The audience of the show Mi Crëp at the Tublà da Nives awarded my jewelry installation!
And I will climb one of the peaks of the Dolomites of Gherdëina in company of a mountain guide. Thank you all!

Kraxler, bronze and silver pendants, brooch and pin on color photography on aluminum, cm 52×52 each, 2017

My Mountain, a group show at Tublà da Nives.
opening Saturday September 9th 2017
exhibition from September 10th to October 6th 2017,
from Tuesday to Sunday, from 4 to 7 pm
Tublà da Nives, via Nives 6, Selva, Dolomites, Italy

Kraxler, bronze pin on color photography on aluminum, cm 52×52, 2017

Monika Brugger, Federico Floriani, Nadine Kuffner, Brigitte Niedermair, Gabi Veit
curated by Valentina Romen and Annalisa Rosso

opening Tuesday November 29th 2016, from 6 to 9 pm
exhibition from November 30th to December 5th 2016, from 12 to 8 pm
Spazio Sanfermosette
via San Fermo 7, Brera – Milan

Monika Brugger, Für Dürer, 2008, object for the body

LOVE•&•HATE discordance in contemporary jewelry

There is a thin line between love and hate.
Science proves how these two feelings activate the same nervous circuits of our brain, though hate keeps traces of judgment and rationality. Emotions that appear to be polar opposites, in reality are intimately connected in the human brain. This could explain why both can lead to similar acts of extreme behaviour – evil or heroic – often irrational.

The exhibition project LOVE•&•HATE follows the curiosity for a match or a collision of different materials, discordant forms and ventured combinations. Attraction or repulsion can be behind a specific attention to a formal research, able to find an unexpected balance among elements sometimes very dissimilar, to define new aesthetics, and become a crossroad of strong emotions.
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opening Thursday November 19th from 6 to 9 pm
exhibition from November 20th to 26th from 11am to 7pm
Spazio Sanfermosette
via San Fermo 7, Brera – Milan

Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday, November 19th with the first episode of Speakers’ Corner. From 6 to 9 pm, Sanfermosette will present Eigenart, the new project of jewellery by Valentina Romen. Continue…

Folk Dances.

During the “Bolzano Dance Festival 2015”, the shop windows of the Atelier Kompatscher in Bolzano will host the latest collection designed by Valentina Romen: Folk Dances. Small wearable sculptures in bronze, gold and silver.  Unique pieces created by hand. Curvy bodies capturing the act of movement evoked by music.

The jewels of the collection have a stylized design, in line with the most contemporary forms of artistic expression. Characters dancing as a couple represent the traditional Breton folk dance and can be worn both embraced to one another or alone.  Valentina’s jewellery should be worn freely to discover how its movement naturally flows in harmony with one’s body.

Atelier Kompatscher via Dr. Josef Streiter 2, Bolzano, Italy, from July 9 to 18.