After a remarkable first edition in Monaco in November 2024, Jewel, the unmissable event for international jewelry, takes up its winter quarters in Gstaad, Switzerland, from February 14 to 16, 2025.
Founded by Vanessa Margowski et Delphine Pastor-Reiss, Jewel stands out from traditional trade fairs by highlighting jewelry as an artistic discipline in its own right. This fair brings together prestigious galleries, renowned houses, and bold designers specializing in antique, vintage, contemporary, and artist jewelry.
A bold vision of art and jewelry
Bound by a long-standing friendship and a shared passion for art and design, Vanessa Margowski et Delphine Pastor-Reiss left their mark on the Monegasque cultural landscape by founding the gallery in 2005 11ColumbiaThis pioneering space, dedicated to contemporary art and design, has established itself as a benchmark, collaborating with renowned galleries such as Jousse Entreprise, Air de Paris, Esther Schipper, Nilufar, Franco Noero, Kreo, Downtown Laffanour and Galleria O.
With specialized training in the art market, Vanessa Margowski honed his expertise working for prestigious auction houses Tajan and Artcurial. For its part, Delphine Pastor-Reiss has established itself as knowledgeable collector, exploring the new frontiers of design and contemporary art.
Their fascination with jewelry and their thirst to reinvent this world led them to found Jewel, an avant-garde trade show dedicated to jewelry excellence and creative innovation. More than just an event, Jewel embodies an innovative vision that elevates jewelry to the status of an art in its own right, highlighting its cultural heritage, its artistic inspirations and its dialogues with other disciplines. Through this unique approach, they push back traditional boundaries and offer collectors and enthusiasts an immersion in a world where expertise and contemporary creation meet.
A traveling vocation for exceptional jewelry
Beyond a simple commercial presentation, Joya offers an immersive and cultural experience, where jewelry dialogues with art, architecture and history.
Conceived as a traveling show, Jewel is part of an international journey, choosing emblematic destinations prized by lovers and collectors of fine jewelry. After the excitement of Monaco, it is in the heart of Swiss alps, in the very chic resort of Gstaad, that the show will set up shop for a unique edition. Integrated into a week rich in cultural events, in resonance with the Maze Art Gstaad, Jewel will invest in a place as unusual as it is exceptional: a former snowplow warehouse, redesigned for the occasion as a temporary setting.
In this space transformed into an artistic and experimental laboratory, five jewelry designers internationally famous will present unique pieces and limited series: Eliane Fattal, Gabrielle Greiss, Dorothée Potocka, Cora Sheibani and Elie Top.
A dialogue between jewelry, architecture and photography
After reinterpreting the space of the Arts Hall at One Monte-Carlo, the Swiss agency Christ & Gantenbein continues its architectural exploration in Gstaad. Playing on the contrasts between raw space and the preciousness of the pieces on display, the agency pushes the boundaries of jewelry display.
In addition, the exhibition will host the work of the visual artist Julien Carreyn, which will reveal a vision uchronic and enigmatic of the jewelry world through a series of unique photographs. This contemporary perspective enriches the narration of the show and inscribes Jewel in a bold and avant-garde artistic approach.
Julien Carreyn: an artistic exploration of images and perceptions
Indeed, Julien Carreyn develops a unique artistic practice, centered on the creation and organization of images. His work transcends disciplines, encompassing photography, film, and painting, with no hierarchy between these different mediums. His visual universe, both eclectic and meticulously constructed, draws inspiration from art history, cinema, electronic music, as well as more underground territories such as 1970s erotic comics and manga.
His recent creations explore the memory of a French childhood, featuring landscapes of rural villages, abandoned municipal halls, and youth hostels. These places, often inhabited by nude figures, become visual focal points, oscillating between familiarity and mystery.
The artist subtly plays with blur, creating a distance from both his subjects and the viewer. This approach gives his works an enigmatic and contemplative atmosphere, where the image becomes a terrain for questioning and reinventing the gaze.
Exhibitions and Collections
Julien Carreyn has exhibited his work in many famous artistic events, notably at the Crèvecœur gallery in Paris visit us at the Palais de Tokyo, as well as Nice BiennaleHis works are part of prestigious public collections, such as the National Center for Plastic Arts (CNAP), FRAC Île-de-France, and the Contemporary Art Fund – Paris Collections.
Among his notable exhibitions, we can cite “Jeanne Cals and the pharmacies of the Sacré-Coeur” in 2020 at the Crèvecœur gallery. In this series, he deploys a set of wooden structures, embellished with gouache, Indian ink and acrylic on cardboard, integrating instant photographs and thermal prints.
Always in search of new explorations, Julien Carreyn questions the relationship between images and their perception, blurring the lines and renewing our way of understanding visual representation.
With this Swiss stopover, the show Jewel asserts its identity as an exceptional traveling event, combining know-how, creativity and innovation in prestigious and unexpected locations, where jewelry and art intersect and constantly reinvent themselves.
Patrick Koune
JOYA Salon
Thoenen AG – Sportzentrumstrasse 11
Gstaad – Switzerland
February 14 – 15 from 15 PM to 20 PM (3 PM - 8 PM)
February 16 from 13 PM to 18 PM (1 PM - 6 PM)
