How do jewellery and architecture relate, and what can they learn from each other? This exhibition looked to answer that question as part of the satellite program PLAY JEWELLERY – wearing, making, thinking in coincidence with the Otto Künzli exhibit at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum.

The project which continues further, started of with an exhibition by Japanese architects Yuko Nagayama and Ryuji Nakamura as a part of the satellite program PLAY JEWELLERY – wearing, making, thinking at (PLACE )by method in Tokyo(JP).

Nagayama and Nakamura investigated personal and public spheres to discover commonalities between architecture and jewellery and their possible interplay. They met with fellow architects Jo Nagasaka and Hideyuki Nakayama to discuss this topic beforehand in an open debate and a panel discussion. Their findings formed the foundation of this exhibit, which is part of a longer, ongoing project focusing on the relation between jewellery and architecture.

A panel of four architects; Yuko Nagayama, Jo Nagasaka, Ryuji Nakamura and Hideyuki Nakayama discussed topics that show a possible relation between jewellery and architecture.

The German art historian Dr. Anne Schloen and the Japanese architect Ryuji Nakamura discussed crossing lines between art and architecture based on their professional experience.
Schloen recently co-organized the exhibition (im)possible! Artists as Architects, at the Museum Marta Herford (Germany). Nakamura is known for designing exhibition spaces and museum instillations beside his architectural approach.