Spring is coming. And GemGèneve is preparing for the event: the sixth edition of the fair dedicated to gems, fine vintage jewelery and new design (May 11-14, over 170 exhibitors expected) presents some significant innovations. The first concerns a new location within the Palexpo in Geneva: after pavilions 7 and 6 of the previous five editions, this time GemGèneve will move to Pavilion 1, on 13,000 square meters of exhibition space. The organizers have also decided to redesign the exhibition space, the visitor routes and the main entrance to make the most of the available space and offer exhibitors the best visibility: they will be arranged around four coffee station areas, two main aisles and a lounge which will host exhibition spaces, projects, musical and literary after-work events.
Furthermore, on the wave of growing green sensitivity, the Parisian design agency Autre Idée, which has been collaborating with the organizers since 2021, has opted for an installation based on the theme of plants and organic life for the spring edition. Other innovations concern the emerging talents and new designers area, curated by Nadège Totah. In this area, the fine jewelry of the Belgian designer Fred Fa will debut, refined and a little mysterious, who makes all his sketches, technical drawings and gouache jewelry designs by hand. In the same area there will be Serendipity Jewelry, the result of one of the emerging talents of the November 2022 edition, but this time in the New Designers category, as well as the talented Austy Lee Art Jewelery from Hong Kong: she creates bold, psychedelic, sculptural and complex pieces . The Designer Vivarium will always be curated by the jewelry history Vivienne Becker.
We attach as much importance to gemstones and jewelery creation and design as promoting true solidarity, uniting the international community of gemstone and antique jewelery dealers, designers and all jewelery enthusiasts.
Thomas Faerber, co-founder of GemGenève
Furthermore, the next edition of GemGenène will not miss Ukrainian jewelers, an initiative launched by Olga Oleksenko in May 2022 in response to the war in Ukraine and supported by the co-founders of GemGenève. The project is called Strong and Precious-Ukrainian Jewelers, and brings together creations by Ukrainian designers, also as a gesture of support for the situation in the country.
Among the collateral initiatives, it is worth mentioning an off-site exhibition at the event with exceptional automatons and other musical and artistic objects organized by the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire of Geneva. Also off site, the Genevan jeweler Herbert Horovitz, who also manages the Gem Collectors Bookshop, opens the space of the Villa for an event dedicated to the lost arts: crafts that are becoming rare or endangered, such as semi-precious stone mosaicists, peelers and threaders of pearls, polishers, engravers, enamellers, stone setters, stonemasons, lapidarists, sheathers, small hardware gilders, electroformers and gold beaters. The Singapore Gem Museum returns to GemGenève with a fun and interactive learning space.
Finally, the collaboration with various art schools, jewelery and other educational institutions related to jewelery is back, with four prizes that will be awarded to the most creative young people: the Visitors’ Choice Prize for the Cfc project, the Asmebi prize for the Cfc project, the Visitors Choice award for the Head x Grand Théâtre de Genève x GemGenève project and the Eric Horovitz Foundation Award for the Cfc project.
