A pool in the Ocean
6
October
18
Highlights
- Movie Night |
- Panel Talk - On collective practices in the jewellery field |
75001 , PARIS
Informations
closed on Monday
A Pool in the Ocean is the third collaborative project by The Pool Amsterdam Jewelry Collective and its most structurally complex. Sixteen members each engage in two one-on-one collaborations, creating pieces that form an interconnected web. No maker works in isolation; each is both a starting point and a continuation, linking all through shared making.
Inspired by H₂O, the project shows how singular bonds expand into a cohesive whole. The title evokes drops of water merging into a fluid, unified body—both distinct and immersed. Each collaboration forms a bond; together they create a system in motion.
The project explores the intersection of intimacy and collectivity: individual exchanges shaped by personal chemistry yet inseparable from the larger structure. The exhibition becomes a wearable diagram of community, tracing connections and showing how practices are held together through relationship.
Artists
Born 1956 Rotterdam-NL
Working in Biezelinge-NL
Annelies is working on a piece with Jiyai Lao and another one with Cat Priem
I am working on involving time and transformation in my work, through perception, thinking and acting i am trying to show the transition in between these dimensions. Each time you see two fases of one necklace: the fase of invention and the fase of wearing the piece. I am fascinated by the difference that appears in the transition from one to the other. By wearing the necklace you make it to your own, but you don’t lose it’s basic structure, you can restore it whenever you want to. Time goes on repeating itself differently.
France, 1995
Caroline is working on a piece with Martina Turini and another one with Ela Bauer
Caroline is an artist inspired by wilderness. She’s translating her dialogue with nature into her pieces. She’s trying to improve human awareness on natural entities surrounding people every single minute of their everyday life.
Oostvoorrne, Pays-Bas
Cat is working on a piece with Hisashi Shibata and another one with Stefanie Verhoef
Cat’s world of wonder is populated by cartoonish creatures whose aristocratic roots become apparent in the classical craftlanship. Her style is a flamboyant marriage of maxilism, organic shapes and smooth, slick lines. Materials used are silver, gold, pearl, gemstones combined with less common ones.
Varsaw, 1962, Poland
live and work in Amsterdam, NL
Ela is working on a piece with Stefanie Verhoef and another one with Caroline Bach.
As colour is often the first given you perceive and experience, before interpreting, it is a powerful vehicle of moods and atmospheres. The materials she often works with -mainly different sorts of resins- enable her to create infinite colour-pallets with different tactile qualities.
Den Bosch, 1962, NL
Live and work in Amsterdam
Floor is working on a piece with Gabriella Goldsmith and another one with Sophia Zobel.
Floor chose a specific material to explore in full scope, for many years she has worked with nylon fiber.
Using heat she builds forms, sometimes natural like pebbles, sometimes mathematical structures like grids. Colouring the transparent material adds to the brilliance of the necklaces, brooches and ear jewellery. Wearing these delicate looking, but in fact very strong structures, makes them sparkle and catches the eye.
Based in Cophenaghen
Gabriella is working on a piece with Floor Mommersteeg.
Gabriella primarily works with bead and weave techniques to achieve fabric-like material. She touches on themes such as the deception of texture, surrealism and witty humor, occasionally combining them all into either bigger statement pieces to her more wearable subtle sculptural pieces.
Born in China
Works an live in Rotterdam, NL
Jiayi is working on a piece with Annelies Planteijdt and another one with Iris Nieuwenberg.
Inspired by the timeless glow of light, shaped by a childhood among mountains and rivers, her hands carry nature’s rhythm, while ancient totems and inscriptions fuel her curiosity. She seeks to create pieces that connect past and present, tradition and innovation, inviting the wearer to discover their own meaning within each piece.
Born in the Netherlands,
Works and live in Rotterdam
Iris is working on a piece with Jiayi Lao and another one with Paul Derrez.
Iris Nieuwenburg is a Dutch visual artist and jewellery maker. Since 2002 she has developed an autonomous practice in which the jewel functions as a carrier of memory, body and space. Her work moves between wearable sculpture and spatial object, focusing on material layering, narrative and the intimate relationship between object and wearer.
Paris, 1994, France
Works and live in Paris
Marguerite is working on a piece with Morgane de Klerk and another one with Sophia Zobel.
Marguerite Bones is parisian jeweller with a toe in Amsterdam. After studying graphic design she encounters jewellery at the Rietveld Academie. Her work is a tool for exploring sensations, creating mini-weapons that tickle the skin, ornements chasing the flesh, toys that articulate stones.
Born in Turin 1990, Italy
Lives in Paris
Martina is working on a piece with Caroline Bach and another one with Triin Kukk.
Her handcrafted jewelry combines formal simplicity, ascribable to the taste of Nordic countries to an exuberant materiality echoing to the Italian and Mediterranean craftsmanship traditions.
FR/NL
Based in Amsterdam
Morgane is working on a piece with Marguerite Bones and another one with Triin Kukk.
Morgane is a research-driven jewellery maker who likes to question the codes and materiality of the (contemporary) jewellery field. Although her starting point often comes from a conceptual idea, her working method involves intuition and a personal sense of colours. For The Pool, she offers limited-edition multiples that combine (hand) craft and production techniques.
1991, Born and based in the Netherlands
Sophia is working on a piece with Marguerite Bones and another one with Floor Mommersteeg.
With her mind focused on the soil beneath our feet, Sophia studies European symbology in stories and reclaims them in her work. Coming fr om a landscape with hardly any native stone, she questions what material identity means in the Netherlands and who decides what counts as precious.
1988, Based in The Netherlands
Stefanie is working on a piece with Ela Bauer and another one with Hisashi Shibata.
While looking for original and innovative contrasts, Stefanie combines concept with craft, creating rough edged yet intricate pieces. By looking for unusual opposites and balancing them together, all interacting elements can fully show their potential and form a story. She plays with unconventional stone setting, use of color, materials and shapes, all together defining her unique aesthetic.
1950, Sittard, the Netherlands.
Works and lives in Amsterdam.
Paul is working on a piece with Iris Nieuwenberg.
His work is made for men and women, pronounced, gay or theatrical, meant to honour and to celebrate life. His works are clear in design and construction, in general hand-crafted, but also with laser-cutting. His favorite materials are silver and acrylic, often used in combination. Paul Derrez shows here remakes of and variations on his older designs, produced in numbers, available in a range of bright colours. Paul is keen on wearability and affordability.
1990, Estonia
Works and lives in Amsterdam
Triin is working on a piece with Morgane de Klerk and another one with Martina Turini.
Triin’s work celebrates boredom and highlights the invisible. The focus of her artwork lies on observation of the everyday and discovering something new in it. The artist is intrigued by vague shifts and emphasizing the secondary aspects.
Born in Japan,
Works and live in Amsterdam
Hisashi is working on a piece with Cat Priem and another one with Stefanie Verhoef
Shinka means evolution and true value in Japanese. Today digitally designed products dominate the market. Shinka questions this trend and designs with his bare hands to awaken a new evolution of true value.
