen Fink, Carmen Hauser, Herman Hermsen, Susie Heuberger, David Huycke, Margit Jäschke, Levan Jishkariani, Karin Johansson, Hee-ang Kim, Rudolf Kocéa, Winfried Krüger, Susanne Kunz, Otto Künzli, Felieke van der Leest, Erik Lijzenga, Stefano Marchetti, Christine Matthias, Märta Mattsson, Chequita Nahar, Ted Noten, Carla Nuis, Annelies Planteijdt, Dorothea Prühl, Ulrich Reithofer, Tabea Reulecke, Pedro Sequeira, Karin Seufert, Vera Siemund, Adi Toch, Karola Torkos, Vivi Touloumidi and Andrea Wippermann.
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