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ONE TO MANY: A-Galerii Annual Jewellery Exhibition 2025

This year, the largest annual group exhibition of Estonian jewellery art turns its focus to values. At a time when value is so often reduced to numbers, the artists highlight other forms of worth – those shaped by collaboration, community, and the relationships that emerge in shared space. The exhibition brings together works by A-Galerii’s community alongside artists who have recently engaged with jewellery from new angles, creating a meeting point across generations and backgrounds.

The exhibition design by artist Karl Joonas Alamaa features soft figurative objects made from leftover garment textiles, combined with organic wooden and metal structures. It intertwines jewellery with sculptural forms and invites reflection on the role of jewellery amid the complexities of being human and living through sharply contrasting crises.

The title “One to Many” points to the tension between valuing uniqueness and universality, carrying an ironic undertone: whatever, just one among many. Each artwork becomes a small world of its own, a question and a possible answer. In a large group exhibition, seemingly similar parts multiply and individuality may blur, yet something distinctly original still emerges, offering new perspectives and unexpected shifts.

The exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Curator: Sille Luiga

Exhibition design: Karl Joonas Alamaa

Graphic design: Villem Sarapuu

64 artists: Mirjam Aun, Andrei Balašov, Merike Balod, Jens Andreas Clausen, Margus Elizarov, Rita-Livia Erikson, Kati Erme, Elize Hiiop, Tatiana Iakovleva, Hedi Jaansoo, Ivar Kaasik, Keesi Kapsta, Mari Käbin, Liisi Kõuhkna, Keiu Koppel, Ülle Kõuts, Kalle Kotselainen, Olga Tea Krek, Kadi Kübarsepp, Triin Kukk, Valdek Laur, Kristiina Laurits, Krista Lehari, Claudia Lepik, Viktorija Lillemets, Elis Liivo, Urmas Lüüs, Keiu Maasik, Tõnis Malkov, Henry Mardisalu, Ülle Mesikäpp, Juulia Aleksandra Mikson, Paul Aadam Mikson, Maarja Niinemägi, Erle Nemvalts, Ulrika Paemurru, Õnne Paulus, Margit Paulin, Mari Pärtelpoeg, Darja Popolitova, Ane Raunam, Anne Reinberg, Mari Relo-Šaulys, Liisa-Chrislin Saleh, Tamara Sergijenko, Kairi Sirendi, Birgit Skolimowski, Riin Somelar, Kärt Summatavet, Hansel Tai, Sven Tali, Harry Tensing, Margus Tänav, Bianca Triinu Toots, Kertu Tuberg, Maria Valdma-Härm, Ene Valter, Katrin Veegen, Kadi Veesaar, Kertu Vellerind, Tea Vellerind, Raili Vinn, Ülle Voosalu

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GEMSTONES AND FAIRY TAILS

Fascination with gemstones and their colors is as old as humankind itself. The skills and technologies of gemcutting, as well as gemology and thereby the scientific capability to differentiate gems from each other are always advancing. In addition, during just the recent several decades there have been some important gem material discoveries, including tsavorites, tanzanites, and paraiba-type tourmalines.

How many of the highly valued gemstones are known to the general public? In addition to ruby, have you heard about spinels? A name, for example „diamond“, shouldn’t on its own be a reason and the only argument to value something. Nature has created some amazing and wonderful materials that are each unique, and many of them are also much rarer than diamonds. Life and nature are full of colors that deserve to be enjoyed and appreciated.

The purpose of faceting is to bring out a gem’s true potential – colors and sparkle. There’s lots of room to play around while making that kind of precision work. Not just the gem itself has to be unique, so can the cut and shape of it be one of a kind. 

All the gemstones in this exhibition are of natural origin and faceted by the artist. Eight of them are set in ear cuffs that were inspired by the characters of the wild stories from childhood – elves, dragons, mages, unicorns, and other mythical creatures. The fantastic sparkle and charm of the world of gemstones can accompany us forever through life – just like emotions from fairy tales.

Rita-Livia Erikson (1990) is an Estonian jewelry artist, gemcutter, and gemologist. She got her education in jewelry art in Estonian Academy of Arts. She started faceting gemstones in 2016 in the United States under master cutter Meg Berry. Gemological education was aquired in Gemological Institute of America (GIA) in 2018-2019. 

Rita-Livia combines her skills and knowledge of gemology, gemcutting, and metalsmithing technologies to create unique and wearable pieces of jewelry that would last for generations. 

The exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

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EXPECTATIONS

„Jewellery created for this exhibition was born through pondering what and how I expect from myself in everyday life and from my future, and what I tend to think others expect from me. Expectations often sound as sentences in my head – I either say them to myself or assume someone else to think them about me. Any one of them can be a motivation as well as a force that breaks down the will to act with its unrealisticness. There are aspirations that may seem too weak to satisfy even low expectations. There are recommendations that are given so that by listening to them the result could match (perhaps someone else’s) expectations. There are criteria that I expect only myself to fill. Trying to meet expectations can make you lose your path, clear mind, and control over yourself and your life. From the insane quantity of expectations you have to be able to find and create those colorful sparkly fragments – understandings, points, goals, moments.“

Exhibition will stay open until December 11, 2017.