Jewellery: Special exhibition "translunacy" at Inhorgenta & Inhorgenta Design Award for Georg Schiller

High recognition for our jewellery program: Georg Schiller (6th semester BA in Jewellery) was honored with the Inhorgenta Design Award as "Newcomer of the Year" at Inhorgenta 2026.

The prize includes a bronze trophy designed by jewellery maker Patrick Muff, an exhibition space at Inhorgenta 2027, and a coaching and support package worth €5,000, sponsored by Parcel Broker.

We congratulate Georg on this success!
 

Special exhibition "translunacy" at Inhorgenta
 

At the same time, the jewelry design program was represented at Inhorgenta with the special exhibition "translunacy." Thirty-six works created by students in their third to seventh semesters over the past two winter semesters were on display, including pieces from two final projects.

Glass is fascinating: it has substance and yet seems to dematerialize visually. It is functionally transparent, yet remains complex and ambivalent in our perception. In the "translunacy" project, the jewelry program approaches the material experimentally – on a sound technical basis and with openness to what emerges in the process. The first few weeks are devoted to practical learning: processing, glass blowing, fusing, and slumping. In dialogue with other materials, works are developed that make individual processes visible and at the same time serve as a starting point for new questions.

Work is carried out both with the glass burner and in the ceramic kiln. The "translunacy" exhibition explores the entire range of these techniques. Special thanks go to jewelry and glass artist Xihan Zhai, who enthusiastically accompanied the introduction to glassblowing and the technical implementation.

The idea of "translunacy" is also reflected in the spatial concept of the exhibition: along the corridor, visitors first encounter diffuse shadows of jewelry and people. Behind this first level, the glass works become visible on opaque white Plexiglas illuminated from below—a play with transparency, perception, and displacement.

The exhibition can be viewed until February 23, 2026: Inhorgenta Munich, Hall B2, Booth 511, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Contributors:

Florian Anderer, Sinja Böckh, Jacqueline Bordea (AD), Theresia Brandner, Christina Buchner (BA Thesis), Chiara Ceniccola, Kiki Czerner, Pia Ehlich, Zora Gensel, David Gleyzer, Carla Hailer, Sarah Hamouni, Maria Jensen (MADFM), Hanna Jeong, Kristina Jurk, Milla Koch, Isabelle Kossmann, Zoë Leonhard, Leona Lindemann, Greta Marzolf, Lissy Ossig, Melanie Pernkopf, Franziska Reich, Georg Schiller, Ella Schmeding, René Schwarz, Rayka Sobhani (MA thesis), Ann-Katrin Stetter (AD), Olga Struck (MAJ), Leonie Steinhauer, Luca Zimmermann.