Group show > Everything’s under control – 2026
Les 28-29 novembre / 5-6 décembre / 12-13 décembre / Vernissage 28 novembre 2026
Exposition collective de bijoux contemporains
Dua Fatima Baig – David Bielander – Amal Yung-Huei Chao – Nicolas Christol – Poras Dhakan – Esteban Erosky – Shilpa Gupta – Matti Höfert – Yaning Liu – Jorge Manilla – Teresa Milheiro – Matteo Stauffacher – Sinem Yildirim – Melane Zumbrunnen
Pour son exposition collective de fin d’année, Borax rassemble quatorze artistes d’une dizaine de nationalités autour du thème du contrôle. Le bijou est ici un médium à part entière, un support radical qui dépasse l’ornement.
Everything’s under control, un titre à la fois affirmatif et ironique, alors que le monde semble basculer vers une instabilité climatique extrême et que les formes de contrôle se multiplient, notamment à travers les nouvelles technologies. Si la pensée de Michel Foucault sur les mécanismes du pouvoir, de la discipline et de la surveillance reste incontournable, le basculement climatique et la révolution de l’IA bousculent les repères à vitesse accélérée. L’exposition propose des regards croisés sur les bouleversements majeurs, négatifs ou positifs, que nos sociétés sont en train de vivre et dont nul ne pourra véritablement se tenir à l’écart, quelle que soit sa position ou sa situation.
En passant de l’espace d’exposition à celui du corps, l’œuvre devient un vecteur d’interactions et de questionnements, et s’invite dans l’espace public
For its end-of-year group exhibition, Borax brings together fourteen artists from ten different nationalities on the theme of control. Jewellery is presented here as a medium in its own right, a radical form of expression that goes beyond ornament.
Everything’s under control, a title that is both assertive and ironic, at a time when the world seems to be tipping towards extreme climate instability and forms of control are multiplying, particularly through new technologies. While Michel Foucault’s thinking on the mechanisms of power, discipline and surveillance remains essential, climate change and the AI revolution are rapidly reshaping our points of reference.
The exhibition brings together different perspectives on the brutal transformations that our societies are currently experiencing, and from which no one can truly remain untouched, whatever their position or circumstances.
Moving from the exhibition space to the body, the artwork becomes a vehicle for interaction and questioning, making its way into the public realm.
DUA FATIMA BAIG
Dua Fatima Baig is a contemporary jewellery artist whose interest lies in utilizing gender as a lens to explore the blend of space, objects, and society, which function in total entanglement in the hushed choreography of daily life – an order so ingrained it often escapes critical reflection. Growing up in Pakistan as a woman, she witnessed how cultural traditions and social norms shape the course of one’s life, influencing experiences both within the home and the wider community.
With a Bachelor of Design in Jewellery Design and Gemological Sciences and a Master of Fine Arts in Gemstones and Jewellery, her practice translates these lived insights into contemporary jewellery, turning adornment into a catalyst for social inquiry. Currently based in Germany, she continues to develop her practice grow in the in-between, balancing industrial experience and artistic exploration, allowing each to continually inform the other.
Her work at a local gemstone company offers insights and perspectives that extend beyond the studio. Alongside this, her evolving artistic practice has been brought into public view through trade fairs, exhibitions, symposiums, and online platforms, including events such as INHORGENTA MUNICH, Internationale Handwerksmesse, TALENTE, the 39th Marzee International Graduate Show, and Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER.
DAVID BIELANDER
*1968 in Basel, Switzerland
lives and works in Munich, Germany
1995–2001 studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
AMAL YUNG-HUEI CHAO
My works explore the relationships between jewellery, the body, and culture, with lived experience and material culture at the core of my research and practice. Using corrugated metal sheets commonly found in Taiwan to shift function and context, everyday materials become carriers of attachment, protection, and stability.
NICOLAS CHRISTOL
Nicolas Christol was born in 1982 in Lausanne, Switzerland. After working across photography, installation art, and performance, he turned to contemporary jewellery, which he has explored as a self-taught practitioner since 2018. His practice investigates the social, political, and symbolic dimensions of objects, using jewellery as a medium for critical reflection. Drawing on references to economic systems, structures of authority, and mechanisms of domination, his work examines the ways capitalism, power, and violence shape everyday life and collective imaginaries. Through material experimentation and conceptual approaches, he seeks to reveal tensions embedded within contemporary society.
PORAS DHAKAN
Poras Dhakan is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work spans photography, jewellery, and performance art. His artistic practice is deeply informed by his background as a ‘forever migrant’, exploring themes of ethics, ownership, identity and the narratives embedded in objects and images. Dhakan’s educational path is as diverse as his art, holding an MFA in Photography from the University of Ulster, another MFA in jewellery making from Hochschule Trier in Germany and training from the Marina Abramovic Institute, alongside his legal qualifications.
His work has been showcased at prestigious venues like Art Dubai and Belfast Exposed, and he has led workshops at the Diriyah Biennale, Dubai Expo 2020 and Sharjah Art Foundation. Dhakan’s jewellery, characterised by its intricate craftsmanship and ethical considerations, has been shown at Dubai Design Week, DIVA Museum for Diamonds, Munich Jewellery Week, Legnica Jewellery Festival, Marzee Galerie and Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln.
ESTEBAN EROSKY
Esteban Erosky was born in Mexico and studied jewelry design and enameling in Madrid and Portugal.
He has participated in over 200 group exhibitions and 10 solo exhibitions in Spain, Mexico, Germany, the United Kingdom, Israel, France, the United States, China, and Switzerland.
He has published works and participated in conferences, international congresses, and enameling and jewelry competitions. His jewelry pieces are part of the collections of several museums, including the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the CODA Museum in the Netherlands, the Costume Museum in Madrid, and the Solidor Museum in France.
https://www.instagram.com/esteban_erosky/
SHILPA GUPTA
In her multi-disciplinary practice, Shilpa Gupta (b. 1976, Mumbai, IN) explores power structures, social stratification, shared histories, and how they dictate sociopolitical phenomena. Her work often centers on modes of transmitting information and sentiment, such as through the written, spoken or sung word, and the ways in which this expression is shared or systematically repressed. With a focus on how nations, cultures and identities are defined and self-determined, Gupta’s work concerns itself with both the individual and the collective on scales local and global.
Shilpa Gupta has been the subject of solo exhibitions at international museums and institutions including Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin (2026); Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai (2025); Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison (2024); Centro Botín, Santander (2024); Amant, New York (2023); MAXXI L’Aquila (2023); M HKA, Antwerp (2021); Dallas Contemporary, Dallas (2021); Barbican Centre, London (2021); Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2021); YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku (2018); Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld (2017); Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2014); and Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2010). Gupta’s work has been featured in the 12th Gwangju Biennale (2018), the 58th Venice Biennale (2019) and the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2014). She is the recipient of the Possehl Prize for International Art (2025), the Asia Arts Pathbreaker Award (2025), the GQ Cultural Provocateur Award (2019), the Bienal Award at the Bienal De Cuenca, Ecuador (2011) and the Transmediale Award, Berlin (2004). Gupta lives and works in Mumbai.
(images Jens Ziehe / Vicente Paredes / Jens Ziehe)
MATTI HÖFERT
Matti Höfert (*2003 in Wernigerode, Germany) is a Student at HAWK Hildesheim since 2023. In both his artistic practice and everyday life, a clear structure is of central importance. His work engages with themes such as norms, precise formal language, and sound – often approached with a wink, both towards the subject matter and towards himself.
https://www.instagram.com/mattihoefert
YANING LIU
Yaning Liu is a jewellery artist and PhD researcher currently based in both the UK and China, whose work investigates the existential context of jewellery and its bodily and sensory engagement. He employs a process of recontextualisation in his practice, examining the symbolic nature of human interactions with everyday environments through people’s presence and absence. His recent work engages with found objects and storage scenarios, considering how invisibility and memory contribute to narrative construction and emotional resonance.
https://klimt02.net/jewellers/yaning-liu
https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/profile/yaning-liu
JORGE MANILLA
Jorge Manilla (b. Mexico City) lives and works between Oslo and Ghent.
His practice unfolds through sculptural objects and Jewellery that inhabit the space between artefact and apparition—forms that seem unearthed rather than made.
Working with materials such as wood, leather, paper, seaweed, and polymer gypsum, Manilla constructs monochrome compositions where organic matter and geometry meet in a state of tension. The works evoke fragments of bodies, eroded architectures, or ritual objects, carrying traces of both intimate emotional states and speculative histories. They suggest a condition of becoming—where decay, transformation, and memory collapse into one another.
Oscillating between the physical and the metaphysical, Manilla’s practice reflects on the instability of human experience, where rational structures and emotional impulses remain in constant negotiation. His objects resist fixed narratives, instead inviting a slow reading shaped by ambiguity and unease.
Manilla is Head Professor of Metal and Art Jewellery at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and is active internationally as a visiting professor, tutor, and critic. His work is represented in museum collections and private foundations worldwide.
https://www.jorgemanilla.com/
TERESA MILHEIRO
The first contact with metals, was in 1984, at the António Arroio high school.
Graduated in Jewelry , at Ar.co school , in 1991.
Had scholarship at Ar.co school, from 1989/90.
Invited twice, to exhibit at Schmuck in 1992 and 2007.
Co-founder of the ZDB gallery, in 1994.
Managed the ARTICULA gallery, from 2007/12.
Taught Jewelry course at Ar.co school, from 2016/19.
Won a grant , from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, for her puppets project
« Way through the other side » in 2004.
Created jewelry collections, inspired by museum heritage, for the company
Archeofactu, from 1999/08.
In 2024, she celebrated 40 years of her career and had a solo exhibition at the
Contemporary Jewelry Biennial.
Her work is part of the collection of MUDE – Museum of Design and Fashion,
Susan Beech Collection, Tereza Seabra Collection and other private collections.
MATTEO STAUFFACHER
Né en Suisse, Matteo Stauffacher est un designer et créateur indépendant reconnu pour une approche singulière, à la croisée de l’art, du design et des métiers d’excellence. Son travail explore la tension entre brutalité et délicatesse, proposant une lecture sensible et engagée des réalités contemporaines.
SINEM YILDIRIM
MELANE ZUMBRUNNEN
Mon travail est axé autour de la question de la trace et de la mémoire et passe par la photographie, l’installation, la peinture et désormais la bijouterie, en autodidacte depuis 2019.
My work revolves around the question of trace and memory, and involves photography, installation, painting and, since 2019, self-taught jewelry-making.